What substance were the Silmarils originally meant to contain?
#TolkienTrivia
@White_Rabbit - I know you'll know this immediately, so would you mind giving others a crack at it first?
@voltronic The light of the Two Trees. @White_Rabbit
@voltronic @LiberalLibrarian @White_Rabbit I’d have failed and said what m our librarian said. My only other guess would be the lights of the Iluin and Ormal?
@sfleetucker
Not possible. Melkor had done a good job destroying those well before Yavanna created the Two Trees to replace the Lamps.
@voltronic Oh, really? Is this contained in the History of Middle Earth? @White_Rabbit
@LiberalLibrarian @voltronic @White_Rabbit if I recall one Silmaril ended up in the depths of the earth, one in the sea, and the last in the heavens with Eärindil the Mariner whence the light in the phial of Galadriel came.
@LiberalLibrarian
I actually just looked it up and misspoke in another reply when I said the answer was in the Silmarillion. It's actually in Unfinished Tales.
@sfleetucker
You are correct about where the Silmarils ended; I'm talking about their beginning. But if we were playing the hot/cold game I'd say you are burning up!
Ok, @White_Rabbit - I'm removing Angainor so your time out is over. Let us have it.
I regret to have to admit I can't see this conversations due to my own boundaries that I have created...
But if this is the Silmaril question, let me know because I know it. 🤷♂️
//@LiberalLibrarian //@sfleetucker
@White_Rabbit
Yes that's the question. Nobody has quite gotten it. Go for it.
@White_Rabbit
You okay? I expected an immediate pounce.
Fëanor captured the light of the Two Trees of Valinor, Laurelin and Telperion, in the Silmarils.
the Two Trees of Valinor, Laurelin and Telperion, were created by the Valar, specifically by Yavanna, the Vala responsible for the growth of plants and the natural world, with some assistance from Nienna.
The world has not known their light unless they experienced them, and will not know ever after since the darkening of Ungoliant.
@White_Rabbit
Sorry, you don't have the answer I'm looking for either!
There was something else he wanted to put into the Silmarils first. After that was denied to him, he took that thing as inspiration and captured the light of the Two Trees.
@White_Rabbit
You and I were just talking about this last week. It created a bit of a hairy situation between your and my favorite characters.
@voltronic @White_Rabbit Galadriel's Hair?
@LiberalLibrarian
Not the answer I'm looking for. That's what they did contain, eventually. But that's not what Fëanor wanted to put in them originally.
@White_Rabbit