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

@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

@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!

@White_Rabbit

Ok, @White_Rabbit - I'm removing Angainor so your time out is over. Let us have it.

@LiberalLibrarian @sfleetucker

@voltronic

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.

@voltronic

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.