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Originally Posted by Lalwendë
I'll answer my own challenge. 
Davem says that the equivalent to Lucifer in Quenya would actually be Earendil.
So.... What now, eh? Has this got anything to do with the price of fish?
Actually, I think Tolkien can't have been unaware that the Morning Star and Bringer of Light was also known as Lucifer! But did he aim to turn this on its head a bit by giving a good character's name that meaning? |
Well, to clarify, I didn't mention Quenya at all......Lucifer is the Light Bringer & is the Morning Star - as is Earendel. However Venus as the Morning Star was associated with John the Baptist in the Crist ('Eala Earendel, engla beorhtast..& all that stuff) as the Morning Star was a 'precursor' of the Sun.
I think Tolkien is using the latter 'myth'. not the former. So I will make myself clearer to
Lalwende in future before I let her post anything
