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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
It should also be noted that in the projected change to the ‘Myths Transformed’ cosmology (wherein the Sun and Moon were to have existed from the beginning of Arda), the awakening of Men was necessarily dissociated from the first appearance of the Sun. In the outlines for this revised form of the mythology, the awakening of Men was to take place far earlier than it does in the Silmarillion.
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This is interesting. In reading this chapter I assumed that the awakening of the Men with first rising of the Sun was meant to mimic the awakening of the Elves after the creation/regrouping of the stars and that therefore there was significance in the fact that both awakenings are triggered by light - that the Children (as originally created), both Atani and Eldar, are Children of Light in contrast to Melkor's perversions, creatures bred in the darkness of some underground lair.
The projected change would mean that the awakening of Men was simply an awakening, though that is significant in and of itself.