Seven Stars, Seven Stones and One White Tree...

[Groin Redbeard]

Quenta Silmarillion 19, Of Beren and Lúthien
"And in answer he sang a song of challenge that he had made in praise of the Seven Stars, the Sickle of the Valar that Varda hung above the North as a sign for the fall of Morgoth."

I believe the seven stars is a constallation in the sky that simbled the fall of Morgoth.

[Rumil]

Probably barking up the wrong tree here, but I have a vague memory that the Seven Stars were derived from one of the elven 'coats of arms' (as sometimes shown in various copies of the Sil). Can anyone confirm? I'm Sil-less at the mo! No doubt the elven symbols were originally derived from Elbereth's stars.