#also lmao what if the star earendel is varda’s tribute to the silmaril earendil has

[nyenyerle]

Ok I LOVE our unintentional osanwe because I was JUST fawning over Carina Nebula, the first photo in your reblogged James Webb Telescope post! I was googling and thinking, so carina is latin for the keel of a ship and Carina constellation is part of the ship-shaped Argo Navis constellation inspired by, as you know, Jason and the Argonauts, so basically Carina Nebula is in a cosmic ship…doesn’t that remind you of I Vene Kemen? Earendil sails there to explore the ocean landscapes and he’s on a tiny spaceship sailing in an enormous space ship (matryoshka ship your and Aerlinn’s collection braincells <3 <3)

awww this is absolutely what eärendil is doing! and hear me out:

Called the Cosmic Cliffs, the region is actually the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, roughly 7,600 light-years away. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image. The high-energy radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away. - quoted from here

you know how people make miniature models of things they love? Varda makes giant models of Arda (or maybe they are miniatures to her)

the celestial mountains in Carina are one of her love letters to Manwë

they look like the Pelóri and the gaseous cavity beyond them looks like Ekkaia, that's why eärendil likes to go there