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Originally Posted by Lalaith
Fea, in answer to your question about the sun: in Norse (and Germanic) culture, unlike Graeco/Roman, the sun is female. She is called Sol, and will be devoured by a wolf at Ragnarok, the final battle. Some people maintain that Baldur was a sun god, and others that Frey (fertility god) was, but I'm not so sure.
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And Tolkien's Sun was female, and the Moon male, unlike the usual Sun-Male, Moon-female tradition in the West, and in the Middle east as far as I recall?