They needn't have brought the actual stars with them, knowledge of the constellation would be good enough. I think that the poem refers mainly to Elendil's standard. Perhaps the gems on the standard that Aragorn bore were passed down from Numenor. That would put the Stars into a physical object.
Iarwain
[ January 25, 2003: Message edited by: Iarwain ]
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