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Re: Orcish Fear
Ancalagon is gone.
It don't matter what Ancalagon's size is/was/or could be. He's toast.
The star of Earendil (Aurvendil's Toe legend tie in) is not the planet Venus, but the star Rigel, in the constellation of Orion.
The fact that everyone seems to mistake Earendil as the North Star (Venus) might have something to do with the Elves naming it Earendel/Earendil (considering the mannish mythology tale aspect that Tolkien is striving for), and allows for the Numenorean assumption that a 'father figure' is watching over them based on this presumption of Earendil the star is Earendil the Mariner due to similarity of nomenclature.
I think Tolkien would know the difference between the two, since he expressly states he does.
AFAIK Earendil the Mariner was last positively seen in the War of Wrath, with a POSSIBILITY of leading the way to Numenor in the early Second Age. After that; he's gone. From then on, we have the confusion and mannish mythology taking effect.
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