Vad vi vet om ljusets källa i Valinors två träd?

Det står inte specifikt att träden använde lampans ljus.

Valaren Yavanna sjöng dem till existens, deras ljuskälla var deras egna, utan att nämna om användning av lamporna som befinner sig.

And when Valinor was full-wrought and the mansions of the Valar were established, in the midst of the plain beyond the mountains they built their city, Valmar of many bells.

Before its western gate there was a green mound, Ezellohar, that is named also Corollairë; and Yavanna hallowed it, and she sat there long upon the green grass and sang a song of power, in which was set all her thought of things that grow in the earth.

But Nienna thought in silence, and watered the mould with tears. In that time the Valar were gathered together to hear the song of Yavanna, and they sat silent upon their thrones of council in the Máhanaxar, the Ring of Doom near to the golden gates of Valmar, and Yavanna Kementári sang before them and they watched.

And as they watched, upon the mound there came forth two slender shoots; and silence was over all the world in that hour, nor was there any other sound save the chanting of Yavanna.

Under her song the saplings grew and became fair and tail, and came to flower; and thus there awoke in the world the Two Trees of Valinor.

The Silmarillion - Of The Beginning of Days

Månen och solen var den sista blomman och den sista frukten av Telperion och Laurelin som skapades när Yavanna och Nienna sjöng och grät efter deras förstörelse av Ungoliant

När siljärilerna är skapade finns dessutom följande beskrivning av dem.

And the inner fire of the Silmarils Fëanor made of the blended light of the Trees of Valinor, which lives in them yet, though the Trees have long withered and shine no more.

Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor

Om träden var gjorda av lampans ljus kanske du hade förväntat att det var en hänvisning till den här länken tillbaka till lamporna.

Emellertid

Det finns följande avsnitt som beskriver Almars lämnar (betonar min egen)

Behind the walls of the Pelóri the Valar established their domain in that region which is called Valinor, and there were their houses, their gardens, and their towers.

In that guarded land the Valar gathered great store of light and the fairest things that were saved from the ruin; and many others yet fairer they made anew, and Valinor became more beautiful even than Middle-earth in the Spring of Arda;

The Silmarillion - Of The Beginning of Days

Vilket föreslår att ljuset från lamporna kan har sparats. Även om resten av världen skulle ha lämnats i mörkret.

But all Middle-earth lay in a twilight under the stars. While the Lamps had shone, growth began there which now was checked, because all was again dark.

Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor

Återigen nämns inte det ljus som används i Yavanna sang

Varför skulle Yavanna använda samma färglampa som lamporna gav ut om hon inte hade något av det befintliga ljuset?

Kanske valaren ville ha en påminnelse om Almaren innan Melkor förstörde allt de hade skapat. En del av sin gamla värld som de aldrig kommer att kunna återhämta sig.

Medan det inte finns någon direkt indikering i den publicerade Silmarillion om varifrån ljuset från de två träden härstammade, har vi en beskrivning i The Taste of Tales Tolkiens första "version" av The Silmarillion .

Det beskriver aetherial ljus som flödade genom luften och till och med föll ner som regn och flödade som floder:

Those were the days of Gloaming (Lomendanar), for light there was, silver and golden, but it was not gathered together but flowed and quivered in uneven streams about the airs, or at times fell gently to the earth in glittering rain and ran like water on the ground; and at that time Varda in her playing had set but a few stars within the sky.

Valaren samlade något av det ljuset för att fylla lamporna med. Efter att lamporna förstördes, spilldes det flytande ljuset och skapade flammande sjöar. Det ljuset samlades sedan i två konstgjorda pooler i Valinor:

But Manwe suffered not more radiance to be gleaned from heaven, for that the dark was already that of night, but at his asking Ulmo rose from his deeps and fared to the blazing lakes and the pools of brilliance. Therefrom he drew rivers of light into vast vessels, pouring back waters in their place, and with these he got him back to Valinor. There was all the light poured into two great cauldrons that Aule fashioned in the gloom against his return, and those are called Kulullin and Silindrin.

Då, i skapandet av de två träden, hälldes ljuset från de här sjöarna över jorden:

Now in the midmost vale they digged two great pits, and those are leagues asunder yet nigh together beside the vastness of that plain. In the one did Ulmo set seven rocks of gold brought from the most silent deeps of the sea, and a fragment was cast thereafter of the lamp that had burned awhile upon Helkar in the South. Then was the pit covered with rich earths that Palurien devised, and Vana came who loveth life and sunlight and at whose song the flowers arise and open, and the murmur of her maidens round her was like to the merry noise of folk that stir abroad for the first time on a bright morning. There sang she the song of spring upon the mound, and danced about it, and watered it with great streams of that golden light that Ulmo had brought from the spilled lakes — yet was Kulullin almost o'erflowing at the end.

But in the other pit they cast three huge pearls that Osse found in the Great Sea, and a small star Varda cast after them, and they covered it with foams and white mists and thereafter sprinkled lightly earth upon it, but Lorien who loveth twilights and flittering shadows, and sweet scents borne upon evening winds, who is the lord of dreams and imaginings, sat nigh and whispered swift noiseless words, while his sprites played half-heard tunes beside him like music stealing out into the dark from distant dwellings; and the Gods poured upon that place rivers of the white radiance and silver light which Silindrin held even to the brim — and after their pouring was Silindrin yet well nigh full.

Det enda motargumentet kan vara att The Book of Lost Tales inte är kanon och Tolkien kanske slutligen har övergivit tanken på aetherial ljus som flyter genom Arsas luftar. Men som Christopher Tolkien sade, har många saker som inte dyker upp igen i Tolkiens senare skrifter och den publicerade Silmarillion inte nödvändigtvis blivit avvisade. snarare, de utelämnades för att hålla berättelsen kortfattad och kondenserad.

(Alla citat är från Förlorade boken , kapitel Valarens ankomst och Byggandet av Valinor )