O que nós sabemos sobre a fonte da luz nas Duas Árvores de Valinor?

Não é especificamente declarado que as árvores usaram a luz das lâmpadas.

O Valar Yavanna os criou, sua fonte de luz era deles mesmos, sem mencionar o uso das lâmpadas existentes.

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}

A Lua e o Sol foram a última flor e a última fruta de Telperion e Laurelin respectivamente que foram criados quando Yavanna e Nienna cantaram e chorou após sua destruição por Ungoliant

Além disso, uma vez que os Silmarils são criados, há a seguinte descrição deles.

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}

Se as árvores foram feitas a partir da luz das lâmpadas, você pode ter esperado uma menção deste link para as lâmpadas.

No entanto

Existe a seguinte passagem que descreve a saída de Almaren (ênfase minha)

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}

O que sugere que a luz das lâmpadas pode ter sido salva. Embora o resto do mundo tenha ficado na escuridão.

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}

Novamente, nenhuma menção é feita à luz sendo usada na música de Yavanna

De acordo com Anais de Aman encontrados em Anel de Morgoth houve 50 anos em Valé (ou 492,6 anos solares) entre a destruição das Lâmpadas e a criação dos dois Árvores, levantando a questão, a luz poderia ter sido mantida por tanto tempo, e se pudesse ser mantida e sustentada por tanto tempo, por que Aúle não fazia outro conjunto de lâmpadas, ou apenas usava a luz existente em qualquer meio de armazenamento? em?

A respeito de por que Yavanna usaria a mesma luz que as lâmpadas emitiam se ela não tivesse a luz existente?

Talvez os Valar quisessem uma lembrança de Almaren antes que Melkor destruísse tudo o que haviam criado. Um pedaço do mundo antigo deles que eles nunca serão capazes de recuperar.

Embora não haja nenhuma indicação direta no Silmarillion de onde a luz das Duas Árvores se originou, temos uma descrição em O Livro dos Contos Perdidos , A primeira "versão" de Tolkien de O Silmarillion .

Ele descreve a luz etérea que fluiu pelo ar e até caiu como chuva e fluiu como rios:

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.

Os Valar reuniram um pouco dessa luz para encher as lâmpadas com. Depois que as lâmpadas foram destruídas, essa luz líquida foi derramada, criando lagos ardentes. Essa luz foi então reunida em duas piscinas artificiais em 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.

Então, na criação das Duas Árvores, a luz desses lagos foi derramada sobre a terra:

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.

Isso, tenho certeza que podemos concluir, é a origem da luz das Duas Árvores e, eventualmente, do Sol e da Lua.

O único contra-argumento poderia ser que O Livro dos Contos Perdidos não é canônico e Tolkien poderia ter eventualmente abandonado a idéia da luz etérea flutuando pelos ares de Arda. Mas, como Christopher Tolkien disse, muitas coisas que não aparecem novamente nos escritos posteriores de Tolkien e no Silmarillion publicado não foram necessariamente rejeitadas; ao contrário, foram omitidos com o propósito de manter a narrativa breve e condensada.