Thank you for posting chapter 60 of The Harrowing! Rereading chapter 59 (because I always reread the previous chapter before a newly posted one) I noticed that Fingon asks Feanaro "Aren't you going to insult my father or something, so that I can walk away feeling as if the sun and stars are still turning as they should?"
Thinking about Fingon's phrase, which I interpret as an idiom expressing a desire to return to feeling like the world is the way it should be, gave me some questions about the cosmological history (?) of your setting of Arda:
(1) Was the world flat before the events of the Akallabeth, and round afterwards?
(2) Regardless of whether the world was flat, did the world rotate in the time prior to Feanaro's death, such that Fingon's idiom would make sense to him? Or should we assume that Feanaro is spending every moment offstage that he isn't sleeping, working or having uncomfortable conversations trying to figure out the cause and implications of the stars suddenly spinning at all times (and the implications of the planet now spinning, assuming it does and it didn't before)?
(3) If the world went from flat to round then unless you say otherwise I'm also assuming he's doing SCIENCE in the background to derive the implications for himself. But either way, is he constantly in the background doing science about the sun and it's implications on and for basically everything? Or about other topics?
Sorry for the length ask, and thank you for the new chapter!
Oh my god no but I tweaked this idiom so much because I REALLY wanted it to sound like something that a person who doesn't necessarily think of the world as turning would say
Because we're in a mythic world here, I'm deciding that from the perspective of Arda, the stars must have turned before the Akallabeth. It would just be weird if they stayed in place, and I feel like the famously star-obsessed elves deserve seasonal variety in their starscape. Why did they turn? No idea. We know the sun went around the world, maybe they do too. Was the world round before the Akallabeth? I guess not??? It's sure implied that it wasn't. Which is weird but I didn't make it up
So Feanaro has seen the sun "turning"--he's very ambivalent about the existence of the sun still I think, not fully on board with this new invention, but it does move in the sky--and he's seen the stars turning, so this idiom makes some sense to him.
Honestly Feanaro has so much to catch up on here. Whatever the hell is going on with the sky and the world included. Whatever is going on with his sons also included. I do think he's prioritizing the second one at the moment but it's no wonder he's not getting any sleep XD
