b2mem | N43 - On a Starry Night in 1629 A.D. (Reply)

B2MeM Challenge: N43 – Maglor in History – Galileo and Heliocentrism

Format: Drabble

Title: On at Starry Night in 1629 A.D.

Genre: General

Rating: G/K

Warnings: None.

Characters: Maglor, Galileo Galilei

Pairings: None

Summary: Even in exile, Maglor continues the Elves’ mission of teaching and guiding the Second-born.

Folding his arms under his head on the grassy hill outside Arcetri, Maglor—his friends in this time and place knew him as Marco—looked up into the night sky, his eyes automatically seeking for the star that hung in the west. Venus, the mortals called it now, but the harsh Roman name didn’t lessen its painful beauty. Vingilot and the Silmaril no longer soared above Arda, but it seemed that the planet that the Valar had put in its place had drawn from the stone’s brilliance and even now echoed the captured light of the Two Trees.

The still frail Galileo Galilei finished adjusting the telescope, and drew his coat closer about him. “I think that my Dialogue will soon be finished. Are you sure that you do not wish for credit on the publication, Marco?”

“I’m sure, my Copernican friend. It is you who have done the work. I merely question.”

It would never do to tell the man that he could see the actual planets and their orbits in detail, and look into the heart of the Sun. But it was good, he thought, to have had a part in nudging a brilliant intellect towards the truth.