The Silmarils and the Three of Pentacles

Today I read in Words of Them Which Have Slumbered an alternate account of Fëanor's creation of the Silmarils. In this telling, the three gems begin as "light-seedlings" taken from the Trees of Valinor, but later "to seeds again returned they, who once as light were never so housed," and thus the Silmarils are not actually stones but seeds -- or "pips," as he calls them:

Feanor kept the gems (as he named them, before others; pips to himself and them), and would in time traipse about in their adorning his brow, or cuffs; all the while pondering how to proceed in their planting, and whereabout . . . .

Two paragraphs later, we learn of Eru's plan for these "pips":

And even here, in this division, solicited Eru his own fashioning of Feanor's endeavors, and there hoped he now to make of these pips, lattice-work to house all his children, fully realized, and free, at one in his song, and in tune;

Here is an example of a latticework structure:

Pip in the passages quoted means "seed." To a Tarotist, however, another meaning of the word is prominent: The numbered cards of each suit, from Ace to Ten, are called pip cards, and each suit symbol on one of these cards is a pip -- which brings us to this card:

I have recently focused on the negative meaning of this card -- see "A darker view of the Three of Pentacles" -- but this suggests another dimension of its meaning. Here we have three pips forming a latticework in a building in which people could be "housed." These pips are simultaneously stone and star -- just as the Silmarils are called stones or gems, and one of the literally becomes the Morning Star. The design, with its central pillar, also suggests a silver tree with the three pips as its fruit. The card depicts an artisan working with a maul or hammer. Though I can find no authority for it in Tolkien, apparently "Fëanor's hammer" plays a role in the Amazon series that must not be named.

This meaning of the card is of course not entirely separate from the "darker view" explored in my other post, since Fëanor is associated with dark deeds and an oath-bound fraternity.

Daymon's version of the Silmaril story also made me wonder about possible links to the allegory, recently discussed in "Intertextuality in 2 Zenos (Jacob 5)," about various attempts to preserve the fruit of a dying tree, but I will have to think about that a little more before posting anything about it.

Added sync note: Immediately after publishing this, I turned to my Words blog to continue transcribing "ancient words." I had just finished set Fifteen, so next up was Words 16:1, the translation of which reads:

Zimulof Kloshtuz, with desire for this -- to retrace down this first crafted star of stone --