He desires the torment and misery of all things Eru puts on Arda, and defiance of the divine plan.

"And a Sun would mean less misery. I thought you meant it would be a setback in some specific project of his."

His servants are less effective in the light.

"Good to know. I'll keep it in mind in case there's a chance to use it against them. On a scale smaller than the Sun."

It is unwise for a mortal to combat the Enemy directly.

"I know. I'm not planning to knock on his front door and challenge him to see who can squish the other, but the more weaknesses his servants have the better."

Certainly. I am going to remove you now from this dangerous location to a safer one. Do not come here again.

"Understood. I don't want to contribute to things that can be easily exploited by the Enemy either."

Thank you. Eru's blessing keep you. And she is a mile away, the ground around her fading from a blazing white back to nothing.

It really does look like nothing, not just dark surroundings, until her eyes adjust to not being immediately in front of the goddess of light.

Did she leave, or just move me? As far as I can tell she never knew you were there.

Left, he reports after a minute. I did not consider the fact you wear starlight on a necklace. 

It's barely even visible except when the implement is thematically appropriate. It didn't occur to me there'd be a Vala who doesn't need to see it.

I'm not sure seeing is even the right word for what they do. Should we collect some more on the assumption we're safe now, or head out lest our next encounter be unfriendlier?

So many things I wanted to ask but couldn't.

Maybe keep collecting, but meander outward on average? You'd still get out faster than if you were here without magic.

Can do. What would you have wanted to ask, we lived with the Valar a long time and can possibly answer some of it.

Aside from the currently relevant ones about whether their warning system checks for people being present or just arriving, the big one was who's doomed. We still don't know their standards for who counts as following Fëanáro.

And of course anything about the relation between this world and mine would emphasize entirely the wrong things. Actually I'm surprised how curious she wasn't on that front.

Yeah. The Valar are - weird. Hard to predict their priorities. Sometimes they sort of make sense, like explaining you can't opt out from being rescued, and then sometimes - adding a Sun, that's bizarre. Why is Yavanna working on a Sun, she does plants. Maybe the Sun's derived from the Trees.

If any of them can do nuclear furnaces millions of times the size of Arda, we're even more outgunned than I thought. If it's a complicated lump of shiny vegetable matter, it at least makes a different kind of no sense.

Varda made the stars, what are stars made of where you're from?

Nuclear furnaces that dwarf the size of Arda. They're the same things as the Sun, some smaller, some much bigger.

They're also really far away, far enough that they look about as bright than yours.

Well, it did take her millions of years....

It took a bit over a million of your Years for the light in my necklace to get to Earth.

That's not even close to the farthest star, just the most distant I could get an image of with the best equipment I could borrow. There are maybe a few thousand million million million stars. I really, really don't think she could have built my world's set that fast.

Wow. 

Probably not, no.

If she could, I'd say she should evacuate this planet and wreck it with the Enemy still here, except that then he'd probably be on the same scale. Having the Sun be a shiny object suspended in the sky is very much worth it if it means Valar are merely gods.

As compared to what?