Tolkien Prediction #24. That each of the Seven Stars in the Valacirca were butterflies.
From the The Book of Lost Tales I…”The passage just cited from The Silmarillion goes on to tell that it was at the time of the second star-making that Varda ‘high in the north as a challenge to Melkor set the crown of seven mighty stars to swing, Vala-circa, the Sickle of the Valar and sign of doom’; but here this is denied, and a special origin is claimed for the Great Bear, whose stars were not of Varda’s contriving but were sparks that escaped from Aule’s forge. In the little notebook men-tioned on p. 13, which is full of disjointed jottings and hastily noted projects, a different form of this myth appears:
The Silver Sickle
The seven butterflies
Aule was making a silver sickle. Melko interrupted his work telling him a lie concerning the lady Palurien. Aule so wroth that he broke the sickle with a blow. Seven sparks leapt up and winged into the heavens. Varda caught them and gave them a place in the heavens as a sign of Palurien’s hon-
our. They fly now ever in the shape of a sickle round and mund the pole.”