Related to >>477650 or source: http://ponymarillion.referata.com

>mfw

I’ve been working on this fic since 2011 and just recently started in earnest

This outline was written in late 2011… As I pointed out in /oat/ —

>The idea I was playing with in the past two weeks was that:

>There were actually 9 Elements… three were lost, one in the heavens,

>one in the sea, one in the earth. this is such a great conceit from the

>end of the book that I didn’t want to lose it

>I was originally gonna handwave it in 2011 by saying “well naturally they were recovered later”

>the other three were split apart into six less-powerful jewels in an attempt to re-heal the Tree(s).

>however, the attempt was destined to fail (as in the Silm, the Tree(s) could not be revived except if all the jewels were unlocked, and given up by their owners)

>and so the Goddess of the Stars (ruler of the Undying Lands where the Elves <del>er</del> Alicorns are from) throws the six elements up in the sky as a ward against evil.

>in addition to a pre-existing constellation shaped like Pinkie Pie in the form of Orion, which is also a Silm reference.

>So there are seven stars as in Tolkien’s symbolism, one “master” element which is the Evening Star (actually an airship captained by Twilight Sparkle’s ancestor)

>and the six Elements of Harmony from the show which are later used by Celestia and Luna to defeat Discord.

Suggestions I’ve gotten so far are to proceed in earnest with the fic, with the One Tree of Harmony; Or else the Tree of Harmony in the Everfree Forest is the sapling of their predecessors from the 2011 draft; Or to attempt to reconcile the plot of the Ponymarillion with canon, which might be a bit difficult given the bloody war over them in the book and what not.