"...a great red star named Karnil and marked with 'M' must be Mars (cf. Michael Ramer's name Karan for Mars, IX220)" then, "That Mars and Jupiter, if not Saturn, should appear among them [that is the conspicuous objects of the heavens of Arda] would seem inevitable, seeing that in my father's astronomical myth the planets were never distinguished from the 'fixed stars' " and finally, and most crucially, "Karnil was surely always Mars".
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