What I love about this is that it is, indeed, incredibly IC for Fëanor's response to that statement to essentially be the above, and to locate the meaning of "our most beloved star" specifically in, solely, the Silmaril - ergo in his work - because Fëanor's narcissism eats entire suns, or would if it could.
But let's unpack what it means for Galadriel to refer to Eärendil as "our most beloved star".
That word has a particular meaning here. To begin with, Eärendil is Idril's son, and Turgon, Idril's father, was Galadriel's first cousin and part of the host that crossed Helcaraxë with Galadriel. Notably, of that host, Fingolfin, Galadriel and Finrod are named as the leaders who are predominantly responsible for getting them across mostly alive - but Turgon is Fingolfin's second son.
There's no realistic way you shake that out to mean anything other than they were functionally close and knew each other well. Turgon's wife Elenwë was one of those lost on Helcaraxë. We don't know how old Idril was at the time, but we do know she was born in Aman, so the very youngest she could possibly be is a year or so old, which means you have anything from Galadril already having known her well from growing up as family in Aman, to Galadriel watching her growup in the aftermath of the Exile, until the point where Galadriel took up residence in Doriath and Idril went with Turgon to Gondolin.
Moreover, Galadriel was a survivor of the Sack of Doriath, which means she would have been part of the community at the mouth of Sirion where Idril and Tuor, carrying Eärendil, would have ended up after the destruction of Gondolin.
She would have known him as a little boy, and an older boy; she would have known him as an awkward tween, and a gangling teen, and a new husband to Elwing, and an enraptured new father. She would probably have had something to say about him taking up his father's habit of attempting to sail west, although who knows in what direction.
She also survived the Third Kinslaying, when Elwing with the Silmaril threw herself into the Sea.
To most people in this story, Eärendil is, well, a story. Even to Elrond - in whose house Aragorn, if you recall, was not even going to fucking TOUCH this topic Thank Much - who is let us not forget Eärendil's son, he is at best the fuzzy memory of a very small boy.
Not to Galadriel. Galadriel knew Eärendil's mother before she even had the name "Galadriel". She would have known Eärendil himself from childhood to the day he left and never returned. And the Silmaril he's wearing?
That's the Silmaril - the specific one of the three - that Galadriel's older brother died for, because of Thingol's stupid bride-price. It's the one Thingol then died for, again largely because of his own stupidity. It's the one Doriath and Sirion both burned for, and that stole Elwing from her children and then allowed Elwing and Eärendil to find their way to Aman as the only people who could, to petition for the Valar to intervene on behalf of what was left of the Lost and the Exiled.
And then finally it was the one that allowed the killing of Ancalagon the Black, the dragon so vast he broke a three-peaked volcano when he fell, and without whose death the War of Wrath might not have been won.
So yeah, Fëanáro Curufinwë, sure. We agree that the Silmarils are in their light etc etc* better than anything, even the Kindler's work. But nobody's ever disputed that, including her, which is why she hallowed them for you. Possibly even this is the reason that his light is powerful enough that she can draw it out of her fountain into a glass phial which is still a massive flex given she's doing it in MIDDLE EARTH but ANYWAY . . .
But that's not what makes Galadriel call Eärendil our most beloved star. Eärendil is beloved because of both everything he represented and everything he did (including in the end attempting to take all of the possible consequences for showing up and saying "hey. WE NEED HELP" on himself alone)†; and for her in particular he is beloved because she would have known him, seen him grow, seen what led him to become what he is now, and fully understand that.
But Fëanor would completely miss all of that, which is why he'll be sitting in Mandos for another few Ages before anyone actually wants to talk to him again.
[*which originally came from the Two Trees, which Yavanna made, but I digress]
[†the fact that Elwing went "you know my grandmother always told me not to let my future partner make STUPIDASS MARTYRIC DECISIONS and here I thought she was just PROJECTING . . . " and jumped off the ship after him doesn't mean he didn't TRY]
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