cosmology

The talk about the great hall of speculation made me think, and I am dangerous when I think. Well, here is the thing, I know Tolkien at some point wanted his stories to be interpreted as a very distant past, a precursor of our own world. He toyed with the idea of Arda being always round and...

Abstract. The article purports to present an exhaustive list of references to the Round World cosmology in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien from the 1940s to the 1970s and to demonstrate that he firmly adhered to the new cosmology during the last decade and a half of his life and solved the...