![]() ![]() Late in Tolkien’s life, I think I recall reading that he worked on some lines in which Arda was always round but these are not the main line of the material. After that, the Dúnedain sailors from Middle-earth looking for Númenor apparently circumnavigated a round Arda. ![]() The main line of Tolkien’s work indicates that Arda (the world) was flat until Númenor was removed from the Circles of the World. Regarding the size of Middle-earth - Tolkien states a few times that Middle-earth is in fact our earth at an imagined earlier stage of it's history - I would think the were the same size. And personally I prefer the original cosmology as it's. I'm not a scholar though - so I'm sure somebody will give you better info - and no doubt correct me. In a few later essays found in The History of Middle-earth 'Myth Transformed' I think - Tolkien is of the opinion that Middle-earth's Cosmology is just legend handed down from days of yore or what have you - pretty much like our own creation legends I guess. Originally middle-earth was flat, and was indeed made round after the sinking of Numenor - also we should remember that the moon wasn't a natural satelite - but a the last fruit of Telperion - one of the two trees. Well I'm sure this will bring up some good quotes and such from our resident scholars - personally I'd say both round and flat depending on your perspective.
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