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    Middle Earth was based on our real earth in a mythical earlier time, but the undying lands kinda throws the whole 'is it a globe' thing into doubt (for me). To have them both displayed as continents on one map is what put the doubt in my mind.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ravells View Post
    Middle Earth was based on our real earth in a mythical earlier time, but the undying lands kinda throws the whole 'is it a globe' thing into doubt (for me). To have them both displayed as continents on one map is what put the doubt in my mind.
    I refer the honorable gentleman to the response given (by my fairly loonie Tolkien expert me-dem-mer) Carl... See post #10+
    http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=1239

    I'll ask him to comment more if you think it would help. I duck the issue cos I don't know anything about it. I am a me-dem Tolkien fraud !

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