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    From what I've read, I have never seen anything to suggest that Tolkien's world was necessarily a globe - although I am not a total tolkien expert. There is a map in the Silmarillion where he depicts the undying lands which is effectively heaven by any other name, (see below) so it all gets a bit fuzzy as to how attached to our understanding of reality Tolkien's world was meant to be.

    As Ghostman said, fantasy worlds can be whatever you want them to be. I think it almost helps with the fantasy feel in having vast amounts of the world just blank - gives that 'here be dragons' unexplored type of vibe.
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    But Tolkien said that middle earth was based on our earth so one could therefore assume that the statement includes the global nature of it.

    This has come up before on these boards so ill repost RobA's link:
    http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/200...-middle-earth/
    Last edited by Redrobes; 09-16-2009 at 08:11 AM.

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