I always thought of the void into which Melkor was cast as a kind of vacumn that lies around Arda. I suppose it would still be in Ea, if it lies about Arda, which is within Ea. I admit, Tolkien's cosmology has always confused me. Is the 'outer void', which existed before Ea was made, and in which Melkor walked before the Music of the Ainur, different from the 'void' where Melkor was cast after the 1st age? I remember reading about the cosmology of Tolkien's world in HoME IV, but I think a lot of the ideas Tolkien had back then were abandonned.
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"If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things." -- René Descartes
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