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Old 10-11-2005, 02:41 PM   #13
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I find myself quite enlightened by the various responses so far.

I guess the particular thing I'm curious about is whether reading Asimov's science fiction helped Tolkien along toward a rejection of the Flat Earth mythology for Arda. I suppose there's no way to answer that, but it appears that the contemporaneity of enjoying Asimov and changing his mind toward a Round Earth mythology supports the plausibility of it.
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