Thread: Is Ekkaia now called Outer Space?
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Old 01-31-2009, 06:04 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Eäralda Halatiriva View Post
"Arda floating like a ship in the dark waveless waters of Vai"
I don't know where you got this quotation from, but it reminds me strongly of Tolkien's early drawing of the Earth as a ship ("i Vene Kemen") reproduced in HoME I. And if Vai/Ekkaia indeed = Outer Space, the Ship of Arda would be something very much like our contemporary metaphor 'Spaceship Earth'.
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