Is Ekkaia now called Outer Space?

[Pitchwife]

Originally Posted by Eäralda Halatiriva

"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'.