But exploring the canonical science of Middle-earth ought to have included that particular tidbit of research.
Exactly! It showed a certain lack of rigor from an otherwise very sharp fellow.
because it was messing with the mythological cosmology of the published Silmarillion that I love(d) so much...)
Hee! I squee'd and squee'd loudly when I read that revision!* I just loved it. And ran with it. I figured his revised, more "real" round earth heliocentric cosmogony could be just as beautiful and poetic as the Silm flat earth-sun-and-moon-from-fruit scenario (cue that Neil DeGrasse Tyson video).
*My jaw also dropped at his elaborations on Morgoth and Sauron. Ran with those, too. :^D
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Date: 2012-03-08 10:05 pm (UTC)Exactly! It showed a certain lack of rigor from an otherwise very sharp fellow.
because it was messing with the mythological cosmology of the published Silmarillion that I love(d) so much...)
Hee! I squee'd and squee'd loudly when I read that revision!* I just loved it. And ran with it. I figured his revised, more "real" round earth heliocentric cosmogony could be just as beautiful and poetic as the Silm flat earth-sun-and-moon-from-fruit scenario (cue that Neil DeGrasse Tyson video).
*My jaw also dropped at his elaborations on Morgoth and Sauron. Ran with those, too. :^D