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- The Round World Version is an alternative creation myth to the canonical version of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium as it appears in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. In the canonical version, the Earth was created flat and was changed to round as a cataclysmic event during the Second Age in order to prevent direct access by Men to Valinor, home of the immortals. In the Round World Version, the Earth is created spherical from the beginning. Tolkien abandoned the Round World Version before completion of The Lord of the Rings but later regretted this decision. He felt that postulating an ancient flat world detracted from the believability of his writings. He planned a new round world version but only got as far as an outline. He continued to amend his published works to make them compatible with a round world version for most of the rest of his life. The editor of The Silmarillion, published after Tolkien's death, considered editing the text to comply with Tolkien's wish to return to the Round World Version, but decided against it. (en)
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- The Round World Version is an alternative creation myth to the canonical version of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium as it appears in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. In the canonical version, the Earth was created flat and was changed to round as a cataclysmic event during the Second Age in order to prevent direct access by Men to Valinor, home of the immortals. In the Round World Version, the Earth is created spherical from the beginning. (en)
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- Round World version of the Silmarillion (en)
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