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What (kind of) light through yonder window breaks?
Why does Tolkien make the same, ah, mistake that other mythologies seems to do in making the Moon a 'light' when actually it's a reflector, having no light of its own?
On the other hand, Tolkien's world actually does start out flat (necessitating a trans subterranean west-to-east railroad of sorts), then becomes spherical later in time, meaning that the sun and moon begin to act more like our sun and moon.
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