Tolkien and Asimov - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 10-11-2005, 02:41 PM

I find myself quite enlightened by the various responses so far.

I guess the particular thing I'm curious about is whether reading Asimov's science fiction helped Tolkien along toward a rejection of the Flat Earth mythology for Arda. I suppose there's no way to answer that, but it appears that the contemporaneity of enjoying Asimov and changing his mind toward a Round Earth mythology supports the plausibility of it.

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10-11-2005, 02:41 PM	#11
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	I find myself quite enlightened by the various responses so far. I guess the particular thing I'm curious about is whether reading Asimov's science fiction helped Tolkien along toward a rejection of the Flat Earth mythology for Arda. I suppose there's no way to answer that, but it appears that the contemporaneity of enjoying Asimov and changing his mind toward a Round Earth mythology supports the plausibility of it.