{"id":6667,"date":"2012-10-09T18:33:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T23:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2018-03-29T15:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T20:50:34","slug":"on-galileo-and-middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6667","title":{"rendered":"On Galileo and Middle-Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This search phrase brought someone to my blog today &mdash; &#8220;in lord of the ring the fellowship of the ring what did galileo say to the elves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I too would like to know what Galileo said to the Elves.  The cosmology of Middle-Earth is fascinating.  Did making the world round when Numenor fell also cause the universe beyond Earth to come into being?  That&#8217;s an argument you can make, because until the fall of Numenor the universe wasn&#8217;t just geocentric.  Middle-Earth was all there <i>was<\/i>.  Even Venus didn&#8217;t come into being until the end of the First Age, and even then Venus wasn&#8217;t a planet.  It was Earendil and his Silmaril riding through the skies.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, anonymous Google searcher!  I too want to know what Galileo said to the Elves in <i>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/i>.  If you ever find out, please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This search phrase brought someone to my blog today &mdash; &#8220;in lord of the ring the fellowship of the ring what did galileo say to the elves.&#8221; Yes, I too would like to know what Galileo said to the Elves. The cosmology of Middle-Earth is fascinating. Did making the world round when Numenor fell also<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6667\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Galileo and Middle-Earth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}