Journal of Tolkien Research Journal of Tolkien Research Volume 13 Issue 1 Article 3 2021 The Walls of the World and the Voyages of the Evening Star: The The Walls of the World and the Voyages of the Evening Star: The Byzantine Borders of Tolkien’s Biblical/Classical/Medieval/ Byzantine Borders of Tolkien’s Biblical/Classical/Medieval/ Geocentric/Heliocentric Complicated Cosmology Geocentric/Heliocentric Complicated Cosmology Kristine Larsen Central Connecticut State University, larsen@ccsu.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch Part of the Modern Literature Commons Recommended Citation Recommended Citation Larsen, Kristine (2021) "The Walls of the World and the Voyages of the Evening Star: The Byzantine Borders of Tolkien’s Biblical/Classical/Medieval/Geocentric/Heliocentric Complicated Cosmology," Journal of Tolkien Research: Vol. 13 : Iss. 1 , Article 3. Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol13/iss1/3 This Conference Paper is brought to you for free and open access by ValpoScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Tolkien Research by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at scholar@valpo.edu.