Sun And Moon (Middle-earth)
The fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien of Middle-earth fame included Earth's sun and moon for the cosmology of his fictionalized version of existence.
These astronomical bodies appear in various versions of The Silmarillion, a history of an alternative Earth populated by Elves and other fantastic creatures as well as Men. A version of The Silmarillion, edited by the author's son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien, was posthumously published in 1977. However the Sun and Moon already appear in the author's writings dating from the 1920s.
The sun and moon in Tolkien's legendarium were described in the Narsilion, the "Song of the Sun and Moon".
Read more about Sun And Moon (Middle-earth): Sun, Moon, Other Versions, Narsil, The Man in The Moon, See Also, Sources
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