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[LOTR] How is it that Middle-Earth has the same constellations as Earth?

About midway through "Fellowship of the Ring," there's a reference to the Big Dipper in the sky.
gpt
Middle-Earth is Earth.

The foremost historical authority on the matter said so, himself.

> T: Oh yes, they're the same world. Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of Earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.