Middle-earth
Sign in to saveMiddle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past. His most widely read works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, are set entirely in Middle-earth. "Middle-earth" has also become a shorthand term for Tolkien's legendarium, his large body of fantasy writings, and for the entirety of his fictional world.
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Middle-earth is the fictional world created by author J.R.R. Tolkien, serving as the setting for his most famous works including *The Hobbit* and *The Lord of the Rings*. The term has become widely used as shorthand for all of Tolkien's interconnected fantasy writings and imagined mythological universe.
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Key facts
- Fictional location.name
- Middle-earth
- Fictional location.image
- Baggins residence 'Bag End' with party sign.jpg
- Fictional location.caption
- Bag End in The Shire, from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series
- Fictional location.series
- The Lord of the Rings
- Fictional location.creator
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Fictional location.genre
- Fantasy
- Fictional location.type
- Central continent of a fantasy world; also used as a shorthand for the whole legendarium
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- Context: Tolkien's legendarium
- Etymology
- Use by Tolkien
- Extended usage
- In other works
- Geography
- Maps
- Cosmology
- Correspondence with the geography of Earth
- History
- Peoples and their languages
- Ainur
- Elves
- Men
- Dwarves
- Hobbits
- Other humanoid peoples
- Dragons
- Sapient animals
- Adaptations
- Motion pictures
- Games
- See also
- References
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- Sources
- Further reading
Middle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past. His most widely read works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, are set entirely in Middle-earth. "Middle-earth" has also become a shorthand term for Tolkien's legendarium, his large body of fantasy writings, and for the entirety of his fictional world.
Middle-earth is the main continent of Earth (Arda) in an imaginary period of the past, ending with Tolkien's Third Age, about 6,000 years ago. Tolkien's tales of Middle-earth mostly focus on the north-west of the continent. This region is suggestive of Europe, the north-west of the Old World, with the environs of the Shire reminiscent of England, but, more specifically, the West Midlands, with the town at its centre, Hobbiton, at the same latitude as Oxford.