Middle Earth

Middle Earth is the setting where the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Regions

• The Shire
• Mordor
• Other places

General clarification

Middle Earth is not the name of The World of the Tolkien's mythos, the term for that would technically be Arda. Middle Earth refers to the general landmass where the events of the books take place. At the same time Arda is not an alien planet or alternate universe but rather a lost era of our world with Middle Earth being roughly where Europe was. This is in it's way quite sad when you think about it since it would mean that after the events of the books where our heroes sail off to Valinor all the cultures of Gondor, Rohan, Laketown and so forth gradually falter and fail, leaving only cave men.

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