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Middle-earth
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Middle-earth
Middle-earth
is the
setting
of much of
J. R. R. Tolkien
's
legendarium
. The term is equivalent to the term
Midgard
of
Norse mythology
, describing the
human-inhabited world
, i.e. the central continent of world of Tolkien's imagined
mythological past
. Tolkien's most widely read works,
The Hobbit
and
The Lord of the Rings
take place entirely in Middle-earth, and
Middle-earth
has also become a short-hand to refer to the legendarium or its "
fictional-universe
".
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