Timeline for Is there an Upper- and a Lower-earth along with Middle-earth?
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| Apr 24, 2022 at 15:31 | history | edited | DavidW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2014 at 10:53 | comment | added | Dunebro | I always saw it like this: Middle-earth is in the middle, with Aman on the left and the Dark Lands on the right. | |
| Mar 2, 2013 at 12:01 | comment | added | Avner Shahar-Kashtan | Actually, the Mediteranean isn't "the middle continent", but rather the opposite. It's from latin "In the middle of land", and refers originally to the Mediterranean Sea, which is bounded by land from all directions except for small straits connecting to the Atlantic or other seas. The areas of land called the Mediterranean are the ones surrounding the sea and named for it. Tolkien couldn't really name his continent after a sea. | |
| Mar 2, 2013 at 11:38 | comment | added | HorusKol | Mediterranean (as in sea) is literally "Middle-earth" - while Tolkien was inspired by Midgard, his "Middle-earth" was a continent on a world, not a world amongst many (as Midgard was) | |
| Feb 28, 2013 at 23:02 | comment | added | PiousVenom | I've always heard of Europe as being described as "Middle-Earth" in the medieval times. | |
| Feb 28, 2013 at 21:39 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | You might want to expand that Tolkien was writing a "missing legends of England" - as such, those legends didn't have to be logically or geologically complete. | |
| Feb 28, 2013 at 21:29 | history | edited | John O | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 28, 2013 at 21:05 | vote | accept | codegeek511 | ||
| Feb 28, 2013 at 20:58 | comment | added | codegeek511 | Ok cool, thank you. | |
| Feb 28, 2013 at 20:56 | history | answered | Avner Shahar-Kashtan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |