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legendarium

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A literary collection of legends, particularly those detailing the life of a saint.

(literature) The collected high fantasy writings of J. R. R. Tolkien relating to the fictional realm of Middle-earth and the universe in which it is set.

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I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien. Samantha Shannon

It is only tangentially connected with the author's Middle-earth legendarium : both were originally intended as essays in "English mythology". Source: Internet

In Tolkien’s legendarium, the entire history of Arda leading nearly up to the events that inspire the War of the Ring has taken place on a completely flat planet surrounded by a sea, ringed by a void. Source: Internet

Throughout Tolkien’s legendarium, whenever people work on something in concert of their own free will, things become greater. Source: Internet

Roverandom and Smith of Wootton Major, like The Hobbit, borrowed ideas from his legendarium. Source: Internet

Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings. Source: Internet

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