middle-earth
Speech parts
1. middle-earth - Noun
2. Middle-earth - Proper noun
Meaning
The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlternative names
Middle Earth
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Hail Éarendel, brightest of angels above the middle-earth sent unto men.
After three ages of imprisonment, Morgoth returned to Middle-earth and set himself up in Angband, raising the volcanic Thangorodrim over the fortress as protection.
Like Niggle, Tolkien came to abandon other projects or graft them onto his "Tree," Middle-earth.
For the transliteration of this alphabet, meant to be used for more than one language (for Quenya and Sindarin, at least) and needing a bigger set of sounds, Tolkien thought up to a kind of general Middle-earth languages phonetic transcription, here used.
He had already celebrated his 131st birthday by this time, surpassing the Old Took by one year and becoming the oldest Hobbit ever in Middle-earth, save for Gollum.
In The Battle for Middle-earth games, each of the Ringwraiths wields a Morgul blade.