The Professor explained his use of the term Middle-Earth.
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'Middle-earth', by the way, is not a name of a never-never land without relation to the world we live in (like the Mercury of Eddison). It is just a use of Middle English middel-erde (or erthe), altered from Old English Middangeard: the name for the inhabited lands of Men 'between the seas'.
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`A blunderbuss, was it?' said he, scratching his head. `I thought it was horseflies!'
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