Quote:
He first created for the sons of men
Heaven as a roof, the holy Creator,
then Middle-earth the keeper of mankind,
the Eternal Lord, afterwards made,
the earth for men, the Almighty Lord.
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Salocin, the lines make much more sense if you mark that "the keeper of mankind" doesn't refer to the Middle-earth but is just repetition: "the holy Creator"="the keeper of mankind"=the Eternal Lord"=the Almighty Lord". The order of these phrases is indeed a bit confusing but that's how I saw the meaning.
EDIT: littlemanpoet's answer seems more educated though! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I don't know old English at all so I totally missed that linguistic point of view.
[ April 12, 2003: Message edited by: Annunfuiniel ]