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Well, I seriously doubt that Tolkien was referring to that
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Actually, Professor Tolkien said himself that he was referring to this.
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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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Letters, no 165
Middangeard is the Old English equivalent of the
Midgard of Wagner and the Eddas.
[ February 24, 2002: Message edited by: Bruce MacCulloch ]