Do we live in Middle-earth? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Little_My* · 04-13-2002, 01:05 PM

Do any of you know where the world Middle-earth comes from? It's a larga bit of the old nordic Mytholoy . Midgård is the swedish name for Middle-earth. Anyway, I would find it hard to belive that a world that Tolkien came up and named after the world in the nordic Mytholoy with would be real...
If you want to read more about the real Middle-earth/Midgård...read this.. http://jotunheim-dk.com/Nordic_Mytho...y_Midgaard.htm

04-13-2002, 01:05 PM	#11
Little_My* Pile O'Bones Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Stockholm, sweden Posts: 11	Do any of you know where the world Middle-earth comes from? It's a larga bit of the old nordic Mytholoy . Midgård is the swedish name for Middle-earth. Anyway, I would find it hard to belive that a world that Tolkien came up and named after the world in the nordic Mytholoy with would be real... If you want to read more about the real Middle-earth/Midgård...read this.. http://jotunheim-dk.com/Nordic_Mytho...y_Midgaard.htm __________________ "Do extra-terrestrial beings exist? - the Nobel Prize winning Italian physicist, Enrico Fermi, was once asked by his disciples in California. Of course, Fermi answered - they are already here among us, they are called Hungarians..."