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11-26-2010, 03:08 AM
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Newly Deceased
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Middle Earth?
I just have a question, is Middle one world, or is it more then one. Like how is the world just layed out, I'm just curious.
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11-26-2010, 06:19 AM
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Blossom of Dwimordene
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Middle Earth is a continent. At least that's what I think.
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11-26-2010, 08:55 PM
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Guardian of the Blind
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Isn't it just a small section of land. Beleraind is to the south I think and Rhûn is to the east.
Map of Middle-Earth Map of Arda
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11-27-2010, 08:41 AM
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Blossom of Dwimordene
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ME is huge, and LOTR and The Sil talk about a small part of it. However, it is nonetheless a continent.
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11-27-2010, 12:46 PM
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Gruesome Spectre
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Shouldn't this be in the N & N Forum?
Middle-earth, according to the name-index in The Silmarillion, is actually all the lands east of the Great Sea. If it isn't part of Aman, it's considered Middle-earth.
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11-27-2010, 05:02 PM
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Wight of the Old Forest
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To be precise, Middle-earth (also called the Hither Lands, the Great Lands or in Quenya Endor) is the continent in the middle of BG's Map of Arda, between Belegaer and the East Sea. Rhûn (the region north and east of the Sea of Helcar) and Harad (the southern sub-continent that looks vaguely like Africa) are parts of it, as was Beleriand (west of the Blue Mountains) before its drowning at the end of the First Age. The south-eastern continent (the Dark Lands) used to belong to it as well, if I remember correctly, before Morgoth overthrew the Lamps of the Valar and the lands were broken.
(Sometimes the name 'Middle-earth' is also used to mean the entire sub-created world of Tolkien's Legendarium, including Aman, but this is more properly called Arda.) And Zil is right, this is more a subject for N & N.
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