Tolkien's legendarium
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Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his The Lord of the Rings, and which his son Christopher summarize
A battle scene from the 14th century Anjou Legendarium
Tolkien went to great lengths to present his work as a collection of documents "within the fictional world", including preparing facsimile pages from The Book of Mazarbul for The Lord of the Rings.
Middle-earth
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Middle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf.
Tolkien's legendarium
…originally part of the larger mythology but became linked to it. Both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (1954 and 1955) are set in the Third Age of Middle-earth, while virtually all of his earlier writing had been set in the first two ages of the world. The Lord of the Rings occasionally alludes to figures and…
Bag End in The Shire, from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series
Medieval Christian cosmology: heaven above, earth in the middle, hell below. Vank Cathedral, Isfahan.