Middle Earth

middle earth middle-earth Middle-earth Middle-Earth English Alternative forms en middle earth middle-earth Middle-earth Middle-Earth Etymology From en enm myddelerthe, enm middelerthe; an alteration of earlier enm middelerd; in turn an alteration of earlier enm middenerd; from en ang middaneard Middle Earth, variant of ang middanġeard Earth, the world the middle yard, enclosure, or realm mis- or reinterpreting its meaning, from en gem-pro *midjagardaz, ultimately from en ine-pro *médʰyos middle and ine-pro *gʰórdʰos enclosure. Cognate with no - & en Midgard (q.v.) and da -, no -, & sv Midgård. Proper noun Middle Earth en archaic The Earth. en 1890 w:Joseph Jacobs s:English Fairy Tales Childe Rowland 119–120 And what you’ve not to do is this: bite no bit, and drink no drop, however hungry or thirsty you be; drink a drop, or bite a bit, while in Elfland you be and never will you see Middle Earth again. en chiefly Norse mythology synonym for Midgard, the world of traditional Germanic cosmology, conceived as a realm between heaven (Asgard) and hell (Niflheim). en fiction en Middle-earth: the setting of the Lord of the Rings series. en 1994 Academic American Encyclopedia 141 Grolier 0717220532 Not only are there maps of fantasy, such as those of Oz or Middle Earth, there are also hypotheses that have been made on the basis of mapped information en 1999 Frederick Turner Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love 180 Oxford University Press 0195128613 The place might as well be called Noplace; it is a sort of magic island, like Thomas More’s Utopia or Homer’s Ogygia or Aristophane’s Cloudcuckooland—or Oz, or Narnia, or Middle Earth, or Disney’s Magic Kingdom. en 2003 Erik Bethke Game Development and Production Wordware Publishing, 1556229518 76 Some game ideas (such as the fanciful recreation of Middle Earth where the whole world is modeled with strong AI, 3D graphics capable of great indoor and terrain rendering, where an unlimited number of players can join in on both sides of epic conflict between good and evil) cannot be reconciled with the business parameters en 2004 Sam Harris The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason 27 W. W. Norton & Company 0393035158 This is not an account of the Middle Ages, nor is it a tale from Middle Earth. This is our world. Related terms en Midgard Translations Earth Midgard Middle-earth en J. R. R. Tolkien