Hail Earendel, brightest of angels / above the middle-earth sent unto men. Tolkien was also inspired by this fragment: See Midgard and Norse mythology for the older use. Tolkien for discussion of his inspirations and sources). Middangeard occurs six times in Beowulf, which Tolkien translated and on which he was arguably the world's foremost authority. The word Mediterranean comes from two Latin stems, medi-, amidst, and terra, (earth/land), meaning "the sea placed at the middle of the Earth / amidst the lands". It is Germanic for what the Greeks called the οικουμένη ( oikoumenē) or "the abiding place of men", the physical world as opposed to the unseen worlds ( The Letters of J. Rather, it comes from Middle English middel-erde, itself a folk-etymology for the Old English word middangeard ( geard not meaning 'Earth', but rather 'enclosure' or 'place', thus 'yard', with the Old Norse word miðgarðr being a cognate). Otherwise, light up a pipe of Old Toby and explore with abandon.The term "Middle-earth" was not invented by J.R.R. If your main priority is to steer clear of spoilers for The Rings of Power, it’s probably best to just stay away from the timeline-or at least bypass the portion that covers the Second Age, during which the series is set. On the other side is an interactive map with pins showing where everything took place. On one side is the written timeline, starting with the Elves’ origin story during the Years of the Trees and progressing through the Fourth Age (after the events in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which both occur in the Third Age). You can, for example, view Frodo and Sam’s path from the Shire to Mordor, and see where various other members of the Fellowship peeled off.īut perhaps the most illuminating feature that LotrProject has to offer is the timeline, which is basically an interactive reference text connecting the universe’s history to its geography. He eventually added a map, which you can filter by character, type of place, and more. Sweden-based Tolkien fan Emil Johansson first created the site-unaffiliated with the Tolkien estate-back in 2012 as a genealogical guide to the author’s countless characters. For the insatiably curious, however, there’s a much more comprehensive option produced by the Lord of the Rings Project, a.k.a.
It’s pretty scant on detail, which is useful in helping those unfamiliar with the history of Middle-earth avoid anything that might be a future spoiler.
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