Middle-earth

See also middle-earth, Middle Earth, and middle earth

English

Alternative forms

• Middle Earth

Etymology

From Middle English middel-erde, from Old English middangeard, anglicized from Old Norse miðgarðr, itself from Proto-Germanic *midjagardaz, combined from Proto-Indo-European *medhyo (“middle”) and Proto-Indo-European *ghartos (“enclosure”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish Midgård, Norwegian Midgard or Midgård. The term represents an old Germanic name for our world, the places inhabited by humans, with the literal meaning "middle enclosure".

Proper noun

Middle-earth

1. The realm of mankind in Old English mythology.
2. (paganism) The realm of the mankind or the planet Earth in Heathenry, used as an alternative to the Norse Midgard.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Translations

Fictional place on Earth where most of the stories of J. R. R. Tolkien are set

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中土大陸 (cmn) (zhōngtǔ dàilù)

• Esperanto: Mez-Tero (eo)
• Faroese: Miðgarður (fo) m
• French: Terre du Milieu (fr) f
• German: Mittelerde (de) f
• Greek: Μέση Γη (el) (Mési Yi) f
• Hungarian: Középfölde (hu)

• Icelandic: Miðgarður (is)
• Italian: Terra di Mezzo (it) f
• Japanese: 中つ国 (ja) (なかつくに, naka tsu kuni)
• Korean: 가운데땅 (ko) (gaundettang)
• Portuguese: terra-média (pt) f
• Slovak: Stredozem (sk) f

External links

• Middle-earth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia