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Middle-earth populated places (32 P) Pages in category "Middle-earth locations" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Some places in Middle-earth can be more or less firmly associated with a single place in the real world, while other locations have had two or more real-world origins proposed for them. The sources are diverse, spanning classical , medieval , and modern elements . [ 28 ]
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
This category includes settlements in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. This includes the entire world in which the Middle-earth stories are set, even locations that were outside the 'continent' of Middle-earth proper.
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. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past.
This category encompasses all regions, provinces and other geographical areas from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium Pages in category "Middle-earth regions
The runes a:miþkarþi, Old Norse á Miðgarði, meaning "in Midgard" – "in Middle Earth", on the Fyrby Runestone (Sö 56) in Södermanland, Sweden.. In Germanic cosmology, Midgard (an anglicised form of Old Norse Miðgarðr; Old English Middangeard, Old Saxon Middilgard, Old High German Mittilagart, and Gothic Midjun-gards; "middle yard", "middle enclosure") is the name for Earth ...
This category lists kingdoms, fiefs and other realms from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium See also: Category:Middle-earth regions , Category:Middle-earth populated places , and Category:Middle-earth castles and fortresses