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His professional knowledge of Beowulf, telling of a pagan world but with a Christian narrator, [2] helped to shape his fictional world of Middle-earth. His intention to create what has been called "a mythology for England" [T 2] led him to construct not only stories but a fully-formed world, Middle-earth, with languages, peoples, cultures, and ...
Susan Booker, writing in the 2004 scholarly collection Tolkien on Film, notes that her own experience of interacting with fans bears out the general belief that "the fan fiction universe is composed mainly of the female sex". [4]
It and The Hobbit have spawned Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films, which have had billion-dollar takings at the box office. [4] [5] The books and films have stimulated enormous Tolkien fandom activity in meetings such as Tolkienmoot [6] and on the Internet, with discussion groups, fan art, and many thousands of Tolkien fan fiction stories. [7]
Tolkien meant Arda to be "our own green and solid Earth", seen here in the Baltistan mountains, "at some quite remote epoch in the past". [1]In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the history of Arda, also called the history of Middle-earth, [a] began when the Ainur entered Arda, following the creation events in the Ainulindalë and long ages of labour throughout Eä, the fictional universe.
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.
The site is also open to certain original, non-fanfiction works, [40] hosting over 250,000 such original works as of 27 January 2024. [41] A chart of some of the largest fandoms (as of March 11, 2024). AO3 reached one million works (including stories, art pieces, and podcast fic recordings, referred to as podfics) in February 2014.
J. R. R. Tolkien built a process of decline and fall in Middle-earth into both The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.. The pattern is expressed in several ways, including the splintering of the light provided by the Creator, Eru Iluvatar, into progressively smaller parts; the fragmentation of languages and peoples, especially the Elves, who are split into many groups; the successive falls ...
The History of Middle-earth is a 12-volume series of books published between 1983 and 1996 by George Allen & Unwin in the UK and by Houghton Mifflin in the US. They collect and analyse much of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, compiled and edited by his son Christopher Tolkien.