middle earth

1. Alternative letter-case form of Middle Earth.

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1. archaicThe Earth.

   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.

   1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Childe Rowland”, in English Fairy Tales, pages 119–120

2. Norsehuman sciencessynonym for Midgard, the world of traditional Germanic cosmology, conceived as a realm between heaven (Asgard) and hell (Niflheim).
3. alternativefictionAlternative form of Middle-earth: the setting of the Lord of the Rings series.

   This is not an account of the Middle Ages, nor is it a tale from Middle Earth. This is our world.

   2004, Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 27

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   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

   1994, Academic American Encyclopedia, Grolier, →ISBN, page 141

   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.

   1999, Frederick Turner, Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 180

   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[…]

   2003, Erik Bethke, Game Development and Production, Wordware Publishing,, →ISBN, page 76