Middle-earthian

comparative more Middle-earthian · superlative most Middle-earthian · alternative Middle-Earthian

1. Of, resembling, or characteristic of, Middle-earth.

   It’s where streams are blended that we find the most uniquely “Middle-earthian” expressions of evil.

   2003, Anne C. Petty, Tolkien in the Land of Heroes: Discovering the Human Spirit, Cold Spring Press, →ISBN, page 108

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   […] of Tolkien-related pamphlets and dissertations, episodes of a course in elementary Quenya, and lots of articles on classical allusions in Tolkien, Elvish military organization and other Middle-earthian details of life.

   1990, Mythprint: The Monthly Bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, page 7

   And Macmillan hopes to cash in with its $29.95 Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia, by David Day, a handsome book that leaves few Middle-earthian stones unturned.

   1991 December 29, William A. Davis, “Hobbit-forming: One hundred years after J.R.R. Tolkien’s birth, his legendary creations – Gandalf and Bilbo and Frodo Baggins – still thrive in Middle-earth and on bookstore shelves”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 240, number 182, page 14

   It takes the online RPG experience, increasingly mired in repetitive gameplay mechanics and Middle-earthian game-worlds, and makes it seem new and exciting again.

   2004 spring, ZM, “Final Fantasy XI Online”, in Surge, page 110

   The economy of space is a marvel; the studio may seem cluttered, a kind of Middle-earthian junkyard ringed by the stalks of lighting rigs, but one glance into the monitor and there is Théoden’s massive throne room, carved straight out of the pages of Tolkien’s vast antiquity.

   2005, Andrew O’Hehir, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, in Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor, Plexus, →ISBN, page 138

   Apart from his unfinished essays on his created world, Tolkien drew Middle-earthian plants, textiles, and heraldic designs.

   2007, Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 85

plural Middle-earthians · alternative Middle-Earthian

1. A native or inhabitant of Middle-earth.

   Middle-earthians head for Mordor to destroy object in the fires.

   1994, Jack Umstatter, Hooked on Literature!: Ready-to-Use Activities & Materials to Spark Students’ Interest in Literature, Grades 9 & Up, Center for Applied Research in Education, →ISBN, page 156

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   The animation, in a style somewhere between Arthur Rackham’s and Disney gothic, is handsome enough to have furnished publisher Harry Abrams with a new, coffee-table edition of “The Hobbit,” and the voices of the characters—Orson Bean, John Huston, Richard Boone, Cyril Ritchard and Brother Theodore—are as distinctive as you’d want for this odd assortment of Middle-earthians.

   1977 November 25, Alexander Keneas, “‘Rolling Stone’ a musical show to miss”, in Newsday, page 80A, column 2

   Those Middle-earthians from the First Age knew enough to recognize that even death wasn’t necessarily going to keep witch-kings and giant flaming eyes from harassing you later.

   2022, Smart Pop Explains Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Movies, Smart Pop, BenBella Books, →ISBN

   Synonyms: Middle-earther