<P> Middle - earth is the fictional setting of much of British writer J.R.R. Tolkien 's legendarium . The term is equivalent to the term Midgard of Norse mythology , describing the human - inhabited world , i.e. the central continent of the Earth in Tolkien 's imagined mythological past . Tolkien 's most widely read works , The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings , take place entirely in Middle - earth , and Middle - earth has also become a short - hand to refer to the legendarium or its fictional universe . </P>
<P> Middle - earth is the fictional setting of much of British writer J.R.R. Tolkien 's legendarium . The term is equivalent to the term Midgard of Norse mythology , describing the human - inhabited world , i.e. the central continent of the Earth in Tolkien 's imagined mythological past . Tolkien 's most widely read works , The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings , take place entirely in Middle - earth , and Middle - earth has also become a short - hand to refer to the legendarium or its fictional universe . </P>
where is middle earth in lord of the rings
where is middle earth in lord of the rings
the central continent of the Earth
the central continent of the Earth