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The term "Middle-earth" was not coined by Tolkien. He began to avail the term "Middle-earth" in early 1930s."Middle-earth" is minutely destined to label the lands East of the Great sea (Belegaer:is the sea of Arda(Earth) that is in the west of Middle-earth),thus eliminating Aman(the undying lands),but taking in Harda and other mortal lands. The name is applicable to the entirety of Tolkien's World or solely to the land depicted in “The Hobbit”, “The Lord of the Rings” and The Silmarillion.

         The Sundering Seas



The world



                  Tolkien declared that the geography of Middle-earth was intended to be parallel with that of our real Earth in several particulars. The Hobbit's Shire might lie in the temperate climate of England. Gondor might lie in the Mediterranean Italy and Greece, Mordor in the arid Turkey and Middle East, South Gondor and Near Harad in the deserts of Northern Africa, Rhovanion in the forests of Germany and the steppes of Western and Southern Russia, and the Ice Bay of Forochel in the fjords of Norway. Far Harad may have assimilated with Southern Africa, and Rhun corresponded with the whole Asia.

The most eminent work among Tolkien's entirety is The Silmarillion, which serve the creation story and portrays Cosmogonies which include Middle-earth.

Cosmogonies

Eru lluVatar is alpha and omega. lluVatar created angelic spirits named the Ainur and he taught music. The most powerful Ainur was Melkor (later called Morgoth), Tolkien's homologous of Satan, who disrupted the theme made by Ainur based on a theme of IiuVatar. Later lluVatar stopped the music and revealed its meaning to the Ainur through a vision. IIuVatar therefore created Ea (the universe), and sent some Ainur to do task, as they entered at the beginning of Time, they found it shapeless.
Tolkien 's World


In the" äge of stars" Ainur carved out Ea, however, they formed Arda(Earth).The most fifteen powerful Ainur were called Valar,of whom Melkor was the most powerful. The Valar look after Arda and prepared it for the awakening of children (Elves and Men) of IIuVatar to dwell in. They lived in Aman(undying lands)
Arda carved as a single flat world, to which the Valar gave light with the help of Two Lamps, it was called "the year of lamps". Melkor destroyed the lamps and fetched darkness to the world. Later on, the Valar created Two Trees to give light to their homeland. The Valar imprisoned Melkor, but when he got rid he exploited the trees. The last two living Fruits were used to create Sun and Moon.
Year of Trees
















Before the end of Second Age, when Men of Numenor rebel against the Valar, IIuVatar destroyed Numenor and separated Aman from the rest of the World, and formed new lands shaping Arda spherical.
Aman

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