Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a p…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.
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