Middle-earth was created by a Canadian writer.
Middle-earth is the fictional setting of much of British writer J. R. R. Tolkien 's legendarium .. J. R. R. Tolkien. J. R. R. Tolkien. setting. Setting ( narrative ). legendarium. 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 .. Midgard. Midgard. Norse mythology. Norse mythology. human-inhabited world. oikumene. Earth. Earth. mythological past. mythopoeia. 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 .. The Hobbit. The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings. The Lord of the Rings. Hobbit. Hobbit. legendarium. Tolkien's legendarium. fictional universe. fictional universe. Within his stories , Tolkien translated the name `` Middle-earth '' as Endor -LRB- or sometimes Endore -RRB- and Ennor in the Elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin respectively , sometimes referring only to the continent that the stories take place on , with another southern continent called the Dark Land .. Elvish languages. Elvish languages ( Middle-earth ). Quenya. Quenya. Sindarin. Sindarin. Dark Land. Dark Land. Middle-earth is the north continent of Earth -LRB- Arda -RRB- in an imaginary period of the Earth 's past. Earth. Earth. -LRB- Tolkien placed the end of the Third Age at about 6,000 years before his own time -RRB- , in the sense of a `` secondary or sub-creational reality '' .. Third Age. Third Age. sub-creational reality. Subcreation. Its general position is reminiscent of Europe , with the environs of the Shire intended to be reminiscent of England -LRB- more specifically , the West Midlands , with Hobbiton set at the same latitude as Oxford -RRB- .. the Shire. Shire ( Middle-earth ). West Midlands. West Midlands ( region ). Hobbiton. Hobbiton. Oxford. Oxford