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Earth = terra, Middle = Medio Mediterranean middle earth is a borrowed concept
by pvaldes 3y ago
Earth = terra, Middle = Medio
Mediterranean
middle earth is a borrowed concept
- veddox 3y agoYes, but it comes from Norse mythology, not Latin: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Midgard https://www.britannica.com/topic/Midgard As a scholar of early medieval literature, Tolkien borrows tons of ideas from the Edda and other mythological sources. (To give him his due, he masterfully reinterprets and combines what he „borrows“.)