middle earth
middle earth is the alternative letter-case form of Middle Earth.
Proper noun capitalized: Middle Earth
Middle Earth
- The Earth.
- And what you’ve not to do is this: bite no bit, and drink no drop, however hungry or thirsty you be; drink a drop, or bite a bit, while in Elfland you be and never will you see Middle Earth again.1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Childe Rowland”, in English Fairy Tales, pages 119–120
- synonym for Midgard, the world of traditional Germanic cosmology, conceived as a realm between heaven (Asgard) and hell (Niflheim).
- Alternative form of Middle-earth: the setting of the Lord of the Rings series.
- Not only are there maps of fantasy, such as those of Oz or Middle Earth, there are also hypotheses that have been made on the basis of mapped information1994, Academic American Encyclopedia, Grolier, →ISBN, page 141
- The place might as well be called Noplace; it is a sort of magic island, like Thomas More’s Utopia or Homer’s Ogygia or Aristophane’s Cloudcuckooland—or Oz, or Narnia, or Middle Earth, or Disney’s Magic Kingdom.1999, Frederick Turner, Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 180
Forms of middle earth
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| alternative form | middle-earth |
| alternative form | Middle-earth |
| alternative form | Middle-Earth |
Origin of middle earth
From Middle English myddelerthe, middelerthe; an alteration of earlier middelerd; in turn an alteration of earlier middenerd; from Old English middaneard (“Middle Earth”), variant of middanġeard (“Earth, the world”, literally “the middle yard, enclosure, or realm”) mis- or reinterpreting its meaning, from Proto-Germanic *midjagardaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“middle”) and *gʰórdʰos (“enclosure”). Cognate with Norwegian & English Midgard (q.v.) and Danish, Norwegian, & Swedish Midgård.
Questions about middle earth
- What does middle earth mean?
- Middle earth means the Earth.
- What is middle earth the alternative letter-case form of?
- Middle earth is the alternative letter-case form of Middle Earth.
- What part of speech is middle earth?
- Middle earth is a proper noun.
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