Is The Complete Guide to Middle Earth canon?
The Complete Guide to Middle-earth is a reference book for the canon of Middle-earth, compiled and written by Robert Foster, and now published by Random House Publishing Group.
How many Middle Earth books are there?
12 Books
The History of Middle-earth Book Series (12 Books)
Where is Middle Earth meant?
This part of Middle-earth is suggestive of Europe, the north-west of the Old World, with the environs of the Shire resembling reminiscent of England, but, more specifically, the West Midlands, with the town at its centre, Hobbiton, at the same latitude as Oxford….
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How large is Middle Earth?
The size of Middle Earth is estimated to be 3 million square miles. Its population size, kingdoms, and its inhabitants evolve over the ages. War, immigration, and disease affect the numbers for this imaginary land.
Is Lord of the Rings in the canon?
In general, the revised versions of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings are considered canon, but with The Silmarillion and other posthumous texts, the matter is more complex.
Is The Silmarillion a story?
The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilliɔn]) is a collection of mythopoeic stories by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977 with assistance from the fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay. The Silmarillion has five parts. …
What is the best order to read Tolkien’s books?
If you wish to read Tolkien’s Middle-earth works approximately in the order they were written, then this is a very rough guide:
- The Book of Lost Tales [volumes 1 & 2]
- The Lays of Beleriand.
- The Shaping of Middle-earth.
- The Lost Road.
- The Hobbit.
- The Return of the Shadow.
- The Treason of Isengard.
- The War of the Ring.
Did Tolkien think Middle-earth was real?
Tolkien didn’t create Middle-earth ex nihilo: ancient Germanic myths divide the Universe in nine worlds, inhabited by elves, dwarves, giants, etc. The world of men is the one in the middle, called Midgard, Middenheim or Middle-earth. That term doesn’t thus describe the entirety of the world Tolkien thought up.
What race is Gandalf?
Maia
Gandalf/Ethnicity
What is beyond the sea in Middle-earth?
Valinor lies in Aman, a continent on the west of Belegaer, the ocean to the west of Middle-earth. Tolkien wrote that the name “Aman” was “chiefly used as the name of the land in which the Valar dwelt” [i.e. Valinor].