J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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.

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.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Different
  • Imaginary
  • Middle-earth