![]() Yet there are frequent suggestions in The Lord of the Rings of an ever deeper past, of lands and cities that cannot be found on the map that accompanies the book: a past nonetheless that some of the persons in the story speak of as having known and seen with their own eyes. It is a rich landscape, of mountain ranges, plains, forests, rivers, but richest of all in its past: its ancient roads and ruined cities, old battlefields and vast works of stone, named in many different languages. But many would say rather ‘Middle-earth’, and by this they refer to that great imagined country, peopled by Elves, by Dwarves, by Ents, by men of different cultures, and by Orcs, through which the Fellowship of the Ring passed on its quest peopled also indeed by Hobbits, in one small region called the Shire. ![]() To a majority, perhaps, of those who are familiar with his name, J.R.R. ![]()
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