The Real Mythology of Middle-earth: What Tolkien Built and Where He Found It

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The name 'Middle-earth' is Old English for the human world between gods and chaos. What Tolkien built on that foundation drew from Norse Eddas, Anglo-Saxon poetry, Finnish Kalevala, Greek philosophy, Arthurian legend, Celtic mythology, Plato's Atlantis, and medieval Catholic theology. A deep source guide to the real origins of his mythology.

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