Middle-earth is the fictional setting for most stories by author J. R. R. Tolkien, including The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Tolkien said that his M...moreMiddle-earth is the fictional setting for most stories by author J. R. R. Tolkien, including The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Tolkien said that his Middle-earth is located on our Earth, but in a fictional period in the past, estimating the end of the Third Age to about 6,000 years before his own time. He was later to reject this notion, and state that Middle-earth was not at a physically distant time, but rather "at a different stage of imagination".(less)
