Citations:middle-earth

Citations from Old English Mythology

 * 2002, Brian Bates (author), The Real Middle-Earth, Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages, Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN 0283073535, abstract
 * Drawing on historical and archaeological research, Brian Bates uncovers the Middle-Earth that centres on England - a home to dragons, elves, dwarves and demons - a land where spells had real force.

Citations from modern paganism (Heathenry)

 * 1993 Our Troth, the Ring of Troth and other true folk, ISBN 0-9623957-8-1, page 262.
 * There are nine worlds: the Ases' Garth (or God Home), Light Alf-Home, the Middle-Garth (Middenerd, Middle-Earth, or Man Home), Nibel-Home, Etin Home, Muspell-Home, Wan-Home, Swart Alf-Home, and Hel-Home (which also includes Niflhel, Misty-Dark Hel, a lower realm into which, according to Vafthrudnismal, men die out of Hel.

Citations in respect of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings

 * 1994, Academic American Encyclopedia, Grolier, ISBN 0717220532, page 141
 * Not only are there maps of fantasy, such as those of Oz or Middle Earth, there are also hypotheses that have been made on the basis of mapped information
 * 1999, Frederick Turner, Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics, The Morality of Love, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195128613, page 180
 * The place might as well be called Noplace; it is a sort of magic island, like Thomas More’s Utopia or Homer’s Ogygia or Aristophane’s Cloudcuckooland—or Oz, or Narnia, or Middle Earth, or Disney’s Magic Kingdom.
 * 2003, Erik Bethke, Game Development and Production, Wordware Publishing, ISBN 1556229518, page 76
 * Some game ideas (such as the fanciful recreation of Middle Earth where the whole world is modeled with strong AI, 3D graphics capable of great indoor and terrain rendering, where an unlimited number of players can join in on both sides of epic conflict between good and evil) cannot be reconciled with the business parameters
 * 2004, Sam Harris, The End of Faith, Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0393035158, page 27
 * This is not an account of the Middle Ages, nor is it a tale from Middle Earth. This is our world.