Action Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

“Middle-earth is ... not my own invention. It is a modernization or alteration ... of an old word for the inhabited world of Men,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

— John Boorman

My God! Middle Earth does exist!

— Elijah Wood

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely…

— Alexey Leonov

“According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled we know…

— Anonymous

Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by…

— Thomas Blundeville

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still…

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of…

— Bill Bryson

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in...

— Jeffrey Eugenides