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Midgard ( an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English , Swedish / Danish " Midgård ", Old Saxon , Old High German , Gothic " Midjun - gards "; literally " middle yard ") is the name for Earth ( in the sense of oikoumene ) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology , and specifically one of the Nine Worlds in ___MASK15___ . John Ronald Reuel Tolkien , ( 3 January 1892  2 September 1973 ), known by his pen name J . R . R . Tolkien , was an English writer , poet , philologist , and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high - fantasy works " ___MASK9___ ", " The Lord of the Rings ", and " ___MASK11___ ". The Book of ___MASK18___ Tales is a collection of early stories by J . R . R . Tolkien , published as the first two volumes of Christopher Tolkien ' s 12 - volume series " The History of Middle - earth ", in which he presents and analyzes the manuscripts of those stories , which were the earliest form of the complex fictional myths that would eventually comprise " ___MASK11___ ". Each of the Tales is followed by notes and a detailed commentary by Christopher Tolkien . ___MASK55___ is an epic high - fantasy novel written by English author J . R . R . Tolkien . The story began as a sequel to Tolkien ' s 1937 fantasy novel " ___MASK9___ ", but eventually developed into a much larger work . Written in stages between 1937 and 1949 , " ___MASK55___ " is one of the best - selling novels ever written , with over 150 million copies sold . ___MASK51___ ( 1994 ) is the 11th volume of Christopher Tolkien ' s series " The History of Middle - earth ", analysing the unpublished manuscripts of his father J . R . R . Tolkien . Túrin Turambar ( pronounced ) is a fictional character in J . R . R . Tolkien ' s legendarium . "" Turambar and the Foalókë "", begun in 1917 , is the first appearance of Túrin in the legendarium . J . R . R . Tolkien consciously based the story on the medieval tale of Kullervo in the Finnish mythological poem " Kalevala ", saying that it was " an attempt to reorganize ... the tale of Kullervo the hapless , into a form of my own ". Also called "" The Tale of Grief "", "" Narn i Chîn Húrin "", commonly called " The Narn ", it tells of the tragic fates of ___MASK33___ , namely his son Túrin ( Turambar ) and his daughter Nienor . Excerpts of the story were published before , in " ___MASK11___ " ( prose ), " Unfinished Tales " ( prose ), " The Book of Lost Tales " Part II ( prose ), " The Lays of Beleriand " ( verse in alliterative long - lines ) and most recently in 1994 in " The War of the Jewels " ( prose ), the latter three part of " The History of Middle - earth " series . ___MASK72___ ( full title : ___MASK72___ of Númenor and Middle - earth ) is a collection of stories and essays by J . R . R . Tolkien that were never completed during his lifetime , but were edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and published in three volumes in 1980 . In J . R . R . Tolkien ' s fictional legendarium , Beleriand was a region in northwestern Middle - earth during the First Age . Events in Beleriand are described chiefly in his work " ___MASK11___ ", which tells the story of the early ages of Middle - earth in a style similar to the epic hero tales of Nordic literature . Beleriand also appears in the works " The Book of Lost Tales ", " The Children of Húrin ", and in the epic poems of " The Lays of Beleriand ". The History of Middle - earth is a 12 - volume series of books published between 1983 and 1996 that collect and analyse material relating to the fiction of J . R . R . Tolkien , compiled and edited by his son , Christopher Tolkien . The series shows the development over time of Tolkien ' s conception of Middle - earth as a fictional place with its own peoples , languages , and history , from his earliest notions of a " mythology for England " through to the development of the stories that make up " ___MASK11___ " and " The Lord of the Rings ". It is not a " history of Middle - earth " in the sense of being a chronicle of events in Middle - earth written from an in - universe perspective . In 2000  01 , the twelve volumes were republished in three limited edition omnibus volumes . Non - deluxe editions of the three volumes were published in 2002 . ___MASK9___ , or There and Back Again is a children ' s fantasy novel by English author J . R . R . Tolkien . It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim , being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the " New York Herald Tribune " for best juvenile fiction . The book remains popular and is recognized as a classic in children ' s literature . A portion of the Narn i Chîn Húrin or " The Tale of ___MASK33___ " is a part of the book " ___MASK72___ " by the English author J . R . R . Tolkien . It is a prose version of an earlier narrative poem called " The Lay of ___MASK33___ ". A complete version of the Narn called " The Children of Húrin ", edited by Christopher Tolkien , was released as a new book in 2007 . ___MASK15___ is the body of mythology of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period . The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology , ___MASK15___ consists of tales of various deities , beings , and ___MASK50___ derived from numerous sources from both before and after the pagan period , including medieval manuscripts , archaeological representations , and folk tradition . In J . R . R . Tolkien ' s Middle - earth legendarium , Urwen , better known by her nickname Lalaith ( `` Laughter '' ) , was the second child of Húrin Thalion and Morwen Edhelwen and the sister of Túrin Turambar . She was born in spring of the Year of the Sun 466 of the First Age . Middle - earth is the setting of much of J . R . R . Tolkien ' s legendarium . The term is equivalent to the term " Midgard " of ___MASK15___ , describing the human - inhabited world , i . e . the central continent of the Earth in Tolkien ' s imagined mythological past . Tolkien ' s most widely read works , " ___MASK9___ " and " The Lord of the Rings ", take place entirely in Middle - earth , and " Middle - earth " has also become a short - hand to refer to the legendarium or its " fictional universe ". In the fiction of J . R . R . Tolkien , the First Age , or First Age of the Children of Ilúvatar is the heroic period in which most of Tolkien ' s early legends are set . Versions of these stories were later published in " ___MASK11___ ", and tales from this period lend a deep sense of time and history to the later period in which the action of " The Lord of the Rings " takes place .