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Does the hobbit take place in england?
It's called "middle earth" but im sure that just what they call it in the book.
If this is not the case, could someone inform me where it actually takes place?

>> No.3324578

On the middle earth...
The middle earth it's like the earth but before the continents dearranged (does this word exist?) and stuff.

>> No.3324591

>>3324578
That makes sense I suppose, but I'm pretty sure humans had not evolved by then.

>> No.3324593
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3324593

Why didn’t Fredo use Randolph’s eagles to reach Mt. Mordor faster?

>> No.3324595

>>3324591
AND HOBBITS AND ELVES AND DWARVES AND ORKS AND WIZARD AND MAGICAL CREATURES DO NOT EXIST NEITHER.

>> No.3324599

>>3324591

You'll need to have a better look at your definition of fantasy.

Where does Star Wars take place? In the U.S?

>> No.3324605

It takes place in your imagination, friend-o

>> No.3324607

>>3324599
star wars takes place in a galaxy far, far away.
Anyone with a brains would know that.

>> No.3324609

>>3324607
Does it happen in the future?

>> No.3324613

>>3324609
It happened a long time ago, otherwise no one would know about it.

>> No.3324615

Where can I get the 50th anniversary of the Lord of The Rings books with the awesome covers?

>> No.3324621

>>3324615
the book store

>> No.3324622

>>3324607

I'm pretty sure it's in the U.S.

>> No.3324626

>>3324571
Middle earth is a reference to Imperial China. That's why the Hobbits are so little. The Mordorfags are the opium pushing Brits.

>> No.3324633

>>3324626
then what are the elf?

>> No.3324632

It takes place in a fictional mishmash of European culture and mythology which Tolkien uses to creatw his mythopoiea. Middle Earth is the world of men in Norse Mythology, the other worlds being Asgard and Utgard.

>> No.3324643

>>3324595
fairly sure dwarves are real.
vid related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNXEg8d2kYU

>> No.3324647
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3324647

>>3324621
It isn't you dingus, they were limited edition.
>pic related

>> No.3324650

>>3324595
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUpXHhaOf3E
fixed*

>> No.3324654

>>3324578
>>3324571
>>3324591


God dammit you kids are stupid. It take place on middle earth, dipshits. Look up hollow earth and thank me later, noobs. it takes place on the earth between this one (outer earth) and the bottom one (inner earth) god you fucks are stupid

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>>3324654
Your definition of stupid must be pretty weird.

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>>3324654
>middle earth
>earth
I'm pretty sure earth is real retard.

>> No.3324740

Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings as the British folklore/mythology that he thought Britain never had. (King Arthur sucks, deal with it)

So Middle Earth is the creation myth of the Brits. Middle Earth slowly changes into our current Earth after the elves and the various powers leave at the end of the fourth age.

>> No.3324778

At least we can agree that Tom Bombadil is Adam.

>> No.3324780

>>3324778
Get out of here with that dumbass theory.

>> No.3324793

It's based mostly on Britain. I know that's hard to believe (mountains etc.) but it is. Tolkein based some of it on Staffordshire and other parts on the countryside around Birmingham. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to guess that the forests were Welsh.

I don't like that they filmed the Hobbit in New Zealand. Filiming the LOTR there is fine: it suits the drama and romanticism of an end-of-the-world quest. But the Hobbit? Nah. That needed to be in a comfortable setting.

>> No.3324844

>>3324666
My Lord.

>> No.3324892
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>>3324571
I hope this helps....I left out the spoiler for the current movie : P

>> No.3325211

Miðgarður (Middle Garden/Middle Earth) is the land of humans in Norse Mythology

>> No.3325282

>>3324793
The hobbit is very welsh in setting, mines, valleys, areas with an oral tradition, the prominence of mutton...