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The Real Middle-Earth: A History of the Dark Ages That Inspired Tolkien Condition:Well Read Dick's dazzling speculative novel toExplore the magically enchanting early English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle earth was not his own invention. An Old English term for the Dark Age world, it was always assumed that the importance of magic in this world existed only in Tolkiens works; now Professor Brian Bates reveals the vivid truth about this historical culture. Behind the stories we know of