The Real Middle Earth

Brian Bates

Original title: The real Middle-earth

first published 2003 Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 paperback 320 pages

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 Tolkien's works; now Professor Brian Bates reveals the vivid truth about this historical culture. Behind the stories we know of Dark Age king and queens, warriors and battles, lies the hidden history of Middle-...

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The Real Middle Earth paperback · 2004 · Palgrave Macmillan · 320 pages · 9781403966834
The Real Middle Earth paperback · 2003 · Pan Books · 320 pages · 9780330491709
The real Middle-earth edition · 2003 · Palgrave Macmillan · 292 pages

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