Middle-earthian

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A native or inhabitant of Middle-earth.

    "The animation, in a style somewhere between Arthur Rackham’s and Disney gothic, is handsome enough to have furnished publisher Harry Abrams with a new, coffee-table edition of “The Hobbit,” and the voices of the characters—Orson Bean, John Huston, Richard Boone, Cyril Ritchard and Brother Theodore—are as distinctive as you’d want for this odd assortment of Middle-earthians."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, resembling, or characteristic of, Middle-earth.

    "[…] of Tolkien-related pamphlets and dissertations, episodes of a course in elementary Quenya, and lots of articles on classical allusions in Tolkien, Elvish military organization and other Middle-earthian details of life."

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"[…] of Tolkien-related pamphlets and dissertations, episodes of a course in elementary Quenya, and lots of articles on classical allusions in Tolkien, Elvish military organization and other Middle-earthian details of life."

Etymology

From Middle-earth + -ian.

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