Dictionary

Middle-earthian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle-earth + -ian.

Meanings

1. Of, resembling, or characteristic of, Middle-earth.
   • It’s where streams are blended that we find the most uniquely “Middle-earthian” expressions of evil. 2003, Anne C. Petty, Tolkien in the Land of Heroes: Discovering the Human Spirit, Cold Spring Press, →ISBN, page 108:
   • By the beard of Gandalf the Grey, I swear I was conscious for the entirety of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, that not a minute of its seemingly endless titular tiff — the rain of flying arrows, the marauding Orcs, the screeching bats, the Elven king Thranduil and his antlered steed, the galloping Wargs and the prosthetic noses of a baker’s dozen dwarves, the clang and thwack of computer-generated combatants of every Middle-earthian stripe — escaped my attention. 2014 December 17, Steven Rea, “It’s a slog with Smaug: Neverending Hobbit war”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 186th year, number 200, pages C1 and C8:
   • My heartfelt thanks go to Marie-Noëlle Biemer, who has been the best and most reliable friend and proofreader since our Middle-earthian days in Giessen. 2010, Nadia Majid, ‘My Mother was the Earth. My Father was the Sky.’: Myth and Memory in Maori Novels in English, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page viii:
   • And Macmillan hopes to cash in with its $29.95 Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia, by David Day, a handsome book that leaves few Middle-earthian stones unturned. 1991 December 29, William A. Davis, “Hobbit-forming: One hundred years after J.R.R. Tolkien’s birth, his legendary creations – Gandalf and Bilbo and Frodo Baggins – still thrive in Middle-earth and on bookstore shelves”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 240, number 182, page 14:
   • The economy of space is a marvel; the studio may seem cluttered, a kind of Middle-earthian junkyard ringed by the stalks of lighting rigs, but one glance into the monitor and there is Théoden’s massive throne room, carved straight out of the pages of Tolkien’s vast antiquity. 2005, Andrew O’Hehir, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, in Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor, Plexus, →ISBN, page 138:
   • […] 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. 1990, Mythprint: The Monthly Bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, page 7:
   • BRUCE: World in Conflict’s got these neat things called “command points,” which is like the modern equivalent of Middle-earthian command points in The Battle for Middle-earth, or World War II command points in Company of Heroes. 2007 December, Bruce Geryk, “World in Conflict”, in Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, page 82:
   • It takes the online RPG experience, increasingly mired in repetitive gameplay mechanics and Middle-earthian game-worlds, and makes it seem new and exciting again. 2004 spring, ZM, “Final Fantasy XI Online”, in Surge, page 110:
   • The strangely Middle-earthian whiskers went viral, tickling the Internet, which spewed judgments on how the 68-year-old — who had been hosting a late-night show for 33 years running — had let himself go. 2015 October 16, Vincent Boucher, “Psychology of the Hollywood Beard”, in The Hollywood Reporter, number 34, page 29:
   • Apart from his unfinished essays on his created world, Tolkien drew Middle-earthian plants, textiles, and heraldic designs. 2007, Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 85:

Forms

Middle-earthian en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle-earth + -ian.

Meanings

1. A native or inhabitant of Middle-earth.
   • Middle-earthians head for Mordor to destroy object in the fires. 1994, Jack Umstatter, Hooked on Literature!: Ready-to-Use Activities & Materials to Spark Students’ Interest in Literature, Grades 9 & Up, Center for Applied Research in Education, →ISBN, page 156:
   • Those Middle-earthians from the First Age knew enough to recognize that even death wasn’t necessarily going to keep witch-kings and giant flaming eyes from harassing you later. 2022, Smart Pop Explains Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Movies, Smart Pop, BenBella Books, →ISBN:
   • 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. 1977 November 25, Alexander Keneas, “‘Rolling Stone’ a musical show to miss”, in Newsday, page 80A, column 2:

Forms

Synonyms

Middle-earther