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"Tolkien Mythology" and "the legendarium" are both terms for the entire system of connected, fantastical stories that exemplify the beliefs and philological expertise of J.R.R. Tolkien. These stories make up what is canonical as well as "precanonical" in all published works of his.

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  • "Tolkien Mythology" and "the legendarium" are both terms for the entire system of connected, fantastical stories that exemplify the beliefs and philological expertise of J.R.R. Tolkien. These stories make up what is canonical as well as "precanonical" in all published works of his.
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  • "Tolkien Mythology" and "the legendarium" are both terms for the entire system of connected, fantastical stories that exemplify the beliefs and philological expertise of J.R.R. Tolkien. These stories make up what is canonical as well as "precanonical" in all published works of his. These stories are not true, but much of them are founded in some sort of fact about the natural world or as a way of explaining a natural phenomena. J.R.R. Tolkien, who intended his works to be a creative legendarium for the continent of Europe, created it. "A single, fictional, imaginary, fanciful world" is a correct way to describe the legendarium, so use of the grander and wider term "fictional universe" should be halted. Legendarium is a more accurate term for the mythology of the The Lord of the Rings and of Tolkien's other works concerning Middle-earth - when the term legendarium is used, it represents both the final, canonical lore of Middle-earth and lore that is precanonical or semi-invented (such as Tolkien's writings of Eriol and Kullervo). Tolkien's great mythological tales of Middle-earth are meant to be taken fictitiously, as an ancient history of the Earth, particularly of Europe, from several thousand years before the modern era. The world Middle-earth is actually supposed to be a fictional period in our Earth's own past 6,000 to 7,000 years ago. Tolkien's large book, the Legendarium, is often called "Middle-earth mythology".
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