Claim: Middle-earth was created by a Canadian writer.
Evidence: Middle-earth is the fictional setting of much of British writer J. R. R. Tolkien 's legendarium.
Harlow : Longman , ISBN 0-582-05383-8 3 January 1892 -- 2 September 1973 -RRB- was an English writer , poet , philologist , and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings , and The Silmarillion.
In 2008 , The Times ranked him sixth on a list of `` The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 ''.