Premise: Middle-earth is the fictional setting of much of British writer J. R. R. Tolkien 's legendarium . Tolkien 's most widely read works , The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings , take place entirely in Middle-earth , and Middle-earth has also become a short-hand to refer to the legendarium or its fictional universe .
Hypothesis: Middle-earth was created by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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