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Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

J. R. R. Tolkien
Men, Light, Earth
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.424, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Blessed, Catholic, Earth
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Our World, Different, Earth

Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

J. R. R. Tolkien
People, Earth, Today
1954 The Fellowship of the Ring, prologue.

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