Facts about Tolkien's Middle-Earth

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   Hobbits, the small human-like inhabitants of Middle-earth, live in underground homes called smials and inhabit a region known as the Shire.

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   Gandalf belongs to a group of five wizard-like beings called the Istari, sent to Middle-earth to aid its peoples against Sauron.

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   Sauron, the primary antagonist of Middle-earth, was originally a servant of the god-like Vala Aulë before being corrupted by Morgoth.

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   The fictional world of Tolkien's Middle-earth features multiple distinct ages of history, with most stories set in the Third Age.

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   In Tolkien's Middle-earth, the Elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin were developed by Tolkien as fully functional linguistic systems with their own grammar and vocabularies.

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