He created the land of [[Middle Earth|Middle-earth]] which is inhabited by men, [[elves]], [[dwarves (Middle-earth)|dwarves]], [[wizards]], [[goblins]] and [[hobbits]].<ref>''The Hobbit'' by J.R.R.Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. </ref> A sometime resident of the [[England|English]] [[Midlands]], Tolkien based his vision of [[Mordor]] on the city of [[Birmingham]], and other parts of Middle-Earth upon other parts of England. | He created the land of [[Middle Earth|Middle-earth]] which is inhabited by men, [[elves]], [[dwarves (Middle-earth)|dwarves]], [[wizards]], [[goblins]] and [[hobbits]].<ref>''The Hobbit'' by J.R.R.Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. </ref> A sometime resident of the [[England|English]] [[Midlands]], Tolkien based his vision of [[Mordor]] on the city of [[Birmingham]], and other parts of Middle-Earth upon other parts of England. |