query: Did J. R. R. Tolkien actually use to say that "Middle-earth was really the ancient history of the real planet Earth"?
positive_passages.docid: 22543
positive_passages.text: Is Tolkien's Middle-earth in our Universe?
negative_passages.docid: 83696
negative_passages.text: Isn't the word "experience" wrongly used in this context?
negative_passages.docid: 59940
negative_passages.text: Is Legolas in The Hobbit Book?
negative_passages.docid: 36381
negative_passages.text: earth; the earth
negative_passages.docid: 68662
negative_passages.text: Magic and Men in Lord of the Rings
negative_passages.docid: 57340
negative_passages.text: Is there a way to determine the respective canonical status of Tolkien's Middle-earth related works?
negative_passages.docid: 56140
negative_passages.text: When do you say "Earth" and when "The Earth"?
negative_passages.docid: 140369
negative_passages.text: What Are Middle-earth Giants?
negative_passages.docid: 142852
negative_passages.text: Is "proven" very old -fashioned?
negative_passages.docid: 132414
negative_passages.text: Has Tolkien's estate ever sold the rights to adaptations of any Tolkien works?
negative_passages.docid: 22702
negative_passages.text: If Earth had rings?
negative_passages.docid: 121526
negative_passages.text: Why were the Elvish Rings of Power not made by Sauron?
negative_passages.docid: 47518
negative_passages.text: How much Dwarvish appears in Tolkien's work?
negative_passages.docid: 121748
negative_passages.text: Does Tolkien ever refer to "Men" as Humans?
negative_passages.docid: 65264
negative_passages.text: Are Tolkien's orcs immortal?
negative_passages.docid: 37891
negative_passages.text: Is there anything in Lord of the Rings that could have survived into our age?
negative_passages.docid: 5428
negative_passages.text: Was Elrond, in Tolkien's opinion, more inherently powerful than Galadriel?