
Freya (or Freya, Freja, Freyja) is a goddess in Norse and Germanic Mythology.

Tolkien's legendarium, Elves are one of the races that inhabit a fictional Earth, often called Middle-earth, and set in the remote past.

A rainbow bridge, Bifrost Bridge, extended from Middle- earth to Asgard across the sea. The land of the Dead lay beneath the Middle- earth. The lands of Elves, Gods, and Giants lay across an encircling sea. The world of Men, the Middle- earth, lay in the centre of this universe. Many people apply the name to the entirety of Tolkien's world or exclusively to the lands described in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. The name earendel (which may mean the 'morning- star' but in some contexts was a name for Christ) was the inspiration for Tolkien's mariner E. Tolkien made middle earth based on the world today (Geography). See Midgard and Norse mythology for the older use. Tolkien for discussion of his inspirations and sources).

The word Mediterranean comes from two Latin stems, medi-, amidst, and terra, (earth/land), meaning. It is Germanic for what the Greeks called the. Rather, it comes from Middle Englishmiddel- erde, itself a folk- etymology for the Old English word middangeard (geard not meaning Earth, but rather enclosure or place, thus yard, with the Old Norse word mi.
