Middle Earth?
Middle-Earth?
Middle-earth?
According to Copilot (as in God is my copilot), the AI assistant that is now a part of MS Word, Tolkien preferred this spelling/capitalization scheme when mentioning his version of Midgard: Middle-earth. As I've been raking through my movie-review book manuscript in preparation for publishing the dead-tree version, I've found a lot of new errors, and among them has been my tendency to write—inconsistently—"Middle Earth" or "Middle-Earth" in my reviews that mention Tolkien. Both of those are apparently wrong, and Google AI agrees. So... Middle-earth it is. Get it right or die.
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