Pedantry:
replyTolkien's "Middle-Earth" is itself a "folksy mistranslation"
Closer translation-- "Middle-Yard"
Old English word eardgeard =Earth-Yard
/ ˈæ͜ɑrdˌjæ͜ɑrd / "ardyard" /
https://www.theundergroundmap.com/article.html?id=104937
https://english.nsms.ox.ac.uk/oecoursepack/wanderer/notes/no...
I guess that's where Tolkien's "Arda" comes from as well then.
replyOr even garden.
replyThank you. I’m not American and was trying work that out.
replyI went straight to metric and Middle Metre approximate and is wrong.