The Mulefa are an intelligent race that sort of adopt Mary. The reason this realm is so memorable is not so much the land itself but the creatures that inhabit it – namely the Mulefa (or zalif for an individual) and the Tualapi. The realm of the Mulefa The Amber Spyglass by Phillip PullmanĪll the different dimensions in the His Dark Materials trilogy were really well crafted and unique, but It was the unnamed dimension where Mary Malone travels that really stuck in my head. I will read Lord of the Rings eventually, I swear! Tolkien’s work is your cup of tea or not the man should be commended for the size of his imagination and the sheer amount of effort he put into his creations. It was as if Tolkien secretly travelled back in time, and to another dimension (Tolkien repeatedly wrote that Middle Earth was an imaginary representation of Earth in the past), spent years there studying the landscape, races and various languages/cultures and then masqueraded his findings as works of fiction because he knew no one would believe the truth.

I read The Hobbit when I was about 11 and loved how much detail Tolkien went into when describing Middle Earth.

Despite the fact that I have not, as yet, read the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Middle Earth was the first realm that came to mind when I started compiling. TolkienĪ list of great Fantasy realms could not be made without mentioning possibly the most famous realm of them all. Middle Earth The Hobbit ( Lord of the Rings trilogy) by J.

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