Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all other universes – finally removed from the WSOGMM. Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy This is a list of places featured in Douglas Adams's science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The series is set in a fictionalised version of the Milky Way galaxy and thus, while most locations are pure invention, many are based on "real world" settings such as Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star and various versions of the Earth. "The Galaxy" is our home galaxy, the Milky Way, though it is referred to exclusively as "the Galaxy" in the series. Apart from a
The Shaping of Middle-earth High-Elves) in the first pages of every "History of Middle-earth" volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Book IV reads: The Shaping of Middle-earth The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986) is the fourth volume of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series "The History of Middle-earth" in which he analyses the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien. In "The Shaping of Middle-earth" the gradual transition from the "primitive" legendaria of "The Book of Lost Tales" to what would become "The Silmarillion" is described, and it contains a text which could be seen as