Did Tolkien find Middle Earth in the west of Ireland?

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Did Tolkien find Middle Earth in the west of Ireland?

How did the map of Middle-earth change from the First to the Third

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Map of the real places that inspired Tolkien's Middle Earth : r/lotr

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Where is middle earth? - Quora

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