Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth

WikiProject Middle-earth

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Welcome to the Middle-earth WikiProject's main page. This Wikiproject was created on 23 November 2005 and activated and merged with the Silmarillion WikiProject on 1 March 2006. This project is an effort to bring order, class, and professionalism to all Tolkien-related articles and media. These include Tolkien's writings, film adaptations of his works, and other works inspired by Tolkien.

If you are interested in joining this collaborated wikiproject, please see the participants section to join.

Scope and goals

Mission statement

Our mission is to focus collaboratively on efforts to promote interaction, co-operation, and communication among members in order to improve Wikipedia's encyclopedic coverage of Tolkien's legendarium. For examples of articles that have reached an elited state of class see below.

Scope

Our members cover articles that have anything to do with a range of the following:

• Tolkien's novels, characters, places, events, poetry, etc.
• analysis, themes, influences, scholars and their books.
• adaptations in film and games, film scholarship.
• Tolkien-related books, events, and fandom.

Goals

Our goals include:

1. To standardize Tolkien-related articles to follow this WikiProject's style guidelines
2. To follow Wikipedia's notability guidelines, to reduce what should not be done.
3. To improve Tolkien-related articles up to Good Article, Featured Article/or Featured List

Participants

You may wish to identify yourself as a participant by adding {{User WikiProject Middle-earth}} on your own user page. This will add your username to the list of participants in Category:WikiProject Middle-earth participants (unless you use |nocat=true to prevent it).

General guide

Tolkien articles by quality statistics (worklist) :

Tolkien articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1		1	2			4
FL				1			1
GA	9	50	108	66			233
B		9	46	59			114
C			29	75	1		105
Start				129			129
Stub				2			2
List		2	6	11	1		20
Category					171		171
Disambig					34		34
File				23	82		105
Project					3		3
Redirect			2	6	568		576
Template					43		43
NA			2				2
Other			1		4		5
Assessed	10	61	195	374	907		1,547
Unassessed						1	1
Total	10	61	195	374	907	1	1,548
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,885			Ω = 3.21

What you should do

• Fix mistakes.
• Take a look at the discussion links and contribute what you can.
• Follow the Standards for this WikiProject, as well as the Wikipedia's Manual of Style page.
• Cite every claim to a reliable source.
• Follow Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy.
• "Be bold in updating pages, but do not be reckless!"

What you should not do

• Anything that Wikipedia is not follows here as well.
  • No point-of-view, please!
  • No editorial speculation, no editorial assumptions, no fan theories.
  • No Original Research, no unsourced claims.
  • No vandalism, and no revert wars either, see the discussion page for details to sort out any quarrels you may have with others peacefully.

Differences between this WikiProject and a Tolkien fansite

How Wikipedia's coverage of Middle-earth differs from a fansite's

Item	Fan websites	Wikipedia
Approach	In-universe, mass of plot detail, unsourced or with Primary (Tolkien) sources only	External, for general readers, Reliably Sourced
Authority	J. R. R. Tolkien	Reliable Sources – literary critics, scholars, news, critics of games and films
Principle for inclusion	Interest to Tolkien fans	Notability, substantial coverage by multiple reliable independent sources
Objects worth discussing	Internal details: plot, character, place, relationship, clothing, ...	External aspects: themes, influences, real-world events, style, poetry, literary traditions, ...
Coverage of Tolkien	Every aspect	Brief plot summary, avoiding being undue or copyright issues
Attitude to scholarship	It's speculative and irrelevant, not in the canon	Necessary component of literary articles
Style	Tolkienesque, pseudo-medieval	Plain, encyclopedic

Improve Outline of Middle-earth

The outline of Middle-earth is a centralized navigation hub for the subject of Middle-earth, arranged as a hierarchical topics list. It is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's contents systems. It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

Accomplishments

Featured articles and lists

• J. R. R. Tolkien — was featured on the front page on 15 November, 2006
• Beowulf and Middle-earth — was featured on the front page on 25 February, 2022
• The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) — was featured on the front page on 15 November, 2011
• The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II — was featured on the front page on 2 March, 2013
• List of accolades received by The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

Good articles

Over 200 articles, including:

The Lord of the Rings

• The Lord of the Rings
• "The Council of Elrond"
• "The Scouring of the Shire"
• "The Song of Eärendil"
• "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen"

Other writings

• The Hobbit
• The Silmarillion
• Ainulindalë
• Tolkien's legendarium

Characters

• Bilbo Baggins
• Fëanor
• Galadriel
• Gandalf
• Saruman
• Tom Bombadil
• Túrin Turambar

Places

• Númenor
• Lothlórien
• Moria
• Rohan, Middle-earth
• The Shire

Battles

• Battle of Helm's Deep
• Battle of the Pelennor Fields

Other things

• Hobbit
• Quenya
• Palantír
• Rings of Power
• Sundering of the Elves

Themes

• Themes of The Lord of the Rings
• Poetry in The Lord of the Rings
• Naming of weapons in Middle-earth
• Tolkien and race
• Tolkien's artwork

Influences

• J. R. R. Tolkien's influences
• Christianity in Middle-earth
• England in Middle-earth
• The Great War and Middle-earth
• Philology and Middle-earth

Literary devices

• Frame stories
• Impression of depth
• Interlacing
• Pseudotranslation

Reception and study

• Literary reception of The Lord of the Rings
• Translating The Lord of the Rings
• Tom Shippey
• Christopher Tolkien

Peter Jackson's films

• The Lord of the Rings (film series)
• Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings
• Picturing Tolkien
• Music of The Lord of the Rings film series

Other moving pictures

• Khraniteli
• Hobitit

Games

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Related Projects

• WikiProject Films
• WikiProject Novels

Award Scheme

Please award this star to whoever has contributed a great amount to Middle-earth related articles.

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	{{subst:Tolkien barnstar|message ~~~~}}	The Middle-earth WikiProject Award is awarded to Wikipedians for their contributions to Wikipedia stuff related to J. R. R. Tolkien. This is part of WikiProject Middle-earth. Designed and introduced by Uthanc using graphics by Aranel.