Wikipedia: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:
- To standardize Tolkien-related articles to follow this WikiProject's style guidelines
- To follow Wikipedia's notability guidelines, to reduce what should not be done.
- 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
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
Item | Fan websites | Wikipedia |
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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
- Characters
- Places
- Battles
- Other things
- 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
- 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
- Games
Related Projects
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. |