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{{Infobox WikiProject
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|caption=This [[WikiPedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]] is about [[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s works and related articles.
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|footnotes=[[#Navigation|Subpages]]
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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 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Silmarillion|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|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 [[/Standards|style guidelines]]
#To follow [[WP:FICT|Wikipedia's notability guidelines]], to reduce [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Middle-earth#What_you_should_not_do|what should not be done]].
#To improve Tolkien-related articles up to [[Wikipedia:Good articles|Good Article]], [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured Article]]/or [[Wikipedia:Featured lists|Featured List]]

==Participants==

You may wish to identify yourself as a participant by adding <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:User WP Middle-earth|User WikiProject Middle-earth]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> on your own user page. This will add your username to  the list of participants in [[:Category:WikiProject Middle-earth participants]] (unless you [[Wikipedia:NOCAT#Usage|use <code>|nocat=true</code>]] to prevent it).

== General guide ==

<div style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">[[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Tolkien articles by quality statistics|Tolkien articles by quality statistics]] <small>([[Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth/Assessment/Current work|worklist]])</small> : 
{{User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Tolkien}} 
</div> 

=== What you should do ===

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

=== What you should not do ===

* Anything that [[WP:NOT|Wikipedia is not]] follows here as well. 
** No [[WP:POV|point-of-view]], please!
** No editorial speculation, no editorial assumptions, no fan theories.
** No [[WP:NOR|Original Research]], no unsourced claims.
** No vandalism, and no [[WP:Edit warring|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 ===

{| class="wikitable"
|+ 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 [[WP:PRIMARY|Primary]] (Tolkien) sources only || External, for general readers, [[WP:RS|Reliably Sourced]]
|-
| Authority || [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] || [[WP:RS|Reliable Sources]] – literary critics, scholars, news, critics of games and films 
|-
| Principle for inclusion || Interest to [[Tolkien fans]] || [[WP:N|Notability]], substantial coverage by multiple reliable independent sources
|-
| Objects worth discussing || Internal details: plot, character, place, relationship, clothing, ... || External aspects: [[Themes of The Lord of the Rings|themes]], [[Influences on Tolkien|influences]], real-world events, [[Tolkien's prose style|style]], [[Tolkien's poetry|poetry]], literary traditions, ...
|-
| Coverage of Tolkien || Every aspect || Brief plot summary, avoiding being [[WP:UNDUE|undue]] or [[WP:COPYVIO|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 [[Portal:Contents/Outlines|Wikipedia's outline system]] which is one of [[Portal:Contents|Wikipedia's contents systems]]. 
It was built as a "[http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/689/1/ reverse outline]", a [[tree structure|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.

'''''[[Outline of Middle-earth|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====

* [[File:LinkFA-star.png|10px]] [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] — was featured on the front page on [[15 November]], [[2006]]
* [[File:LinkFA-star.png|10px]] [[Beowulf and Middle-earth]] — was featured on the front page on [[25 February]], [[2022]]
* [[File:LinkFA-star.png|10px]] [[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)]] — was featured on the front page on [[15 November]], [[2011]]
* [[File:LinkFA-star.png|10px]] [[The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II]] — was featured on the front page on [[2 March]], [[2013]]
* [[File:LinkFA-star.png|10px]] [[List of accolades received by The Lord of the Rings film trilogy]]

====Good articles====

Over 200 articles, including: 

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; ''The Lord of the Rings''
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] "[[The Council of Elrond]]"
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] "[[The Scouring of the Shire]]"
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] "[[Song of Eärendil|The Song of Eärendil]]"
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] "[[The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen]]"

; Other writings
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] ''[[The Hobbit]]''
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] ''[[The Silmarillion]]''
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] ''[[Ainulindalë]]''
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Tolkien's legendarium]]

; Characters 
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Bilbo Baggins]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Fëanor]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Galadriel]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Gandalf]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Saruman]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Tom Bombadil]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Túrin Turambar]]

; Places
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Númenor]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Lothlórien]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Moria, Middle-earth|Moria]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Rohan, Middle-earth]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[The Shire]]

; Battles
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Battle of Helm's Deep]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Battle of the Pelennor Fields]]

; Other things
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Hobbit]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Quenya]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Palantír]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Rings of Power]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Sundering of the Elves]]

; Themes
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Themes of The Lord of the Rings|Themes of ''The Lord of the Rings'']]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Poetry in The Lord of the Rings|Poetry in ''The Lord of the Rings'']]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Naming of weapons in Middle-earth]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Tolkien and race]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Tolkien's artwork]]

;Influences
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[J. R. R. Tolkien's influences]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Christianity in Middle-earth]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[England in Middle-earth]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[The Great War and Middle-earth]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Philology and Middle-earth]]

; Literary devices
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Tolkien's frame stories|Frame stories]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Impression of depth in The Lord of the Rings|Impression of depth]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Interlacing in The Lord of the Rings|Interlacing]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Pseudotranslation in The Lord of the Rings|Pseudotranslation]]

; Reception and study
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Literary reception of The Lord of the Rings|Literary reception of ''The Lord of the Rings'']]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Translating The Lord of the Rings|Translating ''The Lord of the Rings'']]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Tom Shippey]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Christopher Tolkien]]

; Peter Jackson's films
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' (film series)]]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings|Peter Jackson's interpretation of ''The Lord of the Rings'']]
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] ''[[Picturing Tolkien]]''
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] [[Music of The Lord of the Rings film series|Music of ''The Lord of the Rings'' film series]]

; Other moving pictures
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] ''[[Khraniteli]]''
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] ''[[Hobitit]]''

; Games
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)]]''
* [[File:Symbol support vote.svg|10px]] ''[[Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor]]''

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== Related Projects ==

* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Films|WikiProject Films]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels|WikiProject Novels]]

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

{| class="wikitable"
!Image!!What to type!!Description
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|[[Image:TolkienStar.png|100px|Middle-earth WikiProject Award]]
| {{tlsp|Tolkien barnstar|message <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>}}  
|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 '''[[Wikipedia: WikiProject Middle-earth|WikiProject Middle-earth]]'''. Designed and introduced by [[User:Uthanc|Uthanc]] using graphics by [[User:Aranel|Aranel]].
|}

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