Wiki143:WikiProject Middle-earth

Welcome to the Middle-earth WikiProjectTemplate:'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) :

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

• File:LinkFA-star.png J. R. R. Tolkien — was featured on the front page on 15 November, 2006
• File:LinkFA-star.png Beowulf and Middle-earth — was featured on the front page on 25 February, 2022
• File:LinkFA-star.png The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) — was featured on the front page on 15 November, 2011
• File:LinkFA-star.png 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 List of accolades received by The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

Good articles

Over 200 articles, including:

The Lord of the Rings

• File:Symbol support vote.svg The Lord of the Rings
• File:Symbol support vote.svg "The Council of Elrond"
• File:Symbol support vote.svg "The Scouring of the Shire"
• File:Symbol support vote.svg "The Song of Eärendil"
• File:Symbol support vote.svg "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen"

Other writings

• File:Symbol support vote.svg The Hobbit
• File:Symbol support vote.svg The Silmarillion
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Ainulindalë
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Tolkien's legendarium

Characters

• File:Symbol support vote.svg Bilbo Baggins
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Fëanor
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Galadriel
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Gandalf
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Saruman
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Tom Bombadil
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Túrin Turambar

Places

• File:Symbol support vote.svg Númenor
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Lothlórien
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Moria
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Rohan, Middle-earth
• File:Symbol support vote.svg The Shire

Battles

• File:Symbol support vote.svg Battle of Helm's Deep
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Battle of the Pelennor Fields

Other things

• File:Symbol support vote.svg Hobbit
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Quenya
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Palantír
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Rings of Power
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Sundering of the Elves

Themes

• File:Symbol support vote.svg Themes of The Lord of the Rings
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Poetry in The Lord of the Rings
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Naming of weapons in Middle-earth
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Tolkien and race
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Tolkien's artwork

Influences

• File:Symbol support vote.svg J. R. R. Tolkien's influences
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Christianity in Middle-earth
• File:Symbol support vote.svg England in Middle-earth
• File:Symbol support vote.svg The Great War and Middle-earth
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Philology and Middle-earth

Literary devices

• File:Symbol support vote.svg Frame stories
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Impression of depth
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Interlacing
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Pseudotranslation

Reception and study

• File:Symbol support vote.svg Literary reception of The Lord of the Rings
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Translating The Lord of the Rings
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Tom Shippey
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Christopher Tolkien

Peter Jackson's films

• File:Symbol support vote.svg The Lord of the Rings (film series)
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Picturing Tolkien
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Music of The Lord of the Rings film series

Other moving pictures

• File:Symbol support vote.svg Khraniteli
• File:Symbol support vote.svg Hobitit

Games

• File:Symbol support vote.svg The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)
• File:Symbol support vote.svg 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.

Image	What to type	Description
Middle-earth WikiProject Award	Template:Tlsp	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.