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 and sign your name to join. You must also sign your name on the roll call whenever the announcement springs up in the talk page. This is usually at the top of the named roll call section. This is primarily for the uses of current active participation. All participants who wish to leave the project please remove your name from the list and add it to the template hosted below active participation page.

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, plots, etc.
• film adaptations.
• Tolkien-related books, resources, or media.

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 add your name to the list of participants.

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	99	63		221
B		8	28	45		81
C			24	67		91
Start			3	144		147
Stub				3	1	4
List		2	6	8	1	17
Category					171	171
Disambig					33	33
File	17	20	17	17	19	90
Project					3	3
Redirect			2	6	313	321
Template					40	40
Other			2			2
Assessed	27	80	182	356	581	1,226
Unassessed				2		2
Total	27	80	182	358	581	1,228
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,808			Ω = 3.30

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 your sources.
• 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 speculation, no 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.

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

Tolkien

Some 200 articles, including:

• The Lord of the Rings
• The Hobbit
• Battle of the Pelennor Fields
• The Scouring of the Shire
• The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen
• Saruman
• Quenya
• The Great War and Middle-earth
• Christianity in Middle-earth
• Naming of weapons in Middle-earth
• J. R. R. Tolkien's influences
• Themes of The Lord of the Rings
• Poetry in The Lord of the Rings
• Impression of depth in The Lord of the Rings
• Literary reception of The Lord of the Rings
• Tolkien's artwork
• Tom Shippey

Derivative works

• Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings
• Picturing Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings (film series)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Related Projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films
• Wikipedia: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
	{{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.