Talk:Farmer Giles of Ham/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: AryKun (talk · contribs) 11:20, 22 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Will do. AryKun (talk) 11:20, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Many thanks! Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:30, 22 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Have performed a minor copy-edit.
 * Noted.


 * The plot summary sounds like a blurb from the back cover of the book, and doesn't actually describe what happens in the book. Needs to be rewritten.
 * Rewritten.


 * "a don he knew" Link or gloss for don?
 * Yet to be addressed.
 * Glossed.


 * "doing execution" Never seen anyone use this phrase, reword.
 * It's a direct quotation from the Oxford English Dictionary, via Tolkien himself, and it's part of the satirised wording, so it's required as it is.
 * But what it is supposed to mean is unclear; does it mean executing someone or simply the gun working? Add a gloss in square brackets.
 * Gloss added; to answer your question, presumably both, since that's what guns do, after all.


 * I'm not quite sure how the blunderbuss philology joke works: is it because the blunderbuss in the story is nothing like an actual blunderbuss?
 * The first paragraph tells what the Oxford English Dictionary said. The second paragraph quotes Tolkien's account in Farmer Giles of Ham, which visibly, and in the scholar Tom Shippey's opinion, satirises the OED definition.


 * Images are properly used and licensed.
 * Noted.


 * Since Mythlore only became peer-reviewed in 1999, are the earlier issues RS?
 * It was always carefully written, with many knowledgeable readers on the lookout for any inaccuracies.


 * The rest of the references are reliable and properly formatted.
 * Noted.


 * Spot-checks:
 * Walker, R. C. (1984). "The Little Kingdom: Some Considerations and a Map". Mythlore.
 * Hyde, Paul Nolan (1987). "J.R.R. Tolkien: Creative Uses of the Oxford English Dictionary". Mythlore.
 * Garth, John (24 June 2020). "Looking for Middle-Earth? Go to the Middle of England". Literary Hub.
 * Noted.


 * That's all I got.
 * : Many thanks for the review. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:52, 22 August 2023 (UTC)