User:Carcharoth/Tolkien categories

This is a subpage of User:Carcharoth, and is intended for preliminary categorisation of Tolkien-related articles and other work on Tolkien categorisation. Please add anything you think is missing, and discuss issues of notability on the talk page.

Useful categories

 * Category:Tolkien
 * Category:J. R. R. Tolkien
 * Category:Middle-earth

Useful lists

 * List_of_Middle-earth_articles
 * List_of_Middle-earth_articles_by_category
 * List of Middle-earth writings
 * List of Middle-earth characters
 * List of Middle-earth peoples
 * List of Middle-earth rivers
 * Realms of Arda
 * Timeline of Arda
 * User:Carcharoth/Tolkien categories
 * User:General Wesc/List of Middle-earth articles

Gather the lists together into categories such as Category:Tolkien lists and Category:Middle-earth lists.

Redirects
See Category:Middle-earth redirects.

Disambiguation pages
Some of these may need to be checked using "What links here" and the relevant articles redirected back to the correct page.


 * Gandalf (disambiguation)

Top-level categories
My proposal here is to create a new top-level Category:Tolkien as part of the "by topic" grouping of categories. My reasoning is that the Wikipedia articles related to Tolkien are a loose collection of wide-ranging categories and articles connected by the topic and sometimes also the name of Tolkien and his works. It is important to realise that no other parent categories are needed for these top-level categories - links to other areas of the category "tree" should happen a few levels below these top level categories. Specifically, this is to avoid various articles ending up "underneath" the parts of the tree in which "Tolkien the person" ends up (such as author, British, philologist, etc.).

1) Linking into the high-level Category:Categories by topic:

Propose: Category:Tolkien

Parent category: Category:Categories by topic

An alternative is to group these wide-ranging articles at Portal:Tolkien (similar to Portal:Middle-earth).

2) Linking into the high-level Category:Categories by person:

Propose: Category:J. R. R. Tolkien

Parent category: Category:Categories by person

The "by name" category follows the naming convention, but the "by topic" category is the more intuitive "Tolkien" label (no need to type out "J. R. R. " all the time). In my opinion, the "name" category needs only one category itself, as stated above. All the other categories should be for the article on J. R. R. Tolkien.

Further, consider the "Tolkien" topic category as just an aggregator tag to collect together loosely-related articles connected only by the topic of Tolkien. The "name" category should really only be for articles about the person, and should be tightly focussed on that, IMO. I am currently discussing these issues at Wikipedia talk:Categorization, here and here.

People
List of many Tolkien-related people. Some fit in more than one category, but only listed once for now, until category organisation implemented.

Family
Propose: Category:Tolkien family

Parent categories: Category:Tolkien; Category:J. R. R. Tolkien


 * J. R. R. Tolkien
 * Edith Bratt
 * Arthur Tolkien
 * Baillie Tolkien
 * Christopher Tolkien
 * Simon Tolkien
 * Tim Tolkien

Category would also have a link to a family page if and when it exists, or a suitable page with the family tree on it, or maybe even include the family tree. One version of the family tree is at Tolkien Estate.

Friends and Acquaintances
Incomplete list, mainly of people mentioned in Biography and Letters.


 * C. S. Lewis
 * Owen Barfield
 * Charles Williams
 * Humphrey Carpenter
 * Roger Lancelyn Green

Editors, Biographers and Literary executors

 * Christopher Tolkien
 * Humphrey Carpenter
 * Guy Gavriel Kay

Translators

 * Max Schuhart
 * Ake Ohlmarks
 * Ida_Nyrop_Ludvigsen

Artists
Propose: Category:Tolkien artists

Parent categories: Category:Tolkien; Category:Artists


 * J. R. R. Tolkien
 * Ted Nasmith
 * John Howe
 * Alan Lee
 * Jenny Dolfen
 * Catherine Karina Chmiel
 * Inger Edelfeldt
 * Anke Katrin Eißmann
 * Roger Garland (artist)
 * Michael Hague
 * Tim and Greg Hildebrandt
 * Tove Jansson
 * Angus McBride
 * Kay Miner
 * Milein Cosman
 * Horus Engels
 * Pauline Baynes
 * Margrethe II of Denmark
 * Eric Fraser
 * Sam R. Balcomb
 * Jack Gaughan

More artists could be added to this category. Issues of notability may be important here. And also what qualifies someone for this category. I would propose anyone who has published an artwork inspired by or representing a scene from Tolkien's works.

Musicians

 * Tolkien Ensemble
 * Donald Swann
 * Howard Shore

Authors/Linguists/Researchers
Propose: Category:Tolkien scholars, researchers and authors

Parent categories: Category:Tolkien; other categories added at article level.


 * Tom Shippey
 * Verlyn Flieger
 * Michael D. C. Drout
 * Christina Scull
 * Wayne Hammond
 * Douglas A. Anderson
 * John D. Rateliff
 * David Salo
 * Carl F. Hostetter
 * Julian C. Bradfield
 * Helge Fauskanger
 * Lisa Star

Producers/Actors/Directors/Adaptors
Propose: Category:Tolkien adaptors, directors and producers

Parent categories: Category:Middle-earth adaptations. This category groups together a wide range of people and companies, and so only has one parent category. Individual entries should already be categorised under their profession. Use sort keys to sort in logical groups.


 * Peter Jackson
 * Philippa Boyens
 * Fran Walsh
 * Brian Sibley
 * Ralph Bakshi
 * Rankin/Bass
 * Saul Zaentz
 * John Boorman
 * Peter S. Beagle

Actors

 * Category:The_Lord_of_the_Rings_actors

- Propose to split by adaptations and/or medium.

Publishers
Propose: Category:Tolkien publishers (also to include companies)

Parent categories: Category:Tolkien; Category:Publishers


 * Rayner Unwin
 * Stanley Unwin
 * Milton Waldman
 * Donald A. Wollheim
 * Ian Ballantine

Other
Propose: Category:Tolkien

Parent categories: Category:Categories by topic or Category:Categories by person or turn into Portal:Tolkien (similar to Portal:Middle-earth).

Since this is a loose collection of wide-ranging articles connected by Tolkien, no other parent categories are needed. Specifically, this is to avoid the various articles ending up "underneath" the various parts of the tree in which "Tolkien the person" ends up (such as author, British, philologist, etc.).


 * J.W._Braun
 * Kirill_Yeskov

Publishers
Propose: Category:Tolkien publishers (also to include people)

Parent categories: Category:Tolkien; Category:Publishers


 * George Allen and Unwin
 * Collins (later HarperCollins)
 * Ace Books
 * Houghton Mifflin
 * Ballantine Books

Film
Propose: Category:Tolkien adaptors, directors and producers

Parent categories: Category:Middle-earth adaptations. This category groups together a wide range of people and companies, and so only has one parent category. Individual entries should already be categorised in a company category. Use sort keys to sort in logical groups.


 * New Line Cinema
 * Rankin/Bass
 * Tolkien Enterprises
 * United Artists
 * Miramax Films

General

 * The Tolkien Society
 * The Mythopoeic Society
 * Mythopoeic_Awards


 * The Forodrim
 * Tolkien Society of Sweden

There are many, many other Tolkien societies worldwide.

Linguistic

 * Elvish_Linguistic_Fellowship

Legal and commercial entities
Propose: Category:Tolkien companies

Parent categories: Category:Tolkien; Category:Legal entities


 * Tolkien Estate
 * Tolkien Enterprises

Games companies

 * Iron Crown Enterprises
 * Decipher, Inc.
 * Games Workshop

Archives
Propose: Category:Tolkien archives

Parent categories: Category:Tolkien; Category:Archives


 * Bodleian library
 * Marquette University

Ideally, the category labels will be applied to articles about the actual archives themselves, rather than the currently linked articles about the institutions that house the archives.

Tolkien Bibliography
A list of works by J. R. R. Tolkien, organised in various lists and sublists.

Academic essays, texts and translations

 * The Devil's Coach Horses
 * Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad
 * Beowulf: the monsters and the critics
 * English and Welsh
 * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (translation)
 * Pearl (translation)
 * Sir Orfeo (translation)
 * A Secret Vice
 * On Fairy-Stories
 * Sigelwara Land
 * Ancrene Wisse
 * On Translating Beowulf (no separate article)
 * Finn and Hengest
 * Patience (poem)
 * The Name 'Nodens'

Collections of academic work

 * The Monsters and the Critics
 * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo

Middle-earth legendarium

 * The Hobbit
 * The Lord of the Rings
 * The Fellowship of the Ring
 * The Two Towers
 * The Return of the King
 * The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
 * The Road Goes Ever On

Other

 * The_Lay_of_Aotrou_and_Itroun
 * Farmer Giles of Ham
 * The Father Christmas Letters
 * Roverandom
 * Smith of Wootton Major
 * The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
 * Leaf by Niggle
 * Mr. Bliss

Collections

 * Tales_from_the_Perilous_Realm

Mixed collections

 * The Tolkien Reader
 * Tree_and_Leaf
 * A_Tolkien_Miscellany
 * Songs for the Philologists

Posthumous publications
This list highlights the books and texts published after Tolkien died.

See also: Template:Middle-earth.


 * The Silmarillion
 * Unfinished Tales
 * The History of Middle-earth (including The History of The Lord of the Rings)
 * The Book of Lost Tales (part 1)
 * The Book of Lost Tales (part 2)
 * The Lays of Beleriand
 * The Shaping of Middle-earth
 * The Lost Road and Other Writings
 * The Return of the Shadow
 * The Treason of Isengard
 * The War of the Ring
 * Sauron Defeated
 * Morgoth's Ring
 * The War of the Jewels
 * The Peoples of Middle-earth
 * Bilbo's Last Song

Poetry
List of Tolkien's poetry, published in magazines, books and other collections. The list includes both his Anglo-Saxon verse, and the verse composed for his fictional writings. It includes works published in his lifetime and after his death.


 * List of poems by J. R. R. Tolkien

Middle-earth poems

 * All that is Gold Does Not Glitter
 * Errantry
 * The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late

Other poems

 * The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
 * The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son

Poetry collections and books

 * Songs for the Philologists
 * Bilbo's Last Song
 * The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

Books
Books, as opposed to texts or essays or translations.


 * The Monsters and the Critics
 * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo
 * The Father Christmas Letters
 * Roverandom
 * Tales_from_the_Perilous_Realm
 * The Tolkien Reader
 * Tree_and_Leaf
 * A_Tolkien_Miscellany
 * The Hobbit
 * The Lord of the Rings
 * The Fellowship of the Ring
 * The Two Towers
 * The Return of the King
 * The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
 * The Road Goes Ever On
 * The Silmarillion
 * Unfinished Tales
 * The History of Middle-earth
 * Bilbo's Last Song
 * Mr. Bliss

Texts
Texts or essays found as sections or chapters in a book, including notable sections, chapters and essays from Tolkien's fictional writings.

Fiction

 * Farmer Giles of Ham
 * Smith of Wootton Major
 * Leaf by Niggle

Middle-earth essays and writings

 * List of Middle-earth writings (many of these to organise within lists)


 * Osanwe-kenta

Other essays

 * The Devil's Coach Horses
 * Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad
 * Beowulf: the monsters and the critics
 * English and Welsh
 * A Secret Vice
 * On Fairy-Stories
 * Sigelwara Land
 * Ancrene Wisse
 * On Translating Beowulf (no separate article)
 * Finn and Hengest

Translations

 * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
 * Pearl
 * Sir Orfeo

General

 * Mallorn
 * Mythlore
 * Tolkien Studies

Linguistic

 * Vinyar Tengwar
 * Quettar
 * Parma Eldalamberon
 * Tyalië Tyelelliéva

Newsletters

 * Beyond Bree

Books

 * The Complete Guide to Middle-earth (1971, rev 1978, rev 2001)
 * The Atlas of Middle-earth (1981)
 * Journeys of Frodo (1981)

Audio recordings and broadcasts by Tolkien

 * The Tolkien Collection
 * J.R.R. Tolkien: An Audio Portrait
 * Talk by Tolkien on 'Anglo-Saxon verse' - broadcast by BBC radio on 14 January 1938.

Linguistic

 * Elfling
 * Lambengolmor
 * Tolklang

Usenet

 * alt.fan.tolkien
 * rec.arts.books.tolkien

Is there anything notable here? Has a long history going back to the early 1990s.

World Wide Web

 * Encyclopedia of Arda
 * TORN

Again, to avoid belabouring the point and the masses of websites out there, probably treat this as some kind of historical discourse and merge with the Usenet article, if there is one. Make distinction between fan and commercial and official websites.

Adaptations

 * Category:Middle-earth_adaptations
 * Works_inspired_by_J._R._R._Tolkien

Note that not all the adaptations below are of Middle-earth material.

Films

 * Rankin-Bass film of 'The Hobbit' (1977)
 * Ralph Bakshi film of 'The Lord of the Rings' (1978)
 * Rankin-Bass film of 'The Return of the King' (1980)
 * Peter Jackson's film trilogy of 'The Lord of the Rings' (2001-3)

Radio
One date needed here.


 * BBC radio broadcast of excerpts from Tolkien's translation of the Anglo-Saxon verse Pearl (1936)
 * BBC radio adaptation of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' (1953)
 * BBC radio performance of 'The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son' (1954)
 * BBC radio adaptation of 'The Lord of the Rings' (1955 and 1956)
 * BBC radio adaptation of 'The Hobbit' (1968)
 * NPR (US National Public Radio) adaptation of 'The Hobbit' (date needed)
 * NPR (US National Public Radio) broadcast of Mind's Eye radio adaptation of 'The Lord of the Rings' (1979)
 * BBC radio adaptation of 'The Lord of the Rings' (1981)
 * BBC radio broadcast of 'Perilous Realm' (1993)

Musicals

 * Fellowship! (2005)
 * The Lord of the Rings (musical) - Toronto-based musical adaptation of 'The Lord of the Rings' (2006)

The 2006 musical needs its own article.

Theatre
None found so far...

Television

 * Finnish adaptation of 'The Lord of the Rings' (1993)

Audio books
Does anyone have these audio books so they can supply the dates of publication?


 * Nicol Williamson reading of 'The Hobbit' (1974)
 * Rob Inglis reading of 'The Lord of the Rings' (1990)
 * Martin Shaw reading of 'The Silmarillion' (date needed)
 * Rob Inglis reading of 'The Hobbit' (1991)
 * Martin Shaw abridged reading of 'The Hobbit' (date needed)
 * Terry Jones reading of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' (date needed)
 * Derek Jacobi reading of 'Farmer Giles of Ham and Other Stories' (including "Smith of Wootton Major" and "Leaf by Niggle"). (date needed)

Parodies
See also: Middle-earth in popular culture.


 * Bored of the Rings (1969)
 * E-text parody of 'The Lord of the Rings' (2000-3)
 * The Soddit (2003)
 * The Silmarillion (2004)
 * The Silmarillion (2004)
 * Fellowship! (2005)

It would be nice to have short articles for the Silmarillion parodies. Not sure how to treat the online E-text parody.

Places

 * Lydney Park
 * Perrot's Folly
 * Edgbaston Waterworks
 * King Edward's School, Birmingham
 * Oxford University
 * Exeter College, Oxford
 * Merton College, Oxford
 * Leeds University
 * Leeds
 * Oxford
 * Bournemouth
 * Birmingham
 * Birmingham Oratory
 * Bloemfontein
 * Orange Free State
 * South Africa
 * Bird and Baby
 * Eagle and Child
 * White Horse
 * St Aloysius Church, Oxford
 * St Andrews University
 * St Anne's Church, Alcester, Birmingham
 * St Gregory's Church, Oxford
 * St Philip's Grammar School
 * Sarehole
 * Sarehole Mill
 * River Cole, West Midlands
 * Shire Country Park
 * Moseley Bog
 * Warwick
 * Warwickshire
 * Lancashire Fusiliers
 * Great Haywood
 * Norbury
 * Alps

Other

 * Andrew_Lang_lecture
 * Ashmolean_Museum - reference to collection of rings supposed to have inspired Tolkien!
 * Ballantine_Adult_Fantasy_series
 * Birmingham Conservation Trust
 * Elfcon - are there any more conferences that could be featured?
 * The Inklings - this is ideal for Category:J. R. R. Tolkien.
 * TCBS - this is ideal for Category:J. R. R. Tolkien.
 * Tolkien Ensemble - to be placed in something like Category:Tolkien music.
 * MERP
 * The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy: The Exhibition - spin-off from the films.
 * The Lord of the Rings (symphony) - Concert music using the music from the The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy - spin-off from the films.
 * Gandalf Award

The concerts featured music from the film, composed by Howard Shore. He also conducted at least some of the concerts. It would be nice to have an article on where and when they took place.

Semi-random list culled from Letters and Biography
The items on this list need to be moved to the relevant sections.

List of people from Biography and Letters who probably/might have Wikipedia articles, to be divided into "Letters to/from Tolkien", "mentioned in a Letter", and "friends and acquaintances":


 * A. S. Napier
 * Lascelles Abercrombie
 * Jane Neave
 * Forrest J. Ackerman
 * Isaac Asimov
 * Lady Agnew
 * Walter Allen
 * George Allen
 * Hans Christian Anderson
 * Edward Ardizzone
 * Ariosto Ludovico
 * Denis Tolhurst
 * Christopher Wiseman
 * Robert Gilson
 * Geoffrey Bache Smith
 * Francis Morgan
 * W. H. Auden
 * Rhona Beare
 * Basil Blackwell
 * William Blake
 * Enid Blyton
 * John Betjeman
 * Adam Fox
 * E. V. Gordon
 * R. W. Chambers
 * Sir Walter Raleigh
 * John Christopher
 * Joy Davidman
 * Norman Davis
 * L. W. Forster
 * Pauline Gasch
 * Douglas Gresham
 * Andrew Lang
 * W. H. Lewis
 * George MacDonald
 * Lord Dunsany
 * William Morris
 * Kenneth Sisam
 * Burke Trend
 * Iris Murdoch
 * Ava Gardner
 * Robert Graves
 * Richard Plotz
 * Lord Halsbury
 * Joseph Wright
 * Dennis Tolhurst
 * Camilla Unwin
 * C. L. Wrenn
 * Henry Bradley
 * George Brewerton
 * Mary Salu
 * Jenny Grove
 * Clyde S. Kilby
 * George Sayer
 * E. R. Eddison

Reviewers:


 * Bernard Levin
 * Edwin Muir
 * Peter Green

Societies:


 * North Borneo Frodo Society
 * Tolkien Society of America

Coalbiters:


 * John Bryson
 * George Stuart Gordon
 * C. T. Onions
 * R. M. Dawkins

Adaptors:


 * Morton Grady Zimmerman
 * Donald Swann

Books:


 * Tolkien and the Great War

Other additions to Wikipedia lists:


 * Taum Santoski
 * John Garth

Publishers:


 * Collins

Tolkien translators list:


 * Ake Ohlmarks
 * Max Schuchart

Also, get list of publishers of Tolkien in other countries:


 * Dutch language (1956)
 * Swedish language (1959)
 * Polish language (1961)
 * Danish language (Denmark, 1968)
 * German language (1969)
 * Italian language (1970)
 * French language (1972)
 * Japanese language (1972)
 * Finnish language (1973)
 * Norwegian language (1973)
 * Portuguese language (Brazil, 1974)
 * Hebrew language
 * Hungarian language
 * Icelandic language
 * Spanish language (Argentina)

Seeds for articles:

Check Tolkien family tree is complete
 * Kalevala
 * Kullervo
 * Beowulf
 * Coalbiters
 * World War One
 * Roman Catholicism
 * Shakespeare
 * Suffield family

Other:


 * English and Medieval Studies Presented to J. R. R. Tolkien
 * Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings
 * Oxford Magazine
 * Oxford Poetry
 * Tolkien in Oxford - BBC TV programme

Awards:


 * International Fantasy Award at 15th Worldcon in London
 * Honorary Doctor of Letters, Oxford University
 * Honorary Doctor of Letters, Edinburgh University


 * John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE, Hon Dr en Phil et Lettres, Hon D Litt, FRSL

See also here.

Titles/jobs:


 * Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
 * Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
 * New English Dictionary
 * Oxford English Dictionary
 * Leverhulme Research Fellowship

Alphabetical list from Wikipedia article namespace of articles linked to J. R. R. Tolkien
On 12/04/2006, there were 1460 articles in the Wikipedia article space that linked to J. R. R. Tolkien. Further lists could include a proper mapping/listing of the category "tree" structure, and more analysis of "What links here" for other 'keystone' articles. The link below is to the [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/whatlinkshere? What Links Here sorting tool] on the toolserver.

For a current listing, click this link: query "What links here" for J. R. R. Tolkien.

Please scan the list and add links to the above sections or to new sections.