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Articles on Tolkien
Hi, thank you for your efforts to improve Middle-earth coverage, and sorry to have to revert you. I think a word of explanation may be helpful, as there is a method here.

The J. R. R. Tolkien article is at the head of a large tree of articles, among them Reception of J. R. R. Tolkien (which might be a good place to begin), Tolkien research, J. R. R. Tolkien's influences, and Themes of The Lord of the Rings, to name just a few. There are many more, listed at Template:Lord of the Rings, for example (and that's not all of them either). It'd be appreciated if you'd add material somewhere down there, rather than at the top level where all that we need is a brief summary of these other articles. The top level article should not contain anything that is not already described in at least one of the subsidiary articles.

One more thing: Wikipedia is reliable only if it is based on Reliable Sources (policy). Many older articles, lacking such sources, are being rewritten to make use of textbooks and scholarship (papers in academic journals). The Tolkien articles are a case in point - I have added many hundreds of sources in the past few months. We cannot add generalisations from personal knowledge or opinion: this is called Original Research (policy).

Hope that's ok with you! All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:29, 6 August 2020 (UTC)