User talk:Legolas-Dean

List of Middle-earth animals
Hi -- I've reverted your recent edit to this article. It constitutes a good-faith edit, but is not supported by sources. "Tolkien was known to etc. etc." just begs for a source, and calling these "scientific names" again requires some support. They may have been given in imitation of scientific names (and Tolkien was interested in the flora and fauna of the area around Oxford), but there is no indication (that I know of) that his fictional names had any scientific significance. -- Elphion (talk) 17:09, 6 January 2014 (UTC)