Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lonely Mountain


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The result was redirect to Middle-earth. Tone 11:26, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Lonely Mountain

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There is really not much that can be said about that mountain except that it features in the story's finale. Which is cool and all that, but in the end, it's a mountain, with a tiny bit of lore/story, but next to no literary analysis/significance/influence/impact/etc. While the Tolkien Encyclopedia does contain an entry on this, it is one of the 'low quality' ones, i.e. it is pure PLOT summary. I read that entry and it contains zero content that is not a plot summary. If the dedicated reference work has nothing to say about this that's not a plot summary, there is little we can do to justify keeping what is, in the end, another example of Tolkien fancruft. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:01, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  10:01, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete Even Jackson's uncontrolled expansion of The Hobbit into a trilogy does not generate enough new material on the Lonely Mountain to have more than a sentance saying it is shown there. Not every fictional place needs an article, and there is no compelling reason to have an article on it here.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:25, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Middle-earth Lonely Mountain is only notable from an in-universe perspective. &#8213; Susmuffin Talk 17:45, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. The only other possibility is to redirect to The Hobbit, the only place it has any significance. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:23, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge with Misty Mountains, Mount Doom and other Mountains from Tolkien's legendarium. There's plenty of space on the server! --Uncle Ed (talk) 20:50, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Selective merge to The Hobbit. I was expecting to find significant coverage for this locale, but said coverage apparently does exist.  The description of the mountain is content lacking in the setting section of the Hobbit article, which mostly just describes the area in terms of Arda. Hog Farm (talk) 04:37, 31 December 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.