Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth

Welcome to the Middle-earth WikiProject's main page. This Wikiproject was created on 23 November 2005 and activated and merged with the Silmarillion WikiProject on 1 March 2006. This project is an effort to bring order, class, and professionalism to all Tolkien-related articles and media. These include Tolkien's writings, film adaptations of his works, and other works inspired by Tolkien.

If you are interested in joining this collaborated wikiproject, please ''see the participants section and sign your name to join. You must also sign your name on the roll call whenever the announcement springs up in the talk page''. This is usually at the top of the named roll call section. This is primarily for the uses of current active participation. All participants who wish to leave the project please remove your name from the list and add it to the template hosted below active participation page.

Mission statement
Our mission is to focus collaboratively on efforts to promote interaction, co-operation, and communication among members in order to improve Wikipedia's encyclopedic coverage of Tolkien's legendarium. For examples of articles that have reached an elited state of class see below.

Scope
Our members cover articles that have anything to do with a range of the following:


 * Tolkien's novels, characters, places, plots, etc.
 * film adaptations.
 * Tolkien-related books, resources, or media.

Goals
Our goals include:


 * 1) To standardize Tolkien-related articles to follow this WikiProject's style guidelines
 * 2) To follow Wikipedia's notability guidelines, to reduce what should not be done.
 * 3) To improve Tolkien-related articles up to Good Article, Featured Article/or Featured List

Participants
You may wish to add your name to the list of participants.

General guide
Tolkien articles by quality statistics (worklist) :

What you should do

 * Fix mistakes.
 * Take a look at the discussion links and contribute what you can.
 * Follow the Standards for this WikiProject, as well as the Wikipedia's Manual of Style page.
 * Cite your sources.
 * Follow Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy.
 * "Be bold in updating pages, but do not be reckless!"

What you should not do

 * Anything that Wikipedia is not follows here as well.
 * No point-of-view, please!
 * No speculation, no assumptions, no fan theories.
 * No Original Research, no unsourced claims.
 * No vandalism, and no revert wars either, see the discussion page for details to sort out any quarrels you may have with others peacefully.

Improve Outline of Middle-earth
The outline of Middle-earth is a centralized navigation hub for the subject of Middle-earth, arranged as a hierarchical topics list. It is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's contents systems. It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

Featured articles and lists

 * LinkFA-star.png J. R. R. Tolkien — was featured on the front page on 15 November, 2006
 * LinkFA-star.png Beowulf and Middle-earth — was featured on the front page on 25 February, 2022
 * LinkFA-star.png The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) — was featured on the front page on 15 November, 2011
 * LinkFA-star.png The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II — was featured on the front page on 2 March, 2013
 * LinkFA-star.png List of accolades received by The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

Good articles
Some 200 articles, including:
 * Tolkien
 * Symbol support vote.svg The Lord of the Rings
 * Symbol support vote.svg The Hobbit
 * Symbol support vote.svg Battle of the Pelennor Fields
 * Symbol support vote.svg The Scouring of the Shire
 * Symbol support vote.svg The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen
 * Symbol support vote.svg Saruman
 * Symbol support vote.svg Quenya
 * Symbol support vote.svg The Great War and Middle-earth
 * Symbol support vote.svg Christianity in Middle-earth
 * Symbol support vote.svg Naming of weapons in Middle-earth
 * Symbol support vote.svg J. R. R. Tolkien's influences
 * Symbol support vote.svg Themes of The Lord of the Rings
 * Symbol support vote.svg Poetry in The Lord of the Rings
 * Symbol support vote.svg Impression of depth in The Lord of the Rings
 * Symbol support vote.svg Literary reception of The Lord of the Rings
 * Symbol support vote.svg Tolkien's artwork
 * Symbol support vote.svg Tom Shippey


 * Derivative works
 * Symbol support vote.svg Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings
 * Symbol support vote.svg Picturing Tolkien
 * Symbol support vote.svg The Lord of the Rings (film series)
 * Symbol support vote.svg The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)
 * Symbol support vote.svg Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Related Projects

 * WikiProject Films
 * WikiProject Novels

Award Scheme
Please award this star to whoever has contributed a great amount to Middle-earth related articles.