Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth

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< WikiProject Fictional series Template:ME-tasksThis WikiProject's participants work to improve Wikipedia's encyclopedic coverage of Middle-earth. They use it to focus efforts and to promote interaction, cooperation, and communication.

Middle-earth and Tolkien articles have been part of Wikipedia from the beginning, but this Wikiproject was not created until 11/23/2005 in an effort to start bringing order to the Middle-earth articles. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page, view the suggestions on this page and subpages, and see the to-do list below.

Discussion Forums

• /Standards - List of consensus standards for Middle-earth articles.
• /Improvement - work toward making a featured article

Lists

• /AfD - current and past Middle-earth articles for deletion
• /Images - Middle-earth images on Wikipedia
• /Templates - Middle-earth related templates on Wikipedia

To-Do

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2006-07-28 Add sources to articles that do not have references or sources Ensure that all Middle-earth articles are properly categorized and organized. Update all articles to follow the Alternate version of the legendarium format Add images and begin sorting. Develop a consistent Wikipedia method of referencing various Middle-earth books Expand stubs into complete articles Review and update List of Middle-earth articles

Project Templates & Infoboxes

Main article: /Templates

Canon notice - Use this at the top of articles to include notice about Middle-earth canon issues.

• {{Mecanon}}

Navigation boxes - Add these to Middle-earth articles to improve navigation

• {{Middle-earth}}
• {{Middle-earth}}
• {{Silmarillion}}
• {{ainur}}
• {{dwarves}}
• {{History of Arda}}
• {{Meweapons}}

Book references - Need to develop these. Will help standardize book references.

• {{ME#}}
• {{ME#ref}}

Infoboxes - Use these to help standardize Middle-earth article appearance

• {{Battlebox}}
• {{language}}
• {{sequence}}
• {{Infobox LOTR}}

Talk-page notice - Put this on the talk page of Middle-earth articles to advertise the project

• {{ME-project}}

Category label - Put this on Middle-earth category pages to advertise the project

• {{ME-category}}

Open Tasks - Update this with tasks you think need doing and put it on your user page and/or article talk pages

• {{ME-tasks}}

Family Trees - Attach these to relvant articles

• {{Elendil}}
• {{Fëanor}}
• {{Finarfin}}
• {{Fingolfin}}
• {{Half-elven}}
• {{Telcontar}} - Very similar to above
• {{Isildur}} - Very similar to above
• {{Valar}}
• {{Tookclan}}

Middle-earth
J. R. R. Tolkien Bibliography Canon Legendarium Outline
Works	In Tolkien's lifetime The Hobbit (1937) The Lord of the Rings (1954–55) The Fellowship of the Ring "The Shadow of the Past" "The Council of Elrond" The Two Towers The Return of the King "The Scouring of the Shire" "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962) Posthumous The Silmarillion (1977) "Ainulindalë" Unfinished Tales (1980) The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981) Bilbo's Last Song (1990) The three "Great Tales" The Children of Húrin (2007) Beren and Lúthien (2017) The Fall of Gondolin (2018) The Fall of Númenor (2022)
History of composition	History of Middle-earth [1–2] The Book of Lost Tales (1983–84) Ælfwine [3] The Lays of Beleriand (1985) [4] The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986) [5] The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987) The Etymologies Lhammas [6–9] The History of The Lord of the Rings (1988–1992) The Notion Club Papers [10] Morgoth's Ring (1993) [11] The War of the Jewels (1994) [12] The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996) Others John D. Rateliff The History of The Hobbit (2007) Carl F. Hostetter The Nature of Middle-earth (2021)
Fictional universe	Peoples, monsters Ainur Maiar Balrogs Wizards Valar Dragons Ancalagon Smaug Dwarves Eagles Elves Half-elven Noldor Sundering Ents Hobbits Men Beornings Drúedain Dúnedain Orcs Trolls Characters First and Second Ages Celebrimbor Eärendil and Elwing Elendil Fëanor Fingolfin Finwë and Míriel Gil-galad Húrin Isildur Lúthien and Beren Melian Morgoth Thingol Tuor and Idril Túrin Turambar Ungoliant Third Age Elrond Galadriel Gandalf Glorfindel Goldberry Gollum Saruman Sauron Tom Bombadil Places First and Second Ages Beleriand Númenor Valinor Third Age Bree Esgaroth Gondor Harad Isengard Lonely Mountain Lothlórien Mirkwood Mordor Moria Rivendell Rohan The Shire Bag End Objects Mithril Palantír Red Book of Westmarch Rings of Power One Ring Silmarils Two Trees of Valinor List of weapons and armour
Analysis	Elements Artwork Family trees Heraldry Languages Adûnaic Black Speech Elvish Quenya Sindarin Khuzdul Valarin Westron Maps Tolkien's poetry Scripts Cirth Sarati Tengwar Themes Anachronism Ancestry as guide to character Architecture Christianity Cosmology Round World dilemma Death and immortality Decline and fall Dreams and visions Economy England Environmentalism Evil First World War Forests Frame stories Hell Heroism Light Luck and fate Magic Mental illness Modernism Moral dilemma Music Naming of weapons Northern courage Old Straight Road Paganism Plants Psychological journeys Quests Sound and language Time Trees Literary Tolkien's impact on fantasy Influences Beowulf Celtic Classical world Finnish language and literature Medieval Modern William Morris Norse Philology Shakespeare Prose style Ambiguity A mythology for England Geographic Geology The Atlas of Middle-earth Journeys of Frodo A Map of Middle-earth
Adaptations, legacy	Illustrators Pauline Baynes Cor Blok Anke Eißmann Brothers Hildebrandt Jenny Dolfen Mary Fairburn Donato Giancola John Howe Tove Jansson Alexander Korotich Alan Lee Tom Loback Margrethe II of Denmark Ted Nasmith Composers Bo Hansson Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings Johan de Meij Symphony No. 1 The Lord of the Rings Howard Shore Music of The Lord of the Rings film series Music of The Hobbit film series Music of The Rings of Power TV series Bear McCreary Music of The Rings of Power TV series Stephen Gallagher Music of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth Settings Donald Swann The Road Goes Ever On Poems and Songs of Middle Earth The Tolkien Ensemble An Evening in Rivendell A Night in Rivendell At Dawn in Rivendell Leaving Rivendell Other media Impact Middle-earth Enterprises Works inspired by Tolkien Fan fiction Film Calendars Video games Things named after Tolkien and his works
Literary criticism	The Complete Guide to Middle-earth A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien Interrupted Music Master of Middle-Earth Picturing Tolkien A Question of Time J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion Perilous Realms The Road to Middle-Earth Splintered Light Tolkien and the Invention of Myth Tolkien's Art: 'A Mythology for England' Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings A Tolkien Compass Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth Tolkien, Race and Cultural History Tolkien's Legendarium Tolkien and the Great War The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary