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Welcome to theMiddle-earth WikiProject's main page. This Wikiproject was created on 23 November 2005 and activated and merged with theSilmarillion WikiProject on 1 March 2006. This project is an effort to bring order, class, and professionalism to allTolkien-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 theparticipants section to join.

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 ofTolkien's legendarium. For examples of articles that have reached an elited state of class see below.

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

• Tolkien's novels, characters, places, events, poetry, etc.
• analysis, themes, influences, scholars and their books.
• adaptations in film and games, film scholarship.
• Tolkien-related books, events, and fandom.

Our goals include:

1. To standardize Tolkien-related articles to follow this WikiProject'sstyle guidelines
2. To followWikipedia's notability guidelines, to reducewhat should not be done.
3. To improve Tolkien-related articles up toGood Article,Featured Article/orFeatured List

You may wish to identify yourself as a participant by adding {{User WikiProject Middle-earth}} on your own user page. This will add your username to the list of participants inCategory:WikiProject Middle-earth participants (unless youuse|nocat=true to prevent it).

Tolkien articles by quality statistics(worklist) :

Tolkien articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA	1		1	2		4
FL				1		1
GA	9	53	127	78		267
B		7	31	47		85
C			32	83		115
Start			2	132		134
Stub				5		5
List		2	6	13		21
Category					174	174
Disambig					34	34
File					107	107
Project					3	3
Redirect				132	569	701
Template					42	42
Other		2				2
Assessed	10	64	199	493	929	1,695
Total	10	64	199	493	929	1,695
WikiWork factors (?)		ω =1,949			Ω = 3.20

• Fix mistakes.
• Take a look at the discussion links and contribute what you can.
• Follow theStandards for this WikiProject, as well as theWikipedia's Manual of Style page.
• Cite every claim to areliable source.
• Follow Wikipedia'sneutral point of view policy.
• "Be bold in updating pages, but do not be reckless!"

• Anything thatWikipedia is not follows here as well.
  • Nopoint-of-view, please!
  • No editorial speculation, no editorial assumptions, no fan theories.
  • NoOriginal Research, no unsourced claims.
  • No vandalism, and norevert wars either, see the discussion page for details to sort out any quarrels you may have with otherspeacefully.

Theoutline of Middle-earth is a centralized navigation hub for the subject of Middle-earth, arranged as a hierarchical topics list. It is part ofWikipedia's outline system which is one ofWikipedia's contents systems. It was built as a "reverse outline", astructural 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.

• J. R. R. Tolkien — was featured on the front page on15 November,2006
• Beowulf and Middle-earth — was featured on the front page on25 February,2022
• The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) — was featured on the front page on15 November,2011
• The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II — was featured on the front page on2 March,2013
• List of accolades received by The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

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

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