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==Purpose of the section "The World"== |
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I do not see why we must have the section ''The world'' in the article. I think the section should be deleted / merged into other sections. It has not been changed much since it was and therefore it does not fit to the concept of the rest of the article anymore. It seems to deal with two different topics which do not really fit to the title: |
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The first paragraph of the section describes the relation of the geography of Middle-earth to that of today's world, which would rather belong into the section ''geography''. Anyhow I think the relation is presented wrongly. The article says that "Gondor might lie in the Mediterranean Italy and Greece" whereas the article ] states that Tolkien said Minas Tirith corresponded to Vienna (In the map used in this article the distance between the Shire and Minas Tirith is approximately 900 miles, which equals the distance between England and Vienna) |
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The other three paragraphs deal with the writings of Tolkien. I think this part should be put into the section ''Books'' which lacks of prose text anyway. |
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I would like to delete the first pargraph and merge the rest into the section ''Books'' --] 07:33, 25 July 2006 (UTC) |
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The Middle-Earth version of Risk is out, and there is also a card game version that could be added under adaptations section. ] 20:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC) |
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This article's featured status is being reviewed. See link at top of page, reproduced here: ]. ] 09:09, 27 July 2006 (UTC) |
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== Adding references == |
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I am now in the process of adding references to this article. Please bear with me for the next few hours as I tidy up after myself. ] 12:53, 20 August 2006 (UTC) |
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I removed a link to the Ardalambion website from the external links of this article because such a link is more appropriate at ] (to which ] redirects), which is linked from the languages section of this article. ] 18:01, 20 August 2006 (UTC) |
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:I thought about that when I re-added it. I just saw how much work you're doing, and thought it was an accidental deletion : ) |
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:Great job, btw : ) - ] 18:11, 20 August 2006 (UTC) |
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== Images of maps == |
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Concern was raised at ] about the images used in this article. I've removed two speculative maps (probably based on descriptions in the texts, or on the early maps that were published in HoME): ] and ]. I then put the three remaining 'main' maps in a gallery section of a "Maps" section. This section is intended to have discussion about the maps, and hopefully provide "fair use" justification for using these map images in the article, or even scans of the maps from the books. If a detailed enough discussion arose, the other two images above could be added back in. |
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*A scan of the map from ''The Hobbit'' would be nice. |
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*Should the map image still be used at the top to illustrate the article? |
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*Can someone move the images on Commons (likely to be deleted soon) over to Misplaced Pages? |
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Do people think this will this alleviate the concerns about image use in this article? ] 02:16, 22 August 2006 (UTC) |
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== Article title - ]? == |
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<small>following up on a comment by ], copied here from ]</small> |
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I've edited the opening thus, ahem ... |
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WAS: '''Middle-earth''' is a term used by the author ] to refer to the geographical setting of many of the tales of his ],...''. |
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IS: '''Middle-earth''' is the geographical setting of many of the tales of ]'s ],...''. |
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- ] 02:53, 30 August 2006 (UTC) |
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:I noticed that edit. If you read the history of the etymology of the word, you will see that your phrasing of the opening sentence is an over-simplification. Simply saying that Middle-earth ''is'' a geographical setting for Tolkien's tales ignores the other uses of the word. The word middle-earth existed before Tolkien, and appears in Shakespeare among other places. In fact, the better way to phrase this is probably to say that 'Middle-earth' (upper-case 'M') is the place, and that it is named for the concept of 'middle-earth' (lower-case 'm'), namely, a middle-place amid the encircling seas, and between the cold of the North and the fires of the South, and between Heaven above and Hell below - ie. the abiding place of men (as seen in mythological and classical worldviews - see both Norse mythology and the Greek concept of ]) as opposed to the unseen or far-away worlds of spirits and Gods. Possibly there is a case for having the article at ], with ] redirecting there (as it is the overwhelming thing most people will want when they type in "Middle-earth" on any searches). There would also need to be a hatnote pointing people to ] for the other meanings of the term. ] 20:24, 30 August 2006 (UTC) |
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::I think it's not quite correct to say that Tolkien named his setting "for the concept", but that he intended it to have exactly its historical meaning. Having said that, the phrase had pretty much fallen out of modern English and is preserved mainly in other Germanic languages as ] or something similar, which in consequence already has a distinctively named article. That is, someone wanting to know about the general idea of Middle-earth is likely to search for Midgard, while someone looking up the Tolkien use is going to search on Middle-earth. '']'' <small>] ]</small> 21:44, 30 August 2006 (UTC) |
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:::Please feel free to edit the opening sentence. I just want to move away from the opening sentence implying that that Middle-earth was a name Tolkien invented. The exact phrasing is difficult to pin down. ] 00:32, 31 August 2006 (UTC) |
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