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review is transcluded from Talk:The Etymologies (Tolkien)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review. Nominator: Chiswick Chap (talk ·...

(UTC) This one seems fun! Glad to snag one of yours that has a focus on Tolkien-as-linguist. (I know linguistics wasn't exactly its own field distinct...

The most significant weakness of this article from the p.o.v. of an encyclopedia is how "closed" it is - the etymologies are their own little universe...

March 2007 (UTC) The Asimov article, which wouldn't pass at FA today, is discussing an author who wrote an enormous amount. Tolkien in contrast, was a...

Is ther any correction or other source of birthday? --RedDragon 03:59, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC) I have added to the bibliography, drawing on de:Tolkien. It...

promontory of Numenor"? Nitish 02:30, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC) If this is what Tolkien said, sure! I haven't had time to look it up yet. [[User:Aranel|Aranel...

etymology in a work of fiction: in-fiction and out-of-fiction/real-world. A real-world etymology as used by Tolkien is, for instance, the use of "The...

quickly (and anonymously) reverted. I'm perfectly willing to believe that Tolkien consistently wrote ‹ph› and never ‹pʰ›, but he wasn't using IPA. —Tamfang...

abandoned by Tolkien, and thus removed from The Silmarillion. There's nothing specific said about Dagor Dagorath in the final version of the legends, only...

The first syllable of the name "Tolkien" has not the vowel of "toe", but the vowel of "pot" according to J. R. R. Tolkien's own phonetic transcription...

of the Article, in order to make matters manageable. Noted. Is it reasonably well written? The etymology of Elf (as used in Middle Earth by Tolkien) is...

good source. Tolkien's maternal grandparents, John and Edith Jane Suffield, lived in Birmingham and owned a shop in the city centre. The Suffield family...

does the tale dress up the English as Elves and the Germans as Goblins". Garth is thus directly denying the "orc=German" equation, as he quotes Tolkien as...

we move stuff from both ringer and tolkienist to Tolkien fandom? I have certainly never heard of the term "ringer" before reading this article, while...

about the blue wizards and even their names remained in flux for the duration of Tolkien's life. At one point he played with the notion that the 5th blue...

particular isn't really the subject matter of the page. The subject matter is the known existence of Hobbits prior to Tolkien and the alleged existence of...

of Tolkien since from what Google allows you to read his etymology is wrong. For etymology please read Terence H. Wilbur: TROLL, AN ETYMOLOGICAL NOTE...

eachother. That's one of the more important cannibalistic habbits. --Corvun 09:43, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC) I doubt it is said anywhere in Tolkien's literature that Trolls...

for Tolkien articles. Thu 13:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC) I've replaced "House of Thingol and Melian" tree with template, but I'm not quite sure that the tree...

of Tolkien since from what Google allows you to read his etymology is wrong. For etymology please read Terence H. Wilbur: TROLL, AN ETYMOLOGICAL NOTE...