Talk:The Lay of Leithian

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Unusable

I'm sorry but this stub of an article, over ten years old, had basically just one cited claim, which was about the song 'Menegroth' in the Popular Culture section. The rest was some WP:OR about the title, a summary that duplicates Beren and Lúthien, and a bit of flannel about being in The Lays of Beleriand, which that article says already. There doesn't seem to be any future in having separate articles for each incomplete fragment in each of the volumes of the History of Middle-earth (plenty of scope for stubs there), specially when there is no review material, let alone scholarly analysis. I've therefore merged the pop culture claim and redirected the article to The Lays of Beleriand, which is currently itself rather stubby and could benefit from some analysis. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:41, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]