Tolkien Gateway
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 Detail of Tolkien Gateway's front page, showing its organisation and coverage of topics such as books, characters, games, images, and music | |
Type of site | Fan wiki Online encyclopedia |
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| Available in | English |
| Country of origin | United States |
| URL | tolkiengateway tolkien |
| Advertising | No |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | January 1, 2003[1] |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | CC-BY-SA 4.0[2] |
The Tolkien Gateway is a factual wiki website that documents J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. It is respected and used by scholars. In 2023, it won a Tolkien Society Award. It has been described as "essential"[3] in A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien.
Website
[edit]Coverage
[edit]The Tolkien Gateway is a factual wiki website that documents all the characters, places, objects, and events in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth, with citations to Tolkien's texts. It provides some coverage of related non-Tolkien items such as films, actors, games, music, images, and scholarly books.[4] It has interviewed Tolkien scholars such as John D. Rateliff.[5] It is the largest Tolkien-related wiki in the world.[6]
Scholarly recognition
[edit]The site is described in Stuart D. Lee's 2014 scholarly handbook A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien as "the main source to start a review of the plethora of Tolkien-based online materials."[7] It is referenced in scholarly works such as VII,[8] Journal of Tolkien Research,[9] and Social Science Computer Review.[10]
Awards and distinctions
[edit]In 2023, Tolkien Gateway won a Tolkien Society Award for online content.[11]
Tolkien Gateway is one of four websites described as "essential"[3] in A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien.[a][3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ The four websites are the Tolkien Gateway, TheOneRing.net, the Tolkien Library (which is mainly a book site, but also runs articles, reviews, and news[12]), and The Tolkien Society (which is an educational charity and literary society).[3][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Tolkien Gateway". Tolkien Gateway. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
- ^ "Tolkien Gateway:Copyrights". Tolkien Gateway. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
- ^ a b c d Lee, Stuart D., ed. (2020) [2014]. A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien. Wiley Blackwell. p. 554 "Further reading". ISBN 978-1119656029. OCLC 1183854105.
- ^ "Tolkien Gateway: The J. R. R. Tolkien encyclopedia built by fans". Tolkien Gateway. 13 December 2024. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- ^ "Interviews/John D. Rateliff (4-16-07)". Tolkien Gateway. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ^ "Tolkien Gateway". Fandom.com. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ^ a b Bueno-Alonso, Jorge Luis (2015). "A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien ed. by Stuart D. Lee (review)". Tolkien Studies. 12 (1): 177–189. doi:10.1353/tks.2015.0016.
- ^ Dodds, David (2021). "Review of 'Law, Government, and Society in JRR Tolkien's Works': José María Miranda Boto (Walking Tree, 2022)". VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center: e144 – e147.
The exhilarating packed paragraph detailing the ring's history may invite readers to spend a long time among the indexes (with or without a visit to Tolkien Gateway)
- ^ Larsen, Kristine (2022). "Nailing jell-o to the wall: Canonicity in middle-earth". Journal of Tolkien Research. 15 (1). article 5.
- ^ Bainbridge, William S. (2023). "Dimensions of Online Role-Playing: Anchored in the Tolkien Mythos". Social Science Computer Review. 41 (4): 1473–1492. doi:10.1177/08944393211072268.
- ^ "2023 Tolkien Society Awards". Locus. 3 April 2023. Archived from the original on 25 December 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "The Tolkien library". The Tolkien Library. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
