Talk:Tolkien and the medieval

GA Review

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Reviewer: LunaEatsTuna (talk · contribs) 04:12, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

• Claiming this. Will get to this either tonight or (more likely) tomorrow :) 𓃦LunaEatsTuna (💬) 04:12, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

• Many thanks. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:14, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

• I appreciate that! Okay, it is now on hold, comments below, ping me, yada yada yada. Thanks, 𓃦LunaEatsTuna (💬) 19:25, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

• LunaEatsTuna, I think we're complete here now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:47, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

• Nice work on the changes! I am now happy to pass this article for GA status. Congrats! 𓃦LunaEatsTuna (💬) 22:03, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

Copyvio check

Earwig says good to go.

• Noted.

Files

All images are relevant, high quality and copyright-free:

File:Two Fishermen on an Aspidochelone, c. 1270 (cropped) (cropped).JPG: valid public domain rationale;

File:Witan hexateuch.jpg: valid public domain rationale;

File:Downfall of Númenor.svg: CC-BY-SA 4.0, uploaded to Commons by nominator;

File:Rolfs sidste kamp - Louis Moe (17009) - cropped.png: valid public domain rationale;

File:Normans Bayeux.jpg: CC-BY-SA 3.0;

File:Finwë Lozenge.png: CC-BY-SA 4.0;

File:GOTHMOG-1 (detail).jpg: CC-BY-SA 3.0;

File:Hunting Horn MET sf17-190-379s1.jpg: valid public domain rationale.

• Noted.

Prose

• I have an issue with the lead sentence, particularly the line "especially poetry, and made use of it in his writings both in his poetry" – just reads jaded by using "poetry" and "his" twice.

• Edited.

• Wikilink "the Middle Ages" or add the main article template to § The Middle Ages.

• Linked. 'Main' wouldn't work here.

• Wikilinking "By the sixth century, Anglo-Saxon England" to History of Anglo-Saxon England creates quite the sea of blue. Any alternative ways of linking available?

• Done.

• "Tolkien stated that when he read a medieval work, he wanted to write a modern one in the same tradition." – this reads a bit singular; could it possibly by rephrased to something like "Tolkien stated that whenever he read a medieval work, he wanted to write a modern one in the same tradition." etc?

• Done.

• "expression in his legendarium." – wikilink Tolkien's legendarium.

• Done.

• "but these are interwoven with classical ideas like Atlantis on the one hand, and modern cosmology with a round world on the other." – I could be incorrect but "on the one hard" sounds fairly informal to me.

• I'd say it was quite standard, but I've reworded.

• "like Christian angels" – could this not be wikilinked to Angels in Christianity? Granted that article is in bad shape :/ Also:

• Done.

• The sentence has a number of appositives that make it a bit hard to read; could it be rephrased?

• Split.

• "and northern courage" – northern courage?

• Edited.

• "In Tolkien as in the medieval epics" – this wording is kinda strange to me.

• Edited.

• The sentence starting "Scholars note that Tolkien went" is quite long. Could it perhaps be split?

• Split.

• "into the form of an animal, like Beorn" – already wikilinked in § Beowulf.

• Gone.

Refs

All sources used are RS. Spotcheck—no concerns with refs 3, 4, 10, 20, 26 or 38.

• Noted.

But I cannot seem to find what ref 16 is citing?

• The elegiac tone, i.e. in Burns's case, the acceptance of downfall and death in Norse mythology ("the North").

• I see!

• All refs in Secondary use full stops whilst those in Primary do not; is there a reason for this?

• No idea why that happens. Fixed.

Other

Templates, navs and cats good.

• Noted.

• Add a short description.

• Done.

• Recommend adding template:Use dmy dates.

• Done.

• Recommend adding WP:ALT text if you can.

• Added.

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