Talk:Wizards in Middle-earth/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 16:11, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Gandalf

• Link Bilbo Baggins

Done.

Significance

• Link Lucifer to Lucifer#In Christianity

Done.

There's one theme that I personally think maybe should be mentioned somewhere with this, although you may disagree. I don't remember the source I read this in, but I remember reading a scholarly Tolkien source talking about Tolkien's Wizards failing their missions: the two Blue Wizards by wandering off and never accomplishing anything, Radagast by becoming engrossed in nature, and Saruman through the corruption of power, with only Gandalf accomplishing the intended mission. If you're aware of a scholarly source discussing this, maybe include it?

Not sure what scholar that might be. Tolkien did reflect on the matter in his essay 'Istari' in Unfinished Tales, but it's unclear as usual whether that was a definite opinion or just a passing idea, and equally whether Radagast actually failed.

Sources

WP:SCHOLARSHIP says Masters dissertations and theses are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence, which probably rules out Jøn, A. Asbjørn as RS

Gone.

The rest of the references all look acceptable, especially since the Ignatius source is citing a published book.

Noted.

A lot of the primary source refs in the sources section aren't actually used. Move to further reading or remove.

Done.

Image licensing is correct.

Noted.

Placing on hold, there's not much work at all needed here whatsoever. Hog Farm _Bacon 18:27, 5 October 2020 (UTC)