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'''By medium:'''&nbsp; [[:Category:Radio adaptations|Radio series]] &nbsp; [[:Category:Films|Films]] &nbsp; [[:Category:Fan films|Fan films]]</div>
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'''References''' are the cornerstone of any serious encyclopedia. Though much of our old content remains without references, '''[[Tolkien Gateway: About|Tolkien Gateway]]''' wishes to properly credit its facts. This way, fanon and overinterpretation can be properly identified as such, and omitted.  
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|style="color:#000" align="center"|[[File:The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) - Odo Proudfoot.png|250px|link=Odo Proudfoot]]<br><small>''[[Odo Proudfoot|Mr. Proudfoot]]'' in [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|The Lord of the Rings]]''</small>
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|style="color:#000"|The goal of the [[Tolkien Gateway:Projects#Adaptations|Adaptations Project]] is to create an article for every single adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's works.
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==General notices==
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===Reliable sources===
::''See also: [[Canon]]''
As to what counts as a reliable source, in the tightest sense it is simple: primary material. From there, we have secondary and "semi-secondary".


;Semi-secondary
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Semi-secondary, as we call it for the sake of convenience, are texts by Tolkien that are about Middle-earth; these could be ''[[The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien]]'', but also material published in ''[[Vinyar Tengwar]]'' or ''[[Parma Eldalamberon]]''. For the state of canon of ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'', see [[Tolkien Gateway: Canon]]. 
;Secondary
Secondary texts are texts about Tolkien's work by other authors. We have a short rule for it: if they cite primary, we cite primary, and if they come up with original research, we cite them.
;Sources to avoid
We'd rather not use the following sources:
* ''[[The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth]]'' by [[Ruth S. Noel]]
* ''[[A Tolkien Bestiary]]'' by [[David Day]]
::Note: Needs some more. WaW? Some-guy-with-a-website/blog credibility?


===Common Knowledge===
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There are, of course, things that do not need to be cited. These things are ''common knowledge''. J.R.R. Tolkien is the author of most of the books here. No need to mention it, or cite it, in the text. [[Bilbo Baggins]] was a [[Hobbits|Hobbit]]. [[Old English]] was the language of what is now called England, around 600 AD. [[The Shire]] is located in [[Eriador]], in the north-west of [[Middle-earth]]. If it needs to be explained every time that "J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of ''The Lord of the Rings'', stated that so and so", it really takes out the flow of the text, and treats our readers as a bunch of imbeciles to boot.
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===Neutral point of view===
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==Referencing and Sourcing==
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There are two ways to cite your sources: precise and not precise (we leave out "not at all" here). All references should be in a subsection, named "References". These go below all else, except for "External links".
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;Not precise
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If an article only has one source, for example, [[Iorlas]] and [[Buldar]], there is no need for extensive notes. The source can simply be bulleted. This method can can also be used when several chapters from the same book are quoted; not until secondary material is added the following method is necessary
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;Precise
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A must on longer articles with multiple sources, including secondary sources (notes by Tolkien, analyses from scholars, information from ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]''). Like most wiki-based encyclopedia's, Tolkien Gateway uses the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php Cite/Cite extension]. A short how-to:


With this method, sources are cited '''within''' the text. They appear wherever you type <code><nowiki>{{references}}</nowiki></code>.
[[The Hobbit (1977 film)|The Hobbit]]


<code><nowiki>This is the text you type.<ref>And this is the source</ref></nowiki></code>
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Plain and simple. The text in between the <nowiki><ref></nowiki>-tags appears in the References section. These tags can be named for reuse:
[[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|The Lord of the Rings]]


<code><nowiki>This is the text you type.<ref name="One">And this is source number one</ref></nowiki><br><nowiki>Then, you use something with another source,<ref>Like this one</ref>,</nowiki><br><nowiki> before returning to the first one.<ref name="One"/></nowiki></code>
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These tags should be given sensible but short names; for example, "Mutton" for "[[Roast Mutton]]", "FotN" for "[[Of the Flight of the Noldor]]" or "L131" for [[Letter 131]].
[[The Return of the King (1980 film)|The Return of the King]]


==Citation==
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===About pagenumbers===
As there are many different editions and translations of Tolkien's work, including page numbers is not very accurate: for example, page references in the Index of ''[[The Return of the King]]'' do not match with every edition of the other two volumes; sometimes the difference is as much as ten pages. The name of the chapter suits better, as it also provides a clearer picture of the position of the quote in the story. No-one knows off the top of his head what happened on page 208.
===About notes===
When a fact is stated in a note to the text, this can be cited: note numbers are always the same (except in the case of ''[[The Annotated Hobbit]]''). Please bear in mind that some chapters in ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'' have multiple note sections. 


===Quickcite===
[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring|The Fellowship of the Ring]]
====Usage====
<code><nowiki>
<ref name="Chapter title">{{HM|}}, "Chapter title"</ref>
</nowiki></code>


====Key====
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;Main works
* S = ''[[The Silmarillion]]''
* H = ''[[The Hobbit]]''
* UT = ''[[Unfinished Tales]]''
* FR = ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
* TT = ''[[The Two Towers]]''
* RK = ''[[The Return of the King]]''
** AA = ''[[Appendix A]]''
** AB = ''[[Appendix B]]''
** AC = ''[[Appendix C]]''
** AD = ''[[Appendix D]]''
** AE = ''[[Appendix E]]''
** AF = ''[[Appendix F]]''
;[[The History of Middle-earth]]
# LT1 = ''[[The Book of Lost Tales 1]]''
# LT2 = ''[[The Book of Lost Tales 2]]''
# LB = ''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]''
# SM = ''[[The Shaping of Middle-earth]]''
# LR = ''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]''
# RS = ''[[The Return of the Shadow]]''
# TI = ''[[The Treason of Isengard]]''
# WR = ''[[The War of the Ring]]''
# SD = ''[[Sauron Defeated]]''
# MR = ''[[Morgoth's Ring]]''
# WJ = ''[[The War of the Jewels]]''
# PM = ''[[The Peoples of Middle-earth]]''
# IX =  ''[[The History of Middle-earth Index|Index]]''
;[[The History of The Hobbit]]
# MB = ''[[Mr. Baggins]]''
# RB = ''[[Return to Bag End]]''


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[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers|The Two Towers]]
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'''Note: Won't forge the rest until [[User:Hyarion|Hyarion]] gets the ME-cite template, or something equivalent.
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==The Letters==
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* [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]; [[Humphrey Carpenter]], [[Christopher Tolkien]] (eds.), ''[[The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien]]'', [[Letter 86]] ([[October 23]], [[1944]])
==Semisecondary==
==="[[Nomenclature]]"===
* [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], "[[Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings]]", published in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]'' (by [[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]]), page number
::''Note: Because the printed text in [[Jared Lobdell|Lobdell]] (ed.) ''[[A Tolkien Compass]]'', 1st edn. is no longer freely available, I vote for only referencing to this occurance of the source.''
===Other semi-secondary material by Tolkien===
* [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], "Words, Phrases & Passages in 'The Lord of the Rings'", published in [[Parma Eldalamberon]] #17 (June [[2007]]), edited by [[Christopher Gilson]], page 113.
::''Note: This method applies to ALL magazine articles.''


==Websites==
[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King|The Return of the King]]
===Author/Editor websites===
* [[Måns Björkman]], ''Mellonath Daeron Tenwar Specimina'', [http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/mdtci.html Forodrim.org], DTS 15 (accessed September 8, 2008)
==="Institute" websites===
* [http://www.weaponmasters.com/shopping/Glamdring-The-Sword-of-Gandalf-p-16913.html Weaponmasters.com], ''[[The Noble Collection]]'' Glamdring (accessed September 8, 2008)


==Documentaries==
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* ''[[Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' ([[2001]])
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* ''[[The Two Towers Extended Edition|The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Special Extended DVD Edition]]'', "Designing Middle-earth" ([[2002]])
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::''Note: I haven't got a clue how to do this properly. Oh, and in the light of renaming every adaptation, that seems to be the EE's official name.''
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:::'''Update note: added year, DVD first.
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===Films===
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* ''Film'', "Scene"
 
===Radio series===
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* ''Game'' , "Level"
 
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The upcoming duology of films around The Hobbit has attracted lots of attention and blah blah blah...

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Mr. Proudfoot in Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings

Adaptations Project

The goal of the Adaptations Project is to create an article for every single adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's works.

The Hobbit (1977) The Lord of the Rings (1978) The Return of the King (1980) The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) The Two Towers (2002) The Return of the King (2003)

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The Hobbit

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The Lord of the Rings

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The Return of the King

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The Fellowship of the Ring

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The Two Towers

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The Return of the King