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:Hmmmmm, well personally i would argue that the event and the writings concerning it are so tied in with each other that you cannot conclusively seperate one from the other. Considering that pretty much every scrap of information concerning it was published posthumously one cannot present a truly 'canonical' article on the event since it would miss out virtually every detail about the event itself. I prefer the 'open format' in this sense where the accuracy of the writing is challanged in relation to the event. This rather ties in with the sources 'drive' that we're rumbling on acheiving sometime soon.
:Hmmmmm, well personally i would argue that the event and the writings concerning it are so tied in with each other that you cannot conclusively seperate one from the other. Considering that pretty much every scrap of information concerning it was published posthumously one cannot present a truly 'canonical' article on the event since it would miss out virtually every detail about the event itself. I prefer the 'open format' in this sense where the accuracy of the writing is challanged in relation to the event. This rather ties in with the sources 'drive' that we're rumbling on acheiving sometime soon.
Now if we were to make articles for the chapters in HoME then i could see the argument for a page on the writing itself since we could present it as Christopher Tolkien presented it himself. But The Fall of Gondolin is an event inextricably linked with the dubiousness of its canonicity and pushing that issue into a seperate page would over-simplify the complex web of versions that consist it. [[User:Dr Death|Dr Death]] 06:38, 24 November 2007 (EST)
:Now if we were to make articles for the chapters in HoME then i could see the argument for a page on the writing itself since we could present it as Christopher Tolkien presented it himself. But The Fall of Gondolin is an event inextricably linked with the dubiousness of its canonicity and pushing that issue into a seperate page would over-simplify the complex web of versions that consist it. [[User:Dr Death|Dr Death]] 06:38, 24 November 2007 (EST)
 
::The ''specifics'' of the event are not very canonical, but the event itself is on quite solid footing. In any case, I am against having the text and the event solely discussed in the same place (obviously they will be linked in some areas of the article, especially in this case), because it may make it sound to some readers like the entire thing is noncanon, which it isn't. Furthermore, it is against wiki policy to randomly break the fourth wall like this article does (i.e., put discussion about out-of-universe information right in the middle of an in-universe description). Additionally, there is a precedent of separating events from the documents that tell of them; cf. [[Music of the Ainur]] vs. ''[[Ainulindalë]]'' and [[Downfall of Númenor]] vs. ''[[Akallabêth]]''; view also the talk page of ''Akallabêth'', in which you were in agreement with me in a like case. —[[User:Tar-Telperien|Tar-Telperien]] 08:13, 24 November 2007 (EST)

Revision as of 13:13, 24 November 2007

Looks great, Narfil! An idea: maybe you should place the maps more throughout the whole of the article, in stead of at the beginning; I think it would look better, lay out wise speaking. --Earendilyon 07:14, 13 May 2006 (EDT)

I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean. They are not all at the beginning, but rather in the place in the text that they occur. --Narfil Palùrfalas 20:11, 13 May 2006 (EDT)
Looks fantastic Narfil! I don't think Earendilyon anticipated the future renderings as now they are sprinkled throughout the article quite nicely. Keep up the great work. --Hyarion 00:34, 14 May 2006 (EDT)
Narfil, Hya's correct: when I wrote that, only the maps of Gondolin, Attack 1, and (the space reserved for) Attack 2 were present in the article. --Earendilyon 07:20, 14 May 2006 (EDT)

Adding 'The' to title

Hm, do you think we should relocate this article to The Fall of Gondolin and have this one redirect there? I think the exact title of the chapter is with the "The". --Hyarion 11:10, 21 July 2006 (EDT)

I always thought that was the better title. I never mentioned it though.
Well, I'm back from Louisiana. Could someone tell me what has been going on during my absence? I noticed the amount of spammers by looking in the "Recent Changes" section. --Narfil Palùrfalas 14:29, 22 July 2006 (EDT)
It's been pretty crazy. Hyarion got kidnapped, Earendilyon tried out for American Idol, Mr. Burns blocked out the sun, and Christopher Tolkien admitted that he made most of HoME up while on a bender in South Africa. But things have quieted down since. --Ebakunin 14:40, 22 July 2006 (EDT)
Don't listen to Ebakunin, he has gone mad from having to make all those edits without you. Glad you're back though, how was Louisiana? There was one rather annoying spammer yesterday but he finally gave up. I've started working on the Comic-Con 2006 page and hope to get a bunch of information and images on the collectibles on there. I started adding an article for every year since Tolkien's birth, such as 1896. GaramondBophîn has been hard at work at Amon Hen journal back-issues. I made a page over at Main Page/Development where we can discuss changes to the layout of the main page. http://www.middleearthgaming.com will be publishing (with a link back) some of our articles in their future newsletters. And I'm sure there's other things I'm forgetting. --Hyarion 14:50, 22 July 2006 (EDT)
Louisiana was great (if a little hot for building a house with no shade). The people were really friendly (and Pastor Kenneth let me shoot off his 45mm and 1944 M44). Anyway, I hope I'll be back to work tomorrow or the day after (I have to unpack). The new stuff looks good. I'll be focusing my attention, I think, to the screenplays and Lay of Leithian cantos. I also need to get around to finishing this article. --Narfil Palùrfalas 16:57, 22 July 2006 (EDT)

Contents

Is there anyway to reposition/remove the "contents" box? It sort of. . . obscures/dwarfs the top of the article. It just doesn't look good. --Narfil Palùrfalas 15:03, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

I've gone ahead and removed the TOC, to do so you can just add __NOTOC__, preferably at the bottom of the article. --Hyarion 15:09, 1 April 2007 (EDT)
Thanks. --Narfil Palùrfalas 15:27, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

Split

This needs to be split into "The Fall of Gondolin (writing)" and "The Fall of Gondolin (event)". The former would contain discussions about canonicity and the development of the writing, while the other should be a completely in-universe description of the event itself. A reason for this is because while the writing found in The Book of Lost Tales is not canon, the event itself is certainly canonical. Furthermore it makes a finer distinction between the writing and the actual occurence. —Tar-Telperien 03:00, 24 November 2007 (EST)

Hmmmmm, well personally i would argue that the event and the writings concerning it are so tied in with each other that you cannot conclusively seperate one from the other. Considering that pretty much every scrap of information concerning it was published posthumously one cannot present a truly 'canonical' article on the event since it would miss out virtually every detail about the event itself. I prefer the 'open format' in this sense where the accuracy of the writing is challanged in relation to the event. This rather ties in with the sources 'drive' that we're rumbling on acheiving sometime soon.
Now if we were to make articles for the chapters in HoME then i could see the argument for a page on the writing itself since we could present it as Christopher Tolkien presented it himself. But The Fall of Gondolin is an event inextricably linked with the dubiousness of its canonicity and pushing that issue into a seperate page would over-simplify the complex web of versions that consist it. Dr Death 06:38, 24 November 2007 (EST)
The specifics of the event are not very canonical, but the event itself is on quite solid footing. In any case, I am against having the text and the event solely discussed in the same place (obviously they will be linked in some areas of the article, especially in this case), because it may make it sound to some readers like the entire thing is noncanon, which it isn't. Furthermore, it is against wiki policy to randomly break the fourth wall like this article does (i.e., put discussion about out-of-universe information right in the middle of an in-universe description). Additionally, there is a precedent of separating events from the documents that tell of them; cf. Music of the Ainur vs. Ainulindalë and Downfall of Númenor vs. Akallabêth; view also the talk page of Akallabêth, in which you were in agreement with me in a like case. —Tar-Telperien 08:13, 24 November 2007 (EST)