Tolkien Gateway talk:Meetings/12 October 2008

Please put any ideas for the agenda and any general discussion here. Remember you must sign your name below if you are going to attend.

Attendees

1. -- KingAragorn  talk  contribs  edits  email 
2. --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 14:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
   • My apologies, I forgot that I am otherwise engaged at the time this meeting is taking place. --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 11:10, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
3. --Hyarion 18:11, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
4. --Ederchil ^{(Talk/Contribs/Edits)}
   • My apologies too, I can't get any of the java's running (slow PC at the moment). -- Ederchil ^{(Talk/Contribs/Edits)} 19:06, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
5. --Aule the Smith 18:39, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Ideas for Agenda

• "Book vs. Movie" and "Tolkien vs. Jackson" articles. --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 14:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Discussion

• On the above agenda suggestion I think those articles are not impartial (in my opinion): there is a clear pro-Tolkien bias with value judgements (this page in particular) and I think they should be re-written; Sometimes it's not overly blatant, but in many areas there is an implicit snobbery against alterations the films made; even the titles of the articles seem to suggest that battle between the two and that one is incompatible with the other. At the very least I think all these articles need to be tidied up. --Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 14:18, 8 October 2008 (UTC)