Tolkien Gateway
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 Detail of Tolkien Gateway's front page, showing its organisation and coverage of topics such as books, characters, games, images, and music | |
Type of site | Fan wiki Online encyclopedia |
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| Available in | English |
| Country of origin | United States |
| URL | tolkiengateway tolkien |
| Advertising | No |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | January 1, 2003[1] |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | CC BY-SA 4.0[2] |
The Tolkien Gateway is a fan wiki that documents J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. It is respected and used by scholars. In 2023, it won a Tolkien Society Award. A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien described it as "essential".[3]
Website
[edit]Coverage
[edit]The Tolkien Gateway is a fan wiki that documents all the characters, places, objects, and events in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth, with citations to Tolkien's texts. It provides some coverage of related non-Tolkien items such as films, actors, games, music, images, and scholarly books.[4] It has interviewed Tolkien scholars such as John D. Rateliff.[5] As of June 2025, the site had 12,952 content pages and 15,364 uploaded files.[6]
Scholarly recognition
[edit]The site is described in Stuart D. Lee's 2014 scholarly handbook A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien as "the main source to start a review of the plethora of Tolkien-based online materials."[7] It is referenced in scholarly works such as VII,[8] Journal of Tolkien Research,[9] and Social Science Computer Review.[10]
Awards and distinctions
[edit]In 2023, Tolkien Gateway won a Tolkien Society Award for online content.[11]
Tolkien Gateway is one of the four websites described as "essential"[3] in A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien.[a][3]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ The four websites are the Tolkien Gateway, TheOneRing.net, the Tolkien Library (which is mainly a book site, but also runs articles, reviews, and news[12]), and The Tolkien Society (which is an educational charity and literary society).[3][7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Tolkien Gateway". Tolkien Gateway. Archived from the original on 20 March 2025. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
- ↑ "Tolkien Gateway:Copyrights". Tolkien Gateway. January 2025. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 Lee, Stuart D., ed. (2020) [2014]. A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien. Wiley Blackwell. p. 554 "Further reading". ISBN 978-1119656029. OCLC 1183854105.
- ↑ "Tolkien Gateway: The J. R. R. Tolkien encyclopedia built by fans". Tolkien Gateway. 13 December 2024. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- ↑ "Interviews/John D. Rateliff (4-16-07)". Tolkien Gateway. Archived from the original on 30 November 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ↑ "Statistics". Tolkien Gateway. Archived from the original on 31 July 2025. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
- 1 2 Bueno-Alonso, Jorge Luis (2015). "A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien ed. by Stuart D. Lee (review)". Tolkien Studies. 12 (1): 177–189. doi:10.1353/tks.2015.0016.
- ↑ Dodds, David (2021). "Review of 'Law, Government, and Society in JRR Tolkien's Works': José María Miranda Boto (Walking Tree, 2022)". VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center: e144–e147. Archived from the original on 17 May 2026. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
The exhilarating packed paragraph detailing the ring's history may invite readers to spend a long time among the indexes (with or without a visit to Tolkien Gateway)
- ↑ Larsen, Kristine (2022). "Nailing jell-o to the wall: Canonicity in middle-earth". Journal of Tolkien Research. 15 (1). article 5. Archived from the original on 2 June 2025. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ↑ Bainbridge, William S. (2023). "Dimensions of Online Role-Playing: Anchored in the Tolkien Mythos". Social Science Computer Review. 41 (4): 1473–1492. doi:10.1177/08944393211072268.
- ↑ "2023 Tolkien Society Awards". Locus. 3 April 2023. Archived from the original on 25 December 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ↑ "The Tolkien library". The Tolkien Library. Archived from the original on 8 June 2026. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
