Tolkien Gateway
{{Short description|J. R. R. Tolkien fan wiki}}
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{{Infobox website
| name = Tolkien Gateway
| logo = File:Tolkien Gateway logo.png
| logo_size = 125px
| logo_alt = Logo for the Tolkien Gateway website
| screenshot = File:Tolkien_Gateway.jpg
| screenshot_alt = Detail of Tolkien Gateway's front page, showing its organisation and coverage of topics such as books, characters, games, images, and music
| caption = Detail of Tolkien Gateway's front page, showing its organisation and coverage of topics such as books, characters, games, images, and music
| type = Fan wiki
Online encyclopedia
| language = English
| country_of_origin = United States
| url = {{URL|tolkiengateway.net}}
{{URL|tolkien.wiki}}
| advertising = No
| commercial = No
| registration = Optional
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2003|1|1}}{{cite web |author= |title=Tolkien Gateway |url=https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tolkien_Gateway |website=Tolkien Gateway |access-date=January 18, 2025}}
| current_status = Active
| content_license = CC BY-SA 4.0{{cite web |author= |title=Tolkien Gateway:Copyrights |url=https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tolkien_Gateway:Copyrights |website=Tolkien Gateway |date=January 2025 |access-date=January 18, 2025}}
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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. It has been described as "essential" in A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien.
Website
= Coverage =
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.{{cite web |title=Tolkien Gateway: The J. R. R. Tolkien encyclopedia built by fans |url=https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Main_Page |website=Tolkien Gateway |date=13 December 2024 |access-date=5 January 2025}} It has interviewed Tolkien scholars such as John D. Rateliff.{{cite web |title=Interviews/John D. Rateliff (4-16-07) |url=https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Interviews/John_D._Rateliff_%284-16-07%29 |publisher=Tolkien Gateway |access-date=8 January 2025}} It is the largest Tolkien-related wiki in the world.{{cite web |title=Tolkien Gateway |url=https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Tolkien_Gateway |website=Fandom.com |access-date=8 January 2025}}
= Scholarly recognition =
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." It is referenced in scholarly works such as VII,{{cite journal |last=Dodds |first=David |title=Review of 'Law, Government, and Society in JRR Tolkien's Works': José María Miranda Boto (Walking Tree, 2022) |journal=VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center |year=2021 |pages=e144–e147 |url=https://journals-test.wheaton.edu/index.php/vii/article/download/1056/573 |quote=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)}} Journal of Tolkien Research,{{cite journal |last=Larsen |first=Kristine |title=Nailing jell-o to the wall: Canonicity in middle-earth |journal=Journal of Tolkien Research |volume=15 |issue=1 |year=2022 |at=article 5 |url=https://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1286&context=journaloftolkienresearch}} and Social Science Computer Review.{{cite journal |last=Bainbridge |first=William S. |title=Dimensions of Online Role-Playing: Anchored in the Tolkien Mythos |journal=Social Science Computer Review |volume=41 |issue=4 |date=2023 |doi=10.1177/08944393211072268 |pages=1473–1492}}
Awards and distinctions
In 2023, Tolkien Gateway won a Tolkien Society Award for online content.{{cite web |date=2023-04-03 |title=2023 Tolkien Society Awards |url=https://locusmag.com/2023/04/2023-tolkien-society-awards/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Locus |archive-date=2023-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231225135131/https://locusmag.com/2023/04/2023-tolkien-society-awards/ |url-status=live }}
Tolkien Gateway is one of four websites described as "essential" in A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien.{{efn|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{{cite web |url=https://tolkienlibrary.com/ |title=The Tolkien library |publisher=The Tolkien Library |access-date=8 January 2025}}), and The Tolkien Society (which is an educational charity and literary society).{{cite book |editor-last=Lee |editor-first=Stuart D. |editor-link=Stuart D. Lee |title=A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien |date=2020 |orig-year=2014 |publisher=Wiley Blackwell |isbn=978-1119656029 |oclc=1183854105 |page=554 "Further reading"}}{{cite journal |last=Bueno-Alonso |first=Jorge Luis |title=A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien ed. by Stuart D. Lee (review) |journal=Tolkien Studies |volume=12 |issue=1 |date=2015 |doi=10.1353/tks.2015.0016 |pages=177–189 }}}}
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