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Tolkien Gateway
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 Awards#Online content, 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. It has interviewed Tolkien scholars such as John D. Rateliff. It is the largest Tolkien-related wiki in the world. 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 suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan Wiki
A fan wiki is a wiki created by fan (person), fans of a popular culture topic. Fan wikis, which are a part of fandoms, cover television shows, film franchises, video games, comics, sports, and other topics. The primary purpose of a fan wiki is to document its topic area through collaborative editing. Fan wikis document their subjects at varying levels of detail. They also serve narrative and creative functions. Some present analysis, fan theories and fan fiction, fiction, and video game strategy guides and video game walkthrough, walkthroughs, while others only document official canon (fiction), canon. Media studies, Media and cultural studies scholars have studied fan wikis as forms of participatory culture that enable fans to build community. Fan wikis were first published in the early-to-mid-2000s, some as a result of fans collaborating on Wikipedia and then forming their own separate wikis. Many fan wikis are hosted on Fandom (website), Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
