Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien

Latest comment: 8 days ago by Chiswick Chap in topic Ancestry
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Semi-protected edit request on 14 October 2024

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J.R.R Tolkien - his death location is Bournemouth, Dorset, England. Not Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. Bournemouth is not in Hampshire. 86.16.42.48 (talk) 00:45, 14 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

No, it was in Hampshire in Tolkien's time. It became Dorset in 1974, after his death. Chiswick Chap (talk) 02:22, 14 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
  Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ⸺(Random)staplers 05:33, 14 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
There won't be any, as the IP is mistaken. I've clarified the infobox text. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:12, 14 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Arthur's cause of Death

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I found no reference in the footnote for neither rheumatic fever or hemorrhage. Here is a paper that claims cause of death as typhoid with intestinal perforation and peritonitis. TOLKNIĘTY: Arthur Reuel Tolkien | death notice, testament, etc. (1896) 46.182.188.199 (talk) 02:26, 27 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 11 December 2024

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In the biography, under his childhood, it states that "(Tolkien) thought Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was "amusing but disturbing". using J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography as a source. This is not the case, in fact, on page 28, the author tells how Tolkien was "amused by Alice in Wonderland, though he had no desire to have adventures like Alice." I do not believe that having no desire to have similar adventures are the same as finding a story amusing but disturbing. Somemineral (talk) 23:37, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

I forgot to list the author, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter. Somemineral (talk) 23:38, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  Done In what seems to be a clear case of WP:CITOGENESIS, this quote can be found in a number of places on the web, but all cited back to Wikipedia. PianoDan (talk) 23:53, 11 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ancestry

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The ancestry section is too large. Jack Upland (talk) 04:53, 16 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

It's around 300 words, under 4% of the article, which does not seem unreasonable. Its 'main' link to Tolkien family is to a 4,500 word article, so a 300 word summary seems reasonable from that point of view too. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:52, 16 December 2024 (UTC)Reply