Talk:Decline and fall in Middle-earth

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Review: December 24, 2021. (Reviewed version).

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SUSPICIOUS EDIT

@Bless the lord oh my soul: has deleted images from this and at least 2 other Tolkien-related articles via mobile edits as of the time I write this comment. The edit comments don't provide any explanation for why the images have been removed from the articles. The other articles are Númenor and Old_Man_Willow. I'm not sure these edits should be reverted. I will leave similar comments on the other 2 articles. The edits should be reviewed by the community, in my opinion. Michael Martinez (talk) 00:28, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Decline and fall in Middle-earth/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Cerebellum (talk · contribs) 13:53, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'll be reviewing this article. --Cerebellum (talk) 13:53, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, I'll respond promptly to any comments. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:04, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I enjoyed reading the article, I left a few comments on minor points below :) --Cerebellum (talk) 17:33, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Useful comments. I've actioned all of them. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:38, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria

Prose: Good, just a couple comments below
Referencing: Excellent
Coverage: Good, maybe could use a bit more on Númenor
Neutral: Yes
Stable: Yes
Illustrated: Yes

Comments

Lead: The lead mentions the cataclysmic fall of Númenor, but the article text doesn't explain what happened to Númenor (except for Númenor is drowned in the table). Do you think it would be worth adding a paragraph on Númenor to the "Splintered light" section?

Good idea, done.

Prose: in industrial Birmingham, which was spreading over the English countryside that he had loved. Makes it sound like Birmingham was spreading, not industrialization. I recommend rephrasing or removing the part after "industrial Birmingham".

Tolkien thought it was the city that was spreading... reworded.

Prose: The Phial enables Frodo and Sam to defeat the giant spider Shelob, descendant of Ungoliant, on their way to Mordor to destroy the Ring, which contains the power of Sauron, the remaining servant of Melkor on Middle-earth. Seems like a run-on sentence to me, I would shorten to something like on their way to Mordor to destroy the Ring of Sauron.

Split sentence.

Splintered light: Some of the content in the table (Second Age and Third Age info about the White Tree) is not mirrored in the main text. Is that intentional?

Fixed with the Númenor paragraph, I guess. I certainly don't think we have to echo every detail of the table in the text.

Prose: The Inkling Owen Barfield had a theory of language, described in his 1928 book Poetic Diction, that interested Tolkien, and indeed, as reported by C. S. Lewis, changed his entire outlook. A long sentence, I would break up into two sentences like The Inkling Owen Barfield had a theory of language, described in his 1928 book Poetic Diction, that interested Tolkien. Indeed, according to C. S. Lewis, Barfield's theory changed Tolkien's entire outlook.

Done.

Images: The Ragnarok image would fit better in the "successive falls" section, does it mess up the formatting if you move it there? --Cerebellum (talk) 17:33, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Moved.

Awesome, definitely a pass! Let's see if I can figure out how to complete the review on mobile. Cerebellum (talk) 13:07, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]