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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:51, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Citations

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The two sources cited are both brief mentions in works on other topics, not thorough reviews. The fact that no Tolkien scholar has seen fit to review the book, or even analyse it in depth, says that the book is not independently notable. It gets a brief mention (to say that one of its claims is wrong) in the section on Pia Skogemann's analysis in Psychological journeys of Middle-earth (that doesn't make it notable either), so rather than hanging a "Notability" tag on this sorry stub for the next ten years, I'll simply redirect there now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:54, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Contested. Tolkien scholar Thomas Honegger called it "the unsurpassed standard work on the subject" (2019). This is a direct assertion of notability. Notability does not require the work to be entirely about the topic, and direct assertions like this are indications of notability. Use AfD if you really must. -- GreenC 16:37, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Notability requires more than passing mentions; it also requires multiple sources with substantial coverage, where multiple is generally taken as at least three, and even that is a minimum. Currently we have zero substantial sources, so AfD it is. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:26, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]