Talk:J. R. R. Tolkien

Off-mission
I don't see much mission-related stuff in the text of the article in the moment. Also, no other articles link to it.--ZooGuard (talk) 20:16, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I suppose that misconceptions abound when it comes to Tolkien. We could dispel those, perhaps.  Did he have any unusual crank beliefs?--  20:17, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Shrug. His political views or activities aren't a particularly significant aspect of his work.  I don't see why we would need an article about him at all.  20:34, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Chop it to pieces, grind it into dust, set it on fire, irradiate it, and then shoot it into the sun. ТyUser_talk:Ty 20:35, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, if we're gonna delete pieces like this, we might end up deleting half of mainspace.--Colonel Sanders (talk) 20:37, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Gee... This was my first article.DasRationalpersone (talk) 20:43, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * if you can provide us with a rationale for keeping it, we'll keep it.-- 20:47, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Did you look at the links I provided you on your talkpage? Or if you want a copy of this for your userspace or fun-section or something, I could do that.--Colonel Sanders (talk) 20:47, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm, well, he's been criticised by fundies, which seems to have been enough to earn Pokemon an article... Baljit (talk) 21:01, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Far less than Philip Pullman or J.K. Rowling.  21:04, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I've had racists use him as a flag because they believed he was. If you let me time to expand on the racism topic, it might get closer to mission as a mean to debunk those claims?dx (talk) 21:19, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Michael Moorcock expressed dislike of Middle Earth because the heroes were so middle class.
 * So what? Still sounds like trivia rather than any solid connection to mission topics.   21:40, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

racist
that section is rather confused. I think a better fitting accusation would be that the Haradrim (is that the right name?) represented arabs, and they were evil.-- 22:23, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Except they weren't evil, they were (at first) simply opposed to the Gondorians whose border they shared and (later) were deceived and enslaved by Sauron. This whole article is confused and uninformative. I also fail to see how being Catholic and conservative are "downsides" in and of themselves, as he was never an ass about it; his works expressed his worldview but were far from propaganda or a recruiting tool.--Filby (talk) 19:10, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It's a lousy article on a questionable subject. Let's just be rid of it.   19:18, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

baleet
The creator has failed to provide a mission rationale for this article (despite having been given ample time to do so), and in its current state, it's rather crappy. Could someone with rights delete it, or should it simply be moved to his user space?-- 05:26, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Deleted. If author requests it in user space, it can be restored for this purpose.  06:26, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Oh, it's ok. I can understand why this was deleted. DasRationalpersone (talk) 14:51, 15 June 2011 (UTC)