User talk:JR Snow

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Rings of Power cast roles

I saw you added Tyra and Oren to the cast list, but has this been officially confirmed? Is there a source? Also, are these the real namse of the characters or the code names used by Amazon? Thanks. --Oromë 18:02, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello Oromë. No, there has been no official confirmation, only the Deadline articles in late 2019.

I feel that until we know otherwise that there is no harm in listing them as such, especially as they are already mentioned in the same page further down. JR Snow 18:17, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

England redlinks

Do we really want to delete all the links to England? Seems to me that would be an important and valuable article to have, as England was not just Tolkien’s home but a crucial part of his inspiration for creating his mythology. --Pachyderminator 15:29, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

I do understand but articles such as Middle-earth already contain that information and I don’t believe it needs repeating in a page for England. This page was also deleted by Admins a few years ago for being unnecessary.

I removed the red links today as it appeared that this had simply not been done at the time of the page deletion.

If you feel that a page for England has merit on it’s own, independent of other articles (and one is subsequently created) I’d be happy to undo my edits. -JR Snow 15:42, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

I don't know. The Middle-earth and Legendarium articles don't go into enough detail on this - e.g. they don't mention what Letter 131 says about the idea of a mythology "dedicated to England." Perhaps that should just go into those articles rather than a separate one, but still, England is important for much of Tolkien's work outside the legendarium as well: he seems to have seen Beowulf as a quintessentially "English" work in "The Monsters and the Critics," and Farmer Giles of Ham is a very English setting.

I think an independent article would have merit if it had some substance on the importance of England in Tolkien's work as a whole. But I'm not committing to writing this article myself in the immediate future. --Pachyderminator 04:55, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

I tried writing an article one time about what I thought were the main inspirations of Tolkien's work. However, I found it suprisingly hard to actually write, and I think a lot of what could be written in such an article would just be repeating things that are better written on individual articles. An "England" article could probably be written, but a lot of things like saying the Shire is in the location of Oxford or Hengrist and Horsa being descendants of Elfwine are probably better in their relevant articles. Even things like England's importance to works outside Middle-earth seem like they could go on existing pages. Turiannerevarine 11:46, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Your edit on Rohan

Hi, I noticed you removed that sentence in Rohan I don't think I noticed before. Well I think the shrinking borders referred to are Gondor's. By the time of the WotR, Gondor had shrunk that much and was just three times the size of Rohan. Sage (talk) 18:55, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Ah, you may well be right there, that makes much more sense. In which case it seems an unnecessary inclusion on the Rohan page anyway. JR Snow (talk) 20:51, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Letters in 1960

Hi, the letters in 1960 were all off by one (e.g. 122b instead of 122a. I've fixed this however there is a letter 122a that is listed as written on an unknown date which was actually written on 9 Feb. I thought maybe this was another case of the wrong letter being listed but I didn't see any others from that year it might have referred to. Hopefully you can clear this up. ~ Éowyn ☆ talk ~ 21:47, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

I've also removed Letter 310a from 1969 and Letter 332a from 1972. ~ Éowyn ☆ talk ~ 22:42, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

I had noticed these changes and was confused how I got those dates wrong; as it turns out the document I referred to for these dates was one that TolkienGuide.com created pre-release. see here:

https://www.tolkienguide.com/guide/books/images/49/TCG%20Guide%20to%20Carpenters%20Revised%20Tolkien%20Letters%20Changes%202023-11-09.pdf

Now that I own the book I see that it had wrong dates and letters that don’t even exist (there is no letter 332a in the revised edition). Thank you for the corrections. JR Snow (talk) 07:57, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

It looks like they’ve updated the pdf on their website, but I have the earlier version saved locally which includes multiple errors.

I’m going to have to double check everything I did… JR Snow (talk) 08:26, 17 March 2024 (UTC)