Mental illness in Middle-earth is currently a Biology and medicine good article nominee. Nominated by Chiswick Chap ( talk) at 09:04, 26 January 2024 (UTC) An editor has indicated a willingness to review the article in accordance with the good article criteria. Further reviews are welcome from any editor who has not contributed significantly to this article (or nominated it), and can be added to the review page, but the decision whether or not to list the article as a good article should be left to the first reviewer. Short description: Theme in Tolkien's fantasy

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Nominator: Chiswick Chap ( talk · contribs) 09:04, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

Reviewer: Eewilson ( talk · contribs) 03:08, 13 July 2024 (UTC) reply

Many thanks! Chiswick Chap ( talk) 07:16, 13 July 2024 (UTC) reply

Criteria 1a

• Reword this blurb, make concise: Tolkien fans have discussed what kind of mental illness Gollum might have
  • Edited.

• Might be a better word than "stated" here: A supervised study by medical students stated that Gollum met many
  • "decided", perhaps. "stated" is a usual form on Wikipedia for "X <produced the written text to the effect that> Y"; "wrote" is also commonly used, but producing a diagnosis isn't really just writing any old thing.

• Remove leading "The": The scholar of English Steve Walker
  • This is standard British English usage; all Middle-earth articles use this language.

• Sentence fragment: Other Tolkien scholars and psychiatrists have broadly agreed, suggesting in addition Gollum's schizoid personality disorder and the resemblance of Frodo's increasingly disturbed mental state to post-traumatic stress disorder.
  • We have "Walker states xyz. Other Tolkien scholars etc have broadly agreed [with Walker], ..." which is not wrong, but let's spell it out for ease of reading.

• Remove leading "The": The medievalist Alke Haarsma-Wisselink
  • As above.

• Remove leading "The": The Tolkien scholar James T. Williamson
  • As above.

• Remove leading "The": The psychiatrists Landon van Dell...
  • As above.

• Remove leading "The": The Tolkien scholar Karyn Milos
  • As above.

• Remove leading "The": The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung
  • As above.

• "Probably"? Did this come from the source?: and probably shared these ideas with Tolkien
  • Yes, article says "it was likely he...".

• Remove leading "The": The scholar Verlyn Flieger
  • As above.

• Remove leading "The": The clinical psychologist Nancy Bunting
  • As above.

• I think "in her words" should be surrounded by commas: such as in a letter to Christopher Tolkien which in her words
  • Done.

• Remove leading "The": The Tolkien scholar Michael Drout
  • As above.

• Remove leading "The"; "film scholar" instead of "scholar of film": The scholar of film Kristin Thompson
  • As above.

• Is "as if" the doubting language? Maybe make this more clear: He writes that Tolkien's doubting language, "as if", and the amnesia both suggest
  • Edited.

• Or "not wishing to remember it": and then forgot it, did not wish to remember it.
  • Done.

• Maybe say Denethor is the Steward of Gondor when he is first mentioned? "Denethor, the Steward of Gondor,"

– Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) ( talk) 04:31, 13 July 2024 (UTC) reply

• • Added.