The Tolkien Gateway is a fan wiki that documents J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. It is respected and used by scholars. In 2023, it won a Tolkien Society Award. It has been described as "essential"
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Coverage
The Tolkien Gateway is a
fan wiki that documents all the characters, places, objects, and events in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of
Middle-earth, with citations to Tolkien's texts. It provides some coverage of related non-Tolkien items such as films, actors, games, music, images, and scholarly books.
It has interviewed
such as John D. Rateliff.
As of June 2025, the site had 12,952 content pages and 15,364 uploaded files.
Scholarly recognition
The site is described in Stuart D. Lee's 2014 scholarly handbook
A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien as "the main source to start a review of the plethora of Tolkien-based online materials."
It is referenced in scholarly works such as
,
,
and
Social Science Computer Review.
Awards and distinctions
In 2023, Tolkien Gateway won a Tolkien Society Award for online content.
Tolkien Gateway is one of the four websites described as "essential"
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