Talk:Sundering of the Elves

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[edit] Tribal names

I'm not entirely content with the way the current entry uses tribal names for the Elves. I have replaced "Lindar" with "Teleri" in most places (because all of the Elves of the third tribe who were on the Great Journey were called Teleri: that's where they got the name), but I've left "Lindar" as the original tribe name before the first sundering. I would welcome other input into this (and, in particular, any comments on what conventions have been used elsewhere in Wikipedia). --Steuard 19:14, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Category: General or Elves

There seems to have been a disagreement recently about whether this article should belong to the category "Middle-earth Elves" or to the more general category "Middle-earth". The page for "Middle-earth Elves" declares that "This category lists members of the race of Elves...", not that it lists all articles about Elves. In my opinion, a strong argument can be made that this page is about an aspect of the history of Middle-earth, not about any specific member or subgroup of the race of Elves. (That's essentially what 69.86.17.138 said in his/her edit summary, but hopefully it's clearer for this longer discussion.) Given that essentially every specific subgroup listed here has its own article, including this article in the "Middle-earth Elves" category doesn't seem to add much there. Viewed as history, I think it fits best under the general category. --Steuard 22:36, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps both? There's no reason why an article cannot go in the parent category and a sub-category if it is useful to both. -[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 23:49, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The image

I would like to point out that the image showing the divisions of Elves is just simply wrong. I would advocate for it's removal or getting a better or improving image that will show 'the Sundering' correctly. Afrika 03:25, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Explaining what you think is wrong about it might be helpful. It looks fairly accurate to me. --CBD 20:08, 27 September 2006 (UTC)