Coverage
Most reference sites claim completeness. This one measures it — against published indexes of every named character, and against its own review process. The numbers below are generated at build time and are not rounded in our favour.
- 1,147register entries
- 1,147released for the public site
- 634article texts (EN+DE)
- 795without a date
What is published
An entry only becomes public once a human has reviewed it. Until then it exists in the register but is not served — so the two columns differ, and that gap is the honest part. The right-hand column counts actual sign-offs, not what this particular build happens to display.
| Type | In the register | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | 658 | 658 |
| Places | 234 | 234 |
| Objects | 63 | 63 |
| Peoples | 59 | 59 |
| Events | 37 | 37 |
| Works | 22 | 22 |
| Tolkien: origins and influences | 20 | 20 |
| Creatures | 14 | 14 |
| Languages | 13 | 13 |
| Plants | 10 | 10 |
| Adaptations | 8 | 8 |
| Tolkien: life and family | 5 | 5 |
| Tolkien: scholarship | 4 | 4 |
| Total | 1,147 | 1,147 |
Full articles, and the language gap
Most entries are structured data sheets. A smaller number carry a full article body. English is the primary language and runs ahead; we would rather show a missing German page than a machine-translated one.
- 317 articles with English prose
- 317 articles with German prose
- 317 of them reviewed and public
Measured against the named canon
These are external indexes we did not compile ourselves — which is what makes them a fair yardstick. The large denominator counts every name that appears anywhere in the legendarium, including figures mentioned exactly once.
Where the collection is thin
This is a distribution, not a coverage figure: nobody knows how many figures each age holds, so there is no denominator. It does show where we have depth — and the last row is the most interesting one, because it mixes unrecorded dates with cases where Tolkien himself gives none.
- before the Years of the Trees27
- Years of the Trees29
- First Age36
- Second Age47
- Third Age189
- Fourth Age2
- without a date795
What these numbers do not say
- Coverage is not quality. A data sheet counts the same as a long biography here.
- The percentages will fall as we add checklists from the book indexes — a wider net finds more gaps, and we would rather report that than hide it.
- Real-world material (events, publication history) is tracked separately and is not counted above.