Talk:Who the 'Ell Is Tauriel?

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Contested deletion

This article should not be speedy deleted as being about a musical recording that does not indicate its own importance and where the artist's article does not exist, because... (your reason here) --Kaboombee (talk) 07:06, 19 January 2014 (UTC) The artist's article does exist. The importance of the song (and particularly its video) is currently in the cited references. This can be amended.[reply]

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedy deleted as being about a musical recording that does not indicate its own importance and where the artist's article does not exist, because...

Tauriel is a non-existent person in Canonical Middle Earth. The song gives an accurate, if tongue in cheek, response to Sir Peter Jackson creating a new Middle Earth character. Much of the importance of the song is that it highlights the importance of naming in Tolkien's World.

Many of the characters in Tolkien are paired. Boromir and Faramir form a sibling pair. One tempted to take the Ring, the other actually taking the Ring. This exposes hubris in a manner that Tolkien repeats through his writing. Tauriel, to be authentic should have an elven pairing. It is questionable if she does.

The importance of the musical recording as a musical recording is that it is one of many cultural artefacts that are crowdsourced (in the same way as wikipedia) in response to cultural artefacts. These artefacts (eg COS Play, Tribute Bands and so on) come from communities rather than from the original. Which makes them just as "inauthentic" and "insignificant" as Tauriel herself. The point is not that the song is good or bad but that it is an accurate, humorous, response: the "Esgaroth 3" are as inexistent in the Tolkien Universe as Tauriel.--82.40.44.174 (talk) 12:27, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]