J. R. R. Tolkien

Quality:

J. R. R. Tolkien - English writer and philologist (1892–1973). This person is the 330^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 568^th most popular person in French Wikipedia. Article “J. R. R. Tolkien” in French Wikipedia has 94.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 203 references and 30 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 1153^rd most popular in French Wikipedia.

fr

The 1508^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 568^th most popular in people in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 868^th most popular in all topics.

The 523^rd most popular in AI.

The 330^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 2131^st most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1353^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4953^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “J. R. R. Tolkien”, its content was written by 448 registered users of French Wikipedia (1508^th place) and edited by 8022 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (523^rd place).

J. R. R. Tolkien is on the 568^th place in local ranking of people in French Wikipedia and on the 330^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 1792 times in French Wikipedia and cited 27900 times in all languages (6063^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #82 in May 2005
• Global: #46 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #70 in December 2012
• Global: #75 in December 2012

There are 55 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Catalan (ca) J. R. R. Tolkien		99.5838
2	Turkish (tr) J. R. R. Tolkien		98.7414
3	Galician (gl) J. R. R. Tolkien		97.5659
4	Bulgarian (bg) Дж. Р. Р. Толкин		97.3333
5	Chinese (zh) J·R·R·托爾金		96.9101
6	Indonesian (id) J.R.R. Tolkien		96.2849
7	English (en) J. R. R. Tolkien		95.7606
8	French (fr) J. R. R. Tolkien		94.6535
9	Greek (el) Τζ. Ρ. Ρ. Τόλκιν		92.9882
10	Swedish (sv) J.R.R. Tolkien		90.6192

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) J. R. R. Tolkien		48 019 877
2	Russian (ru) Толкин, Джон Рональд Руэл		8 320 121
3	Spanish (es) J. R. R. Tolkien		8 071 067
4	German (de) J. R. R. Tolkien		6 634 024
5	French (fr) J. R. R. Tolkien		5 776 444
6	Italian (it) J. R. R. Tolkien		4 506 471
7	Polish (pl) J.R.R. Tolkien		3 960 575
8	Portuguese (pt) J. R. R. Tolkien		3 647 459
9	Japanese (ja) J・R・R・トールキン		1 492 589
10	Dutch (nl) J.R.R. Tolkien		1 395 159

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) J. R. R. Tolkien		192 254
2	Spanish (es) J. R. R. Tolkien		21 512
3	German (de) J. R. R. Tolkien		20 667
4	Russian (ru) Толкин, Джон Рональд Руэл		19 644
5	French (fr) J. R. R. Tolkien		18 662
6	Italian (it) J. R. R. Tolkien		12 910
7	Portuguese (pt) J. R. R. Tolkien		10 178
8	Polish (pl) J.R.R. Tolkien		9 955
9	Chinese (zh) J·R·R·托爾金		7 796
10	Japanese (ja) J・R・R・トールキン		4 635

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) J. R. R. Tolkien		2 062
2	German (de) J. R. R. Tolkien		502
3	French (fr) J. R. R. Tolkien		448
4	Italian (it) J. R. R. Tolkien		387
5	Spanish (es) J. R. R. Tolkien		369
6	Russian (ru) Толкин, Джон Рональд Руэл		351
7	Dutch (nl) J.R.R. Tolkien		287
8	Polish (pl) J.R.R. Tolkien		282
9	Portuguese (pt) J. R. R. Tolkien		226
10	Swedish (sv) J.R.R. Tolkien		208

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) J. R. R. Tolkien		7
2	Spanish (es) J. R. R. Tolkien		4
3	Arabic (ar) جون رونالد تولكين		2
4	Indonesian (id) J.R.R. Tolkien		2
5	Chinese (zh) J·R·R·托爾金		2
6	Belarusian (be) Джон Рональд Руэл Толкін		1
7	Catalan (ca) J. R. R. Tolkien		1
8	German (de) J. R. R. Tolkien		1
9	Basque (eu) J. R. R. Tolkien		1
10	Galician (gl) J. R. R. Tolkien		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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