J. R. R. Tolkien

Quality:

J. R. R. Tolkien - British writer and philologist (1892–1973). This person is the 328^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 652^nd most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “J. R. R. Tolkien” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 7 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:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5234^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

sim

The 1869^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 652^nd most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 892^nd most popular in all topics.

The 517^th most popular in AI.

The 328^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

sim

The 5052^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1773^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5101^st most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “J. R. R. Tolkien”, its content was written by 59 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1869^th place) and edited by 7965 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (517^th place).

J. R. R. Tolkien is on the 652^nd place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 328^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 97 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 27241 times in all languages (6051^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #11 in January 2005
• Global: #46 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1308 in September 2024
• Global: #77 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, 2025 (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		99.4475
2	Turkish (tr) J. R. R. Tolkien		98.5779
3	Bulgarian (bg) Дж. Р. Р. Толкин		98.5714
4	Galician (gl) J. R. R. Tolkien		97.3358
5	English (en) J. R. R. Tolkien		95.6209
6	French (fr) J. R. R. Tolkien		92.8966
7	Greek (el) Τζ. Ρ. Ρ. Τόλκιν		92.0768
8	Tamil (ta) ஜே. ஆர். ஆர். டோல்கீன்		90.6667
9	Chinese (zh) J·R·R·托爾金		87.2968
10	Swedish (sv) J.R.R. Tolkien		87.2881

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) J. R. R. Tolkien		45 341 621
2	Spanish (es) J. R. R. Tolkien		7 736 602
3	Russian (ru) Толкин, Джон Рональд Руэл		7 462 828
4	German (de) J. R. R. Tolkien		6 249 281
5	French (fr) J. R. R. Tolkien		5 495 675
6	Italian (it) J. R. R. Tolkien		4 299 376
7	Polish (pl) J.R.R. Tolkien		3 819 176
8	Portuguese (pt) J. R. R. Tolkien		3 523 387
9	Japanese (ja) J・R・R・トールキン		1 420 522
10	Dutch (nl) J.R.R. Tolkien		1 327 060

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		180 209
2	Russian (ru) Толкин, Джон Рональд Руэл		21 583
3	Spanish (es) J. R. R. Tolkien		20 103
4	German (de) J. R. R. Tolkien		16 949
5	Italian (it) J. R. R. Tolkien		15 481
6	French (fr) J. R. R. Tolkien		13 840
7	Portuguese (pt) J. R. R. Tolkien		8 644
8	Polish (pl) J.R.R. Tolkien		5 737
9	Japanese (ja) J・R・R・トールキン		4 922
10	Chinese (zh) J·R·R·托爾金		3 889

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		2 017
2	German (de) J. R. R. Tolkien		496
3	French (fr) J. R. R. Tolkien		440
4	Italian (it) J. R. R. Tolkien		379
5	Spanish (es) J. R. R. Tolkien		363
6	Russian (ru) Толкин, Джон Рональд Руэл		347
7	Dutch (nl) J.R.R. Tolkien		283
8	Polish (pl) J.R.R. Tolkien		278
9	Portuguese (pt) J. R. R. Tolkien		221
10	Swedish (sv) J.R.R. Tolkien		205

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		6
2	Hebrew (he) ג'. ר. ר. טולקין		4
3	Spanish (es) J. R. R. Tolkien		2
4	Italian (it) J. R. R. Tolkien		2
5	Turkish (tr) J. R. R. Tolkien		2
6	Chinese (zh) J·R·R·托爾金		2
7	German (de) J. R. R. Tolkien		1
8	Esperanto (eo) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien		1
9	Basque (eu) J. R. R. Tolkien		1
10	Persian (fa) جی. آر. آر. تالکین		1

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

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