Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Fellowship of the Ring
I think the strongest argument for a "keep" is  -- in summary style, the LOTR entry would provide an overview of all three, and then additional pages on the individual books would provide a space for a level of detail that exceeds what would be reasonable in the main article, such as longer plot summaries. However, other than plot summaries, I'm not sure what would ''go'' on these individual book pages. I actually think it would be difficult to find coverage to satisfy notability criteria ''per book''; I don't think I've ever seen literary scholarship discussing ''only'' The Two Towers independently, for example. The fact that the books were published within months of each other is very different from how contemporary series work; unlike with the movies for example, hardly anybody really had a chance to react to them as ''individual'' novels. (Although readers encountering them later almost certainly do apply "trilogy" expectations to them.) So although I came here scoffing at the idea of a delete for such a famous book, I now think a merge to LOTR, deleting the individual book articles, is the most appropriate
— User:Oulfis, 00:19, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:DETAIL (Wikipedia:Summary style)