Glamdring was the sword once borne by Turgon, King of Gondolin. The sword, decorated with jewels and ruelbone, had passed into legend by the time Gandalf discovered it in a Troll's cave, nearly 6,500 years later. He would use the sword during the Battle of Five Armies and the War of the Ring.
1918 - J.R.R. Tolkien attends a medical board examination. 9th Royal Defence Corps at Easington is disbanded and Tolkien is to be based at Thirtle Bridge again.
"'Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,' said Gimli. 'Maybe,' said Elrond, 'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.'"
7-3-10 - Uploads have been temporarily disabled while we setup a beta site on our shiny new server in preparation for the migration.
4-22-10 - I would like to apologize profusely for the extended downtime TG experienced earlier today. Apparently we overloaded our host with too much traffic! We are working diligently to prevent this from happening again. Thank you for your patience.
9-2-09 - Well, that could have gone much smoother, but then again I guess it could have been worse. We're now on our new server. I'm working out a few minor tweaks and then we can focus on upgrading MediaWiki and finally adding some extensions. If you encounter any problems please let me know.
9-1-09 - Within the next day or two we will be upgrading the wiki to a shiny new server. Hopefully downtime will be limited, but please excuse any errors you may encounter.