Tolkien Gateway:Chat
The one and only Tolkien IRC Network since January 2005
Tolkien Gateway's official chat server is located at irc.tolkiengateway.net port: 6667 for IRC clients and averages 3-5 users in the main lobby. If you have no idea what that says, then you probably want to use the browser-based client, Mibbit:
List of Channels
Active
- #TolkienGateway - Lobby for the network and official channel of the wiki
- #Wiki - The channel where Tolkien Gateway:Meetings are held
- #Kontu - Official channel for Kontu.info (Finnish channel)
- #antisalaseura - currently unknown (Finnish channel)
- #Civ4 - for discussion on Civilization IV
- #hallitus - currently unknown (Finnish channel)
- #Rosie - Rosie's personal channel
- #SA - Official channel for SA-Guild.com
- #salaseura - currently unknown (Finnish channel)
- #salaisempiseura - currently unknown (Finnish channel)
- #SoulAssassins - currently unknown
- #STS - currently unknown (Finnish channel)
- #tissit - currently unknown (Finnish channel)
- #valvojat - currently unknown (Finnish channel)
Inactive
- #AP - Official channel for ArdaPost.com
- #GeneralTrivia - General trivia channel (Trivia bot is missing)
- #HangHobbit - Tolkien hangman game
- #Imladris - Official channel for Imladris.dk
- #IRPG - Idle RPG game
- #Lore - Advanced discussions of Tolkien's legendarium
- #LotRMMORPG - Official channel for LotRMMORPG.com
- #MinasTirith - Unofficial channel for MinasTirith.com
- #SSF - Official channel for SideshowCollectors.com
- #TolkienAudio - Tolkien audio/music streams
- #tshgame - Official channel for tshgame.com
- #Trivia - Tolkien trivia channel (Trivia bot is missing)
- #Westeros - A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin
- #WotR - Official channel for WaroftheRing.net
Former
- #EoI - Official channel for ElvesofImladris.com
- #LotroSource - Official channel for LotroSource.com
IRC Clients
X-Chat
X-Chat is an open source IRC client for Linux, Windows and Mac based operating systems. X-Chat can be scripted with plug-ins in a number of programming languages: Perl, Python, Tcl, and Ruby, which are available as external plugins and contain a binary module interface, usually for the C programming language.
On Linux
X-Chat is avaible through the package managers of most distributions. On Debian-based systems, such as Ubuntu, simply type sudo apt-get install xchat in a terminal.
On Windows
The official xchat for windows is shareware and requires a fee of $20(USD) after its trial period of 30 days. However, there are a number of unofficial builds of xchat which are free for anyone to download. Click here for a full list of these unofficial builds. The most popular of these builds is SilvereX's build.
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