User:Mith

Mith
Gatekeeper
Biographical Information
Position	Administrator, Dates Project Supervisor, Community Manager
Language	British English
Location	Sussex, UK
Age	24
Edit Count	45,644
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Height	6'0
Hair colour	Black
Eye colour	Dark brown
Contact Information
Talk page	Mith
E-mail	mithtolkiengateway.net
Infoboxes

This user is an administrator.

en-N	This person is a native user of English.

15k	This Gatekeeper has over 15000 edits on Tolkien Gateway.

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This user has an advanced understanding of J.R.R. Tolkien's works.

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This user recognises the importance of citing sources.

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

RC	This user patrols recent changes.

RP	This user frequently presses the Random page button to find interesting articles to edit.

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This user supports Wizards over any other race.

This user believes the Dagor Dagorath is canonical.

This user doesn't know if Balrogs have wings.

This user believes the Entwives are lost forever.

This user is from the United Kingdom.

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

― Gandalf to Frodo in The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Shadow of the Past"

Daily To-do

• DELETE: there are 13 pages to be deleted

About Me

I'm Mith and I'm a 24-year-old tolkienist/tolkienologist/Tolkien-enthusiast (whichever you like) from Sussex in the UK, and I am an administrator, community manager, and dates supervisor here on the Tolkien Gateway (TG). I have a BA in Politics from the University of Sussex, and am working in Westminster. I have been a member of this website and community for about five years now - although I was aware of it for some time before them - and although my contributions are only modest, I hope they go some way to making this wiki the best online Tolkien resource.

With regards to Tolkien, the areas which really interest me are: languages, Tengwar, genealogies, maps, calendars, and the history of the First Age. In fact, almost everything within the legendarium! Beyond TG, I am also a trustee of The Tolkien Society (and Deputy Chairman of The Return of the Ring) hoping to modernise its image, events and functions and introduce as many people as possible to the professor's works.

The name Mith is a contraction of the name Mithrandir (the Sindarin name for Gandalf) which is the name I've used for myself on many Tolkien websites over the last eleven years. I would, like other members, use the Quenya translation of my name (Erufailon), but I personally think it's a bit ugly.

When I'm not here, I enjoy learning about everything in general (I'm a hoarder of useless information), but in particular I really like learning about language (in particular, English history, etymologies of words, etc.), politics (especially British government and politics), and British history. I'm also an avid fan of Nintendo, going to the cinema, and eating!

Current and Future Projects

• Creating a new Main Page
• Template for web citations (former Template:Hfd)
• Infoboxes
  • Updating and standardisation existing ones
  • Adding pronunciation guides to them
  • Template:Mallorn, Template:Mallornnav and Template:Amonhen
  • Audiobook infobox
  • LOTRO infobox
  • Extend T:Book (see Wikipedia's)
• Who; what?; when?; where? link etc.
• Redlink template
• Timeline and years:-
  • Making sure that all date-related wanted-pages are created
  • Updating existing dates so they contain all relevant information
  • Moving date articles to European date format
  • Altering all the day articles so Shire Reckoning dates in "The Tale of Years" are correctly converted to the Gregorian calendar
  • Extending the information on calendars
  • Bibliographic information
    • See here (start with 1945) and here
• Work on Durin's Folk
• To further, and expand, the articles on the Arnorian and Gondorian Kings
  • Re-visit the Kings of Arnor as the bar I set for myself is now higher
• Creating templates for articles (along the lines of previous ones like this - see my my sandbox for some in progress)
• Locations (especially those of The Shire)
  • Eriador, Rhûn and The Shire are all on my hit-list
• Hobbits (continue with Tooks first)
• Constellations, cosmology and astronomy
  • Start with Carnil (see its talk page)
• Anything map/map-related
• Songs and poems
• Forum:TG Advent: 30 Improved pages for the New Year
• Wizards
• Sorting out the mess that is disambiguation
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Portals
• Policy and Help
• Arda Structural Format
• New skins for TG
  • Fixing Ithilien to work with 1.17
    • Fixing <ul> and <ol> error with thumbnails
  • Fixing Cavendish to work in 1.17
• Generally tidying and minor edits

Favourites

Character: Gandalf (following very closely by Fingolfin)
Location: Gondolin (followed by Tirion)
Quote: see the top of the page
Book: The Book of Lost Tales Part One (forget, The Children of Húrin, this should be edited and released in a separate book)
Chapter: Not strictly chapters, but, the Ainulindalë and the Valaquenta (in The Lord of the Rings I'm rather keen on "The Council of Elrond" and "The Grey Havens")
Era: First Age
Film Scenes: "The Council of Elrond", "The Bridge of Khazad-dûm" and "The Lighting of the Beacons"

Pages

• My Talk Page
• My Contributions
• My Collection
• My Sandbox
• My Second Sandbox
• My Signature (if you want one of your own, see Help:Signatures)
• User:Mithbot, my bot for automatic editing of repetitive and tedious tasks
  • Mithbot's Contributions
  • Mithbot's Scripts
  • Mithbot's Talk Page is located at my talk page instead