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About time I made a user profile.
{{quote|The genealogical trees at the end of the Red Book of Westmarch are a small book in themselves, and all but Hobbits would find them exceedingly dull. Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate: they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.|[[Concerning Hobbits]] <small>(which is also a way to describe a Tolkien geek)</small>}}


I have been a Tolkien fan and participant to this wiki for several years. I consider myself a "Tolkienologist"; although I am no way one of the most erudite, I think that Tolkienologists can boast that we love Tolkien's creation the same manner Tolkien himself did; not only as readers. I think that we can admire Arda and see its beauty when we decompose it, and discover the languages, etymologies, family trees, timeline, geography and calendars. Participating to the wiki I have uncovered views on some topics that I never noticed before.
I am a proud to be an encyclopedist of TG. I am mainly concerned with in-universe articles about the mythology, and less about real-life articles about Tolkien, adaptations and relevant literature.


I am working on a primitive "wiktionary" of words (of Elvish and other Tolkien languages), complete with etymology, links between Quenya words with its primitive forms and roots and Sindarin cognates, therefore creating a browsable dictionary in database form, which I expect will be helpful, not only to Elvish linguists, but anyone who'd wish to know more about how languages work.
The "mythological" section is more or less complete. I work mainly making corrections, improving and tidying random text, add images to articles that seem plain etc. Also I am undertaking a self-torturing project of comparing every entry of ''[[The Complete Guide to Middle-earth]]'' against relevant entries of TG. So far, the experience has been very rewarding and insightful for me, and in my humble opinion, this helped me improve, correct and enrich a lot of articles that needed it. I hope to finish before the next century.


I also try to reconstruct some maps, heavily based on those by [[Karen Wynn Fonstad]], and some by [[User:Smeagol]]; this way I hope TG can avoid using "fair use" maps. To see some of this work, see [[Historical_Atlas]]


So, that's it in case you wondered who I am. Feel free to contact me anytime.
'''Disclaimer''': I am a very absent-minded and forgetful person, awkward and all thumbs; this means I am very prone to typing and syntax mistakes, most of which I can notice only after I saved my edits. I am used to saving my edits every few seconds and continue with additions and corrections. A new page created by me is complete not before my first 3 or 4 edits, and improvements follow now and then. I know this "pollutes" an article's history but believe me, I have tried and I can't do otherwise. Apologies and thanks for your understanding :D
==The mysteries of Arda==
This is a list of interestingly obscure topics
*[[Authorities]]
*[[Bladorthin]]
*[[Haranyë]]
*[[Holdwine]]
*[[Nameless Things]]
*[[Talking purse]]
*[[Seven Hoards]]
*[[:Category:Enigmas]]
*[[User:Sage/Obscure locations]]

Revision as of 07:29, 14 April 2018

"The genealogical trees at the end of the Red Book of Westmarch are a small book in themselves, and all but Hobbits would find them exceedingly dull. Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate: they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions."
Concerning Hobbits (which is also a way to describe a Tolkien geek)

I am a proud to be an encyclopedist of TG. I am mainly concerned with in-universe articles about the mythology, and less about real-life articles about Tolkien, adaptations and relevant literature.

The "mythological" section is more or less complete. I work mainly making corrections, improving and tidying random text, add images to articles that seem plain etc. Also I am undertaking a self-torturing project of comparing every entry of The Complete Guide to Middle-earth against relevant entries of TG. So far, the experience has been very rewarding and insightful for me, and in my humble opinion, this helped me improve, correct and enrich a lot of articles that needed it. I hope to finish before the next century.


Disclaimer: I am a very absent-minded and forgetful person, awkward and all thumbs; this means I am very prone to typing and syntax mistakes, most of which I can notice only after I saved my edits. I am used to saving my edits every few seconds and continue with additions and corrections. A new page created by me is complete not before my first 3 or 4 edits, and improvements follow now and then. I know this "pollutes" an article's history but believe me, I have tried and I can't do otherwise. Apologies and thanks for your understanding :D

The mysteries of Arda

This is a list of interestingly obscure topics