User:Edrastel

Edrastel
Gatekeeper
Biographical Information
Other names	Ian
Position	Member
Language	English
Location	Indiana
Birth	October 15th
Age	21
Edit Count	523
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Height	1.895 rangar
Hair colour	Dark brown
Eye colour	Brown
Contact Information
Talk page	Edrastel
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This user is from the United States.

4y	This Gatekeeper has contributed to Tolkien Gateway for over four years.

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This user contributes using Google Chrome.

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

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

This user plays Lord of the Rings Online.

This user supports Men over any other race.

This user believes the Dagor Dagorath is NOT canonical.

This user believes Balrogs have wings.

This user believes the Entwives are lost forever. Because Tolkien said so.

This user thinks Orcs have wonderful singing voices.

Hello! I am Edrastel, a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's works since around 2009. I am one of the newer contributors to Tolkien Gateway, having joined on 20 December, 2015.

History

I was introduced to The Lord of the Rings through Peter Jackson's extended film trilogy. After watching all three films, I quickly wanted to read the stories on paper for myself. I started, of course, with The Hobbit before moving on to The Lord of the Rings itself, and after coming to the end of The Return of the King I was left wanting more. I went on to The Silmarillion, and afterwards to The Children of Húrin, and from there my collection of Middle-earth lore started piling up.

Some time around the year 2010, I began to play the online MMO The Lord of the Rings Online. From the very start I played as a roleplayer, though an amateur at first, on the server Crickhollow. Eventually I went on a long hiatus before returning to the game in 2014 on another server with a new account, this time in the server Laurelin.

Collection

Legendarium

• The Hobbit
  • The Hobbit Facsimile Gift Edition
  • The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition
• The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary One-Volume Edition)

1. The Fellowship of the Ring
2. The Two Towers
3. The Return of the King

• The Silmarillion
• Unfinished Tales
• Bilbo's Last Song
• The Children of Húrin
• Beren and Lúthien
• The Fall of Gondolin
• The History of Middle-earth (Complete Box Set)

1. The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
2. The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
3. The Lays of Beleriand
4. The Shaping of Middle-earth
5. The Lost Road and Other Writings
6. The Return of the Shadow
7. The Treason of Isengard
8. The War of the Ring
9. Sauron Defeated
10. Morgoth's Ring
11. The War of the Jewels
12. The Peoples of Middle-earth

• The History of The Hobbit (One-Volume Edition)

1. Mr. Baggins
2. Return to Bag End

Other Works

• The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Letters from Father Christmas
• The Monsters and the Critics
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
• Tree and Leaf
• Finn and Hengest
• Mr. Bliss
• Tales from the Perilous Realm

1. Farmer Giles of Ham
2. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
3. Leaf by Niggle
4. Smith of Wootton Major
5. Roverandom

• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
• The Fall of Arthur
• Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
• The Story of Kullervo
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
• A Secret Vice

Artwork

• J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
• The Art of The Hobbit
• The Art of The Lord of the Rings

Tolkien Research

• The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
• An Introduction to Elvish
• The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion
• The Atlas of Middle-earth

Journals

• Parma Eldalamberon (Issues 1-7, 16, 20-22)
• Vinyar Tengwar (Issues 1-50)

Links

• Sandbox
• My Round World Thesis (WORK IN PROGRESS)