Help:Contents

This help page is under construction. But for the time being, just use the search on the left side to find what you are looking for, or check out the Recent changes to see what has been updated recently. If you want to test out editing pages please use our Sandbox to do so.

How do I create a new article?

Your best option is to click a red link, you will be directed to the edit page, add your content, click save, and you are good to go.

If you know of a page you want to create but there are no links to it, simply point your browser to http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Title of Page, you will be brought to a new page (hopefully without any content in it yet), just click the edit button and edit away.

Articles about characters

When creating or editing an article about a character in Arda please start with Character Name and then begin your description. Please also tell us where the name comes from and what it means in other languages, as well as what other names the character goes by. As well as their lineage and family tree.

Can I create articles about me or that are my own personal views?

Of course! Registered users have something similar to a 'Folder' for creating these articles. Instead of writing the article in the main namespace, just type User:YourUserName/Your_Article_Name. This seperates opinionated articles from factual articles.

• An example being if I want to write a fan fiction about Beren and Luthien, I'll write it in User:Hyarion/Beren_and_Luthien, then maybe on the Beren and Luthien or the Fan Fictions page I'll link to my story.

Spoilers

For people who have yet to finish reading The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, or even The History of Middle-earth, be careful when reading through this site, there are quite a bit of spoilers depending on what you do not know. We don't want to reveal that Frodo Baggins falls into Mount Doom to someone who has not finished The Lord of the Rings and ruin the book for them now do we!

Links

Due to excessive spamming of links we have added rel=nofollow to any external link, which means when search engines browse the site you will not gain PageRank or higher ranking status on any search engine for placing you're link here. This being said, as long as you're link is valid and relevant you will of course recieve increased traffic because the link is visible.

Misc. Tips

• When using the article's title in the article first bold it, Article Name, then Italicize it, Article Name, then just leave the article name normal.
• When linking to articles you only need to link the first usage. If you continue to use the term Silmarils for example, there is no need to link all instances of it because it becomes excessive and unnecessary.

Editing

Adding new lines

• Just hit enter twice
• Use <br /> (this is XHTML compliant)