Tolkien Gateway talk:Meetings/5 June 2011
Please put any ideas for the agenda and any general discussion here. Remember please sign your name below if you are going to attend (or not).
Attendees
- Amroth 15:27, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- Ainaldo 02:59, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 13:29, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
- Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 16:16, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
- Morgan 16:19, 2 June 2011 (UTC) (50/50)
- As far as I can see, I’m still having that time available, so I hope I won’t forget to attend. — Mithrennaith 04:16, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
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This user is from the United States. RP This user frequently presses the Random page button to find interesting articles to edit. Hello,
Before I created my user account I browsed various articles and user pages. I discovered that many users were (ahem) considerably younger than me, so for my Tolkien Gateway identification I chose "Gamling", the name of one of the Rohirrim that means "old man". Yeah, yeah, I could have chosen "Sharkû", which also means "old man" (in Orkish), but let's not get insulting.
I have a degree in English and another degree in Computer Science. I was part of the engineering team that wrote software to run the International Space Station. At the same time I have been interested in Middle-earth since I first read Professor Tolkien's works in the 1960s. In the early 1970s I even produced a hand-written scroll about 60 feet long detailing all of the history of Middle-earth known at that time (before The Silmarillion or any other works by Christopher Tolkien appeared). The history of Middle-earth remains my favorite interest.
In the Prologue to The Fellowship of the Ring, there is a comment about the genealogical trees at the end of the Red Book of Westmarch: "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." That seems to me to be the top principle of this endeavor and a good one for all to follow.
Dave Pleger - dlpleger
ca.rr.com 06:28, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Non-Attendees
Ideas for Agenda
- PDF-files. --Amroth 15:27, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- People by language. --Amroth 17:27, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
- Cross-references with 3rin.gs Ainaldo 02:59, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
- Analytics, search engine optimization Ainaldo 02:59, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
- An update on the spam protection situation, it seems to be getting worse. -- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 20:25, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
- Discussion about The Hobbit films articles now that the naming has been confirmed. -- KingAragorn talk contribs edits email 20:25, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Discussion
