User:Ederchil

Ederchil
Beware! This user loves userboxes.
lore-3 This user has an advanced understanding of J.R.R. Tolkien's works.
Man This user supports Men over any other race.
File:WAR-ICONS Gondor.jpg Gondor rules!
DD-N This user believes the Dagor Dagorath is NOT canonical.
Ent This user believes the Entwives are lost forever.
File:Numenor Map.jpg This user likes Adûnaic.
Adûni This user likes Westron.
This user does not like Salorin.

Who I am

I'm a 21 year old Dutch student. I'm from Groningen, way up North. I've been using the name Ederchil for a couple of years now. It's a rough translation of my first name, Olof. All google-hits on Ederchil except the LOTRO one are me. I'm a linguophile, mostly interested in the minor languages. My Quenya is no more than anecdotal. There's too much written on that tongue already. I'm citizen #6454 at Minastirith.com, and part-time translator on Merin Essi ar Quenteli.

To Do List

Stuff I'm planning to do, some day:

1. Some expanding of menel.
2. An article on the Gondorian dialect of Sindarin.
3. An article on the Elvish words for Dwarf and the use of them.
4. Split up RGEO in book and song, dab the links and expand the book article.
5. Write an article on Robert Irelands A Tolkien Dictionary. Already there.
6. Clean all articles of references to above to replace them with attested ones.
7. Write an article about, and use the information of, Ondonórë Nomesseron Minaþúrië.
8. Write articles about Barbara Strachey (no info available) and William Elvin.
9. Write something on money in Middle-earth.
10. Write articles about the Elfconners.
11. Improve and expand the Adûnaic and Westron words-categories.
12. Split up Rohirric words into Old English words and Rohirian words.
13. Write an article on Ilkorin.
14. Write an article about Finn and Hengest.
15. Write an article about The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son.
16. Write articles about the lár and the ranga.
17. Makeover years 1901-1910, 1911-1920, 1921-1930, 1931-1940, 1941-1950, 1951-1960, 1961-1970, 1971-1980, 1981-1990, 1991-2000, 2001-2007.
18. Write an article about Grelvish.
19. Expand all Inkling writers articles.
20. Expand the author articles where possible.

My Tolkien library:

• The Hobbit (also in Dutch translation by Max Schuchart)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (also in Dutch translation by Max Schuchart)
• The Two Towers (also in Dutch translation by Max Schuchart)
• The Return of the King (also in Dutch translation by Max Schuchart)
• Silmarillion
• Unfinished Tales
• Farmer Giles of Ham
• The Road Goes Ever On (3rd ed)
• The Children of Húrin
• The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad
• Journeys of Frodo by Barbara Strachey
• J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
• The History of Middle-earth by Christopher Tolkien:

1. The Book of Lost Tales Part 1
2. The Book of Lost Tales Part 2
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
13. Index

• The History of The Hobbit by John D. Rateliff:

1. Part 1: Mr. Baggins
2. Part 2: Return to Bag End

• J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• The Road to Middle-earth by Tom Shippey
• The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• A Tolkien Compass (2nd ed) by Jared Lobdell
• The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook by Alan Lee
• CliffsNotes on The Lord of the Rings by Gene B. Hardy
• Tolkien's World; Paintings of Middle-earth
• Parma Eldalamberon 17
• Vinyar Tengwar 21-30, 41-49.

DVD's

• The Fellowship of the Ring, theatrical and extended
• The Two Towers, theatrical and extended
• The Return of the King, theatrical and extended
• Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings

I've ceremonially burned my copy of The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Ruth S. Noel and recommend everyone would do the same. It's outdated and in no way authoritative.