User:Edrastel

Edrastel
Gatekeeper
Biographical Information
Other names	Ian
Position	Member
Language	English
Location	Indiana
Birth	October 15th
Age	19
Edit Count	523
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Height	0.943 ranga
Hair colour	Dark brown
Eye colour	Brown
Contact Information
Talk page	Edrastel
Infoboxes

This user is from the United States.

3m	This Gatekeeper has contributed to Tolkien Gateway for over three months.

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

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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 supports the forces for Good.

This user supports Harad.

This user loves the Dúnedain of the North.

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 believes Fëanor and his sons were mass-murderers with evil aims. But they may still redeem.

Orcs = Elves

This user believes Elves and Orcs are the same race.

Hello! I am Edrastel, a long-time fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's works. I am one of the newer contributers 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. My main character on that server in those days was the Mirkwood hunter Istelion before he took a deadly fall in Moria and couldn't be retrieved. Afterwards, I played as the Sindarin loremaster Edrastel. I went on a long hiatus before returning to the game on another server with a new account.

Currently

As of now, my collection of Tolkien's lore consists of these works:

• 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
• The Children of Húrin
• The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
• 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

• Tales from the Perilous Realm
• Bilbo's Last Song
• The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion
• The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
• The Atlas of Middle-earth
• Parma Eldalamberon (Issues 1-7, 16, 20-22)
• Vinyar Tengwar (Issues 1-50)
• Quettar (Issues 1 - 40)
• An Introduction to Elvish
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
• The Art of The Hobbit
• The Art of The Lord of the Rings

Nowadays, I play The Lord of the Rings Online on the Laurelin [EU-EN-RP] server as Edrastel or Sriva, mainly roleplaying in Bree or the lands about.

Opinions

• Balrogs did have wings in a sense, though they were not permanent or practical and were more of a means of intimidation.

• The term "half-trolls" refers to a cross-breed of Far Haradrim and Mordor trolls and not a slur for the southernmost races of Men.

• The Valar were wrong to grant the Edain with superior bloodlines.

• The first Orcs were bred from Elves, but by the time of the War of the Ring there were many breeds of Orcs descended from Men or boldogs.

• Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy was a large waste of potential.

Headcanons

• Arda was a round world from its creation, and the Flat-World Silmarillion is based on the Númenóreans' flawed conception of the universe.

• The Haradrim developed their own legends and ideas concerning the cataclysms that followed the Downfall of Númenor.

• Skin-changers existed in some rare cases outside of the Beornings, such as among the Lossoth.

• The Blue Wizards became highly influential in the fight against Sauron in the Far East.

• The Númenóreans' unjust treatment of the Haradrim is what led to the latter's lasting allegiance with Mordor.

• Azog was a boldog.

• Arda as a round earth would look quite different than the Arda we are shown in the Ambarkanta.