User:Mith

2022-05-08T22:32:31Z

172.70.126.228: good riddance

This is the dimwit we have to thank for the blight of Juliana Pinho's "art" all over this website...

figures you would turn the theme into cold, dead mountains and a creepy pillar with a dragon.

Stay away for good this time!

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{{quote|All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.|[[Gandalf]] to [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] in ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', "[[The Shadow of the Past]]"}}

==Daily To-do==

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==About Me==
I'm '''Mith''' and I'm a 33-year-old Tolkien fan from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex Sussex] in the UK. The name ''Mith'' is a contraction of the name [[Gandalf|Mithrandir]] (the [[Sindarin]] name for [[Gandalf]]) which is the name I've used for myself on many Tolkien websites over the last twenty years.

Here on Tolkien Gateway (TG), I am a ''bureaucrat'', ''administrator'', ''community manager'', and ''dates supervisor''. I have been a member of this website and community for over fourteen years, and as such am the number 1 editor of TG in terms of edits, as well as having provided much of the structure and templates of the wiki as it currently is; I also work with [[User:Hyarion]] on maintaining the website from a technical perspective, and the current theme/skin on TG is "Mithilien". Having said all that, I still regard my contributions as relatively modest, but I hope they go some way to making this wiki the best online Tolkien resource. You can contact me via email (right) or on [[User talk:Mith|my talk page]].

Outside of TG, I am a very active member of [[The Tolkien Society]], and my main interests are: [[languages]], [[Tengwar]], genealogies, maps, calendars, and the history of the [[First Age]]. In fact, almost everything within the [[legendarium]] (so long as it isn't poetry)!

Outside of Tolkien, I chair two charities and am particularly interested in politics and British political history. I'm also an avid fan of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo], and [[wikipedia:Lego|Lego]]; and enjoy reading a wide variety of works on language, (auto)biography, crime fiction, fantasy, political philosophy and theory.

==Projects==
===Future===

* [[Timeline]] and years:
** Adding [[Template:Ardayearheader]] to every year article
** Making sure that all date-related wanted-pages are created
** Altering all the day articles so Shire Reckoning dates in "[[Appendix B|The Tale of Years]]" are ''correctly'' converted to the Gregorian calendar
** Extending the information on [[:Category:Calendars|calendars]]
* [[Locations]] (especially those of [[The Shire]])
** <strike>[[Eriador]]</strike>, [[Rhûn]] and The Shire are all on my hit-list
* [[Hobbits]] (continue with [[Took Family|Tooks]] first)
* [[Constellations]], [[:Category:Cosmology|cosmology]] and astronomy
** Start with [[Carnil]] (see [[Talk:Carnil|its talk page]])
* Work on [[Durin's Folk]]
* To further, and expand, the articles on the <strike>[[Kings of Arnor|Arnorian]] and</strike> [[Kings of Gondor|Gondorian]] Kings
** Re-visit the Kings of Arnor as the bar I set for myself is now higher
* [[Songs]] and [[:Category:Poems|poems]]
* [[Forum:TG Advent: 30 Improved pages for the New Year]]
* [[Wizards]]
* [[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]

===Present===
* Infoboxes
** Updating and standardisation existing ones
** Adding pronunciation guides to them
** <strike>[[Template:Mallorn]], [[Template:Mallornnav]] and [[Template:Amonhen]]</strike>
** <strike>Audiobook infobox</strike>
** <strike>LOTRO infobox</strike>
** <strike>Extend [[T:Book]] (see [[wikipedia:Template:Infobox book|Wikipedia's]])</strike>
* New skins for TG
** <strike>Fixing Ithilien to work with 1.17</strike>
*** Fixing <nowiki><ul> and <ol></nowiki> error with thumbnails
** Fixing Cavendish to work in 1.17
* Generally tidying and minor edits
* [[:Category:Portals|Portals]]
* [[:Category:Tolkien Gateway|Policy]] and [[:Category:Help|Help]]
* Creating templates for articles (along the lines of previous ones like [[Template:northernline|this]] - see my [[User:Mith/Sandbox|my sandbox]] for some in progress)
===Past===
* <strike>[[Main Page|Creating a new Main Page]]</strike>
* <strike>New images for: [[Balin]], [[Dwalin]], [[Fíli]], [[Kíli]], [[Dori]], [[Nori]], [[Ori]], [[Óin]], [[Glóin]], [[Bifur]], [[Bofur]], [[Bombur]]</strike>
* <strike>Template for web citations (former {{redlink|[[Template:Hfd]]}})</strike>
* <strike>Who; what?; when?; where? link etc.</strike>
* <strike>Redlink template</strike>
* <strike>[[Timeline]] and years:-</strike>
** <strike>Updating existing dates so they contain all relevant information</strike>
** <strike>Moving date articles to European date format</strike>
** <strike>Bibliographic information</strike>
*** <strike>See [http://www.forodrim.org/arda/tbchron.html here] (start with 1945) and [http://www.minastirith.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=5;t=000211 here]</strike>
* <strike>Anything [[:Category:Maps|map]]/[[Maps|map]]-related</strike>
* <strike>A template for dates in family trees</strike>
* <strike>Sorting out the mess that is [[:Category:Disambiguation|disambiguation]]</strike>

==Favourites==
'''Character:''' [[Gandalf]] (following very closely by [[Fingolfin]]) 
'''Location:''' [[Gondolin]] (followed by [[Tirion]]) 
'''Quote:''' ''see [[User:Mith#top|the top of the page]] 
'''Book:''' ''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part One]]'' (forget, ''[[The Children of Húrin]]'', this should be edited and released in a separate book) 
'''Chapter:''' Not strictly chapters, but, the ''[[Ainulindalë]]'' and the ''[[Valaquenta]]'' (in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' I'm rather keen on "[[The Council of Elrond]]" and "[[The Grey Havens]]") 
'''Era:''' [[First Age]] 
'''Film Scenes:''' "[[The Council of Elrond (scene)|The Council of Elrond]]", "[[The Bridge of Khazad-dûm (scene)|The Bridge of Khazad-dûm]]" and "[[The Lighting of the Beacons]]"

==Pages==
*[[User talk: Mith|My Talk Page]]
*[[Special: Contributions/Mith|My Contributions]]
*[[User:Mith/Collection|My Collection]]
*[[User:Mith/Sandbox|My Sandbox]]
*[[User:Mith/Sandbox2|My Second Sandbox]]
*[[User:Mith/sig|My Signature]] (if you want one of your own, see [[Help:Signatures]])
*[[User:Mithbot]], my bot for automatic editing of repetitive and tedious tasks
**[[Special:Contributions/Mithbot|Mithbot's Contributions]]
**[[User:Mithbot/Scripts|Mithbot's Scripts]]
**Mithbot's Talk Page is located at [[User talk: Mith|my talk page]] instead
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