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User:Merri

2011-02-26T11:13:26Z

Merri: Less silly, better detailed information regarding Kontu & position there

Made the original "Gateway to Ithilien" design.

Founder & webmaster of [http://kontu.info Kontu], a Finnish Tolkien site launched in December 19th 2000.

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Déor

2008-08-30T16:50:04Z

Merri: Typo

'''Déor''' ([[Third Age]] 2644 – 2718, aged 74 years) was a direct descendant of [[Eorl the Young]], who inherited the Kingship of [[Rohan]] from his father [[Goldwine]]. Déor's great-great-grandfather, [[Aldor]] the Old, had hunted out the [[Dunlendings]] that had harried the eastern borders of Rohan, and his successors [[Fréa]], [[Fréawine]] and [[Goldwine]] had enjoyed peaceful reigns because of their ancestor's enterprises. In Déor's time, this peace came to an end.

It was later discovered that the Dunlendings had secretly been moving back into the northwestern uplands of Rohan throughout the reigns of Déor's predecessors. By Déor's own time, a powerful Dunlendish force had been established, and the King was forced to ride northward from Edoras, ultimately to defeat his enemies. The victory was a bitter one, though, for he discovered that the Dunlendings had also captured the [[Ring of Isengard]], which Déor had no possible means of recapturing. So Déor's reign saw the beginning of a danger from the north that would reach a crisis nearly fifty years later, when the Dunlendings were to come close to destroying Rohan altogether.

Déor's turbulent reign lasted nineteen years. He was succeeded as King by his son, [[Gram, King of Rohan|Gram]].
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User talk:Merri

2008-03-14T23:10:38Z

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2008-03-14T09:53:57Z

Merri: Even more color adjustments

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2008-03-14T09:44:37Z

Merri: Color adjustments

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User:Merri

2008-03-14T08:53:06Z

Merri: /* Adult life */

Made the "Gateway to Ithilien" design.

Webmaster of [http://kontu.info Kontu], a Finnish Tolkien site.

==Early life==
I was a baby.

==Before teens==
I liked cocoa very much.

==Teens==
I missed this part. Therefore:

==After teens==
Angst.

==Adult life==
Totoro! Azumanga Daioh! All things cute! Still likes cocoa.

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User:Merri

2008-03-14T08:52:04Z

Merri:

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2008-03-14T08:18:50Z

Merri:

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2008-03-12T00:19:15Z

Merri:

<div style="background: #eee; border: 1px solid #aaa; padding: 5px">'''[[Main Page|Tolkien Gateway]] > [[Forum:Council|Council]] > {{PAGENAME}}'''</div> [[Category:Council]]


Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know Merri, from our friends at [http://www.kontu.info Kontu.info], has been working on a new skin for us, something which would give us a bit more of a Tolkien theme. What do you guys think?

* [http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=ithilien Preview Gateway to Ithilien]

It still needs some tweaking but feel free to let me know anything at all you would like changed. Hopefully if everyone thinks it is better than the current skin we can see about making it the default. --[[User:Hyarion|Hyarion]] 00:53, 8 February 2008 (EST)

:It has definite potential. I personally prefer tabs and such to floating boxes, but that's a matter of taste I guess. I really like the top bar with the mountains and sky; that's a definite positive. The green border makes the top look a little too thick, but that may be also because of how the Title is dropped below the talk, etc. buttons. I like the side pillars and dragons, but I think they don't have to be so prominent. Are the graphics from a John Howe painting? --[[User:Narfil Palùrfalas|Narfil Palùrfalas]] 09:52, 8 February 2008 (EST)

::I've now submitted Hyarion the new final version, I don't know when he gets it officially and finally running, but it is pretty much ready to rock. I adjusted the colors of the pillars to be much more grey than green, I found the green to be disturbing. Also, the buttons are smaller now with different color (and I hope better). I'm not so sure how well it works with IE6 though as it is now, I'm not sure if the IE6 specific fixes that I made got in with what I submitted to Hyarion... if someone complains, it'll probably mean a fix is in order. --[[User:Merri|Merri]] 20:19, 11 March 2008 (EDT)

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Edain

2008-02-08T05:55:50Z

Merri: Typo: entymology -> etymology

The '''Edain''' were those [[Men]] who made their way into [[Beleriand]] during the [[Siege of Angband]] during the [[First Age]] and were close allies of the [[Elves]]. The term Edain does not refer to another group of men who entered Beleriand later in the First Age known as the [[Easterlings]] who were noted as being swarthier than the Edain and a large portion of whom would later betray the elves.

== Etymology ==

'''edain''' is the plural of ''[[adan]]'', "man" in [[Sindarin]].

The [[Sindarin]] word ''Edain'', singular ''Adan'' (Quenya ''Atani'', ''Atan'') literally meant ''Second People'', and originally referred to all Men, but later it only applied to the Men of Beleriand and their descendants. The [[Quenya]] term ''Atani'' kept its old meaning.

== The Three Houses ==

They were divided in three large houses, or tribes:

# The '''[[House of Bëor]]''': they were dark-haired and stoutly built, and most resembled the [[Ñoldor]] of all Elves. They were first discovered by [[Finrod Felagund]], Lord of [[Nargothrond]], and under his guidance later made their way to the lands of the Ñoldorin lord [[Amrod]], in a place later known as [[Estolad]], the Encampment. They remained loyal to the House of [[Finarfin]], and later settled in the lands of [[Dorthonion]].
# The Second House, later known as the '''[[Haladin]]''' or the '''House of [[Haleth]]'''. They were a reclusive folk, dark-haired but smaller in stature than the Bëorians. They kept separate from the other Men, and later received permission to settle in the [[Forest of Region]], part of [[Doriath]]. They mostly kept out of the wars.
# The '''House of Marach''', later best known as the '''[[House of Hador]]'''. They were tall and golden-haired, and most resembled the [[Vanyar]] of all Elves. They were a very numerous and war-like tribe, and the [[Green-elves]] of [[Ossiriand]] feared them. They later settled in [[Hithlum]] by way of [[Estolad]]. They were loyal to [[Fingolfin]].

The Bëorians and Marachians shared a common tongue, and were known to each other before settling in Beleriand. The tongue of the Haladin was alien to them.

The House of Bëor was nearly wiped out by [[Morgoth]], and the remainder of its people merged with the Hadorians to become the [[Númenóreans]]. It would seem that the Haladin of Beleriand were completely wiped out, or at least disappeared as a separate people.

== Later History ==

After the [[War of Wrath]] the Edain were honoured and granted the island of [[Númenor]] by the [[Valar]] as a gift for their loyalty to the elves. Thus the Edain's decendants became a race far greater than all other men in Middle Earth, living within sight of the blessed realm.

When the Númenoreans returned to [[Middle-earth]] in the [[Second Age]], they encountered many Men who were obviously related to the Atani: they classified these Men as ''Middle Men'', and established friendly relations with them. Examples are the [[Rohirrim]], the Men of [[Dale]], and the [[Bree]]landers.

Other Men, such as the [[Dunlendings]], were not recognised as Middle Men because they were related to the Haladin rather than Bëorians or Marachians, and they were hostile to Númenor.

A fourth kind of Men came with the Second House, and called themselves ''[[Drûgs|Drûg]]''. This name was adopted in Sindarin as ''[[Drúedain]]'': ''Drûg'' ''Edain''. They were a strange people, living with the Haladin in the forest of [[Brethil]], some even apparently made it to [[Númenor]], but they died out or had left before the [[Akallabêth]]. In the [[Third Age]], their far kin were known as the ''Woses'' of [[Drúadan Forest]].

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