User:Mith

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Mith
Biographical Information
Position	Bureaucrat, Administrator
Language	British English
Age	37
Edit Count	45,722
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Height	6'0''
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Dark brown
Contact Information
Talk Page	Mith
E-mail	mithtolkiengateway.net
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Gandalf to Frodo in The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Shadow of the Past"

Daily To-do

• DELETE: there are 168 pages to be deleted

About Me

I'm Mith and I'm a 37-year-old Tolkien fan from Sussex in the UK. The name Mith is a contraction of the name 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 and administrator. I have been a member of this website and community for nineteen 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; I also worked with User:Hyarion on maintaining the website from a technical perspective, and the previous theme/skin on TG was "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 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 have chaired two charities and am particularly interested in politics and British political history. I'm also an avid fan of Nintendo, and 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 "The Tale of Years" are correctly converted to the Gregorian calendar
  • Extending the information on calendars
• Locations (especially those of The Shire)
  • Eriador, Rhûn and The Shire are all on my hit-list
• Hobbits (continue with Tooks first)
• Constellations, cosmology and astronomy
  • Start with Carnil (see its talk page)
• Work on Durin's Folk
• To further, and expand, the articles on the Arnorian and Gondorian Kings
  • Re-visit the Kings of Arnor as the bar I set for myself is now higher
• Songs and poems
• Forums: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
  • Template:Mallorn, Template:Mallornnav and Template:Amonhen
  • Audiobook infobox
  • LOTRO infobox
  • Extend T:Book (see Wikipedia's)
• New skins for TG
  • Fixing Ithilien to work with 1.17
    • Fixing <ul> and <ol> error with thumbnails
  • Fixing Cavendish to work in 1.17
• Generally tidying and minor edits
• Portals
• Policy and Help
• Creating templates for articles (along the lines of previous ones like this - see my my sandbox for some in progress)

Past

• Creating a new Main Page
• New images for: Balin, Dwalin, Fíli, Kíli, Dori, Nori, Ori, Óin, Glóin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur
• Template for web citations (former Template:Hfd)
• Who; what?; when?; where? link etc.
• Redlink template
• Timeline and years:-
  • Updating existing dates so they contain all relevant information
  • Moving date articles to European date format
  • Bibliographic information
    • See here (start with 1945) and here
• Anything map/map-related
• A template for dates in family trees
• Sorting out the mess that is disambiguation

Favourites

Character: Gandalf (following very closely by Fingolfin)
Location: Gondolin (followed by Tirion)
Quote: see 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", "The Bridge of Khazad-dûm" and "The Lighting of the Beacons"

Pages

• My Talk Page
• My Contributions
• My Collection
• My Sandbox
• My Signature (if you want one of your own, see Help:Signatures)
• User:Mithbot, my bot for automatic editing of repetitive and tedious tasks
  • Mithbot's Contributions
  • Mithbot's Scripts
  • Mithbot's Talk Page is located at my talk page instead