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Hi from Norran

Hello Surendil! Thank you for giving me such a warm and lovely welcome!

The artist is Rowena Morrill, but sadly I am not sure if she has leased her work for public viewing or not. The image will stay on wikipedia, however it does need reference. If you could find anything about Rowena allowing this beautiful painting to be used, then please go ahead, it would really help. Thank you (PS I think its the best picture of Lúthien I've seen)

You've been so pleasent, and I'm happy to say that I've joined the Middle-earth wki project oh and yes ;), it was me who has been annonymously adding stuff to Tolkien articles of recent.

Bye! Norran 19:57, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Pic crops
Hi, I see you cropped out the calligraphy on a couple of illustrations I added. e.g.Tuor. Any particular reason why?Tttom1 01:35, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Arconian RFD
On 14 July, you tagged Arconian with a rfd template. However, you did not complete the RFD nomination by listing it at WP:RFD. RFD nominations are a two step process. Please complete the second step per the instructions. If you do not do so in a reasonable amount of time, I will assume you no longer wish it deleted and remove the tag. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 23:14, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The same applies to Sador (Labadal). -- JLaTondre 23:20, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for listing them. -- JLaTondre 12:49, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
See this for a longer thanks on the relevant page. Would you mind if I pointed this out at the WikiProject talk page, or do you want to finish it first (I can't tell if you are finished yet or not). Carcharoth 10:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, looking at User talk:Sejanus, I see that the redundant template category got emptied. Was that you? If so, thanks for that as well. Would you be interested in tidying up Category:WikiProject Middle-earth templates? :-) Carcharoth 10:51, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Goodness. I've been looking through your contributions, and your overhaul (or rather complete rewrite) of House of Hador was very impressive. Do you mind if I ask what else you have been working on, as it is difficult to see in your contribs log amongst all the work on redirects? Carcharoth 11:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * And I though I was only idling my time during summer work practice... Empting a category I stumbled across was also one of minor affairs. I've been working seriously on Edain section; if you're interested, see House of Bëor, House of Haleth, Easterlings (First Age) and articles that are linked from these. Any improvements all more than welcomed, especially since mai iinglish iz fa from perfect. Currently preparing to expand Túrin and Beren articles (an overwhelming task), but otherwise I suppose I've finished with the section. The redirects categorised are mostly related to Edain, and I don't wish to deal with the most of others before Stewards, Kings, minor places etc. are merged. Súrendil 13:43, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure. Thanks again and good luck with Turin and Beren! Carcharoth 13:50, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

MER with possibilities
I just created the redirect Alliterative verse by J. R. R. Tolkien. I also put it in "redirects with possibilities. Do you think it is possible to create a "Middle-earth redirects with possibilities" category, probably as a subcategory of Category:Middle-earth redirects to sections. A note could also be added to Category:Middle-earth redirects to lists expanding on the note that says "not notable enough to have a separate page" - saying that redirects to topics that might one day have their own page are in this new category? What do you think? Another candidate would be the redirect Bibliography of J. R. R. Tolkien. Carcharoth 12:44, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not so sure about "Redirect with possibilities", as I would prefer first to expand something, then categorise. Yet if you want to create such a category, possibly it should rather be a subcat of M-e redirects, with a big notice on WikiProject page encouraging to expand these redirects. Súrendil 13:43, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * That sounds like a better idea. Thanks. Carcharoth 13:49, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. Carcharoth 15:47, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Middle-earth redirects from redundant titles
Category:Middle-earth redirects from redundant titles. I like it! The bad news is that Category:Middle-earth redirects wasn't fully populated. I did a lot of the populating of that category, though I got someone with AWB to import a load of hobbit names, but there are probably a lot of redirects out there that aren't caught in our net. I once asked about whether AWB could do a combined list of "what redirects here" for all the articles on a list of hundreds of pages, but never followed that up. Would you have any idea how to track down all the redirects? (They are labelled as such on "what links here" for individual pages). Carcharoth 15:49, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Tolkien battles may be deleted!
Battle of the Pelennor Fields, of all things, is on AfD! Second Battle of Hogwarts was recently deleted and redirected to Harry Potter ' s war article, and they've set their sights on Tolkien battles. Apparently, their reasoning is if you delete one fictional battle you'd have to delete all of them. Uthanc 16:38, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

More redirects and categories stuff
I've just seen the 'renaming' of the orcs category - good work. There are some entries on that list, though, that aren't in the category. Do you think you could deal with that? I also noted your update to Portal:Middle-earth/Pages - thanks. May I ask how you discovered Trotter (The Lord of the Rings)? I noticed you put "??" next to it - I'm a bit concerned about it as well. If you have any concerns, may you could raise them on the talk page? Carcharoth 13:04, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * On orcs see my comments at the talk page. I suppose I was the first one to notice Trotter article when I reverted Inhloli's addition of the link to Aragorn article, but did not procede as I was busy at that moment and had no will to discourage Inhloli from using Wikipedia. Comments will be added to Talk:Aragorn. Súrendil 08:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Missed this reply. I've replied at the talk pages. Carcharoth 12:27, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Helkär
I have seen it spelled with the umlaut in some books and a few LOR sites. However, if you'd like to return it to the original title, that's fine by me. No hard feelings.--Whytecypress 19:16, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

gulf of lune
You reverted my re-addition of a notability tag to Gulf of Lune - I don't see how merging this article can help it much - it needs some context, or deletion. I find it unlikely that this article would find much mention at all except in passing perhaps in relation to the grey havens in a plot summary - do you think it is relavent in some other way that I ahven't thought of? Please respond on the articles talk page. thansjk87.102.17.39 20:21, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Template:CompactTOC8T
I've merged the functions of this template into CompactTOC8 and replaced the instances of it, so I'm nominating it for deletion. Just to let you know. Circeus 18:01, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Redirects from diacritics
Did I ever point you at User:Carcharoth/Tolkien spellings? Lots of redirects there that could be created and put in that redirects from diacritics category. Some might be wrong though. See what you think. Carcharoth 21:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Middle-earth collaboration
I'm thinking of trying something different to get more editing going on Middle-earth articles, and more interest at the WikiProject. I came across your sandbox version of The Children of Hurin, and wondered whether that would be a good candidate for a collaboration? Either that, or one of the other book articles. Maybe The Silmarillion or The Hobbit? Carcharoth 16:05, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I will gladly do what I can, though I still hope finishing this one. Concerning CoH, yes, I suppose there's yet a good deal that can be added, and collaboration would help it greatly; indeed I was considering to raise a couple of topics on the talk page, especially on how are we to 'synchronise' the CoH article, Narn i Chîn Húrin, The Lay of the Children of Húrin and Túrin Turambar in respect of overlapping content. The Hobbit also requires much work, especialy after that synopsis epopee... Again, I'll do what I can. Súrendil 16:43, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Template:CompactTOC8
As you have edited this template significantly, you may be interested in this TfD, one way or another. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 10:17, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Top-importance Tolkien articles
Hi Súrendil. I noticed some reassessments of articles to top-importance. I generally agree with the ones you've added there, but in the past have tried to keep the number in that category manageable. I like to think of it as the articles that should eventually be brought up to featured article standard, so I feel this category is best kept small. What do you think? It might be worth having another go at WikiProject Middle-earth/Assessment/Importance. Sometimes a manual layout is better than categories. Do you want to have another go at that? Carcharoth (talk) 13:21, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I completely agree that only potential (and wanted) featured articles should be assessed as top-importance and selected for the release of Wikipedia. Just, as the category stood, it included only one geographical article - Middle-earth, while IMHO notable locations can not only be more important than characters 'from external point of view upon Tolkien's works', but also have more possibilities. Númenor is admittedly not a very good candidate for a FA - little can be told of it from OOU point of view, unless it would be here that we place all the history of Akallabêth, with Notion Club Papers discussed etc. However, Valinor is the heart of Tolkien's writings, since all else spawned from his Lost Tales; it certainly deserves inclusion into the 1.0 release, and I hope much can be written about its influence on 'popular culture'. The same can be said of Beleriand; however, about Beleriand's 'concept and creation' more can be written than about that of any other in-universe topic. I won't change the importance list; leaving all decisions up to you. PS Good work with List of Númenóreans and the politics of Númenor, I planned to do the same! Only, was Tal-Elmar Númenórean?? Súrendil (talk) 20:01, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Good point about the geographical articles. Please don't just leave it to me. It helps to get ideas from more than one person. The oIccasional tweaks are fine, it is just wholesale changes I want to avoid. About Tal-Elmar - not a clue. Maybe I should read the (unfinished) story? :-) Carcharoth (talk) 11:22, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

I want my article back
Why did you redirect my article (Giant Spider) to List of Middle-earth animals? It was waaay overdue and you took it away! I want it back, please.Smartguy777 (talk) 03:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC) PS: And why did you call that a minor edit?
 * Articles such as that one do not satisfy the criteria for inclusion set out at WP:FICT. There're loads of similar articles on Wikipedia, and many users would have them deleted overall, yet hopefully it has been decided at WT:Me (check the archives) to merge many of them to list articles that neatly group similar topics and have more chances of proving notability instead of having a bundle of short stubs. You are still encouraged to expand the relevant section of List of Middle-earth animals (personally, I find it handier), and also to join the WP:WikiProject Middle-earth. (Sorry for labelling the edit as minor, checked the box mechanically.) Súrendil (talk) 09:07, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
 * You do understand that WP:FICT is a proposed policy. It is not the ultimate authority. Smartguy777 (talk) 21:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC) PS: Sorry, though :-(.

Hey
Thanks for your work on the Faramir article! — Mirlen  Talk  00:18, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, I haven't finished yet... Súrendil (talk) 22:06, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion on The Tolkien Society of Sweden
Hi. :) I have removed the speedy notice on this article since I was not able to complete your request. The request indicated that "The page to be moved to this name is The Tolkien Society of Sweden", but obviously that's problematic since that was the name of the page tagged for deletion. :) In case it was a typo, I followed the redirect and found that rather than a page, it's a subsection, so obviously it can't be moved either. If you'd like to explain more fully what it is you want of that page, I'd be happy to try to help. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hmm. I see that further steps are being taken in that arena, and that Tolkien Society of Sweden now redirects instead to Reception of J. R. R. Tolkien. In case that's what's wanted at The Tolkien Society of Sweden, I have redirected it to the same target. Again, please let me know if this is not what's needed of the page. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:29, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * (edit conflict) Well, the article Tolkien Society of Sweden was recently merged, but it seems by the extenal links and sources that the official name is The Tolkien Society of Sweden. This was the original title of the stubby article (I don't know why it was moved), and since one of the redirects to the new list should remain "the" redirect to section, i.e. the one that will be listed in Category:Tolkien societies, I decided that it should also be the one with page history. Súrendil (talk) 14:36, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah, I see. At least I think I do. :) There's been a lot of activity there today. :) It's a naming convention issue. MOS seems to be with you. I'll go take a look at it and see what can be done. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:42, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay. The merged article is now tucked behind the redirect at The Tolkien Society of Sweden. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:46, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Súrendil (talk) 14:52, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Reply (disambigs and Film weapons)
Hi Surendil. See here for my reply. I'll try to get more active in this area again soon, but you and others are doing great! Carcharoth (talk) 13:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Tolkien Gateway and CorenBot whitelist
See here for a situation similar to the Everholt one. Would you have time to fix that one and look around for any more? I think Tolkien Gateway (which is GFDL) needs to be requested to go on the User:CorenSearchBot whitelist - would you be able to do that as well? Sorry, but no time to do this myself. We do need to credit Tolkien Gateway (as they do for us), so could you ask the article editor to do this. Also, Hyarion should probably also be told of this. Carcharoth (talk) 15:34, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Though it turns out that Firenholt was from Encylopedia of Arda via Tolkien Gateway, so was a copyvio. I think. See here. Carcharoth (talk) 16:18, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Realms of Arda
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CfD nomination of Category:Middle-earth Orcs
I have nominated middle-earth orcs for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 00:20, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Middle-earth redirect categories
See here. Would you have time to deal with reorganising things? I suspect it will be one of us two. Instructions at the WikiProject might need updating, or maybe not, if the only action is to recategorise the category and the list articles and to rename the root category for the redirects. Carcharoth (talk) 02:35, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I've just realised that the "show redirects" feature recently enabled on the mediawiki software could be a better way of handling and tracking some redirects. For example, see here. The same URL structure can be used to generate similar links for all Middle-earth and Tolkien articles. Indeed, it could be applied by template. The lists for Middle-earth, J. R. R. Tolkien, and The Lord of the Rings are here, here and here, for example. For a example for a Middle-earth list, see here. What do you think? Does this have possibilities? Carcharoth (talk) 21:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm aware of this feature, I just don't want to do all this it right now. I hope to get some more free time this month, and plan to finish reorganising existing lists (both watchlists and those for non-editing users). If the matter is not urgent, lets see how can we deal with duplicating categories once the lists are done. Súrendil (talk) 20:05, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Battles merges
Replied on my page (let's keep it there). Uthanc (talk) 14:36, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

You are wasting my time
If you are removing my prods and not merging the articles somewhere. 90% of them will get deleted if they go to AFD, so just merge them and don't put notability tags on them, most of them have been tagged for a long time with no improvement, because no improvement is coming to un-notable article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Judgesurreal777 (talk • contribs) 20:03, 21 July 2008
 * I just do not like copy-paste editing; you can see my style in these edits:, . At the moment, I am working on Minas Tirith and later will possibly proceed to Rohan. Súrendil (talk) 20:19, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Your now my new favorite wikipedian :) Thanks for a thoughtful answer, and a really cool barnstar. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 21:48, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Galvorn
Hi there - I saw that you proposed moving Galvorn out into a separate article again, but I didn't see any new content in Galvorn (Middle-earth) that would replace it as that link is another redirect to the Middle Earth list. I've reverted your edit for now to preserve the history and the redirect. --Deadly&forall;ssassin 16:16, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Featured article review
Thought you might be interested in helping out with improving The Lord of the Rings, so I'm letting you know about Featured article review/The Lord of the Rings. Thanks. Carcharoth (talk) 02:24, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Your input requested
Hi. A proposal on the re-creation of WP:RUSSIA is currently underway at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia/Proposal. One of the main points is that we should have workgroups covering different topics. We are trying to ascertain the interest of editors in various workgroups under WP:RUSSIA, such as history, politics, biographical, etc; as your userpage indicates you are Russian or live in Russia, perhaps you can take a read of the proposal, comment on it wherever you have thoughts, and perhaps provide details of any Russian topics you may be interested and are willing to collaborate with other editors on? Your input is valued. Cheers. --Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 20:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Me battle
Template:Infobox Me battle has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 14:12, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:CompactTOC8/Dev1
Template:CompactTOC8/Dev1 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 13:30, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Stories Project
Hi!

My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia. I'm chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community around the world, including those from readers, editors, and donors. Stories are absolutely essential for any non-profit to persuade people to support the cause, and we know the vast network of people who make and use Wikipedia have so much to share.

I'm scouring user pages looking for inspiring, motivating and interesting stories of how Wikipedia has affected the lives of people. I'm asking questions like "How has Wikipedia changed your life?", "What's the most interesting story you have about Wikipedia?" and "Has Wikipedia ever surprised you?"

Last year, we used the annual fundraiser as a way to show the world who it is who actually writes Wikipedia. We featured editors from Brazil, Ukraine, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, India, United States and England. This campaign was a huge success, resulting in the most financially successful fundraising campaign ever. It was also a campaign that stayed true to the spirit of Wikipedia, educating the public that this free top-5 website is created by volunteers like you and I.

This year we want to highlight more Russian-language Wikipedia editors, so I am in the process of planning a trip to Russia to interview editors.

If you or someone you know (or have heard about) has been positively affected by Wikipedia, or have something interesting to say about Wikipedia I'd very much like to hear about it!

Please let me know if you're inclined to take part in the Wikipedia Stories Project, or if you know someone else with whom I should speak.

Of course, if you have any questions or concerns, please ask! I will answer as soon as I can. I apologize for any poor translation of this letter, I am using Google-translate. I hope it makes you laugh :)

Thank you for your time,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

__________________________________

Привет!

Меня зовут Виктор, и я рассказчик с Wikimedia Foundation, некоммерческая организация, которая поддерживает Википедию. Я хроник вдохновляющих историй сообщества Википедии по всему миру, в том числе и читателей, редакторов и доноров. Истории совершенно необходимы для любой некоммерческой органицации, чтобы убедить людей поддержывать наш проект, и мы знаем, что у людей, которые строют и используют Википедии есть много, что рассказать!

Я ищу вдохновляющие страницы пользователей, и интересных историй о том, как Википедия влияют на жизнь людей. Я задавал вопросы вроде "Как Википедия изменила Вашу жизнь?", "Какая самая интересная история у Вас есть о Википедии?" и "Википедия ли когда-нибудь Вас удивило?"

В прошлом году мы использовали ежегодный сбор средств как способ показать миру, кто на самом деле пишет Википедия. Мы показывали редакторов из Бразилии, Украины, Аргентины, Саудовской Аравии, Кении, Индии, США и Англии. Этот метод имел огромный успех, в результате чего у нас была наиболее финансово успешная кампании по сбору средств в историе организации. Кроме того, мы остались верны духу Википедии, просвещение общественности, что это бесплатно ТОП-5 Сайт создан добровольцами, как Ви и я.

В этом году мы хотим выделить еще редакторов Википедии на русском языке, так что я нахожусь в процессе планирования поездки в Россию и интервью с редакторами.

Если Википедия положительно повлеяла на Вас или на кого-то из Ваших знакомых, или у Вас есть что-то интересное сказать о Википедии, я бы очень хотел услышать об этом!

Пожалуйста, дайте мне знать, если Ви бы хотели участвовать в проекте Истории Википедии, или если вы знаете кого-то еще, с кем я должен поговорить.

Конечно, если у Вас есть какие-либо вопросы или сомнения, пожалуйста, обращайтесь! Я отвечу, как только смогу. Извините за плохой перевод этого письма, я использую Google-перевод. Я надеюсь, что заставляет вас смеяться :)

Спасибо за Ваше время,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Victor Grigas (talk) 22:09, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Andróg


The article Andróg has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Minor character, no external sources indicating notability outside of the work.

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Tolkien Category Pollution
Your Monobook.js script User:YLSS/monobook.js, is showing up in the Category Category:Tolkien articles of unclear notability. This is against WP:USERNOCAT which indicates that User files should not be in mainspace categories. I wish I could tell you how to fix it, but I don't understand the complicated setup you have on your monobook.js, However it should be fixed.Naraht (talk) 21:30, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Heh, ✅. Lucky, you are! YLSS (talk) 20:36, 3 January 2013 (UTC)