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I have read that Figwit has been renamed Lindir in the Hobbit films. He was given a bigger role. I suggest we rename Figwit to Lindir or maybe we wait until it has been announced properly or something. Your choice :) - Darkchylde 14:07, December 15, 2012 (UTC)

94.174.41.50 has begun vandalizing some pages, e.g., revision 95047. - Gradivus, 22:54, December 18, 2012 (UTC)

As the Hobbit has been released, I think this wiki could do with a few design upgrades. User:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd

I think that the Goblins page should be merged with the Orc page, makes sense as it will stop confusion that they are separate breeds but I don't think that goblins should be completely removed as the word is mentioned a lot and from the way it it used in books like The Hobbit it does seem possible that Goblin refers to smaller or less advanced orcs, also goblin imps are mentioned so they must be a real thing in the universe. (The Great Goblin (talk) 00:30, December 21, 2012 (UTC))

Can you please restore my account? I'm not spam. I've visited LOTR wikia for a while and I wanted to create a profile to contribute.

Thanks.

Mreilly

Reporting Vandals
Is there a quick way to report vandals for banning? - Gradivus, 03:39, January 16, 2013 (UTC)

Copies removal (and deletion of contribution)
Hi! I've been offline for several months and am only just back online.

Regarding your last posting on my talk page: a bit cheeky asking whether I'm interested in contributing to a forum after you deleted my detailed contribution: http://lotr.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum%3AProject%3A_Tolkien_Gateway_and_Wikipedia_copies_removal&diff=87901&oldid=77994

-- Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:08, December 24, 2012 (UTC)

Confused
Hello, I'm MsIsamisa :) Nice to meet you! I would like to know something...When I'm wondering the wiki, some users add fan-arts to characters that aren't physically portrayed by either Tolkien or Peter Jackson...Is that okay? Just asking! :) &#42;MsIsamisa (talk) 14:19, December 31, 2012 (UTC)

The late Lord of dale
Tell me, DarkLantern, is Girion a man or not?? HiddenVale 03:40, January 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * I assume you are referring to my reverting of your adding of the Men category to Girion page. A category already exists 'Category:Men of Dale and Laketown', that is all that is needed. There is such a thing as over categorization. It will stay as it is now.--DarkLantern (talk) 04:17, January 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * ...If the Category you mentioned leads to the Category of Men, in general, since he is (was) still a Man. And it probably does.  HiddenVale 04:20, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

User Block
Thought I'd pass this along to you...

Unsure who the admin's are here, but this user is removing content from pages and needs to be blocked. User 109.131.86.253 :) --QueenBuffy Dec. 27, 2012

Peter 17:06, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

RE: navigation menus
Hi DarkLantern. I'm back to work, so I'm just now seeing your last message. The 'On the Wiki' section of the navigation menu is inaccessible, so adding links there is not an option.

For the Monobook navigation menus, they are controlled by MediaWiki:Sidebar. JoePlay http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/joeplayground/images/a/a5/WikiaStaff2.png (talk)  18:46, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

Hey, I just finished with Cair Andros from the Article Attack page. Let me know if you desire further changes. I hope it is passable as an article. Henneth Annun (talk) 14:39, January 3, 2013 (UTC)Henneth Annun

Witch-king/Witch-King of Angmar
Right now there is a "Witch-King of Angmar" page (in which the "K" in "Witch-King" is capitalized), and a special page "Witch-king of Angmar" ("k" not capitalized) that redirects to Witch-King of Angmar (which according to the history was done by user SarumanTheGray). My problem with that is that Tolkien never capitalized the "king" in that name; it was always the Witch-king. If that's the way Tolkien did it, that's the way we should do it. But I'm not sure how to switch those two pages without messing something up, and I thought I'd run it by you in any case. Your thoughts?

Rollback Rights
You're asking me if I'm having problems with Rollback. I'm not, but as I mentioned previously, I use "Undo" when I want to give the person who made the edit an explanation of why I deleted it, so he won't just make the change again. "Rollback" is a one-click operation, so there doesn't seem to be away to leave an explanation in History. Would you prefer I use "Rollback" and then give the explanation in the person's Talk page? - Gradivus, 04:16, January 4, 2013 (UTC)

Hi there,

I don't know how to do that so I'm going to ask User:Joeplay to help you again with it...

Cheers, Peter 18:56, January 4, 2013 (UTC)

Here was Joeplay's response to you- http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:DarkLantern#RE:_navigation_menus

Does that help? Peter 19:03, January 4, 2013 (UTC)
 * I didn't see any response from him (your link just goes to this page), but I don't think I'm having problems with it. - Gradivus, 22:18, January 4, 2013 (UTC)

Anar
Hello. Is there any reason to delete Anar (dwarf) if he is a non-canon character? I'm curious, because other articles like Nordinbad and Gorin exist and you placed a deletion tag on Anar. Greetings 22:03, January 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Here is a walkthrough video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BP8S6EmoGY&list=SPA7616F403F1289E1) that features Anar. 23:42, January 4, 2013 (UTC)

Tense when discussing ancient Tolkien languages
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've asked HiddenVale to stop replacing past tense with present tense when discussing ancient Tolkien languages such as the various versions of Elvish, having noticed that you've begun reversing those changes he made, having decided (quite rightly, in my opinion) that regardless of whether fans of Tolkien have learned those languages, they are languages of a fictional antiquity and therefore must be spoken of in the past tense, as is customary. - Gradivus, 18:54, January 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * Or not; I just saw you correct tense in the other direction. - Gradivus, 19:48, January 6, 2013 (UTC)

Apology
I'm sorry I wasn't aware I had deleted any templates-Ronin6401

Rollback
Can I please have rollback rights? Keelan717  (  Talk  ) 11:01, January 6, 2013 (UTC)

Something rather disturbing
Forgive me if I'm bothering you, but I just saw this on the Legolas page: "He dreaamed of fucking frodo, until his hobbit brain went pyscho crazy like gollum, Legolas is the reason why gollum fucked up because he fucked his brains with the ring... poor gollum! Your sincerly Peter Jackson." I deleted it but I thought I should let you know. 13:44, January 9, 2013 (UTC)

RE: Message highlight problem
MediaWiki:Sitenotice only works on the Monobook skin. The newer skin uses a different method for alerting all users of important information. See Help:Community messages to find out it works. If that method isn't good enough, you could just add the message to the main page itself above the slider. JoePlay http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/joeplayground/images/a/a5/WikiaStaff2.png (talk)  17:30, January 11, 2013 (UTC)

Blocking
I think "1 day" is hardly worth the trouble. I'd give at least a week to anyone who removed content, more time if it was important or extensive. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 09:53, January 13, 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for the welcome! :)  XXLVenom998  (Surprise me!) 15:58, January 14, 2013 (UTC)

Thank You for reading my edited posts for "Battle of Osgiliath" TroyTroodon (talk)

Guinea pigs?
Hello,

Wikia would like to run a small experiment with how we handle search engine traffic for images and I was hoping this wiki would be able to help us out. You shouldn't notice any user-facing changes, as the test will be on the backend. If anything, we hope there might be a slight uptick in traffic coming to this wiki. Is this something this community could help us out with?

Thanks,--semanticdrifter (help forum | blog) 20:43, January 15, 2013 (UTC)

Kinslaying at Alqualondë
I see you've changed my edit back. But the way you've left it is terribly redundant; the first two paragraphs are essentially the same sentence repeated twice, with a second (disambiguation) sentence added to one of them. What was wrong with my method? - Gradivus, 23:51, January 15, 2013 (UTC)

Message from TroyTroodon
I suck at editing, just when it seems like I could be fixing something, there's alwasy something that that looks like it could be fixed...but I don't wanna change too much other wise others will get annoyed.

Just had to let it out. I'm new at this. TroyTroodon

I shouldn't be the only one actually working on this website
I'm finding out now that the Book of Lost Tales 2 and The Hobbit have a lot of content in it that isn't mentionedhere on this Wiki, including many early name-versions of things and Sindarin ("Gnomish" it was called) meanings. You might have noticed I put a ton of that stuff in wherever it went just now; and I'm actually putting my many sources to use here. If you have any History of Middle-earth book within reach, use it. Especially same with the Atlas of Middle-earth, which I own also. We need to add in everything that shows up in these books so that this Wiki can actually "Rule Them All", and be the #1 online source for everything about Middle-earth. That's the last thing your'e not able to help with.

And something else (very minor) to watch for whenever you're reading a page: take away periods from picture-labels that aren't sentences, e.g. "Guritz the Advance Captain" (not a sentence) as opposed to "Theoden approaches Helm's Deep" or whatever. HiddenVale 05:01, January 17, 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Can I ask you where to find a list of all the templates? Thanks!  XXLVenom998  (Surprise me!) 18:28, January 18, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much, thats what I was looking for exactly! The Witch King be with you! :)  XXLVenom998  (Surprise me!) 12:08, January 19, 2013 (UTC)

Tomb of Elendil
I see you deleted this page; at the time it consisted of nothing but profanity. But was there a previous version? The Tomb of Elendil was an actual place in Middle-earth. - Gradivus, 18:08, January 20, 2013 (UTC)

New Pages
Seeing as how the Gar Ainion page was given a good fixing with all the stuff you added right after I created it,  it would be if you as an Admin. were notified whenever a page is made, especially because I'll be adding a lot of them within throughout the month. That way you see it immediately so you can "Update links, external links & add category" to all of them. HiddenVale 02:10, January 24, 2013 (UTC)

Well? What are your thoughts? HiddenVale 02:55, January 27, 2013 (UTC)

Please block me. Someone found out my password and griefed the wiki. Block my account before they grief more. Block it. Please.

TerrariaKing (talk) 19:08, January 29, 2013 (UTC)

Wikia Alliances
Hey DarkLantern,

Thanks for participating in Wikia's Fantasy Fellowship! We're launching a new initiative that allows people to pick from three alliances- SciFi Galaxy, Heroes United, and Fantasy Fellowship. All the information can be found here and you can join here. Let me know if you have any questions and I hope you decide to participate!

Kate

Hey DarkLantern, I undid my edit. Everything seems normal now to me. Are you still having any problems seeing anything on the mainpage? If so I will make sure we get it fixed.

Thanks!

Hotsoup.6891 (talk) 23:04, January 31, 2013 (UTC)

Hello DarkLanern,

I was wondering if, since mods are not allowed, if I can at least mention them in the articles I edit?

I did already on Half-trolls, Black Númenórean, and Uruk-hai.

If this is prohibited, I will remove the objects I put there. --Smeagol630 (talk) 20:41, February 1, 2013 (UTC)

Partener
hi dark lantern,and I am delighted to be a partner of the lotr wiki, please check it on my profile for see the wiki, this name is Wiki Indiana Jonespedia.I know it's not and lotr but please accept. Lord Tyranus (Holoprojetor)  23:52, February 2, 2013 (UTC)

Message left on my Wall
So yeah, I read a bit of the template left on my wall and noticed it asked how I discovered this wikia. To answer that question, I simply knew of Wikia's existance and then searched for 'lord of the rings wikia' ending up here.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy - Horakoeri 17:12, February 3, 2013 (UTC)

Template:T
Are you familiar with T? It's usually the best way to quote a template because it can be copied and pasted straight into a page but it also acts as a link. Example Welc1. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 01:30, February 7, 2013 (UTC)

OOPS - on this wiki it doesn't produce a copy-and-paste model. What's different here? -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 01:33, February 7, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not too keen on some templates. Try asking User:Cook Me Plox of Wikia Community Central, he specializes in templates and helped me fix a template I was working on a few days ago.--DarkLantern (talk) 01:48, February 7, 2013 (UTC)

Chat
Since you are an admin could you install a chat on this wikia.

thank youSharkey1399 (talk) 14:26, February 9, 2013 (UTC)

Admins
It seems that there is a lack of regulation on this wiki. Many add unnecessary information, and those who see it are unable to revise the changes (page creation). It seems that you should appoint an active user as an admin to do what is needed to do. BrundtBro the Chieftain (talk) 22:12, February 11, 2013 (UTC)

Return of the season's guy
Hey DarkLantern, I just returned to editing this Wiki (after watching The Hobbit movie and reacquiring my editing interest). I'll probably continue with my chronology project and do some other updates from the movie adaptation. Is there anything else new here (policies, wiki pages) that I should be aware of? Thanks in advance. Winterz (talk) 19:52, February 15, 2013 (UTC)

PJ films separate scenes with articles?!
Hey DarkLantern, I wanted to propose the speedy deletion of all PJ scenes' articles and respective infobox template. Why? It's simple, this Wiki is not about the movies, the scene articles present nothing besides the scene's name (which I could individually add to the respective movie article), and they were all added by a single un-registered user. What do you think of this? Winterz (talk) 18:31, February 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd also, if you are available, like you to look at this random article, Ñoldor Warriors, which I worked on today, and tell me if you like this template/model as an examplary article. Don't worry about the ref coding error, I'll fix that soon and will introduce three new templates for you or any other active administrator to analyze and see if you authorize the larger use of this. I promise the three are of great use to this Wiki. Winterz (talk) 22:36, February 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure why you're ignoring my messages, and I do apologize if they're being annoying (though I wouldn't understand why), but I'd thank you if I received a reply of any kind. Here are two of the templates I mentioned: Template:Appearances and Template:Conjecture‎. The first is to organize appearances lists of novels/movies/videogames or whatever source that received an article here, I was initially intending to add the "Show/Hide" function so it wouldn't occupy a lot of space in the source article however, that requires JavaScript so it's out of my reach. The other may suit us for articles that haven't received any official name like Gollum's lake, Samwise Gamgee's Sword and so on. As a trial reference I've applied the first template to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, check it out when you can. Still about the film article, I wanted to get all the production/development stuff out of the main article and to a more suitable "sub-article" (considering that the movie was already released) and wanted to know if you oppose that. Thanks in advance, sir. Winterz (talk) 22:26, February 25, 2013 (UTC)

Re: Ekukanova's Works
Godness me, I'm so sorry! I didn't know that. Good thing you told me before it was too late. I'll keep that in mind now. Thanks! What about other artists? Are there any other artists who don't want their works displayed? Anyway, thanks and so sorry again. - Darkchylde (talk) 05:35, February 25, 2013 (UTC)


 * I see. Thank you. Perhaps I'll ask for permission the next time. - Darkchylde (talk) 06:03, February 25, 2013 (UTC)

Improvement drive
Hey DarkLantern, just wanted to let you know that I've started an improvement drive project in preparation for the next Hobbit film. Check it out and feel free to participate if you're interested! ;) Winterz (talk) 13:22, February 27, 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey just a heads-up, DarkLantern, I'm not sure you remember me 2 years back, and that's why I assume you ignore all my messages (even though I know as a fact that you're watchful of your talkpage), also explaining why you've replied to only a third of my requests (not positive nor negative). Now we kind of collaberated pretty well 2 years back, when I actively edited here, so I'm just gonna try this a last time. This isn't about my personal project (which I mentioned above) at all, but as the two most active editors (and probably only) here right now, I believe it would be best if there was more communication between us (at least from your side) leading to collaboration. Why I posted that project thing here was simply to let us work in some focus together, but if you're not interested it's fine. Just please let me know, don't leave me in complete ignorance. In fact, just because I think we really need to collaborate/communication more, I'm going to ask you to name something for me to help you with...the forum's article attack? Other? You name it. I await your reply, and thank you in advance for reading this. As long as there is communication between us, I shall help in whatever I can. P.S. Feel free to be straight, if you don't want to reply to me because you think I'm annoying, let me know and though I won't be offended at all, I'll stop "bothering you", if that's really where you stand, sir. Winterz (talk) 22:12, February 27, 2013 (UTC)

Adminship
Sometimes I wonder whether you are a closet deletionist!!!!!!! http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/LOTR:Requests_for_adminship?s=wldiff&diff=0&oldid=99253 has your edit summary "added to" but while adding five lines you deleted ten. Maybe you should check whether you meant to do that. -- Robin Patterson (Talk)

Chapters
Hello DarkLantern. I've noticed the lack of information on our chapter pages. I have a proposal and I hope you will bear with me. I made this template (See right part of the section). Along with the said template, this format will be added on the chapter pages. I am hoping for your kind consideration. Thank you. - Darkchylde (talk) 11:08, March 3, 2013 (UTC)
 * Plot
 * Summary
 * Characters
 * Main
 * Supporting
 * Notes
 * References


 * Whew! Thanks! :) - Darkchylde (talk) 11:17, March 3, 2013 (UTC)

Finally!
For your reference, all the pages I make I will list here. HiddenVale 04:29, March 8, 2013 (UTC)

A few things
Hey DarkLantern, just wanted to note a few things:
 * I've been thinking of doing a Manual of Style page, an examplary template to serve as guideline on how to write a propper article. If you allow this, I would, before announcing it to public, show you so you can take your conclusions on what should be modified or so.
 * I've been speed tagging some articles which you seem to ignore, most are those film scenes articles that I've told you about some in this talk page some weeks ago, which you claimed that I had your approval.
 * How are "Featured articles" chosen?
 * Thanks for reading and, if possible, a reply would be helpful. Winterz (talk) 00:51, March 10, 2013 (UTC)

Hi
Hi dark lantern,you have to send the link of the background image wiki, why do I want to use my.

Lord Tyranus (Holoprojetor)  16:11, March 12, 2013 (UTC)

Featured Content for Mainpage
Hey Dark Lantern,

I'm getting in touch because I want to ask your persmission if I can update the featured video on the main page. I have an with Martin Freeman where he answers questions from the LOTR community.

Just let me know if that would be okay.

Thanks!

Nick 18:17, March 14, 2013 (UTC)

Martin Freeman Interview
Hey,

In regards to if there will be another round of Q&A with anyone from the movie, I'm told that probably won't happen til the next movie is about to come out. : /  Sorry about that.

However, I still think it would be a good idea to put the current interview up as the featured video as it was members of the commmunity that generated the questions, which is pretty awesome. : )

I'll leave it up to you to decide if you want i tup there. If you have any other questions for me, let me know!

Nick 17:07, March 18, 2013 (UTC)

Blah Blah Blah ...Rise of the Witch-king
Can we have it so that when wanting to link Rise of the Witch-king (the PC game) we don't need to type or even start typing The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king? That thought even to me is rediculous, and how long that title is. It might require renaming it, or simply making a redirect which I have not learned how to do yet....and I as an Administrator I should.

That'd be very helpful, HiddenVale  04:42, March 20, 2013 (UTC) Oh good, thank you. What is that first sentence doing there, was that a typo? If your'e annoyed by my message to DarkLantern, you could have.... ...not put up with having to do any of this; but you did anyway, so that's random. HiddenVale 03:44, March 21, 2013 (UTC)
 * Wow Hidden, just wow. Anyway I went ahead and created the redirect, so everytime you now type "Rise of the (...)" on the search function it will lead you to BFME2:ROTWK (I've also created a redirect for this). It is very simple to create a redirect page, just check the coding here (this will redirect you to the actual article but you then must press on the top where it says "Redirected from Rise of the Witch-king" and it is there that you can check the code to see how it is done). Winterz (talk) 10:20, March 20, 2013 (UTC)

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Alibabagod/Occasions_diff%C3%A9rentes_%C3%A0_choisir_le_casque_est_devenu_un_symbole_de_l%27%C3%A9volution_de_la_vie

Not sure how to report pages, so here you go :P

Elrantiri (talk) 09:27, March 22, 2013 (UTC)

This is so cool
It's so cool how you know  so much about middle earth. I'm reading the Fellowship at the moment, but am planning to read all of his other works including the silmarillion, which I recently purchased. I've already read the Hobbit, but I just wanted to tell you that I apperciate you sharing your knowledge :)

69.206.72.228 03:35, March 28, 2013 (UTC)Merenwen

Rollback rights
Hello DL, do you know where I can nominate myself for rollback rights? It's just that I've been doing many reverts (as it is something that is very much required here), however since I'm limited to a simple undo of one previous edit this generally prevents me from contributing it further and some articles I just can't revert even though a lot of damage has been done to them. For this reason, I seek Rollback rights so I can undo said users' vandalism contributions in articles. Winterz (talk) 01:03, March 30, 2013 (UTC)
 * I would also like to report User:DynasticHunter to you, as he's been vandalizing the wiki for months, you can easily check it on his contributions list. Winterz (talk) 01:06, March 30, 2013 (UTC)