User:Corsair Caruso

Corsair Caruso
Gatekeeper
Biographical Information
Language	American English
Location	Texas,US
Age	30
Edit Count	215
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Height	5' 8.5''
Hair colour	Brown
Eye colour	Hazel
Contact Information
Talk page	Corsair Caruso
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en-N	This person is a native user of English.

fr-1	Cette utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

4y	This Gatekeeper has contributed to Tolkien Gateway for over four years.

lore-2

This user has an intermediate understanding of J.R.R. Tolkien's works.

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This user recognises the importance of citing sources.

This user is a proud member of The Tolkien Society.

This user is from the United States.

Early Life

I've been a reader and fan of the Middle-earth Legendarium since I was about 9 years old. I started with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, worked my way through The Silmarillion a few years later, and got my hands on Unfinished Tales after that.

Fandom and Research

I tried my hand at writing a little Middle-earth inspired poetry and fanfiction, but found myself limited in my knowledge of what was available. While searching for new sources to increase my knowledge base, I discovered The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle. This ended up becoming the topic of my doctoral thesis lecture recital and research document (read: dissertation), which was completed and defended as of December 2016.

I'm a founding member of the only smial of The Tolkien Society in Texas, located in Nacogdoches.

I'd like to contribute what I can to this wiki, hopefully improve its content, and learn more about the Legendarium. I've got little experience working on wikis, but I'm happy to learn.

My Collection

By J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle (with Donald Swann), 1st Edition.
• The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle (with Donald Swann), 2nd Edition.
• The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle (with Donald Swann), 3rd Edition.

Posthumous Works/Edited by Christopher Tolkien

• Unfinished Tales
• The Silmarillion
• The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (with Humphrey Carpenter)
• The History of Middle-earth:

1. The Book of Lost Tales Part One
2. The Book of Lost Tales Part Two
3. The Lays of Beleriand
4. The Shaping of Middle-earth
5. The Lost Road and Other Writings
6. The Return of the Shadow
7. The Treason of Isengard
8. The War of the Ring
9. Sauron Defeated
10. Morgoth's Ring
11. The War of the Jewels
12. The Peoples of Middle-earth
13. Index

• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
• The Children of Húrin