User:LorenzoCB

Lorenzo
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Other names	Quentandil (Q)
Position	Admin and sporadic editor
Language	Spanish, English
Location	Aranjuez, Spain
Occupation	High-school teacher
Age	28
Edit Count	16,076
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This user is an administrator.

This user is from Spain.

es-N	Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel profesional de español.

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

This user loves the Ñoldor.

This user believes only The Book of Lost Tales is canon. Everything else is just derivative.

This user believes Balrogs do not have wings.

This user believes the Dagor Dagorath is canonical.

This user believes that Ælfwine Wídlást is canonical.

"Nai Eru manyuva tanwenya ar tératuvas!"

― Aulë in Quenta Silmarillion, "Of Aulë and Yavanna"

I am a reader from Spain, a member of the Spanish Tolkien Society, active in the Languages Commission. My English is still on work, so I appreciate any correction, specially with the long texts.

Among my favourite characters are Aulë, Finrod Felagund, Galadriel and Tar-Palantir.

As a converted Catholic, I like to study about Tolkien's theology and Christian implications. I also love Quenya and when I have time I "translate" the works of Riener Quentandil, but currently I'm working on too many projects. Tolkien taught me I should finish things, but I can't help beginning things when new ideas come. I also translate back to (Neo-)Quenya, being the Valaquenta in Neo-Quenya my most completed work.

Beyond Tolkien, some of my interests are: Arthurian mythology, Hinduism, Sanskrit, traditional Western Esoterism, Angelology, lifes of saints, the Dune saga, Berserk, the Aeneid, Journey to the West, everything related to C.S. Lewis, books by Christian mystic women, devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, recording and listening to audiobooks, hiking, cooking biscuits, Dungeon Synth...

Articles I feel proud of

• Dagor Dagorath
• Finishing all the The Children of Húrin chapter synopsis
• All versions of the Ainulindalë
• Gondolin
• All articles of the twelve houses of the Gondothlim and their lords, specially Turgon and Glorfindel
• Christianity
• Index:Conflicts
• Orcs/Origin
• Galadriel

• Ingolonde Project
• Riener Quentandil
• My images

To-do

Personal Sandbox

• Tolkien Gateway:Task list
• User:LorenzoCB/Heraldry
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
• The Notion Club Papers synopsis
  • Foreword and List of Members
  • The Notion Club Papers Part Two
  • Major Divergences in Earlier Versions
  • Lowdham's Report on the Adunaic Language
• Finish article on Christianity
• All articles about the Valar, specially their OVOTL sections
• The matter of The Book of Lost Tales
  • Proper article for the general topic
  • Synopsis of every chapter
  • Articles for topics exclusive from TBOLT
  • Expand all OVOTL sections that should deal with TBOLT
  • Qenya and Gnomish
• Inspiration sections of important articles
• An index with all mistakes that Christopher acknowledged throughout The History of Middle-earth
• An article on Heraldry

Headcanons

• Tom Bombadil is an extraliterary character from the tales Tolkien told to his children. Tolkien refused to remove him from his revision of TLOTR to remember us that we are reading a fairy-tale. That's why both readers and Middle-earth characters do not know where he comes from.
• Orcs were talking beasts without soul. Therefore they were good creatures in their beginning, as they were directly created by Ilúvatar, but later their wills were corrupted by Morgoth. Therefore they were inclined to evil forever, unless a charitative Vala or Eru himself came to free them. If so, they could have become proper Incarnates like the Ents, but they were exterminated before that happened or at least they could become civilized.
• Aredhel and Eöl are one of those few cases in which the Eldar falled into lust, as said in Laws and Customs among the Eldar.
• The Half-elves's choice was determined by their marriage, which is the union of hröar. Once they married an Elf or a Mortal, they became of that race forever. The same way, the union of the hröar in the Unions of Elves and Men demanded an ultimate choice of nature.
• The prophecy of Andreth is refered to the War of Wrath and was true: in his last conception, Tolkien intended that Túrin was temporarily brought back from Mandos, just like Beren. Then Túrin jumped into Vingilot, and travelled with his relative Eärendil to Middle-earth. In the flying boat, Túrin slayed Ancalagon, accomplishing the decisive victory against Morgoth and thus having the last word in his family's curse. Then he was finally free and leaved the Circles of the World. I was never convinced that a boat could destroy the biggest dragon in the world, but if there is a dragonslayer in it, now that's epic.
• The Valar were informed about Eru's Incarnation, so the first Christmas feast in the world was hold in Valinor.
• We are living in the Seventh Age, which began with the Death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The last and Eighth Age will begin when He returns and it will last forever as an neverending Sunday.
• The Dagor Dagorath is canon in the sense that it was meant to be included in The Silmarillion, but even in the legendarium it is not suppouse to happen literally, as it comes from an artificial mix between Elven and Mannish traditions. There will be an actual battle between Good and Evil, but the breaking and healing of Arda will be acomplished by Eru himself.
• Everything is canon; we should talk about "corpus" instead. The Global Theory is true. At the same time, Christopher Tolkien's edition of The Silmarillion is the least canonical work.
• The Eldar had Baroque dances.

Favourites

• Tolkien's texts
  • Valaquenta
  • The Fall of Gondolin (the Lost Tale)
  • Quenta Noldorinwa
  • Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth
  • A Description of the Island of Númenor

• Episodes in the legendarium
  • Aulë's conversation with Ilúvatar during the creation of the Dwarves.
  • Fingolfin's host coming to Middle-earth under the first light of the Sun.
  • Beleg rescuing Túrin from the Orcs and wolves (specially in the Lay).
  • Turgon proclaiming the fall of Gondolin (in the Lost Tale).
  • Galadriel's test with the One Ring.

• On Tolkien
  • Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion, by Douglas C. Kane
  • Splintered Light by Verlyn Flieger
  • The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie, by Jonathan S. McIntosh

• Music artists
  • The Fellowship (band)
  • Adele McAllister
  • Thangorodrim

My library

By the Tolkiens

A part of my Tolkien library

• The Hobbit / El Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings (50th anniversary edition, hardback)
• Árbol y Hoja
• A Tolkien Miscellany
• The Silmarillion / El Silmarillion
• Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Unfinished Tales / Cuentos Inconclusos
• Los Monstruos y los Críticos y otros ensayos
• The Complete History of Middle-earth I: Volumes I-V / La Historia de la Tierra Media, volumes 1-5
• The Complete History of Middle-earth II: Volumes VI-VIII / La Historia de El Señor de los Anillos, volumes 1-4 + La Historia de la Tierra Media, volume 6
• The Complete History of Middle-earth III: Volumes IX-XII / La Historia de la Tierra Media, volumes 7-9
• The History of Middle-earth Index
• Cuentos desde el Reino Peligroso
• Los Hijos de Húrin
• La Leyenda de Sigurd y Gudrún
• La Caída de Arturo
• Beowulf: Traducción y comentario

By other editors

Another part of my Tolkien library

• The Collected Vinyar Tengwar, volumes 1-5 (issues 1-50), edited by Carl F. Hostetter
• The Nature of Middle-earth / La Naturaleza de la Tierra Media, edited by Carl F. Hostetter
• Parma Eldalamberon, issues 11-17, edited by Christopher Gilson
• A Secret Vice, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Artista e Ilustrador, by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• El Arte de El Hobbit, by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• El Arte de El Señor de los Anillos, by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• The History of The Hobbit, edited by John D. Rateliff
• Finn and Hengest, edited by Alan Bliss
• The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien / Cartas de J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter
  • Revised and expanded edition
• La historia de Kullervo, edited by Verlyn Flieger
• La balada Aotrou e Itroun, edited by Verlyn Flieger
• The Battle of Maldon / La Batalla de Maldon, edited by Peter Grybauskas

Scholarship

• J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography / J.R.R. Tolkien: Una biografía, by Humphrey Carpenter
• The Inklings, by Humphrey Carpenter
• The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (revised edition), by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• Tolkien y la Gran Guerra, by John Garth
• El Camino a la Tierra Media, by Tom Shippey
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, by Tom Shippey
• Tolkien: Hombre y Mito, by Joseph Pearce
• Tolkien, Señor de la Tierra Media, edited by Joseph Pearce
• Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion, by Douglas C. Kane
• Tolkien and The Silmarillion, by Clyde S. Kilby
• Master of Middle-earth, by Paul H. Kocher
• The Keys of Middle-earth, by Stuart Lee and Elizabeth Solopova
• Splintered Light, by Verlyn Flieger
• Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology, by Verlyn Flieger
• The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie, by Jonathan S. McIntosh
• The Gospel According to Tolkien, by Ralph C. Wood
• J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth, by Bradley J. Birzer
• El Poder del Anillo, by Stratford Caldecott
• Myth, Allegory and Gospel, edited by John Warwick Montgomery
• Tolkien's Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle Earth, by Craig Bernthal
• Perilous and Fair, edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan
• Tolkien's Theology of Beauty, by Lisa Coutras
• Lembas Extra 2022: Númenor, edited by Jan van Breda and Renée Vink
• Un Camino Inesperado, by Diego Blanco
• J.R.R. Tolkien. Cuentos de Hadas, by José Miguel Odero
• Tolkien y el derecho a la fantasía, by Alexis Louvet
• La Lengua de los Elfos, by Luis González Baixauli
• Atanquesta. A NeoQuenya Primer, by Tamas Ferencz

Wish list (only bibliography on Tolkien)

• The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (editors)
• Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth, by Marjorie Burns
• Tolkien's Library (2nd edition), by Orozco Cilli
• The Annotated Hobbit (2nd edition), by Douglas A. Anderson
• Myth, Allegory and Gospel, by John Warwick Montgomery (editor)
• Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, by Christopher Tolkien (editor)
• Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
• The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology, by Elizabeth A. Whittingham
• The Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology, by Bradford Lee Eden (editor)
• Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning, by Owen Barfield
• Tolkien or J.R.R. Tolkien: His life, work and faith, by Raymond Edwards
• Tolkien and the Critics
• Echoes of Truth: Christianity in The Lord of the Rings, by Michael C. Haldas
• Seeking the Lord of Middle Earth, by Jeffrey L. Morrow
• The Return Of The Ring: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012
• Tolkien On Fairy-stories, by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson (editors)
• Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography by Holly Ordway