User talk:Airyn

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Latest comment: 14 October 2023 by IvarTheBoneless in topic Discord

Welcome![edit source]

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-- Mith (Talk/Contribs/Edits) 20:02, 26 August 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Other versions of the legendarium and Sperling mistake[edit source]

I appreciate that you include information from The Nature of Middle-earth (template NM), because I do not have access to it. However, information from NM that contradicts information in a page or in the genealogy section in a page should only be included in the Other versions of the legendarium section of the page. In addition, one of your edits from today introduced a Sperling mistake that did not exist before. --Akhorahil 12:28, 4 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Adding a footnote to the Durthang page[edit source]

I noticed that you added a footnote to the Durthang page that related to the position of Durthang on one of J.R.R. Tolkien's draft maps that was published in The Art of The Lord of the Rings. Since this information relates to a draft map and not the final map that was published with The Lord of the Rings, I removed it, created an Other versions of the legendarium section on the Durthang page and moved the information relating to the position on the draft map there. I do not have a copy of the Art of The Lord of the Rings, so I do not know if we checked the same draft map, because I looked at a manuscript map of Rohan, Gondor and Mordor that I found on the web with blue grid lines and contour lines for mountains and which also shows lines with the route taken by Frodo and Sam. If you look at the Map of Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor page, click on the map in the top right corner of that page so that a separate page with just the map opens, click on Original file to get the maximum solution and then use the magnifying glass mouse cursor symbol to zoom in on the map, you can see the cone symbol with the label Durthang immediately to its right. I would appreciate if you could compare this position with the position on the map in The Art of the Lord of the Rings and let me know if they are in the same location. I recommend that you have a look at the Template:HM page to make yourself familiar with the template for The Art of the Lord of the Rings and for other works and to also look at the page of Templates that supersede some of those templates. I also recommend the Tolkien Gateway:Manual of Style, Help:References and Tolkien Gateay:Naming policy pages to you. --Akhorahil (talk) 17:42, 4 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Discord[edit source]

Hey Airyn! Do you have a Discord account? Because if you do, you might be interested in a recent discussion I had on the overall geography and size of Arda, as well as IMO an overrelliance on the 'Ambarkanta' maps: https://discord.com/channels/919188348319444993/919667692217188432/1162115871574065293 https://discord.com/channels/919188348319444993/919667692217188432/1162112804640268469 https://discord.com/channels/919188348319444993/919667692217188432/1162119352305336422

...and so forth... - IvarTheBoneless (talk) 19:57, 14 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The origin of my criticism is this map, and its scale factor: https://tolkiengateway.net/w/images/6/6e/Quentin_Lowagie_-_Arda_in_the_Third_Age.png - IvarTheBoneless (talk) 20:00, 14 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]