The Lord of the Rings Minecraft Mod Wiki
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This page contains information about admins, information for (new) admins, and guidelines on how admins should behave.

Staff Etiquette

These guidelines should be known by all wiki staff:

Staff Etiquette

List of all current Admins

As of the latest update, all admins, with the exception of Adaneth Mirimë and MilkMC, have an exclusive shield of some sort or other. This makes them somewhat easy to recognize when they're playing on servers.

See also: Moderators

Currently, there are 15 admins on The Lord of the Rings Minecraft Mod Wiki:

Active admins

These admins can usually easily be contacted on the wiki. If not, they're generally rather active on Discord, the mod's Facebook page, or both.


LOTRMod | talk | contribs | edit stats

LOTRMod, aka Mevans, is the modder for the LOTR Minecraft mod, the guy behind the scenes. He has skills greater than Sauron and Melkor themselves, and will destroy anyone who asks for Gandalf instantly. He also previously created the Lion King Mod, which he merged into this mod.

Shields: Modder's Shield, Loremaster 2015

Adaneth Mirimë | Talk | Contribs | Stats

Adaneth Mirimë has been a member of the wiki since September 2017, although quite inactive at times due to real-life circumstances. She was promoted to content moderator on the English wiki and administrator on the Spanish wiki in April 2020, and administrator on the English wiki in July 2021. Although she has played Minecraft on very few occasions, she loves Tolkien's writings and enjoys looking through the mod's code and helping ensure the wiki is up-to-date. Much of her work is behind-the-scenes, assisting with the wiki's templates, CSS, and JavaScript.

Shields: None

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink

General Grievous1138 is a longtime fan of both LOTR and Star Wars, and many other things besides. He has been an admin on this wiki for most of its lifespan, and he generally maintains the wiki's biomes pages. Griev is also responsible for running the official community Discord, where he is pretty much always online and can easily be found wherever political discussion breaks out. He largely prefers the mod's evil factions, being a leader of Gundabad on the mod's official server and the builder of 50+ publicly-available Mordor builds. He would encourage anyone reading this to watch Battlestar Galactica, and to read House of Leaves (though only if you're over the age of 18). He is typically quick about responding to messages on Discord, where he can be contacted as Grievous1138#3037.

Shields: Loremaster 2014/15/16

Glflegolas | Send a Messenger | Contributions | What he does

Glflegolas is the second oldest contributor here, and has been on the wiki since the 25th of June, 2014. He knows a fair bit about Lord of the Rings and the history of Arda. His favourite server is Isildur's Bane Server, although he occasionally (~half a dozen times a year) plays on the Official Server. As a Gondorian, he is going to join up with Beijing1000 and attack Gen. Grievous1138 sooner or later. Despite knowing a bunch of wiki coding, he cannot tell the difference between green and orange, or between red text and black text. He also owns a YouTube channel, and recommends that you check it out.

Shields: Loremaster 2014/15/16

Gruk | Talk | Contributions | edit stats

Shields: Modder's Shield, Gruk's Shield

MilkMC | Talk | Contribs | Stats
MilkMC has been playing the mod since Public Beta 24. He thoroughly enjoys solving technical issues that players may be having with the mod. He also enjoys creating templates to help with wiki editing. He looks at every edit except for some forum threads which he may or may not look at largely based on the title and what forum board it is on.

Shields: None

SamwiseFilmore | Fill My Mailbox | Contributions | Stats

SamwiseFilmore has been playing the mod since Public Beta 8, however, he has been following it much longer. He hates playing as evil, as he cannot bring himself to kill anything other than orcs, which he despises. He likes to use the source editor, as it is easier to use for inserting links, pages, etc. onto pages. He has read the LOTR, the Hobbit, and is trying to find time to read the Silmarrillion. He will read any fiction or science fiction series proposed to him. He is a member of the Bangari on The One Ring server, and enjoys surviving and building there.

Shields: Loremaster 2015

Inactive admins

These admins have not been active for a considerable amount of time, although it is always hoped that they will one day return.

Areades | talk | contribs | edit stats

Areades is new to wikia and is a newer admin. He is a big fan of all of Tolkien's works, as well as other books, like Harry Potter. He, like the General, will happily ban those who do not follow wiki policies. He is knows many features of wikia and is happy to help. the Witch-King of Angmar.

Shield: Loremaster 2014

Beijing1000 | Send Me an Owl | Contributions | Edit Stats

Beijing1000 is one of the top contributors on this wiki. In Minecraft, her username is HPFanatic, and she is a ginormous fan of Lord of the Rings (obviously), Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones. She is a very active admin on this wiki, so you can be sure she reads every single edit made by anyone. Within the LOTR fandom, she is a true Gondorian which means she will probably wage war against Gen. Grievous sometime in the near future.

Shields: Loremaster 2014/15

ESP LOTR | Talk | Contribs | Stats

EpicSpacePanda has been on the wiki since December 31, 2014, and started playing the mod in beta I-don't-remember. His favorite thing to do in the mod is start a new hardcore-mode world, every update. Despite the fact that he is better known for his memes than his admin work, he does his best to keep the wiki clean, and its pages neat.

Shields: Loremaster 2015

Glaerdir | Talk | Contribs | Stats

Shield: Modder's Shield

Quipp | Talk to me | My Contributions | Statistics

Handles Quipp is awesome.

Shields: Loremaster 2014/15

Thorin11 | talk | contribs | edit stats

Thorin was the first non-founder admin on this wiki, and has been here since the beginning. Little is known about the mysterious past of Thorin, or where he resides today. However, it is known that Thorin11 is actually the wiki alias of Yorick, a now rather inactive FB moderator.

Shields: Modder's Shield, Loremaster 2014

The Power of the Gods

Admins can do things that normal contributors can't. That's why they are admins, you know? Here is a list of things that only admins can do:

  • Renaming pages
  • Deleting pages
  • Protecting pages
  • Editing protected pages
  • De-/Activating wiki features (such as badges)
  • Editing or deleting any comment, blog, forum thread, or user page
  • Changing the design (CSS and wiki theme) and menu structure of the wiki

The Responsibility of an Admin

Being an admin is not just a privilege but also a responsibility. The main task for admins is to make sure that the wiki runs as intended. The main tasks of admins are:

  • Deleting and renaming pages on request -- while all registered users can rename up to three pages every 24 hours, admins can rename as many as needed in a day. They can also delete pages, something normal users can't do at all.
  • Moderating the chat by warning or banning misbehaving users -- chat moderators also have this responsibility (also see: Banning Guideline for Admins)
  • Deleting wrong or unhelpful information on pages and eventually ban the responsible user
  • Helping users with editing pages, creating signatures, wiki coding, etc.
  • Moderating the forums, message walls, and comments

Useful links for admins

  • Editcount - displays a user's edits, and where they're most active
  • Contributions - displays a user's contributions
  • ListFiles - displays a list of the files that are on this wiki
  • Log - displays a list of which pages a user renamed, moved, or deleted
  • Log/block - displays a user's ban log
  • Insights - displays issues with the wiki, e.g. content not working on mobile devices

Trivia

The admins are ensuring the law on the wiki, just like the old Norse god Tyr. The anglo-saxon tir-rune (= letter T) stands for this god. Tolkien used those ᚱᚢᚾᛖᛋ for some texts in the initial drafts of "The Lord of the Rings", later on, he replaced them by cirth runes.

Tyr is a guiding star; well does it keep faith with princes;

it is ever on its course over the mists of night and never fails.

Old English rune poem

Staff of the Lord of the Rings Mod
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