User:Tinwe

Welcome to my user page, wandering Wookieepedian!

The girl
Indeed your eyes serve you correctly: I am female. ;) I fell in love with Star Wars when I was eleven, but not because of Luke Skywalker or Han Solo (though their lightsaber and blaster skillz are to admire); it was the whole new universe, strange and exciting and yet familiar at the same time. And Leia Organa. No, I didn't have a crush on her either, but she instantly became a role model of sorts to me. And she does have some of the most memorable lines in SW (&hellip;nerfherder!). Whenever I feel unsure of have a lack of courage, I try to think, "What would Princess Leia do?" Usually it works. In short, Star Wars has helped me to become a better person. ;)

The name
As some of you who know your Tolkien might have noticed, I've snitched my screen name from the etymology section of The Silmarillion which explains the origin of Elvish words and names. "Tinwe" is Quenya for "spark" or "star."

Tinwe Stargazer is my Mary Sue-ish fan fiction Jedi character. The last name is also influenced by Tolkien. He has a character whose epithet is Elentirmo (Elentirme in feminine form), which translates as Stargazer.

What I do here
(See my contributions.)

I'm a WikiGnome, plain and simple. I mostly edit random things as they come along, though I have a few eternity projects as well (see below). I like to make sure that articles follow the Layout Guide, and one of these days I've learned the Manual of Style by heart. I'm a nitpicker of the worst best kind. Occasionally I do some sourcing too. And if I'm in a really active mood, I might fill some of the "easy" redlinks and upload images that are needed.

I became a signed-up Wookieepedian on January 20, 2006. Before that I had contributed under various IP addresses about six months. (I really took my time didn't I?) At the moment, I'm in the "Recently active wikians top 49" of Wookieepedia (everyone needs an ego boost from time to time). Hail the queen of minor edits! *lol*

Projects

 * General cleanup and formatting of articles in Category:Jedi individuals. I actually got pretty far with it before the whole Pre- and Post-Ruusan category change thing, now I'm sort of waiting for inspiration to start over.
 * Populating Category:Humans. Mostly with Human Jedi (for above reason :), but also with random characters I bump into while browsing this wiki.

Contact

 * email: elentirme[at]gmail[dot]com
 * or leave a message on my talk page

Quotes of the moment
(For more, see archive.)

"Sith? Jedi? Are these the only choices? Dark or light, good or evil? Is there no more to the Force than this? What is the screen on which light and dark cast their shapes and shadows? Where is the ground on which stands good and evil?" &mdash; Vergere (Traitor)

"The Force is everything, and everything is the Force. There is no dark side. The Force is one, eternal, and indivisible. You need worry about no darkness save that in your own heart." &mdash; Vergere (Force Heretic I: Remnant)

"The Force may have no dark or light side, but we do. We must choose." &mdash; Luke Skywalker (Dark Nest I: The Joiner King)

Annoyance of undetermined amount of time: Darth Jacen
(Originally, this was going to be named "Current annoyance," but the whole thing has pissed me off for months now, so there ya go.)

I was really, really, really disappointed when they decided to make Jacen Solo (along with Vergere) a Sith. Seeing the whole "the Force has no sides" philosophy being reduced to just one of "Darth Chicken's" evil little tricks to corrupt Jacen is frustrating. Not only because I liked both of them, and not because I do believe the Force to be indivisible, but because with this, they effectively nullified the very crucial dilemma developed throughout the NJO: not all can be determined in terms of "light and dark" or "good and evil."

But no, it seems that people don't want to think about such complex things in relation to Star Wars. Since Jacen's view of the Force didn't fit into the general conception, of course it had to lead to evil. Besides, Jacen becoming a Sith seems cheap to me somehow &mdash; I mean, come on, how unimaginative and threadbare an idea is that anyway? Like grandfather like grandson, huh?

I think many have misunderstood the nature of the "gray side": you do need to worry about darkness – namely "that in your own heart." (I guess that's where our good friend Jacen failed; quotes about the subject above.) An anon summed up my feelings about the whole Jacen/Vergere/to Sith or not to Sith situation on the Vergere talk page quite perfectly, but the quote is rather long, so I decided not to paste it here. You can see it here (the comment that begins with "My two Cents").

Force Heretic out.

Pretty boxes
(This is getting out of hand. Now there are twelve of them!)