For a long time I've taken part of the name Mithrandir from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series. In the Elvish tongue that Tolkien constructed the name means grey pilgrim. For those of you that know me well online the remainder of my name is Shrike. Most people mistype this as Strike. The Shrike is a character from Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos. This is an interesting amalgam of a name: Gandalf's character was an integral part of Good's struggle versus Evil whereas the Shrike is first perceived as a malevolent but is later illuminated as its own force no matter how violent. This is a basic explanation of the tick and tock of MithShrike. Committed to doing good, grey in more ways than one, morals and motivations occluded behind walls of pontification, just a space to throw crap up and hopefully I can mold this turd into something worthwhile and then plate it solid gold son!
