Gilchrist Keyes Revel Lindenberg was a twentieth century scholar of Medieval Dwarvish and Elvish languages and culture. After lengthy schooling, he traveled the world as a young gnome, seeking not wisdom but proficiency in foreign languages. Realizing that wisdom would have been the better choice, he tucked himself away in an idyllic mansion overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee to accomplish for the New World what Eddard Gibbons had achieved for the old but with less bias against Christianity and with more dramatic flair and adventuresome verve.
