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Bombadil-(Valar)'s poem answering the Activity Sweep.
Dec. 31, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Eonwe-(Valar) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (10):
Members:
Aerandir-(V)/mordacil, Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, Eonwe Valar,
FinduilasV, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet,
Meneldil-(V)/Bookie032785, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Visitors:
Amarie-ex/mecoons/staind32185, Srekal86
Membership
Be sure to contact Varda to renew your membership
for 2007. If you have 2007 listed on the right column of the Members
page, you're already in.
Web
New article coming from Barahir, not quite ready to
go online yet.
Search engine for the Encyc is doing well.
Gaming
BFME2 and expansion
Heroes of Might and Magic
SC: Bridges of Osgiliath map may now be downloaded
from our pages. Put up during the meeting.
WoW: our folk on the servers:
Lothar
Uldaman
Euro: Argent Dawn
Tolkien
What might we list for Middle-earth as its Seven
Structural Wonders and Seven Natural Wonders?
Tolkien trivia going on our Forum for LotR (memory)
and for Sil (books allowed)
Dec. 25, 2006
Merry Christmas!
Eonwe's Christmas present to the guild and all
Tolkien fans is a
new Search engine used while online in the Valar Guild Tolkien
Encyclopedia. It is now available on the main site pages and in the
frame menus. Enjoy!
Dec. 24, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Eonwe-(Valar) has a Christmas present good for the whole guild! It will
be announced at the meeting tonight.
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (18):
Members:
Aerandir-(V)/mordacil, ArPharazonV, Caranthir-(V)/El Capitan Chobo,
Elladan-(V)/Bior the Ythling, Eonwe Valar, FinduilasV, FladrifV,
Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, GwaihirValar,
Farmer Maggot-(V)/thesirg3, Meneldil-(V)/Bookie032785 (rejoined during
meeting), Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V, Thranduil-(V)/Gamatzgamatz,
VardaValar1 (presiding)
Visitors:
oladys 123, Srekal86
Membership:
Meneldil-(V)
rejoined the Valar Guild! He passed his
test with Varda at the meeting today. He's now 21 (22 in March), from
Nevada, USA. He likes to play StarCraft and Well of Souls. His BW and
WC3 CD's have left the Circles of the World unfortunately. He is
usually working as a librarian during the meetings. His favorite LotR
character is Gandalf, as he was the mythological factor in LotR and
showed the link between past and present. Without him, Middle-earth
wouldn't have stood a chance.
All members attending today are automatically signed
up for 2007.
Web:
Eonwe built a Search engine for the Valar Guild
Tolkien Encyclopedia from scratch in php. We tested it out and were
thrilled. Suggestions made.
Gaming:
Battle for Middle-earth 2: Rise of the Witchking
review
WoS (Well of Souls)
ISketch
WoW
LotRO
Tolkien:
We all went quiet reading Eonwe-(Valar)'s story
explaining how Santa-style Christmas really came about in Middle-earth.
After-meeting:
AIM - older version generally preferred
Meneldil finishes his re-join test.
Dec. 17, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (11):
Members:
ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), FinduilasV, Gelmir-(V)/Shaggyjoe,
Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Haleth V,
Farmer Maggot/thesirg3, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1
Visitor:
Herumor-ex/Nemoeverlonely
Membership
Haleth-(V)'s mom's birthday is today.
Yes, we will have a meeting next Sunday for whomever
would like to come.
Web:
Nothing new, but new stuff
is intended for the coming week
Gaming:
WoW:
WoW
General: Quoth Eonwe-(Valar): "Winterveil Quests out. Do them :}
Easy rep :}"
WoW
Lothar server Friday get-together: Group of Eonwe, Merry,
Sauron, Eonwe's brother, Varda. After lag problems, switched to Uldaman
instance.
WoW
Argent Dawn: Finduilas and Valandil plus members of Finduilas'
old guild went to Zul Farrak.
BFMe2
request for help for Eonwe in announcing patches for Gaming News
Tolkien:
Finduilas-(V)'s topic: Battle of the Last Alliance.
Tangent: Endings of Ages.
Dec. 10, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
To enter the AIM room, put your name in your Buddy
List, click your name, invite yourself to a chat room, and be sure to
type in the name of our chat room over the random numbers in the chat
room name.
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (12):
ArathornValar, Ar-Pharazon, Arwen V1,
Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Eonwe Valar
(presiding), FinduilasV, FladrifV, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco,
Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, GwaihirValar, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V,
Valandil Valar
Members:
New Full Member:
Feanor-(V) of WoW Argent Dawn.
WoW branch in
Europe was formed last weekend and is active.
Finduilas' fiance
was in a car accident in which he was injured, but will recover.
Varda and Fangorn
will be out of town Sunday but should be back Friday. Eonwe and
Menelvagor will be handling meetings and business for you during that
time. Feel free to continue emailing Varda who will read it after
returning and help as she can.
Old Forum:
Question for the membership: Would you like to use the old Yahoo
Forum, which can be delivered as email at your discretion, as a way to
read the News sent to your email or that you can add to without having
to go through an admin? It an also be a way to upload your poetry,
stories, articles, gaming remarks, and comments without having to go
through Varda, for things that don't go well on our current ProBoards.
Please let your feelings be known either at the meeting or by emailing
Varda.
Web:
New Stories:
New chapter up for "Ten Thousand
Years Will Not Suffice" by Alcardilme-(TV): TA 2943 aka chapter 5.
Mellon Chronicles Series:
"Priceless Treasure" by Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV) is now edited and
linked in.
Story up: Mellon Chronicles
Series' "The Stars of Harad" by Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV) is up.
Gaming:
Eve Online: improved early game
Battle for Middle-earth 2: new expansion for the
Witch-king
LotRO new spot shown to the general public: Green
Dragon
WoW: huge new patch getting ready for the Burning
Crusades expansion and more emphasis on pvp.
Tolkien:
Topic 1: Languages in role-play naming and phrases
Topic 2: What can we learn about the characters in
Tolkien's works from their names? Tangent: Lobelia
After-meeting:
More Tolkien topic 2, then gaming chat
Dec. 9, 2006
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Feanor-(V)!
Feanor came to us on Dec. 3 from WoW Europe's Argent Dawn server. He
joined the newly formed Valar branch there by testing with
Menelvagor-(Valar), who is also his guildmate in The Sacred Blade. He's
from the UK and has read the H, LotR, Sil, and UT.
His favorite LotR character is Sam "because he has
respect for things that are good, i.e. friendship and loyalty, he
follows Frodo no questions asked. He was there to the very end. In many
ways I thought he was more of a main character. As in more than Frodo.
Frodo just happened to carry the Ring, but Sam carried Frodo. In the
end, it is all about Sam."
WoW Lothar:
That giant patch had everyone
re-speccing their characters and added areas.
Fangoern and Varda started the
Scholomance key quest to catch up to MerryV for the group run against
Araj in Andorhal next time. While in Chillwind Camp, one of the Dranei
showed up as an NPC quest-giver. We took the quest, but then a
short-time patch came up and the big blue fellow had disappeared, yet
left the quest in our quest log. The two Valar members also made runs
in Silithus knocking off some quests and discovering a few broken ones.
Arathorn appeared for a while to re-spec but did not respond when we
asked him about doing the Scholo key run, probably deep in re-speccing.
Dec. 6, 2006
Story up: Mellon
Chronicles Series' "The
Stars of Harad" by
Cassia-(TV)
and Siobhan-(TV) is up.
"When Aragorn falls in love with Arwen, it seems
that he has done the one thing that could ever divide he and his elven
family. Certain that his home is his no longer, Aragorn leaves with the
rangers, attempting to forget the heartache of all he has lost... What
he did not count on was losing his memory and forgetting everything.
"Now, to find him, Legolas must join the very men
who have captured and enslaved his friend, he must be one of them...
and he must pay the dreadful penalty when their confidence is broken.
"But if Aragorn cannot remember, cannot trust the
elf he no longer knows... will it all have been in vain?"
Aragorn, Arwen, Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond,
Legolas.
Dec. 5, 2006
WoW gamers:
Major patch!
Burning Crusade's street date is
expected to be January 15, 2007. Beta testing for it will still be
continuing. Expansion
features.
Tolkien Stories:
Mellon
Chronicles Series: "Priceless Treasure" by
Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV) is now edited and linked in.
Dec. 4, 2006
Tolkien Stories:
New chapter up for "Ten
Thousand Years Will Not Suffice" by Alcardilme-(TV): TA
2943 aka chapter 5.
Dec. 3, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon,
Gilraen, and Varda
Attending: (16):
Members:
Aerandir-(V)/mordacil, Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, ArPharazonV, Arwen V1,
FinduilasV, Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, FladrifV, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet,
Glorfindel VG, Menelvagor Valar, Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory, Valandil Valar,
VardaValar1 (presiding)
Visitors:
Amarie-(ex)/mecoons, Herumor-(ex)/Nemoeverlonely (connection had
problems keeping up with scrolling, moved to chat in side window),
Srekal86
Membership:
New Tolkien-only! Alcardilme-(TV)
2007 Member Roster now in progress. Make sure Varda
knows to include you!
WoW Europe gamers came together during this meeting
and created their first full Valar Guild branch. It's on Argent Dawn
server with Menelvagor-(Valar) as branch-master. Charter members
mentioned are: Ar-Pharazon, Finduilas, Fladrif, Menelvagor, Valandil.
Tabard description.
Web:
Tolkien Site: new section to more simply navigate
our many Tolkien projects, instead of using the Tolkien Encyclopedia as
that overall name.
New Stories, both by Alcardilme
Gaming: (Mainly covered
under Membership)
WoW: See Membership for WoW Europe as the biggest
news!
LotRO an official Valar Guild branch is definitely
set for when the game comes out. Varda is currently the branch master.
Tolkien:
Topic
1: suggested by Ancalagon-(V) in-game: How did the dragons
contribute to Tolkien's story line? besides dying?
Topic
2: suggested by the brother of Aerandir-(V): Why didn't the eagles
carry Frodo directly to Mount Doom with the One Ring?
After-meeting:
Note: A member feared that creating the Argent Dawn
branch destroyed the meeting. In Varda's opinion at least, it met one
of the major purposes of having a meeting! Thank you, all of our
European WoW folk, for going to this effort especially in the wee hours
of your day.
Feanor-(V) joined the Valar Guild in WoW Europe!
Reported later and on the News Dec. 9 above.
Dec. 2, 2006
Corrections made to the links for the story,
"Letters From Faramir". My apologies and happy reading!
Dec. 1, 2006
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Alcardilme-(TV)!
We are happy to say that she has joined the Valar Guild as of
Nov. 26 with two new stories:
Letters From Faramir by Alcardilme-(TV)
"Grief knows no boundaries, nor
age, nor time. Letters from Faramir to
Boromir - in hopes that he is still alive and will return. Angst."
LotR
13 chapters
Complete
Posted here
Dec. 1, 2006. Also posted on Henneth Annûn where she is
site manager.
Ten
Thousand Years Will Not Suffice by Alcardilme-(TV)
"Denethor - from birth onward...
How he became the Twenty-sixth Ruling
Steward of Gondor and through to his untimely death (NOT movie based)."
Third Age, includes LotR.
Denethor II and all who came in
contact with him.
In progress. She is currently
proofreading and reposting, so we are seeing her latest work. We are
now at TA 2942 aka Chapter 4.
Posted here Dec. 1, 2006.
Also posting on Henneth Annûn.
Nov.
27, 2006
Starting now, we will be checking to see who
would like to continue to be listed as a member for 2007. This
confirmation will be shown on the last column of the 2006 Members page
with a "2007".
Full
Members may confirm by showing up to any meeting in December,
December forum post, by email or AIM with Varda, by being listed on
Eonwe's Games page update (email Eonwe), by contributing a review for
the Games site (email Eonwe), by contributing to the Tolkien site
(email Varda), by doing anything that puts them on the News page in
December (not in a bad way ;), or by pure luck if Varda sees you
in-game as a guild-named gamer. Continued space and program donations
count, but we'd really like to hear from you in person.
Tolkien-only
members need to send in any item for the Tolkien site or let
Varda know what project they are working on (email the first, email or
AIM the second). Email gives a better record in this case.
Nov. 26, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon
and Varda
Attending: (14)
Members:
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, ArPharazonV, Arwen V1, CaranthirV,
Dis-(V)/Disvandl, Eonwe
Valar, FinduilasV, FladrifV, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Glorfindel VG,
Lungorthin-(Valar)/sauronjag, Orodreth V/Oessala, VardaValar1
(presiding).
Caranthir V came in during After-meeting, wasn't on
the
AIM list earlier to be invited, now corrected.
Visitor:
Russ82275 (said nothing, just popped in and lurked peacefully, no
problem)
Membership:
Some people have said that they would
like to send in something to become Tolkien-onlies.
Web:
Tolkien Article this week: "Ar-Pharazôn:
from Armenelos to Aman"
in
English by Theoden-(TV).
Gaming:
WoW
WoW Argent Dawn: Fladrif's Skjold hit
60! No
charter set up yet, might not happen.
WoW Lothar: Friday run got Molten Core
Attunement for all who stayed.
Tolkien:
1.
Ancalagon's movie topic: article concerning the
upcoming movies for the Hobbit and LotR prequel: http://www.theonering.net/staticnews/1163993546.html
Apparently PJ and crew were told they weren't wanted. No one knows
about the cast.
2.
Sil topic: The latest of the articles submitted to
us said in the first line: "Aman, the blessed kingdom, where the Valar
live lazing around in Valinor, is the Tolkienan Olympus if we can say
that.". So, can he say that?
Nov. 25, 2006
Now linked into the Encyclopedia: "Ar-Pharazôn: from Armenelos to Aman"
in
English, "Ar-Pharazôn:
da Armenelos ad Aman" in the original Italian,
and "De
Armenelos en Aman"
in French, by Emanuele "Theoden" Scalzo-(TV). The English translation
was emailed Nov. 22, 2006. Opinions expressed, as always, belong to the
author and may or may not be the official position of the Valar Guild.
The Ar-Pharazon
index is now set up to take care of
accumulated articles.
Nov. 24, 2006
WoW Lothar had the Friday run for upper level players.
Considered BRD and/or Strat and or "downtown Andorhal", as the gang
expected to be up quite late. Don't have a 60? Come in with your
lowbies, chat
with us, and work together on your lowbies! The name of the game is fun
and enjoying each other, so come on in!
Final report, info
from Sauron-(Valar):
Place: BRD. Gamers: Arathorn, Arwen, Eonwe, Merry
(on Varda's comp for Thanksgiving), and Sauron. Elwing came in for some
gaming, howdying, and cheering on the BRD group, gaining her level
forty meanwhile. Arathorn had to leave part of the way through BRD, but
the rest kept going. They jumped down the hole below Incendius and
managed to gain Molten Core Attunement. They also gained the ability to
smelt dark iron ore. Then they formed into The Raid Group of Four to go
in for a look. They found 62 elites who looked larger than they did.
Being the Valar They Are, the four charged valiantly at them for a
final glorious end.
Nov. 23, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving, America!
Nov. 19, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon
and Varda
Attending (11):
ArPharazonV, Arwen V1, AuSteinM-(TV)/AuSteinM,
Elladan-(V)/Bior the
Ythling, Eonwe Valar, FinduilasV, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Glorfindel
VG, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V/Oessala, VardaValar1
Membership:
Guild-friends:
we have two new ones coming into WoW Lothar. Remember that any member
of the Valar Guild can invite any polite, nice gamer (non-ninja or
other annoying type) to game with the guild by having them type /join
Valar to enter the friend channel. Check the friend channel with
/chatwho valar and talk using /valar message. The sometimes changing
number of the channel may be substituted for the word Valar for ease.
Thanksgiving
and Finals will be affecting
member availability for a little while.
Menelvagor-(Valar)
spent most of today demonstrating various board games on a games
convention in the northern Netherlands.
Web:
Article: "Beleg"
by Theoden-(TV)
Gaming:
Archlord review by Elladan-(V)
Ventrilo
may also be used by European WoW members, especially for their new
Valar branch, and other branches. See Forum under WoW for set-up
details.
Tolkien:
Eonwe's topic: the physical differences among Elves.
What, if any, are they?
Nov. 14, 2006
Tolkien Site:
Articles:
"Beleg"
in English and the original
Italian, by Emanuele
"Theoden" Scalzo-(TV)
Nov. 12, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon
and Varda
Attending (13):
Members: Aerandir-(V)/mordacil, ArPharazonV, Arwen
V1, Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Eonwe Valar, FinduilasV, FladrifV,
Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Gimli-(V)/jetwest2000, Glorfindel VG,
Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1
Visitor: oladys 123 (would like to join)
Membership:
Edrahil-(V):
new Full
Member
Galadriel-(V): Full Member now coming into European
WoW
Web:
Tolkien Site:
Stories:
"How
to Dim a Too-Bright Elf" by Elwing-(V)
"To
See a World" ch 44 now up. by Nightwing; mentioned in a later
section.
Gaming:
Pokemon
WoW:
WoW street date announced. Discussion
was in the After-meeting.
Lothar server (Alliance). The
Friday run.
Uldaman server (Horde)
Argent Dawn (Alliance): European
members decided to go ahead and put the Valar branch on this server
instead of Lightbringer.
Tolkien:
Topic: Did the glow of elves cause problems in
warfare?
Topic: Faramir was chosen first for the Fellowship,
Boromir was his replacement. How did this change what happened?
Topic: Gollum, insanity, Frodo, Denethor
Topic: Elves who died could eventually be reborn in
their own children.
After-meeting:
WoW street date announced
Anime discussion
Nov. 9, 2006
Tolkien site:
Articles:
"Ar-Pharazôn:
da Armenelos ad Aman" in Italian, "De
Armenelos en Aman"
translated from Italian to French. This is an article by Emanuele
"Theoden" Scalzo-(TV). He intends to send an English translation after
he finds a translator and the work is done.
Stories:
Lessons of Life Series: "How
to Dim a Too-Bright Elf" by Elwing-(V). G-PG, Humor, 1
chapter. Set in the LotR, Two Towers. The Fellowship sends Aragorn to
confront a problem they are having with Legolas.
Elwing has named her story series "Lessons
of Life", and it is now chronologically listed on her Author's Page.
Nov. 5, 2006
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Edrahil-(V)!
Edrahil
games in WoW and intends to game in LotRO when it comes out. He's read
the H and LotR, plus about the first quarter of the Sil. His favorite
two characters from LotR are Legolas and Boromir. He likes Legolas for
his being very sure of himself, ability to be a serious scout yet
having a light-hearted nature in the face of dire circumstance, and his
gaming with the dwarf at Helm's Deep. Edrahil likes Boromir for his
struggle inside himself with honor winning. The Ring augments his
desire to lead his troops in glorious battle and bring on a golden age,
but he fights the temptation and defends the hobbits, although he is
greatly outnumbered, to the death.
Tolkien Stories:
Ch.
44 "A Brief Quiet". Update on the continuing story "To See a World"
by Nightwing.
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon
and Varda
Attending ()
Membership
New Tolkien-only member: Emanuele "Theoden" Scalzo
Web
Tolkien site: new articles, stories, art
Gaming
WC3: Finduilas, Haleth
WoW
Euro:Argent Dawn and Lightbringer
servers
Americas: Lothar and Uldaman
servers
General:
new
free content patch upcoming, most of which was not expected until the
Expansion.
new
WarCraft Encyclopedia by Blizzard
LotRO
Tolkien
Finduilas, the elf-maiden from the tale "Of Turin
Turambar".
Nov. 3, 2006
Tolkien Art:
Cave
of Turgon-(V):
"Book
of Lore" A book that may have been found in either Minas Tirith or
Imladris.
"Elwe
Singollo"
"Green
Dragon" A mug from the Green Dragon.
"Gates
of Nargothrond"
"Ring
of the Nine" One of the nine rings.
"Morgoth
and Manwe" Morgoth is brought before Manwe.
Nov. 2, 2006
Tolkien articles:
"The
Mirror of Galadriel" by
Varda-(Valar)
"The
Phial of Galadriel" by
Varda-(Valar)
The Objects
page now has an alphabetical listing
Nov. 1, 2006
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Emanuele "Theoden"
Scalzo-(TV)! Theoden-(TV) of Italy joined us officially as a
Tolkien-only member on Oct. 29, 2006 by emailing his article "Sharp
Glance" in both the original Italian and the English version,
translated by one of his kind friends. He writes for the Italian
Tolkien site: la voce
di Edoras "The Voice of Edoras", which is now on our Links page.
In the Valar Guild's Tolkien
Encyclopedia, read his article, "Sharp
Glance", about Maeglin! This is the direct, unframed link, or take
a look under "Maeglin" the next time you're in the framed version.
Pictures!
If you enjoy seeing people and settings
in fantasy and medieval garb, Merry-(V) took a set of photos you'll
enjoy while we were together at the Texas Renaissance Festival Sunday.
He's a professional photographer, so you're in for a treat. Click on
the link to the RenFaire from his page: With a Wing and a Lens.
No, he's not in any of the pictures. Mostly it's of some of the sights
at the Fair. Elwing-(V) is present and even labeled in one of the
photos. The rarely photographed Fangorn-(Valar) is caught a couple of
times, tall and wearing green and brown with a green cowl and a sword.
Varda-(Valar) is present a few times in Scot garb, also not labeled and
unwilling to give more hint than that.
Oct.
30, 2006
Tolkien Site news:
Articles:
Elves/ Elf
Types: updated this article with a new and separate section on
Moriquendi, and rearranged the types.
Separated the article on Maeglin
by Alatar-(Valar)-ex onto it's own page, moved the Maeglin
Index into a folder.
Stories:
"Betrayal"
by Cassia and Siobhan. R for graphic violence. 8 chapters. Editing
completed.
After a long absence, Legolas is finally
returning home to Mirkwood, with his friend, Aragorn. But they walk
straight into a treacherous power struggle, one which the two's earlier
actions have precipitated unknowingly.
Oct. 29, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EST
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon,
Eonwe,
and Varda
Attending (8.5):
Members:
ArathornValar,
ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), Glorfindel VG,
Lungorthin-(Valar)/sauronjag, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V.
Members way way
after-meeting: Arwen V1, Orodreth V, VardaValar1
Guests:
PokerStar1971 (found us, had a question), Submersed1990 (for about as
long as it took to leave again)
Membership:
Finduilas is on vacation
Varda, Fangorn, Elwing, and Merry are at the Texas
Renaisance Festival today.
Varda and family's major gaming computer is supposed
to go into the shop Monday after dying Friday when it was called on for
the WoW Lothar Friday run.
Web:
Updates made to the Lothar and Uldaman pages
Gaming:
WoW:
Expansion moved to January
Patch coming up with many
additions not expected until the Expansion
Beta underway
Lothar Friday
Lord of the Rings
Online:
LotRO was featured in ImagineFX magazine
New information on some places of
interest
Beta Journals from LotRO are posted
every Wednesday, other info every Tuesday and Thursday.
Eve Online:
A review/debate by Orodreth and
Menelvagor
Tolkien:
Eonwe Valar: Origins of Morgoth's servants.
Created, twisted? If created, from what? How does this mesh with the
idea espoused in the Sil and LotR that evil cannot create anything of
its own? Anything we know from beyond these two books?
Oct. 24, 2006
WoW Lothar:
Congratulations to Arwen!
Her warrior, Undomiel, reached level 60!
Oct. 22, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon
and Varda
Attending (15):
Members:
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, ArathornValar, ArPharazonV, Arwen V1,
AuSteinM-(TV)/AuSteinM, Eonwe Valar, FladrifV, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee
disco, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Lungorthin-(Valar)/sauronjag,
Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V/Oessala, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Visitor:
crasyboy45, Srekal86
Membership
New Full Member: Dis-(V)
Names for using in games
Web
Gaming
WoW
LotRO
Tolkien
The Hobbit
Oct. 17, 2006
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Dis-(V)!
Dis is
from Colorodo in the USA, on MDT. She's one year younger than Varda,
getting around mentioning the age of ladies. ;) Dis enjoys art
and may do some for the guild. She is a very active gamer and a
delightful chatter. She plays DAoC in Gaheris and intends to play LotRO
when it comes out. She's read H and LotR. Her favorite character is
Bilbo for "his imperfections and resilience". She plans to download AIM
in the future.
Oct. 16, 2006
Watch your email!
If you aren't signed up for the beta yet, get thee
to http://lwww.lotro.com and
mention in
your application that
you are in the Valar Guild.
Oct. 15, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon
and Varda
Attending (11):
Members:
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, FinduilasV,
Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, FladrifV, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Glorfindel
VG, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Visitor:
Srekal86
Membership:
Finduilas will
be on vacation Oct 22 - Nov
3, back about the first Sunday of Nov., so missing the next two Sundays
but back after.
Web:
Tolkien site:
links (Oct 8), art (Oct 12)
Gaming:
WoS:
Finduilas
WoW:
Americas: WoW Lothar (Alliance,
Normal), WoW Uldaman (Horde, Normal)
Euro: WoW Argent Dawn (Alliance,
RP), WoW Lightbringer (Alliance, Normal)
Tolkien:
Menelvagor Valar: We all know that Elves have a
different rhythm than mortals do, but how exactly, and when do they
sleep?
Oct. 12, 2006
Cave
of Turgon-(V): original sent in Sept. 3, 2006, re-done
and posted Oct. 12.
"Beleriand" An elf of Beleriand
looks out at the dawn.
Oct. 8, 2006
World of WarCraft South Park show watchable
from this link,
suggested by Ar-Pharazon. Tested, no virus hit from it. The rating is
for Mature, although it is on public television.
Children of Hurin - Tolkien Estate
tells about it. Link suggested by Arwen-(V).
Sunday Ninth Anniversary
Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon
and Varda
Attending (19):
Members:
ArPharazonV, Arwen V1, Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Caranthir-(V)/El
Capitan Chobo, Eonwe Valar, FinduilasV, Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, FladrifV,
Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Glorfindel VG, GwaihirValar, Farmer
Maggot-(V)/thesirg3, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V/Oessala,
Scatha-(V)/STEvilaim, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Visitor:
crasyboy45, Srekal86, StlFan2k4
Membership
Anniversary discussion, including about how the
group held open the chat room all week.
Web
Anniversary webwork:
Book List and Reviews: 5 new books with
comments by Lungorthin-(Valar)
Articles: Thorin's Company project
Gaming
Uldaman WoW: folk created new characters on the
Anniversary so they could start playing together at level 1, which they
did happily.
Lothar WoW: characters shot fireworks and called out
"Happy Ninth Anniversary to the Valar Guild!" at the temple steps of
each major city. And quested. : )
Lightbringer WoW: Finduilas is trying to start a new
Euro guild on Lightbringer as a Normal, non-rp, non-gank server. She
had received complaints when trying to start a Tolkien guild on the
currently used rp server for Euro of Argent Dawn.
Argent Dawn WoW: Raiding as usual, nothing done for
anniversary.
Eve Online: the great snowballs in space throwing
for the anniversary
Battle.net:
WC3 by Ar-Pharazon. Others had problems
needing to re-install and update, taking up their entire gaming time.
D2X by Varda
Tolkien
Trivia game, lively and well-attended
October 7, 2006
The one week marathon continues, of holding
the chat room open for the entire Anniversary week. Guild-friend
crasyboy45 added his aid during the week as well.
Tolkien site:
Thorin's Company project for the
Anniversary continued:
"Bifur
of Thorin's Company", "Bofur
of Thorin's Company".
Filled in links for the earlier part of
the project.
October 4, 2006
Happy Ninth Anniversary to the Valar
Guild!
The AIM chat room
is available: Valar Guild Meetingplace. If the current holder has
crashed, please re-make the room. Say hi and you can try to buddy up
for the game of your choice. Participants so far this morning (morning
for EST folk):
ArwenV1, ArPharazonV, Caranthir-(V)/ElCapitanChobo,
Dior-(V)/MyCantalopeH8tsU, Elladan-(V)/Bior the Ythling, Eonwe Valar,
FinduilasV, Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, FladrifV, Gelmir-(V)/Shaggyjoe,
Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Glorfindel-(V)/GlorfindelVG/VegetableMann,
GwaihirValar, Lokiey1054 (guild-friend), Lungorthin-(Valar)/sauronjag,
OrodrethV/Oessala, VardaValar1
Five new Tolkien
books posted by Lungorthin-(Valar), most with comments! See them
here!
They are at the top of the Book List labeled New. Lungorthin says to
look for the ones that have been recommended as they're likely to be
fun to read. He asks for members to please send in info about new books
and/or your comments on ones you've read.
Battle.net.
We've always used East Realm as a way to get together, in channel
Valar. Drop in if even for a minute if you can, as a salute to where
the guild began.
WC3:
Menelvagor is planning to play in
WarCraft 3.
Ar-Pharazon dropped by in WC3, but
will be unavailable the rest of the day.
D2X:
Varda's been on most of the morning so
far in D2X as Varda-Valar.
Also try StarCraft/BroodWar or Diablo or WarCraft 2.
We also have members who will want to play WoW
(servers have been down), Well of Souls, and Eve Online.
WoW Uldaman
had a starter party of Gilraen, Sauron and Varda. Merry came in and we
played Tolkien trivia, where the one who answers correctly first asks
the next question.
Lungorthin suggests DAoC. :) He plays on Lamorak as
Gwyraan. Irmo plays on Percival as Yrma and Maigan
Feel free to send an email to say happy anniversary
to add to the News page.
The Forum is available for posting.
Fangorn-(Valar) says "Hoom-hom" from where he's
working the rest of this week, for a service company drilling for oil.
Oct. 3
Third day of Orodreth-(V)'s
marathon of
holding the Valar AIM chat room open for the week of our 9th
Anniversary.
Thorin's Company
project continued: "Gloin",
"Ori
in Thorin's Company", "Oin
in
Thorin's Company", "Bombur
of Thorin's Company". Additions to the previous members.
WoW Lothar:
Arwen, Sauron, and Varda tackled Stratholme together, with various
pick-up gamers to fill the other two slots.
Oct. 2
Second day of Orodreth-(V)'s marathon of
holding the Valar AIM chat room open for the week of our 9th
Anniversary. Help with this is welcome!
Also in honor of
the 9th, is the beginning of the Tolkien site article project: "Thorin's
Company". Help with articles for these characters and the related
places and objects is welcome. More details are on the "What's
New" page for the articles.
Oct. 1, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon,
Eonwe, and Varda
Discuss what you would like to do with the guild for the Valar Guild's
9th Anniversary! Some possibilities could be:
Gaming get-togethers (discuss which games and times
and days).
Keeping the meeting chat room open the whole day
Send in game reviews to Eonwe for the Games page
Send in goodies for the Tolkien site (the one you've
been meaning to get to, or a fresh one) to Varda, and label it that
it's part of the 9th Anniversary celebration. These might be humor,
art, poetry, fiction, articles, book review (cc Lungorthin), or a
memoir telling how you got into the guild and what happened to you
there, and what plans or hopes you have for your guild.
Attending (10):
ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), FinduilasV,
FladrifV,
Glorfindel-(V)/Glorfindel VG, Haleth V, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V,
Scatha-(V)/STEvilaim, VardaValar1 (after-meeting)
Members:
New Tolkien-Only member, Fingolfin-(TV)
Help requested for school by Menelvagor: please
check his site at http://www.geocities.com/turgon_nhl/files/school_system.doc
Guild Anniversary
Number Nine plans:
Members will hold the AIM chat room
open all day for Oct. 4. Orodreth is trying to keep it open all week,
and started during this meeting!
Meet in our AIM chat on that day and
move to the game of your choice, and maybe find more people to drag
into the gaming.
Battle.net:
WarCraft 3 (not TFT,
as quite a few didn't get the
expansion) gaming. Time uncertain, but the regular meeting time is one
possibility.
Show up in Valar
channel in East Realm, the place where it
all began, in any Blizzard game that allows it: StarCraft/Broodwar,
Diablo series (except, sadly the one we originated in, Diablo 1),
WarCraft 2, and/or WarCraft 3. If you're there for even one minute,
you're celebrating our history!
World of WarCraft: fireworks and
gaming. If your character
(including alt) doesn't have a tabard, WoWmail the guildmaster for your
anniversary tabard. For Lothar, WoWmail (or email) Auros (Eonwe-Valar).
For Uldaman, same to Gilbrennil (Varda-Valar). Gilbrennil is not
terribly rich, so several of us are working the AH and gaming to raise
tabard money. You might also help us with this clothing project. Let no
one be without a tabard!
Well of Souls: Orodreth plans to be
there for you.
Eve Online: snowball throwing
According to Scatha-(V): "game until we
run out of caffienated beverages!"
Gaming page: Email your gaming review,
and tag it that you did it for the 9th anniversary.
Tolkien site: Email anything for the
Tolkien site, tagging it
that it's for the 9th anniversary. You can also type up your own
anniversary comment and ask that it be included.
Members pages: Send in your memoir or
update it, telling how you joined and what happened and why you're
still here.
News page: Send in an email to be
included on the Anniversary
date. If there are a lot of them, they will be on an auxiliary page
linked to the News.
Forum: Weigh in on the Forum to say
Happy Anniversary and/or add to any of the Tolkien topics.
Web
Tolkien site:
New article: "Finwe" by
Fingolfin-(TV)
Story: "Setting Forth" by Jay of
Lasgalen
Gaming done this last week
WoW
LotRO
Eve Online
WarCraft 3
Tolkien:
Language in Middle-Earth. Tolkien created the
languages then built the
world around them. So, what can we glean about the races from their
languages?
Sept.
29, 2006 Fri.
WoW:
Lothar party gaming with
your highest levels and/or a group of lowbies, and howdys. May continue
in BRD if we have enough players.
Sept. 28, 2006 Thurs.
Member news:
Varda and Fangorn will be
out of town from today until late Sunday, to visit his parents and a
terminally ill family friend.
Eonwe
will be available to help you and will be chairing this Sunday's
meeting.
Sept. 27, 2006 Wed.
Member news:
Sauron-(V)'s
26th birthday.
Sept. 26, 2006
Tolkien Site:
Articles:
"Finwe"
by Fingolfin-(TV)
of Greece. This is the article with which he gained his
Tolkien-only
Honor, using a Greek version of the Silmarillion. Quite a feat!
Members:
Welcome to the Valar Guild, to Fingolfin-(TV)! After a long
email correspondence since April 24 of this year, we are very happy to
see you attain your Tolkien-only Honor and join us. May you have a long
and happy time in the guild.
Sept. 24, 2006
Tolkien Site:
Stories:
"Setting
Forth" by Jay of Lasgalen. Drabble, exactly 100
words long! "Legolas makes his final preparations before the Fellowship
leaves Imladris." Posted on Stories of Arda before us, Sept. 13, 2006.
Webwork: Elwing and Finduilas'
new story files and links should all be in good shape.
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (18):
Members:
Arathorn-(Valar), Arwen-(V), Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, ArPharazonV,
CaranthirV,
Elladan-(V)Bior the Ythling, Eonwe Valar (presiding), FinduilasV,
FladrifV, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet,
Glorfindel-(V)/Glorfindel VG, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth-(V)/Oessala,
Scatha-(V)/STEvilaim, VardaValar1
Guests:
Lokiey1054 (wants to join), Srekal86
(We may not have all the members as some came before the transcripters
and did not speak. Lurking about.)
Membership:
Bilbo - birthday. Book
Bilbo's birthday (and Frodo's) was Sept 22 Shire Reckoning, Sept
23 Gregorian calendar. Member Bilbo-(V)'s birthday is today, Sept 24,
and he's 24 years old..
Finduilas - completed move and back in WoW
Scatha - ordered a new notebook computer, hopes to
be gaming again. Dial-up
Gwaihr - still not well, playing WoW
Makar-ex - says hi through Scatha-(V)
Lokiey will be sent for more military training for 9
days starting during this week and will not be near a comp.
Web:
Games page news updated weekly.
New book by Christopher Tolkien coming out "Children
of Hurin"
Tolkien site:
Stories page:
"Shadow Search" by
Finduilas-(V)
"Setting Forth" by Jay of
Lasgalen
Webwork revamping files
Art page:
Cave of Turgon-(V): 4 new
drawings, with more in the email.
Gaming:
BZFlag: Ar-Pharazon
Civ 3: Finduilas
BfMe: Finduilas
BfMe2 Expansion is in the programming stage.
WoW: reports from branches in Lothar, Uldaman.
Reports from Argent Dawn gamers.
Tolkien:
Makar and Measse
Valar siblings and spouses in general
The Vala of Time
More on the upcoming "Children of Hurin"
The upcoming film "The Hobbit"
Sept. 22, 2006
Gaming:
WoW:
Lothar Friday night run.
Bring your high level or a character to chat with us!
Last time we
ran Black Rock Depths and we continued on from there. Arathorn, Eonwe, Merry, Turin, and Varda
were on the run. Elwing's 34 gamed at the same time and chatted.
Uldaman Valar Guild branch:
Ancalagon did not leave the Uldaman server Valar Guild branch for the
Lothar run as he had no high character on Lothar. Turin made a new
character for the Uldaman server branch. Small discussion of a special
Uldaman run day or night, no decision. Ancalagon says he can play with
the Uldaman branch any night.
Tolkien
Site:
Art:
Cave
of Turgon-(V): new art sent in and copyrighted Sept. 20,
2006, posted Sept 22
"Winged Beast" Fell beast,
the mount of a Nazgul
"Feanor"
"Gorthaur the Abhorred" Sauron
on the Battlefield
"Sauron" Inspired by the Silmarillion's line:
"Sauron stood in his upmost tower, wrapped in his dark thoughts."
Stories:
"Shadow
Search"
by Finduilas-(V) is up, one chapter long. We thank her for answering
the meeting request for a story with Gimli, and enjoyed seeing her rp
character make an appearance as well! Tolkien characters involved are
Gimli and Halbarad. The time is fifteen years before the Council of
Elrond.
Webwork warning for the stories
page: Started on a rebuild to organize the files better. Elwing
and Finduilas
have been affected so far.
Sept. 19, 2006
New book coming out by Christopher Tolkien?
An article on the"The Children of Hurin", located by guild-friend
Bradox, may be read here.
Sept. 17, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (14):
Members:
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, ArPharazonV, Arwen V1,
Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Eonwe Valar, FladrifV,
Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet,
Glorfindel-(V)/Glorfindel VG, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding).
Visitors:
Bradox guild-friend/Lokiey1054, oladys 123, Srekal86
Membership
Glorfindel (after-meeting): Back. "About 2 months
ago,
someone got a virus into my computer and hijacked our server to send
his spam all over the world. Millions a day. and my isp shut us down.
thats why i havnt been on in quite a while."
Web
Nothing new this week. Send in your articles,
stories, humor, poetry, and game reviews!
Gaming
Eve Online: free trials available. Ask Orodreth
Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO): Please post to our
Valar
Guild thread on the LotRO forum
to let them know we are still active. No one's posted there since July.
We are not supposed to discuss beta publicly.
Well of Souls (WoS): Orodreth requests help from
story-tellers for his Elvondel mod.
WoW:
Euro: Finduilas is not online,
apparently still involved in the move to the new house. Good luck with
that!
Lothar: Guild-questing report in
BRD
Tolkien
Orodreth-(V)'s topic: Dwarves in the fourth age: do
we have any more info on how Khazad-Dum went? Was it successful in the
long term? Also, what do we know about the eastern dwarven settlements?
Quote found by Ar-Pharazon covering Moria's future.
Tangented into fun silliness role-playing for those
who know the Silmarillion too well.
Sept. 11, 2006
LotRO:
Check
your email for a Beta invitation. They seem to be coming out over
several days' time. We are not allowed to say if we are in the Beta in
a public forum, making it more difficult to get together, but you can
privately email Varda, general contact person for the guild, and
remember the Valar channel.
Sept. 10, 2006
LotRO Beta emails are going out!
Yes, we have members making it
in, but aren't allowed to tell who or anything about the game on a
public forum.
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon-(V), Eonwe-(Valar), and
Varda-(Valar)
Attending
Membership
Announcement
by Gwaihir and Gilraen for the whole guild! :)
Web
Stories "To See a World" has 43 chapters up. In
progress.
Art: "Ancalagon" by Turgon-(V)
Gaming
LotRO Beta: Thranduil has been accepted! Check your
email!
Tolkien
Fall of Gondolin and Balrogs
Sept. 7, 2006
Stories:
"To
See a World" by Nightwing. Chs. 32 - 43 are up.
Sept. 6, 2006
WoW:
Grimbold, welcome back after the
move to college! Grimbold is back in WoW not only in our Lothar server
branch but also in Uldaman!
Stories:
"To
See a World" by Nightwing. Chs. 16 - 31 are up.
Sept. 5, 2006
Art:
Cave
of Turgon-(V): new drawing
of the dragon "Ancalagon".
Stories:
"To
See a World" by Nightwing. Chs. 9 - 15 are up.
Sept. 4, 2006
Stories:
"To
See a World" by Nightwing. Chs. 7 and 8 are up.
Sept. 3, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon-(V), Eonwe-(Valar), and
Varda-(Valar)
Attending (8):
ArPharazonV, Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Eonwe
Valar (presiding), FinduilasV, GilraenV, GwaihirValar, Menelvagor
Valar, Orodreth V
Fladrif sends hi.
Membership:
Varda's away for the day
Ar-Pharazon's back from vacation. Article considered.
Eonwe's back in college
Menelvagor's back in school (as are many members)
Gilraen and Gwaihir are married and had a two-week
honeymoon!
Finduilas is moving. Article planned.
Ancalagon from D1 days rejoined the guild
Web:
Encyc linked straight in from all the main guild
pages
Members Page numbers corrected
Novel "To See a World" by Nightwing is going up on
the guild's Stories: 6 of 43 chapters now up, another year probably
before she finishes, has been 3 years so far.
Humor link found by Pharazon, a short version of the
LotR: http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/060830.html
Gaming:
WoW
Argent Dawn: Valar Guild branch in
Europe has a charter and five signatures. Tabard design still under
discussion.
General: new information on the
expansion's new talents and spells
LotRO: new
area
WarCraft3: The
Frozen Throne: Ar-Pharazon is gaming again
BZ Flag
Kult Heretic
Kingdoms: review by Menelvagor. Single player
Eve Online:
played by Orodreth and by Finduilas' fiancee
Tolkien:
Finduilas-(V)'s topic: Grima Wormtongue: what
inclined him to come under the spell of Saruman?
Aug.
31, 2006
WoW Argent Dawn:
Finduilas
has started the Valar Guild branch charter signing on Argent Dawn.
Any of you in Europe who would like to help her collect the necessary
ten signatures, please contact her. You can start an alternate with
your guild name using your favorite type of character. She is Failivrin
on WoW, Finduilasv on AIM, and her email is calmacinnes(AT)gmail.com,
plus she can be messaged on the Forum. She is already collecting
guild-friends and potential Full and Tolkien-only Members.
The tabard, chosen by the team of Finduilas and
Menelvagor, with funds from Menelvagor, is "a dead tree on a dark green
background with a stark white slightly fluffy border." It cannot be
finalized until the charter members have all signed up.
Finduilas says:
"I intend the guild to be light rp, Tolkien or
azeroth what people
prefer, with chances for raids later on, but not as a main aim of the
guild. The guild in my eyes should be there for supporting each other
in quests, helping out with skills, gear and information as well as fun
with rping."
Member News:
Finduilas:
"My fiance came out with the little tidbit that he
actually owns
the Sil, which absolutely chuffs me - and .. jhehe ye never believe
this. The place we are going to move into is an old church - built
1829. Its absolutely fantastic .. giant, stone building so looks great.
I ll take some pictures and put them on the web once everythings done."
Aug. 29, 2006
Guild pages:
Tolkien link: As per promise at
last Sunday's meeting, all guild pages were checked to make sure the
Tolkien link goes to our Tolkien site rather than a list of what we
have on the Tolkien site. All unframed pages that mention the
Tolkien site already appear to be pointed to the unframed version of
the Tolkien site. The framed page, however, needed the change and it
has been done. If you see any pages that are not corrected even after
Reload/Refresh, please email Varda with the specific page.
Aug. 28, 2006
Members
page:
Corrected numbers of members on
the Members
page. Thanks for catching the problem, Eonwe. Reload/Refresh to see the
correction.
Tolkien site:
Stories:
Nightwing's
novel: "To
See a World". Nightwing
gave the Valar Guild permission to publish her novel, which is still in
progress and will probably be finished in about a year, started in
August 2003. She has written forty-three chapters. The first six are
now online
here. It deals with blindness, coping with both the physical and mental
type. Nightwing has been around the blind and has done a great deal of
research, as you can tell when you read. She summarizes the novel:
"Injured and
alone, Legolas and Aragorn are forced
to seek refuge in a wintry foreign land. But when darkness encroaches
from within and without, they learn that refuge can become a deadly
trap."
Aug. 27, 2006
Wecome back to the Valar Guild, Ancalagon-(V)! He
was in the guild previously in Diablo 1 days. Since then he has entered
a university and attended a Tolkien seminar, and is 24 years old. He
may be sending some of his college Tolkien-related papers for the Valar
Guild Encyclopedia.
Ancalagon is from Michigan, USA, EST. He is in Mist
guild with his
brother in WoW Lothar, where he stumbled across Merry and Varda with
their Valar Guild nametags, and greeted them. He attended a complete
meeting in
AIM as Sarujil, where he finished the test he started in Lothar on
Friday. He allowed his test to be used to help train a Maia and Maia
candidate, much appreciated, and passed his test with bragging rights
of 5/5! The testers and observers present were Earendil-(Valar),
Eonwe-(Valar), Finduilas-(V), and Varda-(Valar). His favorite
LotR character is Sam, because he's a simple guy, humble. Being a
servant allowed him to be of greater help to Frodo than the rest of the
Fellowship's folk of authority, who had obligations to other people as
well.
Aug. 27, 2006 Sunday (continued)
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Varda
Attending (11):
Members:
Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah,
Caranthir-(V)/
MoriFinwe, Earendil-(Valar)gelondil2, Eonwe Valar, FinduilasV,
Gil-galad-(V)/
Xseanzee disco, Menelvagor Valar,
Orodreth V/
Oessala, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Visitors:
Sarujil (rejoined in the After-meeting as
Ancalagon-(V), Srekal86. Oladys123 dropped by after the meeting, friend
of Finduilas, read LotR several times.
Membership
Many members are now back in college registering and
buying books. Good luck!
Ancalagon/Sarujil found and rejoined us.
Earendil is now available on Sundays due to shift in
work schedule.
Web
Tolkien site:
Articles:
Project: Numenorean Kings. A reader may now go straight through the
Numenorean kings, starting with Elros, and watch history unfold. More
articles to improve the history are requested. The rest of the human
kings are in line for the same treatment and could also use your
article help.
"What's New in the Articles" page is now visible on the menus.
Poetry:
New:
"In the Chamber of Mazarbul" by He that Walks Unseen-(TV)
Poetry project started by He that Walks Unseen-(TV). Poets requested.
Stories:
New
author: Nightwing
"Scouting
Ahead" rp in the Forum for the Valar Guild. New posts made this
week.
Finduilas' new
Middle-earth forum of her own, but to which we are welcome to
come, and the forum that she's dropped.
Gaming:
Vanguard game report by Earendil
WoW:
Lothar report by Eonwe
Uldaman report by Varda
Battle for Middle-earth 2 (BFMe2) report by Eonwe
Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO) report by Eonwe
Well of Souls (WoS) report by Orodreth
Tolkien:
Sam's role. Topic from Sarujil
After-meeting:
Ancalagon-(V) rejoined with a 5/5 test!
Orodreth-(V) made his WoS report
Ancalagon and Caranthir's new characters were
invited into the guild branches on Lothar and Uldaman.
Aug. 26, 2006
Tolkien:
Poetry:
In the Chamber of Mazarbul by He
That Walks Unseen-(TV). "The Fellowship of the Ring is
trapped in the Chamber of Mazarbul.
Mithrandir and his eight companions face the shadows and the flames
once faced by Balin, son of Fundin, Lord of Moria."
Aug. 25, 2006
WoW Lothar Friday questing:
A group of five high levels did
a large part of the Fallen Hero quest in the Blasted Lands.
Gamers were Dracxil/Beline, Eonwe/Auros 60, Merryv 60, Sauronv 60, and
Varda 58. During the mayhem, priest Varda leveled to 59.
Meanwhile, a party of two low levels worked against
the Frostmane trolls. Gamers were Thror/Throrv aided by paladin
Elwing/Starspray.
Ancalagon from
Diablo 1 days spotted us just before those games started, while
Merry and Varda were doing a Felwood quest, and said hi. His name was
Tuesday, and his character was in Mist guild of Lothar. He's interested
in rejoining the overall guild and did part of the test already, which
we hope to complete this Sunday. Ancalagon's recently participated in a
Tolkien seminar and has done some papers that may be turning up in the
Encyclopedia later.
Aug. 21, 2006
Tolkien Encyclopedia:
Articles:
Numenorean
Kings: The line of Numenorean kings may now be run through
from article to article in chronological order starting with the first
king, Elros. This allows the history of Numenor to unfold. New articles
added to allow this were:
Tar-Calmacil, Tar-Ciryatan, Tar-Elendil,
Tar-Meneldur, Tar-Minastir, Tar-Telemmaite, Tar-Surion,
Tar-Telperion, Tar-Vanimelde, Vardamir. An
additional article has also been made for Ar-Adunakhor.
If you find a problem first try Refresh or Reload,
then let Varda know for repair. The articles have not yet been added to
the A-Z menu.
Aug. 20, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon,
Eonwe, and Varda
Attending (7):
Members:
Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Eonwe Valar, FinduilasV, FladrifV,
Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V
Visitors:
Srekal86
Members:
Varda, Fangorn, and Eowyn went to see Elwing for her
birthday and missed the meeting.
Ar-Pharazon is on vacation for two weeks and missed
the meeting.
Finduilas will probably be moving again around the
beginning of September..
Web:
Encyc: Articles: Numenorean Kings section is
updating to be able to jump from one king to the next, work still in
progress but the start is visible.
Games Page:
lots of fun dynamic new stuff is going on with the php.
The Games page may be toggled between
the plain version and the pretty version by clicking on the title.
WoW Members pages for Lothar and
Uldaman are now sortable by any column.
Also, the WoW members pages are now
being kept more up to date there by Eonwe's efforts. The old WoW page
still can't be reached by Menelvagor, and the table updating by Varda
is not as high a priority as Tolkien and Members pages, since others
are handling Games work
Gaming:
"Well of Souls":
Orodreth is trying to revive the Elvondel world he was creating. For
more news, check out our Forum's Well of Souls section.
"World of
WarCraft":
Expansion news:
Lots of write-ups on the
WoW expansion linked from the WoW community site, including:
Expansion
area raids may be limited to 25 people.
Paladins may
be getting a taunt.
Thror-(V)
has a new laptop computer and has joined us in both WoW Lothar and WoW
Uldaman with three characters in each server. Go Thror!
Lothar
(Alliance): Guild questing worked on the BlackRock Depth quest
for Love Potion parts and finished it for all present. Priest Kalasul
(Eonwe) got a quick Flight Path Tour during this, as he is good at
locating and picking the Gromsblood needed. Afterwards, Varda was
escorted to the Master Enchanter in Uldaman and now has all offerered,
thanking the helpers by making Enchanted Leather and doing weapons
enchants.
Uldaman
(Horde): We're picking up guild-friends, some of whom may become
Full Members in the future. A group of members finished off the
RageFire Chasm instanced dungeon quests.
Argent
Dawn (Alliance): A new Valar Guild branch is starting up, not
just the cross-guilded members in raid groups. This is an all-level
group. Valar can come in with alts or mains, but should try to use some
version of their guild names. For more news, email or AIM chat with
Finduilas and Fladrif.
Tolkien:
topic suggested for another meeting
We've been through themes in LotR. What themes are
prevalent in the Silmarillion?
Since everyone had gone afk by this time, the topic
may be picked up again next week.
Aug. 18, 2006
WoW Lothar's Friday: Grab your high level
characters and let's jump in an instance! If your highest is low, maybe
we can get together enough to do some low instances or questing for
them.
Aug. 13, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon,
Menelvagor, and Varda
Attending (12):
Members:
ArPharazonV, AuSteinM-(TV)/AuSteinM, Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Eonwe
Valar (presiding), FinduilasV, GilraenV, Gwaihir-(Valar),
FarmerMaggot-(V)/thesirg3, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V, VardaValar1
Visitor:
Srekal86
Membership
Ar-Pharazon will be on vacation for the next two
weeks.
Web
WoW Lothar players updated
Games page now has a sortable WoW Lothar players
table made by Eonwe in php and tested during the meeting. More updates
were made after the meeting.
Forum: rp addition
Gaming
WoW Lothar
LotRO news
WoW Europe
New Valar branch? see After-meeting
Tolkien: lively
discussion
What happened with the Fellowship in Rivendell
during the wait for the return of the scouts?
Relationship of the One Ring with the other rings
and the Nazgul.
After-meeting
New Valar branch?:
Discussion of starting an actual Valar branch in Europe on Argent Dawn,
and certainly as a friend channel by typing /join Valar . We have
nearly enough people to start it right now and have potential recruits,
at least as alternates. Please contact Menelvagor-(Valar) by email,
AIM, or on Argent Dawn, and use the friend channel for contact with
everyone.
New name version for Finduilas
Beren and Luthien
screenplay online unfinished but good as far as it went. Link included. Located by Orodreth-(V).
Varda highly recommends this one.
Gaming in WoW Lothar and WoW Uldaman afterwards.
Aug. 11, 2006 Friday
Varda, Fangorn, Eowyn, and Sauron along with buddy
Elwing are back from canoeing, Sea World, the River Walk and
visiting Merry. To our pleased
surprise, Arwen arrived in
town ahead of us in the afternoon and is staying only three blocks from
Varda's family. We dropped in to see what was happening on WoW Lothar a bit later than our
usual time, but we made it for the Friday gaming. What's your
excuse? ;) We expect the rest of our vacation to be closer
to home or at least to computers.
Aug. 6, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Varda will be away on vacation until next week. See the What's
New on the Stories Page for more of Cassia and Siobhan's Mellon
Chronicles stories that are readable now, although the editing is not
yet finished. Also check Eonwe's Games page for Gaming news and game
reviews.
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending (12):
Members:
ArPharazonV, Arwen V1, AuSteinM-(TV), Elros-(V)/LouieKisKowsKi, Eonwe
Valar (presiding), FinduilasV, Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, FladrifV,
Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Orodreth V/Oessala, VardaValar1
Visitor:
Srekal86
Before-meeting
Forum RP discussion
Membership
Varda and family and Elwing will be out of town this
week for vacation. Bilbo is house-sitting.
Thror is now playing WoW.
Web
Art by Cassia
News page for each Tolkien site section
Gaming
World of WarCraft
Lord of the Rings Online
Well of Souls
Eve Online
Battle for Middle-earth 2
Tolkien
Finduilas would like to know as much as she can
about her namesake (Finduilas the Elf) so that she can better roleplay
the part.
Aug. 5, 2006
Gamers/Members:
WoW:
Thror-(V) is now
playing WoW! His dwarf paladin hit level 8 before he could manage to
email the good news. ;) Thror says hi to everyone, and that
he can't make meetings since he works during that time.
Art:
Cave of Cassia-(TV): not yet
thumb-nailed but still fun art for the Mellon Chronicles stories series
added today:
"Betrayal", "Priceless Treasure",
"The Stars of Harad", "Dark Visions", "Traitor", "Escape from Mordor",
"Curse of Angmar", "Siege of Dread", "Between Darkness & Dawn",
"Never Cold in Your Shadow", "Trouble Follows", "Cave Story 1: It Had
to Be Caves", "Cave Story 2" It Had to Be Stairs", "Cave Story 3: Down
and Up Again: The Elves and Ranger's Holiday" story by Katie, "Cell
Number Eight", "And So the End", "Remember How to Smile".
Aug. 4, 2006
Gamers:
WoW Lothar:
Friday
gaming was in Blackrock Depths, knocking off four quests. Lower level
members or alternates who couldn't fit in right away, came to play and
say aiya. Elwing mowed down quests in the 30 levels. When one person
had to leave the BRD instance (guild-friend Keeferjann), MerryV stepped
in with his level 60 mage to fireball the enemy. Auros (Eonwe's level
60 paladin) tanked and did a few rezzes. Arathorn did the first part of
the instance with a mage and the last part with a warlock.
Treabeard (Fangorn's level 60 hunter) leveled his Winterspring owl to
60 as a side joy. Varda's 58 Holy priest came within two bubbles of the
next level.
Aug. 3, 2006
Gamers:
WoW
Lothar:
Treabeard aka Fangorn-(V) hit
level 60 with his hunter in the Lothar guild branch. That makes his
third 60.
LotRO:
Lord
of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar goes
Alpha! Over 125,000 people have signed up for the upcoming beta.
For those Valar Guild members who haven't yet signed up for the free
beta play, here's the sign-up
link. We will have a branch in LotRO and Varda aka Fainan is the
one to check with as the branch leader. Content is licensed from the
books instead of the movies, allowing a more in-depth storyline.
Here's the quote from the LotRO site for Aug. 3,
2006:
TRO Alpha Officially Begins!
We're pleased to
announce that The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™
(LOTRO) has entered Alpha! This means for the first time, a limited
number of people outside of Turbine are invited to play the game --
creating characters, fighting Orcs, meeting famous characters, and
exploring the vast lands of Middle-earth™.
Over
100,000 fans have signed up for the Beta Program, which includes the
Alpha and Beta phases of development. We'll be inviting tens of
thousands of additional people into the Beta Program over the coming
months.
Aug. 1, 2006
Happy Birthday, Orome!
Guild pages: made an attempt to simplify the
navigation menu and top bars to suit each page. Now I have a sudden
urge to play on Uldaman as Horde!
July
31, 2006
Art:
Cave of Ulmo-(Valar): Must see! Photos of
the ship that Ulmo refit in about eight-hundred hours, named the Hirilondë. Take a look not
only at the beauty of this sailing ship so fitting for the Lord of the
Sea, but at the Tengwar runes that spell Hirilondë. He had the joy
of taking her out sailing this last weekend.
Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "To
the Ends of Middle-earth". Art by Cassia for the story of that name by
Jay of Lasgalen.
Stories by Jay of Lasgalen (finishes
the backlog for now):
Burying
the Hatchet G. 1 chapter. T.A. 3019, Jan. "A
short interlude on the road between
Moria and Lórien. Frodo plays peacemaker."
A Few Leaves In The Forest
G. 4 chapters. T.A. 3019 March. "This is mostly movie-based
(unusually
for me), but there are elements of the books. It covers the time
between the warg attack and the aftermath of the battle of Helm's
Deep." Mainly Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Haldir. Includes Eowyn, Eomer,
Gandalf, Theoden.
Letter From Elladan. G. 2
chapters. T.A. 3019, post-LotR. "Letter mailed to Elrond in error,
written just
before the
Battle of the Morannon, the Black Gate of Mordor." Elladan, Elrohir,
Elrond, Faramir
Till Death Us Do
Part
(AU) PG-13. 2 ch. Post-LotR. "After the One Ring was destroyed, there
was no more
evil and death ... was there?" Aragorn, Arwen,
Elladan and Elrohir (as Lords of Rivendell), Glorfindel, Legolas.
Mainly twins.
To the Ends of Middle-earth
Illustrated by Cassia-(TV).
Post-LotR, Aragorn already has children. Two endings, one canon and one
AU (alternate universe) for the Appendices. "When sudden tragedy
strikes one of the Fellowship
in Minas Tirith, how do those left behind remember?" What would be a
proper burial for one of his kind?
July 30, 2006
Stories:
By Jay of Lasgalen:
Going
on a Bear Hunt G 1 ch. "Elrohir,
Aragorn and Legolas go on a
hunting
expedition in the mountains - but things do not go to plan."
"Written for
the Teitho challenge 'Friends In Small Places'." Aragorn,
Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Glorfindel, Legolas
A Lesser Treason 3 chs. Elladan,
Elrohir, Elrond, Frodo, Sam. When Frodo brought the One Ring into
Rivendell, it did not stay quiescent.
T.A. Dec. 3018 'The last
temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong
reason' December, 3018. Elrohir, restless and uneasy, wanders
the hills above Imladris."
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
To enter: Take the invitation sent out at the
beginning of meetings if we spot you. Or invite yourself to chat, then
replace the automatic chat room name with our room name. Otherwise,
instant message VardaValar1 or Eonwe Valar or others for an invitation
into the chat room.
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending (11):
ArPharazonV, Arwen (AIM connection problems, so she
mostly side window-talked to group), Elwing V, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
FinduilasV, FladrifV, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, LuthienV,
Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V (AIM connection problems), VardaValar1
Membership
Varda, Fangorn, Elwing, maybe Sauron will be on
vacation during the week of Aug. 7-13, and may not be available much
during that time (although they might get to drop by Merry's wired
hobbit hole!). The following week, Fangorn's vacation continues but
probably in much shorter jaunts.
Web
Membership
pages are now all combined. We hope the new one is more convenient.
Games page
font colors have changed to improve visibility.
Tolkien Stories:
catching up on the backlog for Jay of Lasgalen's stories.
Gaming
WoW Lothar
had a good Friday run in Dire Maul East and West.
WoW Argent Dawn:
Pharazon got his epic mount!
WoW Uldaman:
lowbie funness in questing
D2X: Varda
is still there
Tolkien
Varda's topic: What might tempt the characters in
LotR to use the One Ring? Long discussion.
After-meeting:
WoW:
Pharazon tells the biography backstory for one of his WoW characters.
RP: Our
forum Tolkien role-play "Scouting Ahead" discussion is a bit scattered
at first as we catch up on the most recent posts, then solid discussion
a long time as we post a record number of times.
July 29, 2006
Stories:
A Crown of Woodland Flowers
G 1 ch.. The origin of Thranduil's crown. "Thranduil faces a bleak
round of council meetings and diplomacy on his
begetting day - but someone has other ideas. Set in the first year of
the Third Age.
July 28, 2006
Gaming:
WoW Lothar: Friday gaming. Come on in and
say hi! Let's kill some orc... or whatever evil raises its ugly head.
We did the Dire Maul West part of the Paladin mount quest, then the
Dire Maul East quest for the Dire Maul key for those who did not yet
have it, with a final trip to do the Dire Maul East Lathendris quest.
All quests were successful, and a good time was had by all.
Participants for the first quest were Arathorn, Arwen, Eonwe, Ulmo, and
Varda. Ulmo then had to leave for much-needed sleep before his weekend
sailing trip on the ship he rebuilt, named Hirilonde. More about that
in later news! The second run was with Arathorn, Arwen, Eonwe, and
Varda. Arwen's finger did get stuck in a root beer bottle, for she
managed to remove the bottle with a bit of help and carry on. The last
was completed by Arathorn, Eonwe, and Varda. Much fun was had by all.
Stories:
Cassia and Siobhan's Mellon Chronicles:
"Legolas'
No Good Rotten Day" by Siobhan with
inspiration from Cassia.
G. (Not illustrated.) "Humorous vignette. Legolas has a very bad
morning and drags his friend
Aragorn into it."
Jay of Lasgalen's stories: new stories
(non-drabbles) uploaded are:
"Flet
Building". 1 chapter. Elladan and Elrohir want to make a
Lorien-style flet and Celebrian helps. Uploaded July 27.
"Star Gazing". 1 chapter. Elrohir
and young Estel spend an evening star gazing and discussing legends.
"A Short Rest". 1 chapter. "When
Bilbo and the dwarves arrived in Imladris in The Hobbit, Estel was ten
years old. They must have
met. This short story is about that meeting. The title is taken from
the relevant chapter of The
Hobbit. Set in June, 2941."
"High Flight". 1 chapter. "An
eagle remembers the Battle of Five Armies."
"Shadows Over Lasgalen". 9
chapters. PG-13: Author's warnings for grief, torture, death. Aragorn
and Legolas first meet, briefly. "Sauron sends three of
the Nazgul to
reoccupy Dol Guldur. A
darkness begins to grow again in Lasgalen and Legolas takes a patrol to
investigate." Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas,
Thranduil.
"Interlude in Imladris". 10
chapters, sequel to "Shadows Over Lasgalen". "Trolls
reappear to disturb the peace
of Imladris. Legolas, on a visit
there, is invited to assist in the hunt." Aragorn, Arwen, Elladan,
Elrohir, Elrond,
Glorfindel,
Legolas, Thranduil.
July 27, 2006
Stories:
All seventy of Jay of Lasgalen's
drabbles are now uploaded and incorporated into her story series list.
This may most easily be found in chronological order on Jay's
Quick List . All of these stories with more information for picking
and choosing for your taste are available on Jay's Author's
Page. The main stories not currently uploaded will be in black
type, one is still in progress but the rest are complete. "Nine Lives" is the most recently
added regular story, uploaded to our site July 26 along with many
drabbles. Progress may be tracked on our "What's
New on the Stories Page?"
July 25, 2006
Stories page:
"Thranduil's
Heir": Version 1, Version
2 by Jay of Lasgalen. Drabble.
The second was made to add a more
elven feel.
"The Dead Marshes" by Jay of
Lasgalen. Drabble.
Legolas sees the corpse of his
grandfather, Oropher.
"Jay's
Quick List" for Jay of Lasgalen's series added, according to the
order in which they happened rather than the date written.
July 24, 2006
Members:
The combined Membership page
is now completed (I hope). Please check your information to make sure
it wasn't confused.
Stories:
"In the Pits of Utumno" by Jay of
Lasgalen. G. 1 chapter.
"An
elven warrior faces his most deadly quest - to steal into the realm of
Melkor to rescue a captured companion.
For the 50 Passages challenge, Prompt #46: 'He was naked, lying as if
in a swoon on a heap of filthy rags.'"
Based on a story of Elatan and Elendur.
"Strange Tales, Or Myths and Misconceptions"
by Jay of Lasgalen. G. 1 chapter.
"For a young ranger,
dreams and legends spring to life out of the grass
when he meets two who are the subjects of much mystery. A light-hearted
ficlet written for the '50 Passages' challenge, from prompt 37, 'I see
strange tales are woven about you.'"
Elladan and Elrohir.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
by Jay of Lasgalen. G. 6 chapters.
"When Elladan has a
horrific vision of death and disaster, he struggles to learn more, and
prevent the tragedy he foresees."
Elladan, Elrohir
July 23, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (15):
Members:
ArPharazonV,
Arwen V1, Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Eonwe Valar, FinduilasV,
Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, FladrifV, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco,
Menelvagor Valar, Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory, Orodreth V/Oessala, VardaValar1
(presiding)
Visitors:
crasyboy45, mecoons, Srekal86
Membership:
Elatan-(Valar)
of the Council is changing his
membership to Tolkien-only. This is due to the inability of his
European times to mesh with the W. Hemisphere gaming times. His Annals
of Arda will continue
unaffected, but he will be gaming with European guilds due to time-zone
problems. He has already worked out the change-over of the pages that
he has
been handling for the guild: Members and LotRO Online. May all go well
for you out there, Elatan!
Web News:
Membership pages
The various membership pages have been combined into one although
still in progress This includes Full Members, Tolkien-onlies, AIM
pages. Some pages have been deleted as no longer needed: Web Team,
Virus Alerts.
Games pages:
htm or php versions
Eonwe has rebuilt the Games page with
php and uploaded it during the meeting for all to see! It can be seen
either as the old link or the php link. Other Games pages are being
pulled under this site instead of scattered around such as LotRO and
WoW. New reviews for many games are now up.
CSS tutorial page
suggestions:
Eonwe suggested:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ for
numerous types of programming including CSS
Srekal86 suggested:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/livedesign/
for beginners
http://www.alistapart.com/topics/code/css/
http://www.csszengarden.com/
shows the power of CSS but the coding is not so great
Finduilas suggested:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS
official site for CSS intended for professionals
http://www.w3schools.com
recommended by a teacher
Gaming:
WoW some were gaming there during the Before-meeting
and a bit during the meeting
D2X Varda was playing it just before the
Before-meeting
Eve Online
Tourney played on live Web TV during the meeting, part of us
watching.
Tolkien
Discussion:
Finduilas' topic: Guardians. Guardians are a great
topic with senior Tolkien. Who was guarding what, when, where?
After-meeting:
Menelvagor told a story in role-play style of his
WoW hunter's collecting a fighting pet.
July 20, 2006
Certain guild pages are going to be dropped
as either not needed anymore, such as the Virus Alerts and perhaps the
Web Team page, or combined, such as the Members Page, Full Member
Activity, Tolkien-Valar Members, and AIM page. Games pages are also
being considered at this time, possibly to be all combined. The new
arrangement should make it easier to locate information and to keep it
updated for our smaller web team plus help cut down space requirements.
July 17, 2006
Tolkien Encyclopedia:
Finished separating the
articles for the page of Man. Updated the A-Z menu and Author's pages
for each article. Added Author list at the bottom.
Elves page: corrected some
authors' credits so that they go to the author's
pages and show just the current name on the article. Added author list
and desired articles at the bottom.
July 16, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (8):
ArPharazonV, Arwen-(V), Eonwe Valar, FinduilasV,
Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, Menelvagor Valar, Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory,
VardaValar1 (presiding)
Web
Tolkien site: new article "Denethor's Depression"
Links: Tolkien fan survey for a book
Gaming
WoW Euro: Menevagor is starting another raiding
group on Argent Dawn server as Blazing Phoenix.
WoW Lothar: need a group to help with Dire Maul West
and then Scholomance for Auro's Paladin epic mount quest.
WoW Uldaman: need to do RFC and WC before our guys
get too big for those instances.
Tolkien
Destiny vs Free Will in Middle-earth
Click the Tolkien heading link to go to the Tolkien
discussion part of the Meeting Transcipt. This feature is now available
for all Sunday Meeting summaries for July. Enjoy!
After-meeting
WoW: Techniques to gain Argent Dawn reputation.
July 14, 2006
Articles:
Denethor's
Depression by Varda-(Valar). Second article under the Denethor II
Index.
WoW Lothar:
Friday gaming
July 13, 2006
Links:
Surveying Middle-earth:
blog
survey of Tolkien fans for an upcoming book, requesting input. Put up
at request of the blog's author.
July 9, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (13):
Members: ArPharazonV, Dior-(V)/MyCantalopeH8tsU,
Ecthelion-(V)/suilenroc01, Eonwe Valar, FinduilasV, LuthienV,
Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V/Oessala, Scatha-(V)/STEvilaim, VardaValar1
(presiding)
Visitor: crasyboy45, LaurealasseHelka, Srekal86
Membership News
Arwen: AIM problems. She should return to Texas in
August.
Finarfin is still with us, looking for fellow Guild
War players in Valar.
Web Reports
Games Page Mass Update
Encyclopedia: A-Z in progress, now into the Men
section additions.
Stories: "Legolas' No Good Rotten Day" by Siobhan to
cheer up Cassia. Even an elf can have a bad day.
WoW page: new section for Uldaman server Horde
players
Gaming Reports
Guild Wars
Well of Souls
World of WarCraft:
Argent Dawn
server: upper levels, lower levels.
Lothar server:
Alliance Friday get-together
Uldaman server:
Horde now has a branch and tabard
Lord of the Rings Vol. 1 for the Super Nintendo
System
Tolkien
Discussions:
What types of messaging can you think of used
in Middle-earth?
Turin's talking sword: odd properties and how
it got them..
July 2, 2006
Gaming:
WoW Uldaman: The Valar Guild is now
official and has a tabard on its Horde branch on the Uldaman server!
Thank
you for signing up: Arwen, Elwing, Eonwe, Eowyn, Fundin, Gimli,
Meriadoc, Orome, Sauron, and Varda (had the guild charter).
Thank you,
Gimli, for the ten gold for the guild tabard (same as the one on
Lothar). Anyone who manages to scrape up gold on Uldaman, please pass
one to Gimli, as that was a big hit for our very low level guys.
We use the
usual guild channel for alternates and guild friends. Type /join Valar
to enter it.
Uldaman is
especially good for those with poor connections as it is a new server
with low lag. It is a way to try out Horde with friends, and so we can
have room to try out Blood Elves when they turn up. This also helps
those who used up their Lothar account space for Alliance.
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Varda could not attend, although she came nearly
four hours late after being out with family and friend for movie and
dinner that went off later than intended. Thank you to Eonwe and
Ar-Pharazon for the transcripts!
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending (10):
Members: ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
FinduilasV, FladrifV, Haleth V, LuthienV, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V,
ThorondorV
Visitor: Srekal86
Membership:
Gwaihir and Gilraen: Yesterday Gwaihir flew to England to
be with Gilraen and her family before the wedding. Luthien located the
wedding date: August 19!
Varda, family, Elwing are out together for movie and
dinner
Web
Games Page update in progress
Gaming:
WoW Lothar report by Eonwe
End game for the Scourge Invasion.
We were in all the last battles so that Lothar reached the 150th win
and ran off the Scourge.
WoW Argent Dawn report by Ar-Pharazon, Finduilas,
Menelvagor
Finduilas is gaming there too
Menelvagor has returned as
Gondoline
Well of Souls report by Orodreth
Eve Online report by Orodreth
Tolkien:
Eonwe-(Valar)'s topic: Last week we talked about the
qualities that made one a hero. What about the qualities that make one
a villian?
July 1, 2006
Membership:
Gwaihir-(Valar)
flew to England to be with Gilraen-(V)
and her family before the wedding.
June
30, 2006
WoW Lothar:
Let's all grab our 60's this
evening and take on the Scourge Invasion! This event won't last
forever, guys.
The Azshara area seems to have
the least lag problem, but we can do others also.
We did three of the Scourge Invasion
areas: Barrens, Azshara, and Tanaris. The 150'th battle was won and the
event has ended. We were part of it!
Tolkien Art:
Tim
Hildebrandt has passed away, but his work with his brother, Greg,
lives forever.
June 26, 2006
Gaming:
Lord of the Rings Online Beta
news. This letter just went out to those who signed up. Be sure
to sign up too!
Dear Fainan,
Thank you for
being a part
of The Lord of the Rings
Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ community! This summer is going to be a
very busy one for
LOTRO, so we'd like to take a moment to share some of the things that
we are working on with
you.
We noticed in
your Beta
application that you are part of a
large guild. Don't forget to get other members of your online gaming
guild to register. If someone
in your guild gets into the Beta Program, it automatically increases
your chance of getting in! The
top 10 largest guilds will automatically receive up to 100 Beta invites
and the remaining top 90
will get up to 20 invites. The best way to encourage guildmates to sign
up is to post the LOTRO Beta
URL (http://lotro.turbine.com/betasignup)
on your guild forum or email it to your
guildmates directly.
We'd also like
to mention
that we've published a new What
is LOTRO? feature on our website. We've combed over all of our
previous
interviews, articles, and dev diaries to compile a definitive summary
of what LOTRO is all about. If
you're new to the community, you'll most likely find this information
very useful.
Development on
the game is
proceeding rapidly. Beta invites
won't be far behind!
Thanks again for
being a
part of the community, and we hope to
see you in Middle-earth sometime soon!
Sincerely,
The LOTRO Community Team
June 25, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V), Menelvagor-(Valar), and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (8):
Members:
ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, FinduilasV, GilraenV, LuthienV, Menelvagor
Valar (presiding), VardaValar1
Visitors:
Srekal86
Membership:
Ar-Pharazon has a new flatscreen monitor
Gilraen and
Gwaihir: correction:
Gwaihir is flying to England to be with Gilraen. The marriage date is
set on August 19, 2006.
Web:
Story page: new postings this week with two from
Cassia and Siobhan, one from Jay of Lasgalen.
Gaming:
World of Warcraft:
General: New patch 1.11 reports
and comments
WoW Euro: Argent Dawn server.
Finduilas joined the server as a human paladin, and has a night elf
hunter. Fladrif, Valandil, Ar-Pharazon play there. High Guard is a
raiding guild, so it won't let in the low new guys, so we are trying to
come in through a guild allied to theirs, Twilight Order.
WoW Americas:
Lothar
server's Friday run:
Eonwe, Fundin, and Orome went to the Winterspring
crystal for Scourge fighting. Very crowded and laggy there, but made it
through the Shadow and got the Breastplate of Undead Slaying, allowing
Eonwe's Auros to complete his Undead gear.
Bilbo, Fundin, and Orome went to the Gnomeregan instance after that.
Eonwe and Merry (60's) went to the Scourge Crystal in Eastern
Plaguelands. Checked out the crystal in Tanaris (rare Abomination
spawns there). As that became too crowded, the two cleared Scourge
around Stormwind and suggest that if you see the Pallid Horror, be sure
to slay him! He's tough, but a crystal appears for a short quest. The
pair then found a nearly empty crystal in Azshara (now has a flight
path with quick access to Ratchet's bank and inn, etc), where they had
Horde help now and then. The pair did most of the damage to the
crystal, then a group of three Alliance guys showed up and they made a
five-man party and finished it off.
Uldaman server group (no report
given), mostly a lot of lowbie playing. Elwing is highest with 33.
Games Page Update
ongoing
Battle for
Middle-earth 2: Menelvagor, Eonwe, Ar-Pharazon
Eve Online:
Menelvagor, Finduilas
Dungeon Siege:
Menelvagor, Finduilas, Ar-Pharazon
DnD Middle-earth
variant: Menelvagor is currently making it. Ar-Pharazon
volunteered to join in.
Tolkien:
FinduilasV: Heroes: who is a hero in what sense and
why?
June 22, 2006
Stories:
"Starlight
on Leaves" by Jay of Lasgalen. R. 1 chapter. "Thranduil, now
King, returns home
after the war of
the Last Alliance and is reunited with his wife."
"Lazing
on a Sunny Afternoon" by Jay of Lasgalen. G. 1
chapter. "Celebrían
plans a quiet afternoon alone, but her plans are thwarted. Elfling
fluff with Celebrían, Elladan and Elrohir."
June 21, 2006
Stories:
The
Seventh Stone by Cassia and Siobhan. PG-13.
Illustration by Cassia, also in the Cave
of Cassia-(TV). 12 chapters. "When Aragorn and
Legolas come into the possession
of an ancient map that tell where one of the lost Palantiri is hidden
they end up in more trouble than they bargained for, as it seems that
everyone wants to get their hands on the stone, no matter the cost. But
a more sinister force is at work than even the elf and the ranger
realize."
Aragorn, Legolas, Balin, Ori, Gandalf, Gwaihir,
Saruman.
June 18, 2006
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V), Eonwe-(Valar), and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (10):
Members:
Aerandir-(V)/mordacil, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar,
FanduilasV, GilraenV, LuthienV, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V/Oessala,
VardaValar1 (presiding)
Visitor:
crasyboy45 (would like to join)
Membership:
Finduilas - passed her test and changed from
Tolkien-only to Full Member
Cassia - learned photomanips for illustrating
Tolkien stories and now creates images for a TV station as a job.
Ar-Pharazon - monitor going out
Web:
Games Page: removing old info as re-making the page
with php programming. Took new info at the AIM meeting, and will
take it by email.
Links page - Silmarillion rp forum
Humor page - new frames to make it bookmarkable and
linkable
Art - by Turgon
and by Cassia
Stories - "Sickness"
by Siobhan with touches by Cassia. An elf learns about human sickness,
when Aragorn becomes ill during a visit by Legolas.
RP board by
Finduilas-(V) now up for playing, for any time in Tolkien's books.
Valar welcome, as well as other Tolkien fans.
Gaming
Eve Online http://www.eve-online.com/
Well of Souls
After-meeting gaming if the meeting
doesn't run too late.
Finduilas times: Wednesday afternoons,
Thursdays and Fridays are the best
Irregular times: Luthien, Pharazon,
Varda.
Pharazon raids in WoW
about 4 evenings a week.
Ultima Online
crasyboy45 plays
Menelvagor has the CD for the first
version
Lord of the Rings Online
World of WarCraft:
In general:
Trolls'
complete history
Quest
rewards and new patterns for Argent Dawn and Naxxramas
Blizzard Update
Downloader fixable to prevent crashes and lag, especially on dial-up
and older computers.
WoW Europe: Argent Dawn server.
Valandil and Pharazon played
WoW Americas:
Lothar server
for Alliance - full guild branch
Uldaman server
for Horde, using /join Valar and buddy lists to get together
Tolkien:
Father's Day topic: Who are some of the fathers in
the books and what were they like?
After-meeting: (Tolkien
and WoS gaming)
Galadriel's relation to Feanor.
Luthien: how Tindomeral can mean nightingale.
Translating "Orelinde" (bits dug out during other
conversation for quite a while.)
Silmarillion: what it is.
Quenya: what it is.
WoS (Well of Souls) questions
June 15, 2006
Gaming: WoW:
A lag
problem that has been crashing slower computers and those with
dial-up connections, and lagging others, can be stopped. It is the
Blizzard Update Downloader. It downloads bits of upcoming patches to
your computer at odd times, and uploads bits of the patch that you have
to other computers, making a giant computer out of all of us. This is
fine with a powerful broadband computer, but unholy to others. You can
disable it:
Go to your WoW folder (often under Programs)
Inside the WoW folder is an icon for the Blizzard Update Downloader. Open it.
It will check your WoW patch to see if it needs repairs.
As it does so, an icon will show up on the taskbar
at the bottom of your computer. Open that.
Go to Preferences.
Under Preferences are two checkboxes checked by
default. You may uncheck them until the time you want to download a
patch. The first might be left alone, and allows Peer to Peer transfer,
meaning patch transfer between players' WoW computers. The other you
need to uncheck for sure allows the
transfer at odd times.
June 14, 2006
Gaming: WoW Uldaman server:
A number of us wanted to try
out Horde characters and play together, but not abandon our main
Alliance characters on Lothar. With Eonwe's agreement, we are using
Uldaman server and typing /join Valar to make a buddy channel to
contact each other.
Uldaman is a New server and had a
Low population when we first entered, although it is already
increasing. It is handy when Lothar becomes unbearably laggy.
We are mostly using versions of
our guild names, some with interesting Sindarin research by Eowyn and
some in a lighter version, such as Elwing's using the English
version of Elwing "Star Spray" if said with her character's tusks as
"Thtarthpray".
Anyone else in the guild
interested in trying out Horde is welcome to pop in. We could start a
casual Valar Guild there if desired, or just stick to the current
set-up. We already noticed that having a guild makes it much easier to
keep track of names! Eonwe, our WoW branch leader, will not be handling
it.
This could also be a way to try
out Blood Elves once that comes available, for those of us who have
used up our ten Lothar slots. Being in other guilds is perfectly
acceptable, but please don't forget about using the Valar channel for
contact with your old buddies too. :)
June 13, 2006:
Art:
Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Sickness"
Cave
of Turgon-(V): New art: "Ancalagon
the Black", "Dol
Guldur".
Stories:
Sickness
by Siobhan
with tiny touches of Cassia. G. Illustration and poem by Cassia.
One chapter. "Aragorn gets sick and Legolas, coming from a race
that does not know illness, tries to understand
what that must be like."
Links:
Silmarillion
- forum dedicated to this Silmarillion rp. The "Valar Guild" section is
not us, but still interesting. Link found by Eonwe-(Valar). This link
is filed on our Links page under Tolkien/Online Gaming.
Humor:
Humor menus are all now up and
operating, allowing separate links or bookmarks for the humor pages
straight to the menu, linked directly into the Encyclopedia.
June 12, 2006
Members:
Excerpt from a letter by Siobhan-(TV)
concerning Cassia-(TV):
Isn't photomanip
hard! I leave that all to Cassia, she is the expert in that
area. She's even been taking classes to get better at it and now
has a paying job creating images for a tv station! I thought that
was really cool. Who knew you could actually get a job doing something
like that that you enjoyed.
June 11, 2006
Welcome to Valar Guild Full Membership,
Finduilas-(V)!
Finduilas-(TV) has passed not only the Tolkien-only membership
requirement, but now the Full Membership requirements. She has bragging
rights for a 5/5 test with Eonwe and Varda on AIM. She's played Diablo
2 and Runescape. She currently plays Well of Souls with us and plays
Eve Online. She plans on Lord of the Rings Online. She's
from Scotland with a
time zone of GMT-5 or MEZ (Mittel Europaeiische
Zeit). A favorite character of hers is Legolas for crossing racial
boundaries for close friendships, and not just with dwarves although
that had the highest hurdle.
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (13):
Members: ArPharazonV, ArwenV1 (invisible except
exiting), Elros-(V)/
LouieKisKowsKi, Eonwe Valar, Finduilas-(V)(was Finduilas-TV)/BhonTuath,
Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, Mablung-(V)/DemonicHorde69,
Menelvagor Valar, Scatha-(V)/STEvilaim, Orodreth V,
Thranduil-(V)/Gamatzgamatz, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Visitor: Amarie-V-ex/mecoons
Membership:
Orome-(Valar) in Brasil for nine days.
Barahir-(V) did very well on his exams, wrote it up
in tabloid form.
Menelvagor-(Valar) possibly moving
Finduilas-(TV) became Finduilas-(V) during the
Tolkien part of the meeting.
Web
Webworking computer now with new hardwire and
location, operational again.
Stories
"Errand of Fate",
"Black Breath", by
Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV)
Poetry
"The Last to Dance", by
Merewen-(TV)
"An End", by Merewen-(TV)
Art
"Manwe's Hall", by Turgon-(TV)
"Earendil's Ship", by Turgon-(TV)
"Black Breath", illustration by
Cassia-(TV)
Personal Page:
Elros-(V) non-Tolkien or
gaming
Gaming:
Eve Online:
Players at the meeting:
Finduilas-(V)
Well of Souls
(also in the After-meeting)
World: Aerianell
Private guild chat channel type
/im 4892
Valar Private Server: available
whenever Orodreth-(V)'s computer is online. Regular guild password.
Some Valar Guild player names:
Calion, Elbereth, Fainan, Finduilas, Orodreth, Tindomeral.
Freelancer:
Player: Scatha-(V). Limited to dial-up
and laptop.
Frozen Throne
Player: Thranduil-(V). Quitting
WoW since it was consuming all his time.
Lord of the
Rings Online
Thranduil-(V) signed up for the beta.
LotRO Forum:
Valar Guild
thread found by typing it into the Search or http://lotro.turbine.com/forums/showthread.
php?t=657&highlight=Valar+Guild
LotRO Forum
allows images for avatars but not sigs (signatures at the end of the
post). Sigs are usually made with <img src=""> and type the URL
between the quote marks.
WoW:
Blizzard Background Downloader
causing lag and/or crashes. Under Preferences, disable background patch
piece loading.
Talent calculators on the WoW site
now improved for Internet Explorer.
WoW Europe report by Ar-Pharazon-(V)
WoW Lothar report by Eonwe-(Valar)
New Horde server
for guild: Uldaman. Type /join Valar and add members to buddy list.
Mainly for when Lothar is laggy/down or to try out Horde.
Crysis: report by Scatha-(V)
By Crytek. Sequel to Farcry,
looks good. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=102498
Battlenet: report by Orodreth-(V)
Our bot (done by Orodreth-V) in
the Valar
channel is down until further notice as it is having peculiar problems.
Tolkien Chat:
Journeys
Faramir's ways of interrogation
Movie oddities
June 9, 2006
Poetry:
An End by Merewen-(TV).
Frodo on Mt. Orodruin.
Stories:
Black
Breath by Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV). PG-13 for
violence and
tense
situations. "When tragedy strikes, the last thing Legolas
wants to do is leave
Rivendell and his friends... but when he does, what will he encounter?
And will Aragorn be able to save him from it before the elf prince
loses more than just his life?"
11 chapters.
Art:
Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Black Breath" illustration for Siobhan-(TV)
and her story of the same name.
Cave
of Turgon-(V): New art: "Manwe's Halls", "Earendil's Ship".
June 7, 2006
Membership:
Barahir-(V) wrote up an
amusing tabloid piece to describe his recent accomplishments that he
would like to share with you all. See it here!
Webwork:
The main webworking computer is back
online. Huzzah! Updates to the news have been added retroactively for
June.
June 6, 2006
Membership:
Welcome to the Valar
Guild's Tolkien-onlies, Merewen-(TV)! She joined us with the poem
below, which she says is being published for the first time. She's from
the USA.
Tolkien site:
Poetry:
The
Last to Dance by Merewen-(TV).
Eowyn is given hope by Aragorn that she will not be "the last to dance".
Stories:
Errand
of Fate by Finduilas-(TV).
One chapter. Isildur orders his squire, Ohtar, to take the shards of
Narsil to Rivendell. Fortunately young Ohtar has help. Tolkien
characters used are Elrond, Isildur, and Ohtar.
June 4, 2006
Membership:
Welcome to the Valar
Guild's Tolkien-onlies,
Finduilas-(TV)! She's playing the elven Finduilas, not the human
mother of Boromir and Faramir. She joined us not only with this humor
piece, but a
story that should be online this week. She has played some Diablo 2 and
Runescape. She also gamed with us a little today in Well of Souls, and
hopes to join us in LotRO when it comes out. She hopes to take her Full
Member test next meeting, time permitting. She's from Scotland. The
time zone is GMT-5 or MEZ (Mittel Europaeiische
Zeit). She's very much into the Darkover novels as you can see from her
forum, "Under the
Red Sun". Of Tolkien's books,
she's read H, LotR, Sil, UT, and Farmer Giles of Ham.
Orome is in Natal, Brazil for
nine days, for work. That puts him in the same country as artist
Dwalin-(TV)! See his Forum
post.
Tolkien Trivia
Contest:
Results
posted on the Forum June 4 with all twenty questions and answers.
If you didn't get to participate this time, don't worry, as we will
have more. Here are the results quoted from Eonwe-(Valar):
Now that the
trivia has ended, here are the winners:
Lothar:
First Place:
Varda
Second Place: Oromë
Third Place: Arwen
Non-Lothar
First Place:
Finrod
Second Place: Menelvagor
Overall:
First Place:
Varda
Second Place: Oromë
Third Place: Finrod
I
did give partial credit for answers that had some parts correct, which
made for some interesting math. Winners in the WoW Lothar branch may
claim their prizes at their earliest convenience. Winners outside the
WoW Lothar branch may begin bragging at their earliest convenience :}
Tolkien site:
Humor:
Middle-earth
Vacation Spots: new place "Belfalas"
text by Finduilas-(TV).
Sunday Meeting 5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by ArPharazon and Varda
Attending: (12):
ArPharazonV, AuSteinM-(TV)/AuSteinM, Eonwe Valar
(presided over
Tolkien), Finduilas-(TV)/BhonTuath, Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL,
Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Haleth V, Luthien-(V), Menelvagor Valar,
Orodreth V/Oessala, Ugluk of Old, VardaValar1 (presided over Business)
Membership:
Finduilas-(TV) joined as a Tolkien-only
member with her poem and story, came to the meeting today as Bhon
Tuath, and joined us in the game "Well of Souls". She plans to join as
a Full Member after re-reading the books a bit more.
Menelvagor-(Valar) taught his first and
second classes.
Web:
Humor: "Belfalas" by Finduilas-(TV) under
"Middle-earth Vacations"
Art: Luthien has the sketch completed for
the burning of the
Teleri ships, but another painting has priority before she can really
concentrate on this one.
Webwork computer not currently hooked to the
main router, should be this week. Sneaker.net (carrying a floppy disk)
now in effect. Wishing for USB ports on all computers, but not
currently the case.
Gaming:
WoW:
Europe
Lothar
Scourge Invasion
next patch: let's get together as a guild group on it.
Well of Souls:
World: Aerienell (see
After-meeting for details on 5-man guild group get-together)
Eve Online:
Orodreth plays
Tolkien:
Tolkien Trivia Contest results. Some answers
and then the rest of the answers were posted to the Forum.
After-meeting:
Well of Souls: One group downloaded and
played Well of Souls in World Aenienell together (1st name is primary,
second is game name): (Orodreth/Orodreth, Pharazon/Calion,
Luthien/Tindomerel, FinduilasTV/Finduilas, Varda/Fainan). For group's
chat, on the main chat bar we typed /im 4892 as a random number.
Orodreth is considering details on setting up an actual guild branch
here.
WoW Lothar: Another group went to WoW
Stratholme (including Eonwe/Auros, Merry/Merryv, Bilbo/Valtocolindo).
June 2, 2006
Membership:
Irmo-(Valar) is back and playing
DAoC again. See his post
on the Valar Guild Forum.
Tolkien-inspired Poetry:
New poem: "
Queen
Berúthiel"
by Alasse
Merenrel-(TV).
May
29, 2006
Memorial Day
May 28, 2006
Sunday Meeting 5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon,
and Varda
Attending (7): (low
number due to Memorial Day weekend)
Members: ArPharazonV (presiding over
Tolkien), Arwen V1,
Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco,
Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory, VardaValar1 (presiding over business)
Visitor: BhonTuath
Membership:
Fundin-(V) is now a Full Member!
He's been a Member of Honor sponsored by Orome-(Valar)
Gil-galad-(V) no longer has the WoW-capable
computer or account available. Ereinion will be missed in Lothar, but
we hope he will be able to return.
Valandil-(V) still plays a little WoW in
Europe
BhonTuath, visiting today, is interested in
joining the Valar Guild, and has sent in material for the Tolkien site.
Computer problems on Varda's end prevented it from being up yet. She is
also interested in gaming in LotRO and signed up for the beta.
Menelvagor emailed that he will be at a
friend's house during this meeting.
Web Report
Art:
Cave
of Elwing-(V): "Halbarad"
Cave
of Turgon-(V): "Faramir", "Minas Tirith", "Silmaril"
Gaming Report
Hobbit
Guildwars
Diablo
Runescape
LotRO
WoW:
Europe
Lothar branch: aided enchanting
member to reach the artisan in Uldaman, then went to Lower Black Rock
Spires.
Tolkien:
Hobbits: How do hobbits differ from other
races in Middle-earth?
Cousins:
page explaining how cousins are related, found by Arwen-(V) for the
Hobbit discussion.
May
25, 2006
Glittering Caves of Aglarond:
New art: "Halbarad" in the Cave
of Elwing-(V). This picture is the current header picture when
entering the Valar Guild site.
New art: "Faramir", "Minas Tirith",
"Silmaril" (silmari.jpg) in the Cave
of Turgon-(V). The Cave is now separated into more rooms (tables).
May
22, 2006
Greetings one and all!
I am announcing a Trivia contest available to all Members of the Valar
Guild,
with special rewards for those with a character in the official Guild
branch on Lothar!
The winners of this trivia will be able to choose which of the
characters he
or she has in the Valar Guild Lothar branch will receive the prize.
Prizes
will be awarded from the Guild Bank and will be as appropriate for the
character as possible.
Rewards to choose from may include:
An Item
Materials for your profession
Profession patterns
In addition, I will offer my services as either a Blacksmith or an
Alchemist
to the first place winner to make any 1 item I am capable of making.
Any member of the Valar Guild may send in answers to the Tolkien trivia;
however, only those with a character in the Guild branch will be able to
collect a prize as described above. I will keep track of those who do
and
record winners of that group for bragging rights :} Members of any
honor may
participate in this test of Tolkien knowledge for the chance to win
prizes.
All answers must of course be off the top of your head, as this is a
test of
knowledge.
The due date for all submissions is Two Weeks from today (Sunday May
21st),
so June 4th, 2006. All submissions must be received by e-mail to me.
Take care.
Eonwë (erase
NOSPAM to send your email)
(Note from Varda: Feel free to send in goodies that you think could
make nice prizes to Kalasul by WoW mail, but don't send in something
that would have upgraded you.)
May
21, 2006
Sunday Meeting 5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon,
and Varda
Attending (12):
Members:
ArPharazonV, Arwen V1, Eonwe Valar, Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, FladrifV,
Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Menelvagor
Valar, Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory, Orodreth V/Oessala, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Visitor:
Srekal86
Membership Report:
Tuor-(V): New Full Member
Gilraen-(V): Birthday!
Eonwe-(Valar): Birthday!
Fangorn-(Valar): Birthday coming up on May 25.
Web Report: report by Varda
Art Page:
Arwen-(V) speeded up the very slow
Cave
of Turgon-(V) with thumbnails and cropping.
New art: Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Black Breath"
New art: Must see! Cave
of Elatan-(Valar): photos of the longbows that he made in use,
photo of the mosaic he and his brother made of a Tolkien-style tree on
the side of his brother's house.
Gaming Reports:
WoW Lothar:
report by Eonwe
Dire Maul West
Trivia
game on Forum for bank loot on Lothar server starting now and
running for two weeks. No book look-ups. Non-Lothar people can answer
too, but can win Bragging Rights and recognition on the pages.
WoW Europe:
report by Ar-Pharazon
Guild Wars:
Tuor-(V) is looking for Valar Full Members to help start a branch.
Joined by Ar-Pharazon-(Valar), perhaps Fladrif-(V) who is considering
getting the game.
LotRO:
appears to have the same problem for us as WoW did, not letting us game
with half our members.
Tolkien Chat:
Favorite places in Middle-earth and favorite events
After-meeting
Tolkien kept going a little after an afk break
WoW Lothar Dire Maul West with 5 Full Members after
the meeting, organized partly at the meeting and partly on WoW with
double presence: Eonwe, Eowyn, Merry, Sauron, Turin. Turin had to go
and Gelmir stepped into his place. Other members were gaming in Lothar
at the same time.
May
18, 2006
Art news: Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Black Breath". Illustration for the linked story
of the same name by Cassia and Siobhan.
May
17, 2006
Art news: Cave
of Elatan-(Valar) - New photos from Elatan-(Valar) of the bows,
which he made, in use. He also has a new photo of the mosaic of a tree
done by his brother and himself on the side of Elatan's brother's house.
The Valar Guild
site is now framed. The framed
version can be reached from the opening page at http://valarguild.org
by clicking the Valar Guild logo, or by going to the main index and
clicking "Framed Valar Guild Site". To escape the frames, go to the top
of the menu and click "No frames".
May
15, 2006
Art news: Arwen-(V) redid the Cave
of Turgon-(V) so that it now uploads much faster. Thank you, Arwen!
May
14, 2006
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Tuor-(V)! Tuor
joined during
today's After-meeting, in a test with Eonwe, Menelvagor, and Varda. He
is a 20-year old college student from California in the USA, PST.
Contact him on AIM as Tuor Dramborleg or by email: xtuorx(AT)gmail.com
. He plays Guild Wars as Tuor Dramborleg and as Mordeth Strongbow. He
intends to enter LotRO in the Valar Guild. He is an addicted mudder,
playing the LP MUD known
as The Two Towers. URL's for that are : http://www.t2tmud.org/ and .He's
read The Hobbit, Lord of the
Rings, Book of Lost Tales I & II, The
Silmarillion, and the Tolkien Reader. A favorite character of his from LotR is Gimli:
"I have always felt
pulled towards dwarves.
Their steadfast resilence and conservative
attitudes, and their bravery and courage in
battle. His everlasting support for
the fellowship and Merry and Pippin in
general always struck me fantastic. His
openess to new
things, something most dwarves lack. This
can be seen in his strong friendship with
Legolas and their travels after the war of the
ring. And of course, at Helm's
Deep. There little contest and the
fact they always seemed to be watching out
for one another. A true elf-friend. After
being down trodden
upon losing the two hobbits, Merry and
Pippin, his eagerness to go after them and
not abandon them to the shadow."
Sunday Meeting 5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon,
Menelvagor,
and Varda
Attending (17):
Members:
ArPharazonV
(presiding over Tolkien), Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Elladan-(V)/Bior
the Ythling, Eonwe Valar, Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, FladrifV, Gilraen/Star
of Phaet, GwaihirValar, Huan-(Valar)/LiberalHound, Menelvagor Valar,
Orodreth V, Scatha-(V)/STEvilaim, Tuor-(V)/Tuor Dramborleg, Ugluk of
Old,
VardaValar1 (presiding over Business)
Visitor:
Herumor-(V)-ex/Nemoeverlonely, Srekal86
Membership News:
New Full Member: Tuor-(V)
joins during the After-meeting
Menelvagor:
report from London
Ar-Pharazon:
dance
Webwork Reports:
Art: New
"Elleth Muse" by Elwing-(V)
WoW Members page
for Europe, by Menelvagor, now up here,
click Europe Members.
Gaming Reports:
WoW:
New Alliance class: Draenei
Europe report by Ar-Pharazon
Lothar report by Eonwe
Lord of the Rings
Online beta
sign-up now going. Be sure to include Valar Guild on your
application. Please use some version of your guild name so we can tell
who you are. Drop in on the thread there for the Valar Guild (go to
Search, type Valar Guild), say hi, and let us know your name for our
buddy list.
Guild Wars
(Gaming section)Ar-Pharazon plays,
Fladrif considering getting it
(After-meeting). Tuor plays.
Character names for Tuor and Phar.
Battle for
Middle-earth 2 Tom Bombadil confirmed!
Tolkien Chat
Who here knows why Tuor was important in the books?
May
11, 2006
New art: Cave
of Elwing-(V) "Elleth Muse"
May
10, 2006
Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO, aka MeO) is
now taking Beta sign-ups! Be sure to write in Valar Guild as your
guild name, using our domain name for the website at
http://valarguild.org They seem to give preference to guilded
folk. For sign-up and more info including prizes:
http://lotro.turbine.com/betasignup
Happy Birthday to
Barahir-(V)! He turned 15 today.
May
8, 2006
WoW: Children's Week quest starts this week on
Tuesday. Escort
a Stormwind war orphan around, show him/her a good time, such as buying
ice cream. This quest is supposed to run one week out of a year. It has
high reputation for Stormwind, 50 rep for just one of the quests, and
the amount increases!
May
7, 2006
Sunday Meeting 5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon
and Varda
Attending (13)
Members:
ArPharazonV, Elladan-(V)/Bior the Ythling, Eonwe Valar,
Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, GwaihirValar,
Malbeth-(V)/Basketballmatt2, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V/Oessala,
Ugluk of Old, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Visitors:
Amarie-(V)-ex/staind32185/mecoons, Srekal86
Before-meeting
Guild Wars game
Battle for Middle-earth 2 game
Membership
New Full Member Malbeth-(V). His "few words".
Menelvagor leaves tomorrow for London, should be
back Friday.
Ar-Pharazon's birthday was yesterday, so he is now
21.
Web
Page for WoW Europe
Art: Cave of Turgon-(V), Cave of Cassia-(TV)
Stories: by Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV)
Articles: Working on Mankind page still, then will
be working on the A-Z menu for the whole Encyc.
Gaming:
WoW:
WoW Lothar
WoW Europe
WoW Children's Week quest
Eve Online: free invitations offered by
Orodreth-(V). Email or AIM message him or in-game.
Tolkien
Animal lords. Topic by Eonwe.
Knights of Dol Amroth, what is their relationship to
Elves? Topic by Menelvagor
Babylon 5, LotR in space? More during after-meeting
LotR movie errors
After-meeting declared but Tolkien continued:
LotR videos
More on LotR movie errors
Was the Stone of Elostirion taken to the West with
the Ringbearers? Topic by Ar-Pharazon
May
5, 2006
New
story: Vilya
by Cassia
and Siobhan. PG-13. 10 chapters. This story comes after "Mistaken
Identity" in the Mellon Chronicles series.
New art: Cave of Cassia-(TV) : "Vilya",
illustration for the above story.
May
3, 2006
Art: The
Bohemian Weasel site owner and artist, Soni Alcorn-Hender,
who sells her work, has most graciously offered our Encyclopedia the
use of her Tolkien artwork. Since she sells these pictures and prints
of them, and pays for her own bandwidth, she does not normally allow
direct linking into her site (see her FAQ), as she is doing for us. We
thank her. Of our site, she said, "You have a great site, vast
and comprehensive, well done!" Everyone who has contributed to our
site, stand up and take a bow!
Articles:
Mankind section still under re-work, not yet visible from the main
subject page. Boromir
and Eomer
articles were separated out today. New Author page for Eomer-(V).
New pictures in numerous articles added thanks to Bohemian Weasel, not
yet completed. Numerous king indices have been created and related
articles separated out since the last mentioned articles update.
May
2, 2006
New story: "Mistaken
Identity" by Cassia-(TV)
and Siobhan-(TV), next part of the Mellon Chronicles series. PG-13.
New art: Cave of Cassia-(TV), "Mistaken
Identity", illustration for the above story.
May
1, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V) "Ringil",
Fingolfin's sword.
April
30, 2006
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Malbeth-(V)!
Malbeth attended today's meeting and was active in the Tolkien chat. He
tested with Eonwe and Varda. He is from Texas, USA; CST. His AIM is
Basketballmatt2 . Please use AIM to contact him as he will not be
giving out his email for the web page.
Sunday Meeting 5pm EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon,
Menelvagor, and Varda
Attending (11)
Members:
ArPharazonV, Arwen V1, Eonwe Valar, FladrifV,
Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Menelvagor Valar (presided over Tolkien),
Orodreth V/Oessala, Ugluk of Old, VardaValar1 (presided over Business)
Visitors:
LaurealasseHelka, Malbeth-(V)/Basketballmatt2 (joined during the
meeting)
Membership
New Full Member: Malbeth the Seer-(V) (After-meeting)
Menelvagor will miss the next meeting, in London for
a week, would like to meet up with any Valar members in the area. More
details on the Meeting Transcript.
Ar-Pharazon's birthday is next Saturday, and he'll
be 21.
Web
New art this week: Cave of Turgon-(V): "The Silmaril
of Maedhros", "A Silmaril".
New stories this week: Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV):
"Return"
Gaming
The Hobbit: review by Eonwe
Empire Earth: review by Ar-Pharazon
Age of Empires, Age of Wonders
Eve Online: 14-day free trial offered by
Orodreth-(V), email him. [After-meeting]
WoW Europe
Fladrif is back with his newly
located gamecard
Menelvagor still has no WoW
Tolkien (Menelvagor presiding while Eonwe and Varda
were in an entry test)
JRR Tolkien's life
What were the Rangers doing while the High Kings
were Chieftains?
Gilraen, where did she go when she left Rivendell?
Article requests: Dis/Female dwarves; Gilraen
April
28, 2006
Friday WoW Lothar get-togethers.
Scarlet Monastery: a guild group went all the way through this morning.
Main time 6pm EST: guild group went to Zul Farrak and killed
Gahz'rilla, with a few side quests on the way. Greater detail is in the
Forum report. Next Friday: Stratholme in the Eastern Plaguelands.
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V) "A Silmaril"
colored, ivy-wrapped.
April
25, 2006
Tolkien Site: Stories:
Return
by Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV). Part of their Mellon Chronicles
series. Formatting completed, online. Illustration by Cassia-(TV), also
in her Cave in the art section by the same name.
PG-13, 12 chapters.
"Sequel to Exile. Legolas and
Aragorn
venture into the Mines of Moria to
help Balin, only to get more than they bargained for. Meanwhile,
Mirkwood is falling into darkness. Her only hope ends up resting in the
hands of the two people she has scorned, and Legolas & Aragorn will
risk more than their lives to save her."
"Part of this story is
slightly un-canon because we
place the events of the dwarves’ attempted return to Moria some years
prior to when I think it would actually have happened if one tries to
follow a strict Tolkien time-line. For the sake of the story it could
not be helped. Please consider this a use of artistic license and do
not feel inclined to roast, boil or squash us into jelly over this
inaccuracy. :o) Thanks!"
Aragorn, Elladan, Elrohir,
Elrond, Legolas, Thranduil
April
24, 2006
Tolkien Site:
Art:
Cave
of Turgon-(V): New art: "The Silmaril of Maedhros" under Objects.
April 23, 2006
Sunday Meeting 5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending (14)
Members:
ArPharazonV,
Arwen V1, Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Eonwe Valar,
Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, FladrifV, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet,
GwaihirValar, HalethV/Druidfalconwolf, Menelvagor Valar,
Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory, VardaValar1
Guests:
LaurealasseHelka, Srekal86
Webwork Reports
Gaming Reports
Tolkien
Haleth's topic: Would it have been for the better if
Faramir hadn't followed his father's orders?
Did the raiders bring any sieging equipment?
After-meeting:
rp group meeting
More Tolkien: Pharazon located a quote he was
looking for during an earlier discussion about another union of men and
elf, during the saga of Turin
April
16, 2006
Happy Easter!
Sunday Meeting 5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace (worked this time)
See QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending (12)
ArPharazonV, ArwenV1, Eonwe Valar,
Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Gilraen-(V)/Star of
Phaet, GwaihirValar, Haleth V, FarmerMaggot-(V)/thesirg3,
OrodrethV/Oessala, VardaValar1
Srekal86
Membership - greetings
Web
Encyc, programming, search script
Gaming
LotRO - report by Eonwe
New open source game - report by Fladrif. The game
is at http://www.nexuiz.com/
WoW - reports by Eonwe, Varda, Ar-Pharazon. Congrats
to Orome for reaching 60 with
Orognome!
Rayman 2 - report by Ar-Pharazon
Supertux - mention by Fladrif
Tolkien
The Hero's Reward. Lively discussion with
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Finrod, and Varda participating. See the Meeting
Transcript under "Tolkien", as always.
April
10, 2006
WoW Lothar: Congrats to warlock Sauronv who
has been level 60 for over a week now. This is his 3rd level 60.
April 9, 2006
Sunday Meeting 5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace (worked this time)
See QuickAIM
for a list of member's AIM names
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon, Varda
Attending: (9)
ArPharazonV, Arwen V1, Eonwe Valar,
Finrod-(V)/TH0R0NGIL,
Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, FarmerMaggot-(V)/thesirg3, Menelvagor Valar,
Orodreth V/Oessala, VardaValar1
Fladrif on MSN trying to communicate through
Ar-Pharazon.
Membership
Fladrif is having problems with his wireless network
and couldn't enter AIM. Was on MSN communicating with Ar-Pharazon, sent
greetings through him. Fladrif is still in Sweden, probably a few more
months.
Valandil is unable to make it to meetings due to the
time zone and his schedule, says hi.
Web News:
Blue Goof:
Arwen-(V)'s personal page with her copyrighted art and poetry
WoW
Lothar Player's page updated.
Tolkien
site:
Article: World
of Tolkien by Menelvagor-(Valar). The author is present in the chat
and tells us about his article
Story: Exile
by Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV) 9 chapters, illustration by Cassia,
also in her art Cave.
Art: New Cave: Cave
of TJ-(TV) . Cassia's Cave has her illustration for the "Exile"
story.
Wiki talk
Gaming News:
D2:LoD: Finrod-(V) is looking for fellow players.
BroodWar
DoD: Source
Age of Wonders: Finrod-V is looking for fellow
players
Rayman 2
WC2 Expansion
WoW
Europe: report by Ar-Pharazon.
Lothar: report by Eonwe. Successful
Dire Maul East 5-man on the Friday get-together, going through the
entire area.
Gilraen's Raenna crashes trying to
enter Lothar, but can go with Gwaihir to Ysera pvp server without that
problem.
Tolkien Chat:
Fear: used to keep the evil side operating, fought
against to keep the good side operating.
Tom and Goldberry's nature and relationship. Might
Goldberry have been Tom's daughter?
How old is Legolas? Not said, so go by inference.
Research not completed at this meeting.
Requested topic
for next time, by Finrod-(V): Legolas' age. This
will take research, people, so we have been given fair warning. :) It
will also be a possible range, not exact. Try to figure out the oldest
and youngest possible dates, then see if it can be narrowed down.
Two good articles concerning the age question are mentioned:
Legolas of
Mirkwood: Prince Among Equals (see section "What is His Age")
Speaking of
Legolas (age discussion starts on the second page)
Yes, there are some questionable "facts" in some parts, but these two
articles give an excellent start to researching age.
***
April
8, 2006
Exile
by Cassia and Siobhan. Formatting completed.
PG-13, 9 chapters.
"When Aragorn is accused of murder, he and Legolas
risk everything, including their lives, to discover the truth. But just
how much will justice end up costing?"
Aragorn, Legolas, Thranduil
April 7, 2006
WoW Lothar
Friday get-together group had a successful 5-man on Dire Maul East,
picking up the Crescent Key for those who didn't have it yet, and
taking on every boss. Auros (Eonwe), Beline (long-time guild-friend
Dracxil, Auros' brother), Billboh, and Sauronv for the whole run.
Ereinion Gil-galad was disconnected and unable to return, but Orognome
(Orome) took Ereinion's vacated place.
April
4, 2006
Blue Goof - Arwen-(V)'s
personal page is now in our members' pages links. Here's a look at her
copyrighted poetry and art.
World
of Tolkien - Menelvagor-(Valar)'s
paper on Tolkien
April
2, 2006
EST is now EDT!
New Cave in the art page, Glittering Caves of
Aglarond: Cave
of TJ-(TV). His LotR map and an archetype table-top game
are here. TJ is asking for a programmer from the Valar to help him with
a simple LotR game for the PC. His native language is French, but he
can email in English.
***
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00 April 2, 2006
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace2. Valar
Guild Meetingplace refused to come up.
See QuickAIM
for a list of fellow Member's names. Page by Arathorn (programmer for
all the cool features, updated for
quite a while) and Varda (original and current) lists member AIM names
for both Full and
Tolkien-only.
Please email updates to Varda if yours is not there.
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Varda
Attending: (12)
Members:
ArPharazonV, ArwenV1, Bombur/MrMonkey2002Blah,
Eonwe Valar, FladrifV,
Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Gilraen-(V)/StarofPhaet, Gwaihir-Valar,
Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth
V/Oessala, VardaValar1
Guest:
Srekal86
Membership:
Finrod-(V) is our new member this week (He said he
never saw us enter AIM this day. Also the regular meeting room would
not come up for anyone.)
Bombur-(V) rejoined
Valandil-(V)'s birthday is today!
Web News:
QuickAIM.
Arathorn requested that Varda take this page back for updating, as he
no longer plans to do it. He no longer comes to meetings.
Gaming News:
Tolkien:
What does Tolkien consider a Hero?
Who were some of them? Can there be different kinds? Should he have
added other types as well?
Link to some Tolkien articles by Hargrove (we also
had this on the Links page): http://www.phil.unt.edu/~hargrove/
Mention was made because of the dragon article.
Tolkien Wiki discussion, with
later updates from during the week:
Here are some current ones:
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi
ttp://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Earth
Arwen quickly put up the Wiki program on her
personal site, but
later decided independently that it would not work for our Encyclopedia
because we do copyrights.
Varda put up the Wiki program with much patient
coaching from
Srekal. Varda, Eonwe, and some others feel that it would be more
interference than help. A lot of our permissions are allowed because
the work will not be modified in any way that the
author/artist/programmer/etc disapproves.
Eonwe is working on a php coding that might cover
the problems we
have that would have been covered by a Wiki, while Varda continues to
separate the Encyc into indices we can use for a Search engine and
other programming uses.
***
March
31, 2006
WoW Lothar Friday get-together:
This week's instance questing
took Merry, Varda, Sauron, Eonwe, and Draxcil into Razorfen Kraul, and
then Merry, Varda, Draxcil and Eonwe into Razorfen Downs.
March
30, 2006
Welcome back to Bombur-(V), who
rejoined the Valar Guild as a Full Member. He tested 4/5 with Varda on
AIM. Bombur is 17, in his third year of high school in Florida, EST. He
has a new email: Ben.Gowar(AT)gmail.com.
His usual AIM name is MrMonkey2002Blah, but he also came on today as
Bomburv. He plays WoW on Shadowmoon pvp server. He plays some TFT and
sometimes BW. He has Ventrilo and jumped right into our Ventrilo with
no problem. He's read the H, LotR, and started into the Sil. His
favorite LotR character is Gimli, "due to his brashness and
unconditional loyalty to the forces of good and whatever he thought was
right".
March
28, 2006
New
story: Never Alone
by Cassia with tiny touches by Siobhan.
PG-13, three chapters.
"When
13-year-old Estel is
injured, the twins and Elrond remember some other difficult times in
their own respective youths and a special gift is given across
generations, reminding us that none of us are ever truly alone."
Aragorn,
Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Elros, Elwing, Maedrhos, Maglor
New story: You
Make Me Home by Siobhan-(TV) with touches by Cassia-(TV).
G, one chapter.
"Vignette. A young Aragorn is injured while out
with the rangers.
With the more seriously wounded demanding all the immediate attention,
Elladan and Elrohir make sure their little brother is not forgotten."
New art: Cave
of Cassia-(TV) "Father's Love",
"Never Alone", "You Make Me Home".
March
27, 2006
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Finrod-(V)! Finrod
is an officer at Ft. Benning in Georgia, from Kentucky, in EST. He
plays Age of
Wonders, D2:LoD, and BW. He is in the SCA, enjoys using the rapier.
He's joined the Forum. He's read the H, LotR, Sil, UT, and part of BoLT
2. He tested 5/5 with Varda on AIM. His favorite character in
LotR is Imrahil of Dol Amroth, in his castle by the sea. Imrahil was
observant, as when he was the only one who realized Eowyn was not dead.
He was a good warrior of fine lineage to be lord of such a strong,
major outpost.
New Link:
Lord of the Rings
on tbs:
Videos: made
from clips of Lord of the Rings. Warning on one, but the rest are
general audience.
Webmaster
resources with a small number of fine quality photos from the
movies.
March
26, 2006
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST
(GMT-5), GMT 23:00
Meetings are held on AIM: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
page by Arathorn and Varda lists member AIM names for Full and
Tolkien-only.
Please email updates to Varda if yours is not there.
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Menelvagor, and Varda
Attending (12)
Members: ArPharazonV, Arwen V1, Ecthelion-(V)/suilenroc01,
Eonwe Valar, FladrifV, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee
disco, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Glorfindel VG, Farmer
Maggot-(V)/thesirg3, Orodreth V, VardaValar1
Guest: Srekal86
Membership:
Gazarok-TV: new Tolkien-only member.
Orodreth-(V) now starting Spring Break
Daylight Savings Time coming to EST April 2
Sweep completed
Web:
Art
Turgon-(V),
Cassia-(TV)
Stories
by Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV)
"Change
of Heart, Change of Mind"
by Eonwe-(Valar):
"Homecoming"
Articles
by Gazarok-(TV):
"Gimli"
"Mumakil"
Gaming pages:
WoW
Lothar Players
Forum: LotRO RP
Gaming:
WoW:
Lothar: Gulma (Ulmo's dwarven
hunter) reached 60!
Argent Dawn (Europe)
LotRO: new
calendar
Tolkien:
Mortality (Ar-Pharazon-V in Before-meeting)
"Heimskringla" (Fladrif-V has been reading this
source material for Tolkien and is taking the chance to see the only
surviving page left.)
Death as the gift of Eru to Mankind. (Eonwe-(Valar))
Immortality: Natural state of Arda?
Fea: Decider of mortality?
Effects of Tolkien's literature (Menelvagor's topic):
On literature
On gaming
Themes in Tolkien's works
affecting current thoughts:
Hope
Deceit
(Tolkienesque
phrases)
Comraderie
Inter-cultural,
inter-racial
Valour
Love
Perspective
Stealth (not theme, but
tool) (guerrilla fighting, sneaking, diplomacy)
Adapting
List of more
themes to consider:
Sacrifice
Death
Afterlife
A Higher Power
Angelic Powers
Evil and Good's natures
What gave actual pleasure
Name for a ship, Wolf class. Suggestions were Draug
and Carcharoth.
March
24, 2006
Welcome to the Valar Guild's Tolkien-onlies,
Gazarok-(TV)! Gazarok lives in Australia, although he comes from
New Zealand. He says New
Zealand is beautiful but the temperature is cold. Gazarok has read the
H, LotR, and part of BoLT 2. As with most of us, he's seen the movies.
He collects WarHammer and LotR table-top gaming miniatures, and goes by
his dwarf name of Gazarok. Thanks to the LotR game, he wanted to look
more deeply into the literature and is kindly sharing his interest with
us. He downloaded AIM and is now known as Gazarok. He joined with his
article on Gimli last night after an exchange of
emails, and the article is published today. He has another article in
the works already!
New article: Gimli
by Gazarok-(TV)
New story: Homecoming
by Eonwe-(Valar)
. Short story: a Dwarf goes home.
New article: Mumakil
by Gazarok-(TV)
March 23, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V): "Makar"
March
22, 2006
Stories:
Change
of Heart, Change of Mind by Cassia and Siobhan, Mellon
Chronicles Series. PG-13. 4 chapters. Illustrated by Cassia and added
to her Cave.
"Aragorn and Legolas are beginning to become
friends, but not
everyone in Mirkwood looks kindly on this, or upon they young human
ranger. When Legolas' life is threatened, Aragorn is the one person
available who knows how to save him, but will the others listen to him
before it is too late? "
Aragorn, Elladan, Elrohir, Legolas, Thranduil.
Art:
Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Change of Heart, Change of Mind", "Exile",
"Return"
March 21, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V) : "Iron Crown"
March 20, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V) : "Silmarilli",
"Mandos"
March
19, 2006
Turgon-(V) made a personal page to collect
all his own art, much of it related to Lord of the Rings. See it here.
12 Full Members dropped for lack of contact: (Varda
remaining on AIM since morning to midnight CST as
VardaValar1 for contact convenience.)
Beregond-(V) AIM: VBeregond
Bombur-(V) AIM: Bomburv, MrMonkey2002Blah (rejoined March 30,
2006)
Draugluin-(Valar) no AIM
Elendil-(V) AIM: AragornLAN
Elrond-(V) AIM: mirkwood hunter
Faramir-(V) no AIM
Fili-(V) AIM: FiliValar, patente666gosse
Finrod-(V) AIM: sidviscious01858
Galadriel-(Valar) no AIM name
Gothmog-(Valar) no AIM name
Halbarad-(V) AIM: micopsor
Paladin Took-(V) AIM: MyLifeforAuir72 , ThainPaladinTook
7 Tolkien-only
Members dropped for lack of contact. Can rejoin in the usual
way.:
Celebrian-(TV)
Dreamlord-(TV)
Elladan-(TV)
Embla-(TV)
Maeglin-(TV)
Telchar
Tristin-(TV)
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5.
Meetings are held on AIM: Valar Guild Meetingplace
QuickAIM
page by Arathorn and Varda lists member AIM names for Full and
Tolkien-only.
Please email updates to Varda if yours is not there.
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending (20)
Members:
Arwen V1, ArPharazonV, Dior-(V)/MyCantalopeH8tsU,
Earendil-(V)/gelondil2, Ecthelion-(V)/suilenroc01, Eonwe Valar,
FladrifV, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Glorfindel VG, Haldir V,
Haleth-(V)/HalethV/Druidfalconwolf, Idril-(V)/Narthais,
Lungorthin-(Valar)/sauronjag, Menelvagor Valar, Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory,
Orodreth V, Scatha-(V)/STEvilaim, Thranduil-(V)/Gamatzgamatz,
VardaValar1
Visitor:
Srekal86
Membership:
Inactive/disintrested member drop hits at midnight
tonight.
New Full Member this week: Gimli-(V)!
Arwen has been accepted for an internship in
Louisiana studying a river for environmental hazard after the
hurricanes.
Srekal starts his new job with a web hosting company
today.
Ar-Pharazon now only has college classes 1-2 days a
week.
Menelvagor's 25th birthday is this coming Wednesday!
Web: lots, all on the
News already
Links
Art
Stories
Gaming:
Supertux
report by Fladrif in the transcript
Murloc
Online
LotRO Dev Diary: "Making of a
First-Class Burglar"
http://www.slayradio.org/mastering_swedish.php
for some fun Swedish lessons!
WoW Europe and Lothar
Tolkien:
Varda's topic: Comparison of northern and southern
rangers.
Earendil: What does it mean to be Dunedain?
Earendil: How
can one "choose" his genetics when he's a Half-Elf? This got into genetics and how the body is affected
by the fea and Valar
tweaking.
Haldir V: What happened to the dwarves and hobbits
after the fourth age, current time?
Haldir V: What about the after-life of the dwarves,
and the mansions of Aule?
Haldir V: Where can I read more on the
destruction of Arda? (Two meaty articles in our Encyc under Events: The
Last Battle, The End of All Things)
Haldir V: The fate of Earendil
Haldir V: How Arwen and Aragorn were related through
Earendil's twin sons.
For next time, we've been requested to figure out
how JRRT might have reacted to various things for a school role-playing
project.
March
17, 2006
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Gimli-(V)! Gimli
is from Texas, USA, a long-time guild-friend and friend of
Sauron-(Valar)'s family. Gimli just had his 25th birthday this March
4th. He passed his test 5/5 with Varda, a perfect score and the
first-time ever test by telephone. He plays WoW on Lothar mostly (with
two characters in the guild, Hardy Explorers), plays a little Guild
Wars as Jetwest and Fieryjetwest (with the guild, Legion of Exile), and
still has his SC/BW and all three Diablo games. No, Eonwe, he did not
play WC3 or TFT. He's read the LotR and is starting the Hobbit. Gimli-(V)'s
favorite character is Gimli, and he was very lucky that the name was
free. He likes Gimli for his manner, that he's stout and proud, his
love of the Glittering Cave, and his friendship with Legolas.
Runner's-up were Faramir for being elegant and strong-willed at the
same time, and Pippin who was, in the books, much more active in Gondor
and in the Shire.
WoW Lothar Friday: Dire Maul East to complete
quests. 6pm EST.
New Story:
Along
Came a Spider by Jay of Lasgalen. PG-13.
"This is the back story to my drabble 'A Brother's
Prayer'. Elladan and
Elrohir arrive in Lasgalen for what should be an uneventful visit, but
Elrohir is bitten by a deadly spider. The story is set around the year
2000 Third Age."
Arwen, Celebrian, Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Erestor, Glorfindel,
Legolas, Namo, Thranduil
10 chapters.
March 16, 2006
New Story:
Conversion
by Pentangle
What of the reaction to Aragorn of the people, who
hardly knew anything
of their latest ruler? One man's viewpoint.
After Aragorn becomes king, before the departure of
the funeral escort
for Theoden.
1 chapter
March 14, 2006
New links under Fan Fiction:
Teitho - monthly fan fiction
contest for Aragorn and/or Legolas stories, the twins, Elrond,
Glorfindel, Thranduil, ... site made and run by Aragornwriter
Borderland - fanfiction archive
for Lord of the Rings crossover and modern day fiction. Includes Hobbit
and Silmarillion. All genres and ratings. Started Oct 2005.
Elf Castle In the Sky - LotR fan
fiction. Site by TrinitytheSheDevil
Haven of Dreams - archive and
submissions. Includes LotR fan
fiction section, plus videos, icons, and others. site by Rhonda and
TrinitytheSheDevil
LotR Family Time - fan
fiction by Washow: Aragorn, the family love of Imladris, and
friendship. MC. March 2006. site by Washow
Naice a Nilme - "Pain and
Friendship": archive that harbours Aragorn and/or Legolas centered
angst, drama and torture stories. No slash. site by Michelle
March 12, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V) second version of
the Necromancer: "Necromancer_II".
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5.
Meetings are held on AIM: Valar Guild Meetingplace (Bridge
coding appears irretrievable. Anyone else want to try?)
QuickAIM
page by Arathorn lists member AIM names for Full and Tolkien-only.
Please email Varda an update if yours is not there.
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending
(6)
ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, LuthienV, Menelvagor
Valar, Orodreth V, VardaValar1
Tolkien:
Aragorn's kingdom was not peaceful.
March 10, 2006
WoW Lothar guild day/night.
Dire Maul East at 6pm EST
planned.
Bilbo and Sauron have been on
much of the morning and into the afternoon already, partying and
dragging along those who want to come along, guild or not.
New art:
Cave of Turgon-(V):
"Gimli"
New link:
Battlelore
- band with song related to the Lord of the Rings. Sample MP3's.
Costumed band: photos including warriors and elf girl, with settings in
caves, against clouds, and in the woods. Link suggested by Turgon-(V)
of Hungary.
March 9, 2006
New art!
Cave of Turgon-(V):
"Feanor", "Elrond with
Thror's Map", "Eonwe_II"
New story!
Along
Came a Spider by Jay of Lasgalen. PG-13.
"This is the back story to my
drabble 'A Brother's
Prayer'. Elladan and
Elrohir arrive in Lasgalen for what should be an uneventful visit, but
Elrohir is bitten by a deadly spider. The story is set around the year
2000 Third Age."
March 8, 2006
New art!
Cave of Turgon-(V): See the "Musical
Ringwraith".
Cave of Cassia-(TV): See story
illustrations for "Father's Love", "First Meetings", "Change of Heart,
Change of Mind"
New stories!
Father's Love by Siobhan-(TV) with tiny
touches of Cassia-(TV). Illustrated
by Cassia. G/PG. Story 4 of the Mellon Chronicles series.
"Hurt by the
taunts of his young friends, little
Aragorn runs away and hides in the forest after breaking his arm,
convinced that being adopted means his elven father doesn't really want
him. Elrond and his sons must find the youngest member of their family
and set things straight."
Aragorn, Elrond, Elladan, Elrohir. One
chapter.
First Meetings by Siobhan, in
collaboration with Cassia. PG-13 for some violence. Story 5 of
the Mellon Chronicles.
"Aragorn and Legolas
meet for the first time.
Aragorn is in his early
twenties and nearly gets killed when he ignores his adopted father's
good advice. Legolas finds him, but must fight the demons of his past
in order to help the young human."
Aragorn, Legolas. 4 chapters.
New links!
Minas
Tirith Forum, includes
Tolkien info.
Art
of the Ainur - on Artistic Entropy. Mostly Mellon Chronicle-related
art of all mediums.
March 7, 2006
Stories and Art sections:
Illustrated story, third in
the Mellon Chronicles series, "Hope", written by Siobhan-(TV), artwork
by Cassia-(TV) included with the story and in her Cave. "Young Aragorn has a nightmare
and Elrond comforts
him. Aragorn discovers that elves sleep with their eyes open." Aragorn
receives his Elvish name, tying in to what Elrond told Legolas last
story.
March 5, 2006
Glittering
Caves of Aglarond art page:
New art! See "Gorthaur" in the Cave of Turgon-(V).
New
section! See the Cave of Cassia-(TV), with two
illustrations for and linked to the story series, "The Mellon
Chronicles", by Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV).
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5.
Meetings are held on AIM: Valar Guild Meetingplace (Bridge
coding appears irretrievable. Anyone else want to try?)
QuickAIM
page by Arathorn and Varda lists member AIM names for Full and
Tolkien-only.
Please email updates to Varda if yours is not there.
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon
and Varda
Attending:
(11)
ArPharazonV, Elladan-(V)/Bior the Ythling, Eonwe
Valar,
Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, GilraenV, GwaihirValar,
Lungorthin-(Valar)/sauronjag, LuthienV, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V,
VardaValar1
Membership
Sweep is winding down, about to remove disinterested
people from the web pages and put their names up for new people. They
will have to re-test to rejoin.
Gwaihir: Happy birthday to Gwaihir's father!
Lungorthin
Ar-Pharazon's good PC under repair
Tindomeral-(V) was seen on Battlenet Valar channel
Web
Tolkien:
Art
New section:
Cave of Cassia-(TV)
New art by
Cassia and by Turgon.
Stories
"Captive of
Darkness" by Cassia now complete
Gaming
WoW Lothar players
Games page rumor
Gaming
WoW
WoW Lothar
Ventrilo 50-slot
from Alatar-(Valar)
WoW Europe
Warlords 2
Seven Kingdoms 2
WotR
Battlenet Bot report by Orodreth
Tindomeral-(V)
Tolkien
Luthien-(V) is planning a painting of Feanor taking
the ships from the Teleri. She needs an idea on what historical ships
to base them off of. As a society which would you say the High Elves
are most like?
After-meeting (continued Luthien's discussion, no actual after-meeting)
March 4, 2006
Stories:
Captive
of Darkness by Cassia,
complete. Rated R. Second in the Mellon Chronicles series.
March 2, 2006
New art!
See the Cave of Elatan-(Valar).
It's been redone into multiple tables linked from a menu at the top.
The new art is in photos of bows and arrows he made, the sculpted
skeletal heads of two Orcs who may have been victims of his archery,
the process of his making a bust of Aragorn, busts he made of Arwen,
adn two castles which don't look as if they were made of paper but were.
More new art! See the Cave of Turgon-(V).
It's been re-done into tables for the Side of the Valar and the Side of
Morgoth, with Silmarillion subjects on the top, and LotR on the bottom,
for a semblance of chronology. Seven new pictures!
Feb.
26, 2006
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5.
Meetings are held on AIM: Valar Guild Meetingplace (Bridge
coding appears irretrievable. Anyone else want to try?)
QuickAIM
page by Arathorn lists member AIM names for Full and Tolkien-only.
Please email update if yours is not there.
Meeting
Transcript work by Ar-Pharazon, Menelvagor, and Varda. In
progress.
Attending:
(14)
Members:
Aerandir V, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, Finwe-(V)/aranfinwe, FladrifV,
GilraenV, GwaihirValar, LuthienV, FarmerMaggot-(V)/thesirg3, Menelvagor
Valar, Orodreth V/Oessala, Ugluk of Old, VardaValar1
Guest:
Srekal86
Membership
Valandil
actively gaming with Ar-Pharazon in WoW Europe
Fladrif
taking a few months off of WoW Europe due to school, still with us.
Web
Links:
Ardanole: Pronunciations on
MP3's
Encyc
New
section for Tolkien
New
Article by Franco Manni-(TV): "The Complexity of Tolkien's Attitude
Towards the Second World War"
Rare pics
of Christopher Tolkien
Art:
new drawings by Turgon-(V)
Gaming
WoW:
WoW Europe gaming
WoW Lothar
Ventrilo 50-slot
talk program set up for us by Alatar-(Valar)!
Explored Dire Maul West
last Friday, plan to go back to Dire Maul East next Friday to complete
the quests there.
Morrowind: mod for Elder Scrolls, need Beta Testers!
BfMe II
LotRO: Loremaster announced
Scouting Ahead (our Forum rp)
TFT
WotR
White Council rumor
Tolkien
Conversation was a mix of LotRO and how it related
to Tolkien lore.
ArPharazonV: ...whatever happened to the Sindar in
the second and third ages? just lords and ladies over the Silvans, or
did they have their own territory like the remaining Noldor at Imladris?
Menelvagor-(Valar) found out that "nertelepta" is
the translation of "nine-fingered".
Feb. 25, 2006
Morrowind: Elder Scrolls III players. Turgon-(V) is
working on a mod for this game and is looking for fellow Morrowind
folk.
Feb.
24, 2006
WoW Lothar: Dire Maul, about 6pm EST. Probably East
if some show up still needing the key. We want all our active players
to have keys for gaming during the rest of the week, when just one or
two key-holders might not be available.
Feb. 23, 2006
WESTWOOD, Mass., FEBRUARY 23, 2006 -- Turbine, Inc.
announced today that Midway Home Entertainment Inc. (a subsidiary of
Midway Games Inc. NYSE: MWY) will co-publish (along with Turbine) and
distribute The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ in North
America.
Feb. 22, 2006
New art! The Cave of Turgon-(V) now exhibits
"Illuin", "Ranger", and "Mouth of Sauron".
New paper! The Complexity of Tolkien's Attitude
Towards
the Second World War by Franco Manni-(TV) and Simone
Bonechi. Much food for thought.
New Tolkien
section for JRRT and Christopher Tolkien.
Feb. 19, 2006
Links page:
Ardanole: The Study of Arda -
articles, pronounced words. Link recommended by Hyarion/Srekal: by
Ardamire.
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5.
Meetings are held on AIM: Valar Guild Meetingplace (Bridge
coding appears irretrievable. Anyone else want to try?)
QuickAIM
page by Arathorn lists member AIM names for Full and Tolkien-only.
Please email update if yours is not there.
Meeting
Transcript by Varda
Attending:
(12)
Members:
AlatarValar2, Arwen V1, Earendil-(V)/gelondil2, Elladan-(V)/Bior the
Ythling, Eonwe Valar, Gil-galad-(V)/
Xseanzee disco, GilraenV, Glorfindel VG, GwaihirValar,
FarmerMaggot-(V)/
thesirg3, VardaValar1
Guest:
Srekal86
Membership
Eowyn's birthday
Web
Stories
Articles: Mankind, A-Z
Pronunciations (link now on our Links page)
Alatar has just
moved valarguild.org server up from 35 MB of space to 75!
Gaming
WoW Lothar: Dire Maul
Ventrilo: Alatar
set up the WoW Lothar gamers and his DAoC group with a 50-slot Ventrilo
account, on the Divo server. Grab your mike and speaker and
talk! We do intend to be using it on our instance runs. He is currently
set up on Divo Networks. Ventrilo use is free to Valar Guild users:
AlatarValar2 said:
The server is at alatar.ventrilo.org port number is
3796
There is a server password
It is alatarvent
You will see two channels, clearly marked
No other passwords are needed.
Tolkien
In Tolkien, different ones or groups had
jurisdiction over different areas. Can you think of any areas of
jurisdiction and who had the say?
For next time, Earendil-(V) suggests: Does
reincarnation exist in Tolkien's world?
Feb. 17, 2006
WoW Lothar 6pm EST Dire Maul in Feralas. Bring
your 60 or near-60 and come join the fun!
Feb. 12, 2006
"Tears
Like Rain" by Cassia
and Siobhan (both are Tolkien-only Members) now complete. Rated R
for violence and child abuse. "Mirkwood has suffered tragic
losses in the Last
Great Alliance, including her King. With the very survival of the
kingdom at stake, Thranduil finds himself at deadly odds with his older
brother Doriflen. When young Legolas becomes a pawn in his uncle's
ruthless power games, the lies, deception and betrayal risk destroying
more than just the young prince's life." Legolas, Thranduil. 21
chapters. First in the Mellon Chronicles series.
"Captive of Darkness" by Cassia,
first chapter up. Rated R for violence and implied rape. "When young
prince Legolas is sent as an envoy to a neighboring kingdom,
things quickly go from bad to worse when treachery rears its ugly head.
There are dangerous and deadly things going on in the seemingly
innocent realm of Dorolyn and it is up to Legolas and a mysterious
stranger to sort things out before an evil more dark than they could
begin to imagine is unleashed upon an unsuspecting land."
Legolas, Thranduil, surprise Tolkien character. Second in the Mellon
Chronicles series.
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5.
Meetings are held on AIM: Valar Guild Meetingplace (Bridge
coding appears irretrievable. Anyone else want to try?)
QuickAIM
page by Arathorn lists member AIM names for Full and Tolkien-only.
Please email update if yours is not there.
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon
and Varda
Attending:
(11)
ArPharazonV,
Earendil-(V)/gelondil2, Eonwe Valar, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco,
GilraenV, Glorfindel-(V)/Glorfindel VG, GwaihirValar,
FarmerMaggot-(V)/TheSirG3, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V, VardaValar1
Membership
Web
Joomla
New Stories: Tears
Like Rain by Cassia and Siobhan-(TV), rated R
Objects section separated
Requested Projects:
Thorin's Company
Feanorians
Requested articles listed on the
front of the Encyc
Gaming
Friday Lothar: did the entire set of Gnomeregan
quests
Everyone can play Day of Defeat: Source this weekend
for free!
http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=dodFreeWeekend
http://www.dayofdefeat.com/Manual/img/Maps/argentan.jpg
Tolkien:
Silmarillion: too dense or just right?
Maglor's Silmaril, after it was cast into the water,
what became of it?
Feb. 8, 2006
Finrod index of articles now with picture and
quote, as well as index. Set up section on Finrod's names.
Feb. 7, 2006
Objects section completely separated.
Added new part for Sculpture.
Looking at Joomla as a potential Contents Management
System. Current
experiment by Farmer Maggot-(V) on his server.
Feb. 5, 2006
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5.
Meetings are held on AIM: Valar Guild Meetingplace (Bridge
coding appears irretrievable. Anyone else want to try?)
QuickAIM
page by Arathorn lists member AIM names for Full and Tolkien-only.
Please email update if yours is not there.
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V), Menelvagor-(Valar), and Varda-(Valar)
Attending:
(13)
Members:
Aerandir-(V)/mordacil, ArPharazonV, Arwen V1, Eonwe Valar,
Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Glorfindel VG, FarmerMaggot-(V)/TheSirG3,
Menelvagor Valar, Scatha-(V)/STEvilaim, Thror/Chugin Chub, VardaValar1
Guests:
Curufinwion, Srekal86
Membership:
Hearing from members thanks to the inactivity
letters, and Manwe for finding us by a browser search.
Web:
Stories:
two this last week:
"Maitimo"
by Liek
"Iluvatar's
Gift" by Alasse-(TV)
Joomla: New
content management system to bring together all our pages? Now trying it out, no
content yet. Comments requested from users and web workers. Farmer
Maggot-(V) downloaded it to his server, and he and some of us on the
web team are experimenting with it, to see if it's a help.
Gaming:
Games played by those at the meetings:
Solitaire
Freelancer
WarCraft 3
GuildWars
Dungeon Siege 2
Blizzard rumor: Diablo 4 coming? Blizzard is asking
for art people for an upcoming Diablo project.
WoW Europe
WoW Lothar
Tolkien Chat:
Curufinwion's topic: Without the Feanorians, would
Middle-earth have been destroyed?
Feb. 1, 2006
Emails have been sent to those whose membership is
in danger. Not all were able to go through. If your name has a question
mark on the 2006
Activity page, it may be deleted soon. Please contact Varda.
Tom Bombadil-(Valar)
answered his letter in the finest style. Enjoy the below:
"Aye!" I must say,
Even though other things keep me away,
All I can hope is that one day,
I'll be back and there to stay.
Even if I've not been around of late,
It doesn't mean I don't keep up to date,
Because my thirst for Tolkien I'll never sate,
The moment I read those books I sealed my fate.
Alas, now I must go,
To conquer yet another foe,
But these seeds of destruction I cannot sew,
In Cyber-land, as we all know.
Jan. 31, 2006
Ilúvatar’s
Gift by Alasse-(TV).
By being in Valinor, Elrond is separated from all of his children, his
brother, and others. Post-LotR. One chapter.
The Meeting Bridge
program has been discontinued. The code is deemed unrecoverable.
Jan. 29, 2006
Story Page:
Maitimo
by Liek
completed today. Double
Drabble winner. To kill or not to kill the sons of Earendil?
Elrond, Elros, Maedhros, Maglor. Mentions of Amras, Amrod. Silmarillion
fiction.
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon
and Varda
Membership
Inactive member sweep still going
Web
Story
page highly active right now. This week actually up are:
A
Brother's Prayer by Jay
of Lasgalen
The
Search by Jay
of Lasgalen
The
Best Medicine by Elwing-(V)
Maitimo
by Liek
Role-play on Forum:
Time almost up if you want to
join as one of the Noldo scouts. Can still join as human or dwarf.
Gaming
Battlenet bot: saw Dior, Alatar, Varda. Bot down
Thursday, should be up Monday. Use ` on the left top of American
keyboards to activate a command to it.
WoW
Tolkien
Moments that changed the history of Middle-earth
Jan. 28, 2006
Story
Page:
The
Best Medicine by Elwing-(V)
completed tonight. One chapter. "A wounded Strider convalesces
in Mirkwood with the help (?) of Legolas."
Characters: Aragorn, Legolas, Thranduil. Mentions of Elladan, Elrohir,
Elrond. Pre-LotR during Aragorn’s 'Ranger period'. Humor, friendship.
PG for humor.
Jan. 22, 2006
Story Page:
The
Search by Jay
of Lasgalen complete! 19 chapters. "Elrohir leaves Imladris on what
should be a simple errand - but he
does
not return. Elladan and Legolas set out to search for him. Set Third
Age 1636, when plague devastated Eriador."
A
Brother's Prayer by Jay
of Lasgalen. Perfect Double Drabble at 200 words! Prequel to her
upcoming "Along Came a Spider". Elladan and Elrohir.
Jan. 22, 2006
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5
Meeting
Transcript: transcript
work by Ar-Pharazon-(V),
Menelvagor-(Valar), and
Varda-(Valar)
Attending: (16)
Members:
ArathornValar,
ArPharazonV, Arwen V1, Elros-(V)/LouieKisKowsKi, FladrifV,
Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, GilraenV, GwaihirValar, Haleth-(V)/Haleth
V/Druidfalconwolf, FarmerMaggot-(V)/TheSirG3,
Menelvagor-(Valar)/TurgonjustTurgon, Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory, Orodreth
V/Oessala, Scatha-(V)/STEvilaim, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Guest:
Srekal86
Membership
Eonwe went with his family to see the movie:
Underworld Evolution.
Arwen cannot currently afford WoW, hopes to be back
on later.
Web
Story Page:
"Unrest: What Evil Fears" by
Eonwe-(Valar)
Links Page:
Rivendell Archives Tolkien
fan-fiction
Gaming
Freelancer
played by Scatha
D2:LoD
played by Varda
Multi-Theft
Auto for GTA:SA a mod, came out during the meeting. Scatha
tried it and reported as he went.
WoW Europe:
Argent Dawn group allied with others and raided.
WoW Lothar:
grouped and chatted all week. 2 instances for the Friday get-together
for Sauronv (warlock), with Arathornv, Kalasul, and Varda: Black Fathom
Deeps, and the one in SilverPine, both for the Warlock quest.
Tolkien:
Our Story page may have a great number of stories
from outside Valar. Comment: the more the merrier. What kind of rating
system would we want to use, and which stories should we quietly drop
as if non-existent? American movie rating plus comments for the reason
for the rating on some such as character death. Mention if it's AU
(alternate universe, not canon.) Defining canon with H, LotR, and Sil
at the top, but anything by Tolkien has some canon claim excuse and can
be mentioned in the Author's Note, preventing an accidental AU
classification as Alternate Universe.
After-meeting
Included
talking about the evil of Melkor and Sauron.
Jan. 20, 2006
Tolkien Encyclopedia: Links:
Tolkien fan fiction:
Rivendell Archives - fan fiction
in three categories: pre-Fellowship of the Ring, during Lord of the
Rings, post-Return of the King.
WoW Lothar:
weekly get-together around 6pm EST. Some goes on all day, and sometimes
we start early, around 5pm EST.
Jan. 16, 2006
Tolkien Encyclopedia - Stories:
Unrest:
What Evil Fears by Eonwe-(Valar).
What does Morgoth fear? One chapter long.
Jan. 15, 2006
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5
Meeting
Transcript: transcript
work by Ar-Pharazon-(V) and
Varda-(Valar)
Attending:
(14)
Members:
ArPharazonV, Arwen V1, Ecthlion-(V)/suilenroc01, Elladan-(V)/Bior the
Ythling, Eonwe Valar (presiding), FladrifV, GilraenV,
Glorfindel-(V)/Glorfindel VG, FarmerMaggot-(V)/TheSirG3,
Orodreth-(V)/Oessala, Ugluk of Old, VardaValar1
Guests:
Hyarion/Srekal86, Herumor-(V)-ex/Nemoeverlonely
Membership
Classes for
college and schools in general starting for more members. People coming
off holidays.
Sweep in progress,
removing disinterested members. Help out if you know someone wants to
stay in and is about to be removed. All they need is to email Varda
they want to stay. Question marked members are endangered: 2006
roster
Battlenet Bot
Report. Members gaming in Valar:
Thror is on often with three
non-guild friends. He runs D2: LoD and SC: BW under ThrorL_V and
Thror_V. His friends are CaptCharisma007, lordofcrow, and warhawk47.
eomer-(v) on D2: LoD
Herumor@Azeroth
Web News
Links page: new link
A
Tolkien Dictionary -
Etymologies of names of people and places. by Robert Ireland.
Poetry page: new poetry
The
Nine Shadows by He
that Walks Unseen-(TV). Poet's description: "This
poem speaks of the very nature of the Nazgul"
Gaming:
WoW Lothar
WoW Europe: Ar-Pharazon's back! Fladrif helped him
with the re-install.
LotRO (Lord of the Rings Online): new player classes
Eve Online
WarCraft 3
V&K Middle-earth mod
Tolkien Chat:
Questions sent by readers to our Tolkien
Encyclopedia, continued:
Where did Aragorn spend his youth,
and what do we know of his mother?
Painter of high elf models needs
to know the name of a high elf captain, preferably starting with "T",
and what color to paint the cloak.
After-meeting:
Experiment.
You can try this anytime, not waiting for a meeting.
Some of us went into Srekal/Hyarion's channel set-up
that is used by LotRO devs and kinships, and has Tolkien goodies in it.
We most enjoyed the Tolkien Trivia bot, which can be set for book,
movie, or general which is both. For the trivia, Pharazon showed great
skill at high-speed typing and noticiing the number and length of
spaces on the bot's hint, along with impressive knowledge, and did the
best. Eonwe is also a high-speed typist with impressive knowledge and
did extremely well. Varda needs to speed up typing, but otherwise did
well. Tip, don't capitalize!
We rigged a Valar room, which allows kick and
kick+ban among other things. This is a feature we've been wanting.
We'll probably give it another shot next meeting. Yes, it's free.
Directions below by Varda:
Directions:
Open the browser
of your choice. Then you can choose mIRC, xchat, or java, or
even Trillian. Since java was the fastest and didn't require
downloading, we used that, but discovered it's missing some features
the others have.
Copy/paste your choice in the browser URL window:
for
mIRC: /server -m
irc.tolkiengateway.net
for
xchat: /newserver
irc.tolkiengateway.net
for java: http://tolkiengateway.net/java/
You are now in the general channel for fellow
Tolkien fans and LotRO hopefuls. You are called "Guest" with a number
after that.
Change your name
from Guest by making a "nick". That is a nickname, your alias. Please
use your Valar Guild name. To do this, find the corner box marked Nick
(may be bottom right or top left, depending on what you used to come
in). Type in your guild name (grab it while you can!). Now when you
speak, the new name should show. This is not a permanent name. For
that, register the name.
Register your name.
Type this command, modified with your information:
/msg nickserv register password email
For your command, substitute the password of your
choice for "password", and your email for the word "email". Don't put
quotes "", parentheses (), brackets [] or other dividing symbols,
as it will confuse the registering program and give an error message.
The email is kept private.
Help: If
you got lost, try typing:
/msg NickServ Help
Now you have an account!
Using your new
account:
Join a room.
Make a room or go to one already present (just like Battlenet) by
typing:
/join #Valar
You can join many rooms at once. For enjoyment, we
recommend playing with the Tolkien Trivia bot here:
/join #trivia
Mouse-over a name in the list on the right of the
room. You can right-click names for program commands, such as whisper.
Whisper a friend, and it will open what looks like a
room:
/msg friendsname
We have asked the webmaster if he can rig a signal
for java-users, such as blinking orange, to show if someone is speaking
in any of our rooms/channels/whispers. This is the single real problem
we had with the set-up, which would prevent our adopting it for
anything more than entertainment.
Jan. 13, 2006
Tolkien Encyclopedia:
Poetry:
The Nine Shadows by He
that Walks Unseen-(TV). Poet's description: "This
poem speaks of the very nature of the Nazgul"
Jan. 10, 2006
Links page:
Languages, Names, Runes, and
Dictionaries:
A Tolkien Dictionary -
Etymologies of names of people and places. by Robert Ireland.
Jan. 8, 2006
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5
Meeting
Transcript: transcript
work by Ar-Pharazon-(V) and
Varda-(Valar)
Attending:
(15)
ArathornValar, ArPharazonV,
Barahir-(V)/sauron432000, Elwing V,
Eonwe Valar (presiding), FladrifV, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco,
GwaihirValar, Haldir V (after-meeting), Idril-(V)/Narthais,
FarmerMaggot-(V)/TheSirG3,
Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V, VardaValar1
Guest: Hyarion/Srekal86
Membership
Sweep in progress
through January. You still have time to email Varda and keep
your name without a re-test.
The January after-holiday is now hitting the guild:
Arathorn's job is heading back
into night shift, so this will
be his last meeting for a while. He has a prolonged holiday, so check
for him on Battle.net.
Ar-Pharazon's WoW is refusing to
return after the patch, so he may be unable to play for a while.
Barahir may have difficulty with
internet access for a while.
Eonwe's school upcoming school
schedule is even heavier than
last semester, but he will show up in WoW and meetings when he can.
Eowyn will be going back in the
university, but will continue WoWing when she can.
Menelvagor is having monetary
problems for WoW account, and may be unable to play.
Web
Tolkien pages:
Stories:
New ones up by Jay of
Lasgalen. Links to the stories: Winter
Wonder, The
Picnic
Story
Challenges now up. See if you can meet one or more!
Arathorn found a page
saying Micro fiction is a story in 250
words or less, and nanofiction is a story with a maximum of 55 words.
Gaming pages:
WoW charter update being sent by Eonwe
to Menelvagor for the guild's WoW page.
Forum:
New Tolkien trivia added.
LotRO rp continues in our Forum. It
will probably keep going even after the online PC game begins.
Gaming
WoW:
WoW patch 1.9 came out Tuesday. Paladin
patch. Realms trying to open the Ahn Qiraq gaming area, and to be the
first.
WoW Europe will be losing
Ar-Pharazon and Menelvagor, at least for a while.
WoW Lothar still has Friday
get-together, but groups get
together more and more all during the week as well. Don't forget to
include inviting guild-friends from the Valar channel.
Battlenet:
Orodreth is operating the ValarBuddy
bot. Commands may be reached from the guild index page.
Ar-Pharazon is playing more WarCraft 3.
His WoW game refused to work after the patch, and his Dungeon Siege CD
appears to be scratched.
Diablo 2: LoD doesn't have enough of us
playing regularly to run another ladder. Thorondor wins Ladder 3 at the
level of 74.
Tolkien
Barahir's topic: What about Dagor Dagorath? What do
we know about it? What
will happen? What will change?
Topic: The black swords.
Question emailed to the Encyclopedia editor:
What do we know about Aragorn's ring?
(We had more of these questions to the
editor, but too many people had to leave.)
Jan. 4, 2006
Story
Writing Challenge!
Drabble challenges:
Drabble
Double
Drabble
Two Tolkien character
challenges: (any length)
Two
Characters from The Hobbit
Two
Characters from the War of the Ring
Two
Valar
Use this phrase
Tolkien
Encyclopedia:
Stories:
The Picnic by Jay
of Lasgalen. Arwen, Legolas, Elladan, Elrohir. Pre-LotR, before
Aragorn's birth. One chapter long.
Jan. 1, 2006
Happy New Year's to all!
Fireworks art by Mariet
Theune, Rolozo Tolkien site
A midnight mail from Barahir-(V) of
India, who may not have home computer access for quite some time.
Hi! and a Happy new year to you. May
it be blessed or something
like that. Its sad to see 2005 pass away it had been a wonderful
year,for me at least, a really blighter and wonderful year for me to go
through. It has been a wonderful evey days for me (the 30th and 31),one
Friday I went to an amusement park called queen'sland and it was really
fun and on sunday I watched three movies of Inu Yasha movies 1:
Affections touching across time,2: The castle beyond the looking glass
,3: Swords of an Honourable Ruler (isn't the title sooo
cool!) on
Animax. I also made significant advances in writing my homework
(mountain-load at that) and not forget started on building a new
mystery story and a tolkien story. I think I won't be talking to the
guild for a long time ( I can send mail in a cybercafe). So ta ta to
one all reading this and wish all the fellow Tolkien fans of the
valarguild a happy and eventful 2006.
See ya,
Barahir -(V)
Tolkien
Encyclopedia:
Stories:
Winter Wonders by Jay
of Lasgalen. Written Dec. 23, 2005. How
elves may celebrate Mid Winter. One chapter. Aragorn, Legolas,
Thranduil.
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST,
GMT-5
Meeting
Transcript saved and sent in by
Ar-Pharazon-(V), Menelvagor-(Valar), and Varda-(Valar)
Attending: (16)
Members:
ArathornValar, ArPharazonV, Arwen-(V)/ArwenV1, CaranthirV
(after-meeting), Elros-(V)/LouieKisKowsKi, Eonwe Valar,
Finarfin-(V)/FINARFIN010 (after-meeting), FladrifV, Ereinion
Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Gilraen-(V)(messaged), GwaihirValar,
FarmerMaggot-(V)/thesirg3, Menelvagor Valar, Orodreth V, VardaValar1
(presiding)
Guest:
Hyarion/Srekal86
Membership:
Arathorn-(Valar)'s dad's birthday, 83
Barahir-(V) losing home internet connection starting
in January, internet cafe for email
Caranthir-(V) got a new laptop for Christmas, still
some trouble finding internet access
Dwalin-(TV) - about to be a father
Gilraen-(V) - mother's birthday party today
Gwaihir-(Valar) - ear infection
Farmer Maggot-(V) - showing signs of carpal tunnel
Menelvagor-(Valar) - finally has new glasses after
dropping the old ones in a canal
Valandil-(V) - still gaming on WoW Europe
Varda-(Valar)'s family got a new computer for
Christmas, so two of five can play WoW together now
Web:
Story page
New stories by Jay of Lasgalen
Discussion of additional methods
on how to sort. (3 responses)
Do
we want all stories listed chronologically? Impractical except under an
author, where it is a good idea.
Sort
by Author, Title, Date?
Currently have pages for looking up by Author, Character, Title, with
new ones listed on the general News and on the What's New on the
Stories Page.
How do you folks feel about having
guest writers like Jay added to our pages? Good, unhappy, indifferent?
(Only one response.)
Humor Page
new link from Haleth. Request for humor bits from our own members who
can give better quality than many of these outside sources.
AIMfire program
makes AIM usable inside games. Tested in-Guild on some games already:
Day of Defeat: Source and Counter Strike: Source and Flatout
Gaming:
BroodWar
BZ Flag
Sacred
WoW Europe
WoW Lothar
Eve (another older MMORPG)
Guild Wars
Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien
Differences between books and movies, especially
ones good for entry testing. Quite a list!
Shifted into other movies and books
After-meeting
Caranthir and Finarfin dropped by.
Caranthir and Elladan are still on Thunderlord
server
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