Dec. 31, 2004
Enjoy your fireworks tonight! Duck the one
that looks like a dragon!
Beginning list for full members
for 2005. If
you're not on here in green, email Varda (see top of page for email
link). Black means I'm not sure you're active and may have to drop the
listing. If you're not listed at all, email fast before the list is
finalized and you lose your current name to a new recruit. All you need
to be included is to email and tell me you're still interested in
sticking with us. I may not have your current email or it may not be
going through for some obscure reason.
Dec. 28, 2004
WarCraft3/ The Frozen Throne/ Clan Vala branch
Letter from Eonwe, the Chieftain of
the WC3/TFT Clan Vala branch of the Valar Guild:
Let it be known that on this day, December 28, 2004, the Warcraft 3 Branch
of the Valar Guild came to an end, after 1 year and 5 months of existence, due to inactivity.
The will of the membership has spoken.
If at any time we have 10 members with unique Warcraft 3 accounts such that
these individuals wish to play Warcraft 3 together and have a desire to
reform the Branch, then at such time we may reform. Until such a time, my
duty as Branch Leader is complete, though I will gladly take up the mantle
again should it be necessary.
In losing the Warcraft 3 Branch, we do not lose our ability to play together
in Warcraft 3. We still have the Warcraft 3 section of our Forum, and I, as
Webmaster for our Games Pages, still desire knowledge of who plays this
game, so that those who do may find a friend at times.
Welcome to Maeglin-(TV)! He is joining the Tolkien-only members of the Valar Guild with an article on "Roverandom" for the Books and Reviews page of the Encyclopedia, handled by Lungorthin-(Valar). Maeglin is ten years old, from England, and has read much.
Belated Welcome to
Indis-(TV)! She is joining the Tolkien-only members with her
poem, "Melkor".
From Varda: My
apologies
for late News posts and other web page delays. My web working computer
is in the shop and this is being done by sneakernet, that is, carry a
floppy between various computers with the correct programs, some of
which are so slow that it takes me five minutes to type this
line. We persevere against adversities and win! The comp went out
on Christmas Eve, and the shop may get around to it on Wednesday.
Dec. 26, 2004
Sunday Meeting 5pm EST, AIM: Valar Guild
Meetingplace
Transcript:
team Arathorn and Varda
Attending:
Arathorn, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Gelmir/Shaggyjoe,
Gwaihir, Menelvagor, Meriadoc, Orodreth, Varda (presiding)
Membership :
Sweep will be starting: meaning the removal
of disinterested members. We will be starting the list of members for
2005.
Please contact Varda and
let her know if you would still like to be with the guild. Those who
came
to a meeting in December or are otherwise shown on the News in December
are considered active for 2005.
Fladrif still interested.
Grimbold out of town.
Ardamire in WoW Lothar says is
old member with unknown primary name; need to check that out.
Faramir seen in WC3, but
unresponsive.
Boromir emailed, still
interested.
Tulkas back in D2X Valar games.
Web:
Forum:
Menelvagor updated the Fader
at the top to show Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Check it out. :)
Gaming:
WoW:
Charter:
MerryV signed the WoW guild charter today, bringing the list up to
seven
of ten. Eonwe/Auros still has the original charter.
Valar Channel:
Pre-guild channel: Type /join Valar. A number is assigned., usually
"4", local to the character and not global to the server.
To see who is
there, type /chatwho Valar. to chat, type /4 with a space
after. The 4 may be replaced by whatever number was assigned. When
another
person joins, your number may be changed. This channel may be given its
own window, same as any other.
/raid is created from the party. Can't do individual quests there.
Incomplete areas:
Blizzard has not completed certain areas. If you see npc's called
"Guardians
of Blizzard", keep out of that area. Let them code in peace and get the
game set up. Some non-guild folk think it's cute to try to go in those
places. It can also be done by accident, so let's try to keep the
accidents
down. If they kill you, take the durability hit and rez at the
graveyard
to avoid the 72-hour ban.
WC3/TFT:
New racing map out.
Please bring your character
into the guild channel for this month, even if just a minute or two, to
keep the Clan Vala channel usable and the branch alive.
Faramir has been
seen but does not answer Eonwe's hails.
Boromir emailed,
still with us but very busy with "real" life, including school and
wrestling.
Sometimes in TFT, considering WoW in a few months, funds
permitting.
Caranthir/Morifinwe has
been playing in WC3 as "Add". This does not count as guild activity nor
help the guild branch survive. There is nothing wrong with it, but for
folks doing that please also jump in monthly as your guild character in
the clan channel.
Ar-Pharazon plays.
Dec. 25, 2004
Merry Christmas to
all!
Dec. 21, 2004
WoW:
Grimbold will
probably
still be out of town during next Sunday's meeting.
Good luck to
everyone
hoping for World of Warcraft under the Christmas tree!
Dec. 19, 2004
Sunday Meeting: 5pm AIM Valar
Guild
Meetingplace
Transcript:This
week's team: Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending:
Arathorn, Ar-pharazon, Ecthelion
(after-meeting),
Eonwe, Eowyn (WoW), Finarfin, Fladrif (before-meeting), Galdor
(after-meeting),
Gil-galad (after-meeting), Gilraen, Grimbold, Lungorthin, Farmer
Maggot,
Menelvagor, Scatha (after-meeting), Thorondor, Varda
Over the shoulder: Elwing-(V)
Membership:
Fladrif sends greetings.
Farmer Maggot is grounded again.
Web:
Tolkien-related Books
and Reviews page:
Lungorthin
requests
help with finding books to list and for reviews, as he is drowning in
real
life commitments. Please check to see what the page already has, then
email
him the new books you find. A cc to Varda would not hurt. :)
Tolkien:
We started out by chatting Tolkien:
Flame of Udun
Udun
Orc-names
The balrog in Moria was much more
powerful than balrogs in the very early BoLT stories.
How did Gollum escape Moria, or for
that matter how did the Orcs chase the Fellowship? The only bridge out,
the Bridge of Khazad-dum, was destroyed. And if Gollum was following
the
Fellowship, how did he pass Balin's tomb? Gollum was working with the
orcs.
The orcs put small bridges over the fire according to FotR.
Gaming:
WC3 - told about
a game. Fun being saved by Eowyn.
D2X - 23
new runewords. List on Arreat Summit
After the meeting, one group of us
went to play D2X (including Finarfin and Thorondor) and six others went
to WoW.
World of WarCraft (aka WoW):
Today WoW folk tried to buy the
guild
charter.
We plan to
show
up for the regular AIM meeting 5pm EST, then break into the branch
creation
on WoW. The AIM can help us coordinate, as well as set precedent for
gaming
after meetings. AIM can be up the same time as WoW,
going back and forth by alt + tab.
In WoW, we plan to meet on Lothar
server at Cathedral Square in front of the Cathedral of Light in
Stormwind.
Escorts will be provided for those who need it. Gryphons make fast safe
transport.
The guild
charter
is (10 silver) and requires 10 accounts to sign it to form our Valar
Guild
branch. A tabard with the guild symbol is one gold apiece. The plan is
for each signing member to pass one silver to Auros (aka Eonwe-(Valar)
aka branch leader) to pay for the charter as a group, although several
members can pay the whole thing on their own. A number of members will
have difficulty paying for the tabard, if you want to help them.
Report:
Only six accounts showed up. We need
at least four more to start the guild. The accounts that came belonged
to: Arathorn, Eonwe, Grimbold, Gwaihir, Maglor, Varda. So we had six
accounts
with eleven members. Some of our European members would like to join
us,
but have to wait until that is supported by Blizzard.
We also found we needed more gold
for tabards. 10 to unlock the tabard, and one for each character. We
spent
the 10 silver to try to buy a charter, and are now down to five silver.
Let's start collecting now. Eonwe is holding the money for the branch.
After the guild is started, new
members
can be added by the leader (Eonwe/Auros) or officers.
More folk are now able to
come
to the main meeting area by the fast gryphon route, and to act as
escorts
next time.
Using a Raid channel for getting together
for the charter helped a lot, but can't do individual quests meanwhile.
Type /raid or click on the raid channel
Dec. 12, 2004
Sunday Meeting: AIM Valar Guild
Meetingplace 5pm EST
Transcript:
This
week's team: Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Varda
Membership:
Members have been scouting for new
potentials on WoW. We've already found a few worth sending to our
web-site.
Attending:
Arathorn, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe,
Finarfin,
Gil-galad/Xseanzee disco,
Gwaihir,
Maglor, Menelvagor, Olwe/Fallen Glory,
Theoden (Theoden Valar as new
AIM name), Thranduil (gamatzgamatz),
Varda
Beregond tried to enter the meeting
but his sn was blocked. Attempt made to figure out what the difficulty
was.
Over Gwaihir's shoulder: Gilraen
Web:
Tolkien Encyclopedia:
Poetry: "Melkor"
by Georgia Stone
Links:
Mellonath Daeron
- Tolkien linguistics
Card game Nazgul
Gaming:
WoW: (World
of WarCraft MMORPG)
Official guild
server: Lothar
Eonwe
is branch leader with the last word in case of
confusion, and to organize.
All of us are expected to pitch in of course!
Maglor is operating
the WoW branch page. Once again, he should be receiving help from us
all,
such as letting him know our WoW names for the page so we can add each
other to Friends list.
Guild branch creation:
Guild
charter: Next weekend, we will get
together in WoW around meeting
time and sign our guild charter.
We need a minimum of ten people altogether. Stormwind, Cathedral
Square just in front of the Cathedral of Light is the chosen meeting
place.
It shows on the map (press M for map). Escort help is being provided.
Ten silver for guild charter. One gold for tabard. It was agreed that
each
character at the charter signing would try to toss in one silver to the
pot at least, although some are rich enough to do the whole amount.
Tabard
symbol:
Tabard
list:
click for example of its being worn, which looks a little different.
Tabard
viewer
Update: currently considering: Icon 40 with color 3, Background
34, Border 2 with color 3
Icon: At this meeting,
we tentatively
chose the flaming sword 40
as it looks like the Secret Fire of Eru, plus it's a reminder of such
items
as Gandalf's sword. We also considered the mountain (doesn't look like
a mountain when worn), book 9, white tree with leaves 11, eagles 31,
"athelas"
13.
Colors were not settled, but here are tentative suggestions, with
updates:
Background color:
Probable sky blue background to show allegience to Manwe, such as 34
(less
clashing) or 36 (more definitely sky blue while less clashing than 33),
probably 36. Blue of some sort.
Icon color: possibly
yellow 3. Blue has been suggested, but would not work well on a blue
background.
Border color.
If we use blue background: probably Yellow 3. If we don't use blue
background,
possibles: Darkest purple 15. Light blue 13. Dark blue 14.
Border style:
possibly 2, 4, or 5. Number 6 is skull and bones on closer look. 1 is
very
plain. 3 is perhaps overblown.
Guild
name may be the full title of Valar Guild
rather than just Valar,
after a sporadic discussion going through the meeting and on into many
hours of gaming. Not decided, might still be just Valar. The position
of
the name already shows it is a guild or clan or something and could be
redundant, but adding the word "Guild" leaves no doubt of what we call
ourselves, a problem we have seen in other games where others called
themselves
a version such as Valar Clan.
For practice, we tried getting together in Stormwind after today's AIM
meeting and had enough characters and silver to make the guild then,
but
decided to wait as we said we would at the meeting to give the maximum
number of people the chance to make history by being founding members.
We even had several night elves come in all the way from Teldrassil,
escorted
by GrimboldV and Kanafinwe (Maglor), via hippogryph (south end of
Teldrassil)
and gryphons, with only two deaths on the entire road. Eonwe and
Arathorn
pulled out of gaming to show the night elf tourists around. Guests were
Fosco (potential member later on) and Wymor (Eonwe's brother).
Gaming
happened. :)
Game Battle
for Middle-earth is out. If you try it, please email review to
Eonwe
for the Games page!
Tolkien:
Did Frodo ever slay anything? by
Ar-Pharazon-(V)
Elf-healers usually abstained from
killing. by Eonwe-(Valar)
Colors for the Istari, by
Thranduil-(V)
Dec. 8, 2004
Links
Languages, Names, Runes,
Dictionaries:
The
Nine, The Terrible, The Nazguls of Mordor - Names and biographies
of
the Nazgul, a little from Tolkien but mostly from the game by Iron
Crown
Enterprises, well-done and appearing real. The card game names and
histories
are often used online where needed since Tolkien did not fill this in
much.
Caveat: some of the information is incorrect, as saying that Gollum
escaped
on his own. Adunaphel as a female is not suggested in any way in
Tolkien,
who said all nine had been kings of Men. This site is very helpful in
understanding
the heavily used non-Tolkien ringwraiths. by Jonas Astrand et
aliud. Link suggested by Elatan-(Valar)
Mellonath
Daeron - the language guild of Forodrim.
They study the elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin, and the writing
systems
Tenwar and Cirth
Dec. 7, 2004
Tolkien Encyclopedia:
Poetry:
Melkor
by Georgia Stone
Nov. 30, 2004
Tolkien Encyclopedia
Places,
Thranduil,
Thorin:
"Halls
of Thranduil" by Varda-(Valar)
Nov. 28, 2004
Sunday Meeting: AIM Valar Guild
Meetingplace. 5:00 pm EST
Transcript:
Team
Ar-Pharazon, Varda
Membership:
Tulkas-(Valar)
is back, playing D2X ladder as account AstaldoV.
Attending (20 of 127):
Aerandir/mordacil,
Arathorn, Ar-Pharazon, Arwen, Bombur, Ecthelion/suilenroc01,
Elros, Eonwe, Finarfin, Gil-galad/Xseanzee
disco, Gilraen, Grimbold (after-meeting), Gwaihir, Huan/LiberalHound,
Farmer Maggot, Menelvagor, Orodreth, Oropher/MJKeenan123,
Tulkas/WrestlTulkas, Varda
(presiding)
Web:
Gaming:
WoW:
Game is out, guild
members are coming online.
Lothar server
is the official guild server.
Coordinate on the
guild's main Forum, WoW section.
Maglor needs names
for buddy lists for the Valar Guild WoW website. Please email him.
D2X:
We still have
people
gaming in D2X and four then five of us went into games at the end of
the
meeting.
WC3/TFT:
Fangorn, Eowyn,
and Sauron were re-tagged.
EverQuest:
Ulmo and Bilbo
teamed
up last night
Console games:
A large
number
were mentioned during the Before-meeting.
Tolkien:
Discussion of the Vala Tulkas.
Nov. 25, 2004
Letter from Arathorn:
Nov. 24, 2004
Tulkas-(Valar) is back!
He
is playing D2X on a brand new computer: 2.8 Gig Pentium 4. Look for
him!
Previously vying for the Lord of Lag title, he is now zipping along
quite
nicely.
Nov. 22, 2004
D2X Ladder:
Arathorn's Hardcore Barbarian
just shattered the previous top Hardcore score with a 60!
Names page
New link on Guild index for
updated
Names page
Nov. 21, 2004
Sunday Meeting
5pm EST in AIM: Valar Guild
Meetingplace
Transcript:
team of Arathorn, Ar-Pharazon, Menelvagor, Varda
Membership:
Turgon-(V) passed his Maia test and
is henceforth known as Menelvagor-(Valar)! He
tested
with Elatan, Eonwe, and Varda during the meeting. New AIM name:
Menelvagor
Valar
Attending
(17):
Aerandir/mordacil,
Arathorn-Valar, Ar-Pharazon-V, Arwen-V, Celebrimbor-V, Elatan-Valar,
Eonwe-Valar,
Finarfin-V, Gil-galad/Xseanzee disco,
Gilraen-V, Grimbold-V/HearNoEvil80,
Gwaihir-Valar,
FarmerMaggot-V/Musics4Me2,
Orodreth-V,
Thror-V/Chugin Chub,Turgon-V/Menelvagor-Valar,
Varda-Valar (presiding)
Gaming:
WoW about to
come out. Valar Guild is focusing on Alliance first. When we know our
server
etc we will post to the Forum's WoW section and News; current plan
is not
to use a server that forces us into anything such as PvP or RP for the
most freedom of action, allowing us to do anything. We need to get
together
on the same server to create the guild branch there, and to try to use
names as close to our guild names as possible for recognition. Eonwe
is branch leader for WoW, coordinating efforts.
Tolkien:
Elatan's topic: What forces
caused the young White Tree to appear just when Aragorn needed it?
Nov. 14, 2004
Forum: Thanks to Eonwe: Trivia Round
2,
LotR
Thread has begun :} See Community/ Tolkien
Discussion
and jump in!
Sunday Meeting 5pm EST in AIM
Valar
Guild Meetingplace
Transcript:
team of Arathorn, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda. Pieces quilted
together
by Varda Nov 22.
Eonwe presided.
Membership:
Elros-(V) -
new full member! For details, see Nov 10. Unable to enter meetings
apparently
due to some setting
Fladrif andGrimbold
sent greetings. Grimbold had to work. Fladrif hoped to come late.
Varda
and Fangorn
will be on vacation for a week starting Monday, far far from computers.
Attending (17):
Arathorn, Ar-Pharazon, Arwen, Ecthelion/suilenroc01,
Eonwe (presiding), Galdor, Gelmir/Shaggyjoe,
Gil-galad/Xseanzee disco,
Grimbold/HearNoEvil80,
Mablung/DemonicHorde69,
Maglor,
FarmerMaggot/Musics4Me2, Olwe/FallenGlory,
Orodreth, Thranduil/Gamatzgamatz,
Turgon, Varda
Web:
Forum:
New
Tolkien Trivia thread for H & LotR started by Eonwe!
Names page turned
back over to Varda from Irmo, updated, but is not yet linked into the
other
pages. Linking will have to be done next week.
Tolkien Encyc: Elves
page now has all subjects listed on separate pages linked to Elves page.
Games page still
being worked on. Be sure to send in your info to Eonwe for the big
update!
Gaming:
WC3/TFT:
13 members
under the 28 day limit, 2 just right outside, so we're ok currently.
Thranduil-(V) joined into this
branch during the meeting.
WoW:
Open
Beta started this week. Some members are in it.
D2X:
Please
be sure to send in your Ladder character scores to Varda to be added to
the Guild's ladder web page, separate from Blizzard's.
Half-Life:
Sven
Coop working with Steam
Tolkien:
What kind of relationship do
the Beornings and Mirkwood have?
Specific discussions on Beorn and Legolas.
Beornings and Rivendell.
Legolas' age
More Tolkien discussion, including Fatty Bolger
disguised as Frodo and the attack on the house at Crickhollow.
Some Middle-earth Online rp discussion.
Nov. 10, 2004
Welcome to the Valar Guild,
Elros-(V)!
He contacted us by email and met Varda by AIM. He passed his entry test
with Varda 5/5! He is 24 and just had a birthday Nov 1. He's from
Baltimore,
Maryland, USA, and recently graduated from Towson University with a
degree
in Business Administration and Political Science. He now works at a
bank.
He was born in Ft. Hood, as an "army brat". He's been a sailor: charter
teacher and a six-pack captain, meaning he taught sailing to rich
folk.
AIM: DJMcFlessan (10-5 EST), Louiekiskowski (most of the rest of
the time). He's read the H, LotR, Sil, UT, BoLT
1&2,
Lays of Beleriand, (not the entire Histories, yet), Farmer Giles of
Ham,
Smith of Wooten, and probably some others we didn't get around to. His
favorite character from LotR was Gandalf, who was like a Don of a
family
as he led by caring.
Nov. 9, 2004
World of WarCraft: Forum post by
Maglor:
Maglor
Nov. 7, 2004
Sunday
Meeting: 5pm
EST, AIM
Valar
Guild Meetingplace
Transcript not made this time:
team Ar-Pharazon,
Varda. We have the complete transcripts preserved, despite
difficulties,
but not enough new business came up (and the chat was short) to warrant
using the server space. The summary should be enough.
Attending:
Members (17):
Aerandir,
Arathorn,
Ar-Pharazon, Arwen, Bombur, Eonwe, Finarfin (after), Gil-galad,
Gilraen,
Gwaihir, Huan, Lungorthin, Farmer Maggot, Olwe/Fallen
Glory, Orodreth, Turgon, Varda (presiding)
Guest:
Maximus FOTL (contacted
Lungorthin, interested in joining, looking for a gaming "family".
That's
a good description of us.)
Most important part of the meeting was to make the monthly contact
with the guild. All in the above list have it in the Activity page now.
Games chat
in after-meeting:
LotR Risk
game, tried by Ar-Pharazon gaming with Fladrif and Fladrif's lady,
and Maximus FOTL. Pharazon said the expansions of Gondor made it
better,
but concentrated the game into the south, especially Minas Tirith. Link
from Pharazon.
Halo: Report
by Aerandir
Aerandir
V:
there is a game on microsofts xbox called halo, there is a program for
playing it online called xbox connect:
we get together in a place like blizzards battle.net to play together.
Eonwe added
that it is an
fps game.
AIM Training:
After the business meeting, we ran
training for the group on inviting others to an AIM chat room. Some
accidentally
invited their "bad" list, so we had some real learning on how to invite
correctly.
Tolkien:
Transcript of Tolkien chat with
non-Tolkien
threads edited out. LiberalHound is Huan-Valar:
VardaValar1: Why
would the Valar only allow Huan to speak three times?
Bomburv: Three strikes?
LiberalHound: I wish I knew, it's quite a hinderance
VardaValar1: lol
GwaihirValar: to ensure that he had to be very careful
with what he said...
VardaValar1: Made him speak only important things
Eonwe Valar: well, that's 2 down Huan :}
VardaValar1: Maybe he was chatty in Valinor : )
GwaihirValar: lol
VardaValar1: They may have wanted him to appear to be
a normal hound, better hiding
GilraenV: or he spread some gossip the Valar didn't
want
known
ArPharazonV: lol
VardaValar1: Hmm, wonder what that would be. no no.
VardaValar1: Won't waste his last words
Eonwe Valar: Maybe it was to encourage Huan not to talk
too much,.. he was allowed 3 times before he died, so once he got done
with the third, he knew the end was near :}
ArPharazonV: exactly how long were those times supposed
to last?
ArPharazonV: the times he talked, I mean?
ArPharazonV: basically, he could have talked for days
on end, and it could still count as 1 time...
VardaValar1: But he would have been tuned out for too
much talk : )
Eonwe Valar: eventually Huan would've run out of things
to say, and thus would end one time for speaking :}
VardaValar1: Huan, the Filibuster Hound
Eonwe Valar: aye :}
Nov. 4, 2004
WoW: Blizzard announcement:
Nov.
3, 2004
Forum: Letter
from Turgon-(V)
(admin):
Namarie,
Turgon
Sunday
Meeting 5pm EST
in
AIM: Valar
Guild Meetingplace. You can
invite yourself by Inviting person,
type in your name, and type in the room name. If it's a version that
asks
if you accept the invitation, just say no.
Transcript:
team of Ar-Pharazon, Turgon, and Varda
Before-meeting
Letter to Tolkien Encyc showing some problems.
Worked
on and solved some.
Hobbit: map confusion and solved it
Membership News:
Arathorn - active again, but not making it to
meetings
Embla-(TV) - reports on New Zealand's LotR filming
sites
Fladrif - in contact
Luthien - playing now as Tindomeral-V in TFT
Web News:
Beren's Lore Book:
down
Tolkien Encyclopedia:
Articles:
Fellowship.
New general section. Could use input
Dwarves:
Ori
Help locating bad links needed
while Encyc is undergoing re-build, all articles and authors getting
their
own pages. Gilraen and Eonwe have been helping.
Gaming News:
State
of Valar
Gaming Report
Azure Dreams. In After-meeting
BroodWar: Orodreth. In After-meeting
Gilraen's Role-playing game. New characters can
now enter.
Guild Wars Beta finishes today.
Interplay: included LotR games. In After-meeting
Middle-earth Online Role-playing game on our Forum.
Good spot now for Mirkwood Elf characters to join our party.
WarCraft/The Frozen Throne: new map
Tolkien:
In Before-meeting: Hobbit: Map confusion and solved
it
In Tolkien section: Gondolin's betrayal
After-meeting:
Forum: number of pm's we can store is quite high,
a hundred or better known
Forum Middle-earth Online rp discussion
Computer talk
Tolkien Encyclopedia
Dwarves:
Ori
Oct. 30, 2004
Letter from Embla, ending travels
in New Zealand:
I have made it to the south Island now. Almost more beautiful then
the
north, but you can't really compare. Yesterday, we drove from
Christchurch
to a small town called Springfield... On the way we turned of the main
road
and followed a smaller one between beautiful mountains and hills, and
there,
in the middle of a valley, was Mount Sunday/Edoras. It was beautiful.
Although none of the buildings were there it was still worth the look
of it.
Maybe I can scan some of the photos later when I get back so I can
send you
some.
And today we drove by the big fields where the last battle was held
in ROTK.
I don't rellay remember the name. And we drove by the part where they
filmed
Arwens ride to Rivendell with Frodo. You couldn't see the exact film
location because it is on private property, but It was in there
somewhere:)
And In the in the backround I could see the mountains used for the
Misty
Mountains.
There are so many places I want to see, but they are all so
scattered
on the
Islands, that I won't have time to see them all. And many of them you
can't
get to by car. But I'm happy with the few I have seen.
...
I'm sotired now. I haven't slept in the same place for two weeks now.
Since we
don't have much time we want to see the most we can. Today, Queenstown,
tomorrow somewhere else...but I'm happy. I can rest in Thailand.
Namarie
I've finished putting together the results from the Games Page Mass
Update.
Here they are.
At the beginning of the GPMU, there were 104 members listed on the
Games
Page. Of those,
SC/BW -12 = 11%
D2/Lod- 20 =19%
Wc3/TFT-26 = 25%
ME mod- 5 = 4%
EQ- 4 = 4%
DAoC- 10 = 10%
WC2- 2 = 2%
D1- 3 = 3%
NWN- 2 = 2%
HL- 5 = 4%
Other- 17%
Nothing Listed- 48 = 46%
After the e-mails were sent out, I adjusted the membership numbers
based
on
the Activity page. By my count, we have 116 members Of
those, I recieve
gaming info for only 34.
SC/BW- 8= 7%
D2/Lod- 17= 15%
Wc3/TFT- 12= 10%
ME mod- 1= 1%
EQ- 3= 3%
DAoC- 5 = 4 %
WC2- 1= 1%
D1- 2 = 2%
Other- 17 =15%
No response- 82 = 71%
HalfLife and NWN no longer have a following large enough to put up a
separate page. WC2 and D1 may have their separate pages taken
off as well,
as they have not had alot of support since before last update.
Oct. 28, 2004
Guild Wars: Letter from Arathorn:
Oct. 25, 2004
Traveling in New
Zealand, continued:
Letter from Embla-(TV) of Sweden:
And after alot of searching, I find the locations of the fampus
tree,
where
The Hobbits hide from the Nazgul. The tree had been removed, so it
wasn't
much to see there either, but it felt good just standing there.
Tomorrow we are travelling to the south island with a cargoship. We
are
staying at one of my dads friends house tonight, and he knew the
captain
of
the ship for tomorrow so we can travel really cheap. How are things
with
you??
Oct. 24, 2004
New Tolkien
Encyclopedia section for
everyone to add to: Fellowship
Sunday
Meeting 5pm
ESDT
Transcript
Team: Ar-Pharazon, Varda
Member
News:
Embla-(TV)
is in New Zealand
touring movie sites.
Eonwe-(Valar)'s
comp's memory
went bad, but he will be repairing it. Using another comp meanwhile.
Farmer Maggot-(V)
will be 15
tomorrow
Orodreth-(V)
working on Latin
homework, passed his hello through Gilraen-(V)
Web:
WoW
:
Maglor updated page. Turgon
helping.
Tolkien
Encyclopedia:
Poetry:
2 new poems from He that Walks Unseen-(TV).
The
Muse and the Boy of the Blue Fountainby
He that Walks Unseen-(TV). Tribute to JRRT.
Laden
Trees in the Circle of Fire by He that Walks Unseen-(TV)
Maps:
Shire Post
Links:
Shire
Post
Blizzard
Fan Art
Gaming:
Guildwars:
World preview
event
29-31 this month.
WoW: report
by Eonwe
Servers may split
up guild guys. Europe and N. America on different servers.
Tolkien:
How far-reaching were the
results
of the cry of the gull heard by the Fellowship as they approached the
Corsairs
of Umbar?
Oct. 22, 2004
WoW:
Maglor-(V) has
updated
the Valar Guild's WoW
website.
Letter excerpt from Embla-(TV) of Sweden, now traveling in New Zealand, communicating by internet cafes:
The landscape changes all the time. Like yesterday, we were driving
aaround
a big beuatiful lake callaed Tapou, a couple of kilomteres away it
turns in
to grren hills with sheeps, just like Scotland, and minutes after its
a
djungel, and after that snowy mountians. We drove up one of the
volcanic
mountians and I went out of the car just to feel the snow. It was so
strange
to see the changes in nature.
It sounds like a fun meeting:) Maybe I come and join you someday...
To day, I think we gonna se the location where they shot parts of Osgiliath.
namarie
Oct. 21, 2004
Tolkien Encyclopedia:
Poetry:
Laden
Trees in the Circle of Fire by He that Walks Unseen-(TV)
Oct. 19, 2004
Links page:
Shire
Post - coins and stamps inspired by fantasy and science fiction,
includes
Tolkien. Includes maps
of the Shire and areas nearby. Message
board including role-play style stories. Link emailed by D.
Johnson
(Shire Post is also listed under Maps
in our Encyc.)
Oct. 18, 2004
Tolkien Encyclopedia:
Poetry:
The
Muse and the Boy of the Blue Fountainby
He that Walks Unseen-(TV). Tribute to JRRT.
Oct. 17, 2004
Sunday Meeting 5pm ESDT, AIM:
Valar
Guild Meetingplace
Transcriptfrom
Ar-Pharazon, Farmer Maggot, Varda
Attending:
Ar-Pharazon,
Arwen, Caranthir/MoriFinwe,
Celebrimbor,
Elwing, Eonwe (presiding), Finarfin, Fladrif, Gil-galad/Xseanzee
disco, Gilraen, Grimbold, Gwaihir, Huan/LiberalHound,
Mablung/DemonicHorde69, Farmer
Maggot, Orodreth, Oropher/MJKeenan123,
Turgon, Varda
Oct. 15, 2004
Letter from Arathorn: <mikenowo(AT)yahoo.ca>
Going to buy another new drive next month to re-install windows on
and
restore whatever I can from the failing one (again can`t ghost windows
off of it either so will have to restore what I can later). Internet
should be up by then so will be checking in periodically until my
system is back to snuff.
Oct. 13, 2004
Tolkien
Encyclopedia:
Poetry:
The
Shadows Within by He
that Walks Unseen-(TV). Frodo's thoughts in Mordor.
Farmer Maggot is
grounded from comps for not doing homework most of September, so we've
just lost two major guild programmers for the month of October at
least..
Guild folk, please don't get yourselves grounded! Here's Farmer's blog
aka journal:
http://www.wonderwarp.com/SirG3/wordpress/archives/2004/10/02/70/
Oct. 12, 2004
Alatar-(Valar) has
kindly increased the space available for the guild web pages, as we
were
approaching the limit.
He is playing in not one, but two,
betas! World of WarCraft (accepted into) and EverQuesters II (now
gaming
as Alatar on the Beta 2 server)! Way to go, Blue Wizard!
We know he must be a wizard to
manage
all his interests. Other games are DAoC in two guilds, and City of
Heroes.
He still drops in with his D2X characters just enough to prevent them
from
expiring.
Oct. 12, 2004
Letter from Arathorn:
(and yes we were wondering :) )
Arathorn.
Oct. 10, 2004
Sunday
Meeting 5pm
ESDT in AIM:
Valar Guild Meetingplace
Transcript
: team
of Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending:
Aerandir, Ar-Pharazon, Caranthir/Morifinwe,
Celebrimbor, Eonwe, Gil-galad/Xseanzee
disco, Gilraen, Gwaihir, Orodreth, Oropher/MJKeenan123, Thorondor, Thranduil/gamatzgamatz, Turgon, Varda
(presiding)
Gaming:
Diplomacy:
Orodreth is setting up a Diplomacy
MUD game. Check it out at this site.
Oct. 8, 2004
WC3/TFT:
Our group uses
Battle.net
channel Clan Vala in USA, East.
WC3/TFT: Letter from Eonwe:
For the second time in two months, our Warcraft 3 Branch is in
danger
of
deletion due to too few members logging in. We can only keep this WC3
clan
set up as long as we have members willing to log on at least once every
28
days. If we want to keep the WC3 bnet clan, as well as the channel,
each of
us needs to try and follow through with this. We need each of you to
try
and log in sometime soon. We can only keep this feature so long as
we have
members who want it.
Take care and hope to catch you sometime on bnet or in AIM at a
meeting.
Eonwë
WC3/TFT: Letter from Gwaihir:
Thanks!
-Gwaihir
Oct. 5, 2004
Fladrif tested DOSBox
on Lemmings for the PC while we were
holding the chat open, and
was very pleased. It's a DOS emulator to help games run on later
Operating
Systems such as XP.
Oct. 4, 2004
Happy Seventh Anniversary, Valar Guild!!!
Miruvor served at the Isle
of Balar.
AIM chat: We will attempt to
keep the meeting chat room open for the Fourth, with help from any
members
around the world who are willing.
Among those who helped with the Chat Challenge,
holding it open from the time Arien went from one side of the world to
the other for all of the Oct 4's, were:
everyone at the meeting Sunday (when Oct 4 began in Europe):
Aerandir, Ar-Pharazon, Beregond, Elatan, Elwing,
Eonwe, Fladrif, Gil-galad, Mablung, Orodreth, Theoden, Thorondor,
Thror,
Turgon, Varda
and afterwards helping with the long
haul:
Ar-Pharazon, Arwen, Celebrimbor,
Eonwe,
Finarfin, Gelmir, Gil-galad, Gilraen, Gwaihir, Lungorthin, Olwe,
Oropher,
Turgon, and Varda.
Tourney games:
listed on the Tourney
page on the Games page, may be played all week, results emailed to Eonwe
with a cc to Varda.
Encyclopedia: If
you send in an Encyclopedia entry this week, please mention whether it
will be in honor of the Anniversary. This is for articles, poems,
stories,
translations, humor, art, or anything else you wish to add.
SpaceShipOne won for the prize with its second flight this morning! Flight coverage on http://www.space.com . This is also the 47th anniversary of Russia's Sputnik 1 launch that started the "space race".
Forum letters for the Anniversary! :) Read and put in your two cents!
Letter from Finarfin:
Oct. 3, 2004
Sunday
Meeting: 5pm
ESDT
(GMT-5).
AIM Valar Guild Meetingplace
Transcript:
Team:
Ar-Pharazon, Varda
Attending:
(15)
Aerandir/mordacil,
Ar-Pharazon, Beregond, Elatan, Elwing, Eonwe, Fladrif, Gil-galad/Xseanzee
disco, Mablung/DemonicHorde69,
Orodreth, Theoden, Thorondor, Thror/Chugin
Chub, Turgon, Varda (presiding)
Members:
Finarfin: working
during this meeting. Letter is on Oct. 2
Gil-galad's birthday
was last Friday. Happy 17th!
Mablung made
a second AIM screen name for the guild: MablungV
Thror turns 18
today!
Web:
Games page:
Eonwe is
collecting
info for the great Games page update.
Gaming:
Guild
Wars:
Fladrif and
Ar-Pharazon report that
the game, Guild
Wars, will be free to download and play the last three days of
October.
WoW:
Eonwe-Valar:
"Last week's meetings
notes said the US beta was over. I wanted to clarify that the US
closed Beta is not over, just the 7-day stress test beta. Also, they've
let in some more guys from the initial closed beta signups."
Ar-Pharazon:
European beta starting
this coming week.
Tolkien:
Biography game, short character bios
when tagged: Fladrif and Beregond.
Letters of
Tolkien: JRRT's discussion of the Ring,
Gollum, and Frodo. Partial
quote of Letter 246, p. 330.
After-meeting:
Arwen, Eowyn, Gelmir/Shaggyjoe
came by.
Oct. 2, 2004
Letter from Finarfin:
Hello all,
As most of you know, on on August 24, my grandmother was walking on a
hill near her house and fell. This caused a skull fracture, her brain
to swell, and a blood vessel to burst, bleeding on the brain. This in
turn caused her to have a stroke. She was taken to the hospital, and
the doctors were not optimistic. However, she made it through the
night, and was moved into hospice, as per her wishes for no life
support.
On September 5th she slipped into a coma, and again, she was not
expected to survive the night. On September 7th, she passed away.
However, on August 27th, my uncles and aunts on my mother's side got
into it all. Betweent he four of them there has been much chaos and
discord. words have been thrown, and no one came out happy.
As of today, my grandmother's house, which has a total sq footage of
1710 ont he lakefront is going for nearly $400,000.
Now as to my situation:
Currently, I have computer access through my mother's computer on her
56K. While I still have my laptop and everything on it, I have no
internet connection. I can use AIM through my mother's computer and
account, which is DuckWithMuscles every so often, as well as access my
e-mail once a day or so. I am currently in school 5 days a week
8:10-2:50.
If you all could pass this on, it would be greatly appreciated. I'd
mostly appreciate an announcement in the Valar Guild and at Syn-Real
in the world dev section. I don't know if anyone from TfG remembers
me, but perhaps a few are wondering. If someone who knows these
communties could get the word out, that would be one of the best
things you could do.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Server:
Phoenix
Char: ArathornV (no last name)
(Bow)