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Dec. 31, 2007
Tolkien Site/Articles:
Battles of Beleriand, project by Fingolfin-(TV)
Nirnaeth Arnoediad: Battle of Unnumbered Tears by Varda-(Valar) as an addition to the above project.
Dec. 30, 2007
Tolkien Site/Art:
Cave of Siobhan-(TV):
"Small Ketral". New cave! Original drawing by Siobhan of a young ketral, a pet kept by young Legolas in the stories for the Mellon Chronicles.
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Attending: (10)
Aerandir V/mordacil, AriehnV, arwenv1/windofhyperia,
Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Eonwe Valar, GilraenV, Glorfindel VG,
Farmer Maggot-(V)/thesirg3, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Meeting Transcript by Varda
Dec. 25, 2007
Merry Christmas!
Dec. 23, 2007
Tolkien Site/Stories:
"Far from Home" by Jay of Lasgalen. Short story based on the previous drabble.
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (7)
ArathornValar, ArPharazonV, Elwing V, Eonwe Valar (presiding), GilraenV, GwaihirValar, VardaValar1
Membership:
Ar-Pharazon will be in Belgium temporarily.
Web: reports by Eonwe
Search program glitches being attended to, improved version in progress.
Art this week: "Cave Troll" by DeepGroover-(TV)
Stories this week: "Far from Home" by Jay of Lasgalen two versions: drabble and an expansion of it to a short story.
Gaming:
WoW servers:
Lothar: report by Eonwe
Uldaman: report by Elwing
Argent Dawn: report by Ar-Pharazon
LotRO: Landroval server: report by Arathorn
Battle for Middle-earth 2: report by Eonwe
Tolkien:
Upcoming movies: The Hobbit and an unnamed LotR
prequel movie, with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh as executive
producers. Director(s) not yet chosen.
Forum text RP in the LotRO section under "Scouting Ahead" discussion.
Dec. 22, 2007
Tolkien Site/Stories:
"Far from Home" by Jay of Lasgalen. Elladan, Elrohir. drabble.
Dec. 21, 2007
Happy Birthday, Elatan!
Movies: The Hobbit and the prequel
By now you all know that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will be the Executive Producers for two upcoming movies: The Hobbit and a "prequel" to the Lord of the Rings.
Thread: The OneRing.net's list of rumors and facts mixed together.
Article: "Lord of the Rings Returns as Hobbit": Dec.18, this article in CNN Money says that Peter Jackson and New Line settled their differences and that PJ will be executive producer for The Hobbit. Production is currently scheduled for 2009, release of The Hobbit 2010, release of the prequel 2011, if a director is used other than PJ, and no director has yet been named.
Article: "The Hobbit Goes Hollywood": Dec. 18, Time in partnership with CNN agrees with the above and tells more about the reconciliation.
Blog: Official blog for The Hobbit. Dry statements about the conflict's being resolved and the movie's intended production schedule, same as above.
Unofficial Forum: The Hobbit Movie.
Article:
"Jackson 'too busy' to Direct Hobbit Films": Dec. 19, Stuff.com of New
Zealand tells that PJ isn't directing because by the time he was free
from his current obligations, the fans would have to wait additional
years, as he could not meet the proposed release dates. He would keep
creative control, so the movies would all fit together. The first film
would be the events of the book, The Hobbit. The second would be in the 60 years between then and the start of the Lord of the Rings, much of it based on footnotes in The Hobbit that help bridge the gap.
Article: This is the Dec. 20 comment from the Motley Fool, online investment news, saying that the movies are now a sure thing to do well.
Dec. 17, 2007
Happy Birthday, Miriel!
Dec. 16, 2007
Tolkien Site/Art:
Cave of DeepGroover-(TV):
"Cave Troll".
Three photos showing different views of this model by DeepGroover of a
fight scene between a cave troll and three Saxons (Rohirrim) amongst
ruins. The artist describes how he achieved this scene. The photos were
uploaded after the meeting.
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by the illustrious Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (11)
Members: AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1/windofhyperia, Eonwe Valar
(presiding), Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, GilraenV, GwaihirValar,
Maedhros-(V)/RumblePurrLion, Melkorv, VardaValar1
Friend: crasyboy45
Membership News:
Year end check for who is still in for 2008:
Full Members can request to be added to the guild for longer than one
year ahead of time, some requesting "life" or "eternity", but one
contact is still desired per year anyway so we'll know if your lifetime
membership expired. Tolkien-onlies need to send in a minimum of one
addition to the Tolkien Site yearly. Providing space for guild pages
counts as such an addition, thank you Alatar, Arveleg, Aule, Beren,
Elatan, Lungorthin, Farmer Maggot, and Tilion (and those of you I can't
think of at the second). Contact may be made via the Forum, games, AIM,
email, and those who knock on my door in real life (you know who you
are).
Web News:
The Search Engine is again being worked on for even more functionality for the Tolkien Site.
Art: DeepGroover-(TV)'s Cave Troll fight scene model was added after the meeting.
Tolkien Trivia game (went into After-meeting:
Questions were asked by those not afk in the chat room in alphabetical order by Primary Guild Name.
No holds barred:
VardaValar1: Did Giles really defeat Chrysophilax?
VardaValar1: What did Niggle paint?
VardaValar1: What survived of the painting?
Lord of the Rings only:
AriehnV: What game did Gimli and Legolas play; who won and by what difference?
ArPharazonV: What was Arwen's mother's
name, who were her parents, and what happened to her in the end?
Eonwe Valar: How many times were the Valar mentioned in LotR?
crasyboy45: In which book did Tom Bombadil first appear?
RumblePurrLion: We all know Eowyn
disguised herself as a man to go to war. What false name did she use?
Bonus points if you can also tell what it means.
VardaValar1: Where was Aragorn's mother
while Aragorn was growing up at Rivendell as Elrond's foster son?
crasyboy45: When in The Hobbit did Bilbo name his sword?
Eonwe Valar: Name for me the trees that
grow in Lothlorien, of which the new Party Tree Sam planted is.
RumblePurrLion: This one is a bit more like a riddle: Gray, White, Brown, _____, _____.
Hint: Look at how many items are on the list.
VardaValar1: What place do the white
boats sail from into the West, carrying the Elves (mostly Elves) to
Valinor?
Dec. 9, 2007
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
If you don't know how to get in, ask VardaValar1 for
an invitation. To come in for yourself, invite your own name to a chat,
then in the spot that says a random number for a chat room name,
overwrite it with Valar Guild Meetingplace. It is not sensitive to case
or space.
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon the Golden and Varda the Starry-eyed
Attending: (8)
ArPharazonV, arwenv1, CaranthirV, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco,
Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet, Glorfindel VG, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1
(presiding)
Membership news this week:
Need to be confirmed for 2008: chat, email, forum can help.
Caranthir's twentieth birthday!
Eonwe: out to see "Beowulf" with his family
Fladrif: visited Ar-Pharazon in real life
Theodwyn: starting a new family guild for Horde in Uldaman.
Web this week:
Stories:
"Letters from Elrohir" by Jay of Lasgalen
"Family Trouble" by Cassia and Siobhan. 5 chapters.
"Coronation Jitters" by Siobhan for Cassia. G. 1 chapter.
Link:
Lord of the Rings Online Lore Book - from the site for the Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG (game).
Gaming this week:
Dungeon Siege: Ar-Pharazon
WoW:
WoW dailies, flying
Argent Dawn
Lothar
Uldaman
LotRO:
$9.99 a month during the holidays.
Bree Horse
Tabletop games:
Dungeon & Dragons: Gimli, Sauron, Varda
Risk: Ar-Pharazon, Fladrif
Trivial Pursuit: Ar-Pharazon, Fladrif
Tolkien trivia:
ArPharazonV: What was made of mithril that was worth more than the value of the Shire?
VardaValar1: Who led the elves that helped Frodo and
his three hobbit friends against a Nazgul in the Shire area?
Glorfindel VG: According to Merry on their journey
through the Old Forest, this was said to be the queerest part of the
whole forest.
VardaValar1: What was the name of the skeleton in the Paths of the Dead?
Dec. 8, 2007
Tolkien Site/Stories:
"Letters from Elrohir" by Jay of Lasgalen:
"Letter to Arwen"
"Letter to Glorfindel"
Links Page:
Lord of the Rings Online Lore Book - from the site for the Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG (game).
Dec. 7, 2007
Happy Birthday, Gelmir!
WoW Uldaman:
Theodwyn pulled her Horde character from our Uldaman server branch to
start a new family-oriented guild since so few of us now come on there
at all.
Dec. 6, 2007
Gaming/LotRO:
The "Bree Horse" is available to
players who applied a Pre-order key to their account before June 1,
2007, and have an active subscription as of December 1, 2007. It is
also being made available to Lifetime accounts. The receipt is in the
inventory on each of your characters, and any you create (does not say
for how long). It's usable at level 25. Don't try to race a level 35
horse with it unless you want to lose, but it still beats walking!
Dec. 3, 2007
Tolkien Site/Stories:
"Family Trouble" by Cassia and Siobhan. 5 chapters. Newly written and inserted into the series after "Mistaken Identity".
"Coronation Jitters" by Siobhan for Cassia. G. 1 chapter.
Dec. 2, 2007
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript: by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (8)
Members: AriehnV,
ArPharazonV, arwenv1, fladrifv, GilraenV, Menelvagor Valar,
VardaValar1(presiding). Eonwe tried to enter but AIM and the internet
did not cooperate.
Friend: LaurealasseHelka
Membership:
End of the year check to see who's still in for 2008.
Christmas party discussion
Web:
Languages:
Beren-(Valar)'s Quenya Lore Book has moved to this blog and has undergone work.
Articles:
Isildur by Varda-(Valar)
Kings of Rohan now has dates for the kings, and the successors may be followed from page to page.
Story:
Ch. 47 "What Is Seen And Unseen" by Nightwing. Latest chapter of To See a World.
Gaming:
WoW:
Uldaman server
Lothar server
Argent Dawn server (also in Before-meeting)
LotRO
Tolkien:
Trivia gaming:
Menelvagor Valar: What are the
names of the Two Towers of Gondor, in both languages, before and after
one fell to Mordor?
ArPharazonV: Full name of the
fifth hobbit in the conspiracy, the one who wasn't in the Fellowship?
VardaValar1: What report was
Legolas bringing to the Council, unaware that there was to be a Council?
Menelvagor Valar: What is the
name of the energy-boosting drink only made in Rivendell (as far as I
know at least)?
VardaValar1: What food can only the elf queen or highest lady give out?
ArPharazonV: What was the name of
Aragorn's horse, the one Elrond's sons and the Rangers brought with
them from the North?
AriehnV: Which are the hobbit
requirements to make a legal document proper, such as appointing an
heir?
AriehnV: What was the former name of Gollum and where did he come from originally?
AriehnV: What was Fredegar Bolger's part after the four hobbits had enterd the Old Forest?
Fladrifv: How was the love story of Aragorn mentioned in the LotR books?
Menelvagor Valar: What is the
patch of land next to Rauros called upon which the Fellowship landed
and camped for a short while?
VardaValar1: What is a name for the places where elves stay, up in the trees?
After-meeting:
Thoughts of food, including Zangarmarsh mushrooms.
Nov. 30, 2007
Tolkien Site/Languages:
Beren-(Valar)'s Quenya Lore Book has moved to this blog and has undergone work.
Nov. 27, 2007
Tolkien Site/Articles:
Isildur by Varda-(Valar)
Kings of Rohan now has dates for the kings, and the successors may be followed from page to page.
Nov. 25, 2007
Tolkien Site/Stories:
Ch. 47 "What Is Seen And Unseen" by Nightwing. Latest chapter of To See a World.
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript: by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (7)
ArPharazonV, arwenv1/windofhyperia, Eonwe Valar,
fladrifv, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, GilraenV, VardaValar1
(presiding)
Gaming:
SC/BW: Bilbo, Eowyn, Fangorn, Meriadoc, Sauron, Varda
Dungeon Siege: Ar-Pharazon
Halo 2: Eonwe, Dracxil, Sauron, Bilbo
Non-pay-to-play games: Fladrif offers to game with Valarites, can be contacted on AIM.
WoW:
Ar-Pharazon and Eonwe both earned their elite flying mounts.
Lothar branch now has a guild bank with two pages.
LotRO: Ulmo entered the Valar's LotRO branch as Niequi. Numerous instances, much crafting progress.
Tolkien:
Flying in Tolkien: who did it?
Nov. 22, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving!
http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo/images/price/fellowship.jpg The Fellowship around a campfire in the woods listening to Gandalf.
Artist: Peter Xavier Price.
Nov. 18, 2007
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (7)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar, fladrifv, GilraenV, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Web:
Tolkien site: new linking for Timeline and The Valar. Need articles.
Gaming:
Brood War: Fangorn, Sauron
WC3: The Frozen Throne: Arien
Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna: Ar-Pharazon
Chess: Fladrif
Nexiuz: Fladrif
Worms: Armageddon: Fladrif, Sauron, Bilbo
WoW:
Argent Dawn: report by Arien
Lothar: report by Eonwe/Auros
Uldaman: report by Varda
LotRO: report by Varda
Tolkien:
Two main types of readers according to Orson Scott Card: detached analysts or immersed.
Nov. 14, 2007
Gaming: Hellgate: London
Pallando-(Valar) plays on Shulgoth server as Pallando, engineer.
Pallando emailed Nov. 5 that the
old Diablo team got together to make Hellgate: London. Eonwe-(Valar)
emailed that they did this as the "spiritual sequel" to Diablo 2, since
they can't make the "actual sequel" as they are no longer with Blizzard
but have their own company.
Pallando emailed: "it's rated M
for "Blood and Gore, Mild Language, Violence". So far the only
obscenities I've noticed were bleeped out, and to be perfectly honest I
don't even rate the others anymore. It's pretty decent 3D graphics, but
the only truly humanlike monsters are the zombies. At any rate, it
would best be left to someone else to rate the violence and gore as
compared to other games." "future additions and specials are
subscriber-only, but those of us who don't have the cash for subs still
get normal patches."
Eonwe added: "only those paying
the monthly fee can create or run a guild. I don't think it'd be worth
it to pay the fee just for the guild privileges though (you do get more
than just that, but essentially if someone wasn't already going for the
subscription to get the extras, guild creation shouldn't be the
deciding factor). "We" can always just get together and stay in
contact if we get anyone else in this game."
Pallando said: "I plan on
subscribing anyways eventually, and I'm sure someone else will as well
- it's cheaper than WoW or LoTRO (unless you're a founder)."
Nov. 11, 2007
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (13)
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, AragornValar1, ArathornValar (crashed), AriehnV,
ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar (presiding), Fangluin-(V)/MelchiahAC,
fladrifv, Gilraenv, GlorfindelVG (crashed), Gwaihir Valar, VardaValar1 (crashed)
Membership:
Varda and Fangorn came back (note: Fangorn will be gone for a week staring Monday for work)
Ar-Pharazon: exams over
Eonwe: couple of more exams
Fangluin: not able to be around much, but still there
Valandil: still gaming with us in WoW Argent Dawn
Gwaihir: taking a degree by correspondence course
Gaming:
Hellgate: London
WarCraft 3
Dungeon Siege expansion
Middle-earth mod for Diablo 2 Expansion
WoW:
General: patch 2.3 including new areas and guild bank
Lothar server : Valar
Argent Dawn : Valar. High Guard is
once again run by Valarites and includes Valarite characters.
Uldaman : Valar. Elwing was present for the Wednesday designated day.
LotRO: Valar
Trial account for Aragorn-(V) whose name is Telecontar
Tolkien:
Topic from Arien-(Valar): I recently read the Farmer
Giles of Ham in an edition together with the master's original,
previously untold version of that tale .. quite nice and something
different to all the ME stories But there are similarities, at
least some same factors turn up in that story as they do for example in
the Hobbit .. I wonder if we get them all together...
Nov. 10, 2007
Varda's 54'th birthday. That was a good three-layer chocolate cake!
Nov. 5, 2007
Varda and Fangorn left for a week's vacation. Back Saturday evening.
Nov. 4, 2007
Americas: time change.
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (9)
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, AragornValar1, AriehnV, arwenv1, Eonwe
Valar, fladrifv, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Farmer
Maggot-(V)/thesirg3, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
Aragorn: back with us, hoping to come into LotRO
Eonwe: 8th anniversary of joining the Valar Guild
Varda and Fangorn: gone next week, not sure if back in time for next meeting.
Web:
Stories
Art
Gaming:
Dungeon Siege
Silver
WoW: Uldaman, Argent Dawn, Lothar
LotRO
Tolkien:
How many names can we think of for Aragorn? You also get to tell when the name was used.
Nov. 3, 2007
Tolkien Site / Art:
Cave of Turgon-(V):
"Ulmo in the Waterfall of a Lake"
Nov. 1, 2007
Tolkien Site / Art:
Cave of Turgon-(V):
"The Captivity of Morgoth in Mandos". Turgon-(V): "I tried to do something new, not like the ugly-armour-red-flaming-eyes
variety, especially since he still could assume a fair form after he
was released. That's why only his cowl is "radiating" with darkness.
That is, with the darkness of his thought and hate." Sent in Oct. 27, 2007.
Turgon is now in a university and finds himself with less time for art, but still finds a way.
Tolkien Site / Stories:
"Counting the Days" by Jay of Lasgalen, drabble. "Elladan is away from Imladris, and Elrohir can't wait for him to come home."
Four spooky stories from Branwyn-(TV):
Wave-Singer drabble (Maglor)
In Moria, In Khazad-Dhum drabble (dwarves)
Unfinished Work drabble (Denethor)
Beggars' Night short story (Pippin, Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas, Eowyn, and Faramir)
top
Oct. 31, 2007
Membership:
Aragorn-(V) of Sweden is back
from the army, now working at the hospital fixing wheelchairs and other
handicap equipment. He also takes a pottery class after work. After a
year or two, he hopes to study. He's dropped his WoW account and hopes
to be in a LotRO trial soon. He would like to join us on Landroval
server (as Telecontar). Turbine allows European ip's so he may do this as Irmo, Miriel,
and Arien have. He also hopes to download AIM and join us this Sunday,
although he has work early in the morning. More power to you, Aragorn!
Oct. 28, 2007
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (11)
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar, Fladrifv,
Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, GilraenV, GwaihirValar, Menelvagor Valar,
Pallando Valar/Oessala/OrodrethV, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
Arwen's birthday was Friday
Morwe returned to Full Membership, still plays LotRO
Web:
Stories this week
Upcoming
Gaming:
Eve Online
Dungeon Siege
Monkey Island 1 2 3
Discworld 2
Full Throttle
Chess
WoW
LotRO
Tolkien:
Tolkien brought seriousness to fantasy and various creatures and things that have become staples.
After-meeting continued Tolkien in a lighter way:
What was Tom Bombadil? We went more into character
traits than into discussion of Maia or whatever as those talking were
already in agreement on that point..
Oct. 27, 2007
Tolkien Site / Stories:
Siege of Dread by Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV). 16 chapters. Part of their Mellon Chronicles series, following "Curse of Angmar".
"Rivendell has always been a place of peace. When
that tranquility is threatened it leads to a cascade of events that
seek to destroy Aragorn's adopted family. Two mysterious figures from
the past become suddenly important and in a bizarre turn of events,
Aragorn and Legolas find themselves faced with trying to save not only
the future of Rivendell, but Mirkwood as well... if they can save
themselves, first."
Aragorn, Legolas. Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Glorfindel. Thranduil.
Oct. 26, 2007
Happy Birthday Arwen-(V)!
Gaming / Eve Online:
Letter from Pallando-(Valar):
For an unfortunate reason, I will need to suspend funding for my
second Eve-Online account, which holds the Pallando Luineistar
character. As the only other member is Menelvagor, who is inactive,
this will leave the branch without anyone to run the corporation. I
will still be somewhat active on Debes Sparre, and will keep the
mailing list and chat channel manned for what it's worth. My offer of
a free month will not be available on demand, but still extant. The
offer for 6 months runs out on the 4th.
Oct. 24, 2007
Gaming / LotRO Landroval server:
We have our kinship house. It is near
Thorin's Hall, Neighborhood Frithdal, 2 Frothing Road. We have all
three storage chests and taxes are paid through December (as far as we
were allowed to pay ahead). Members have been buying and crafting
decorations for the kinhouse, leaving some in the storage chests. All
members have decorating privileges and may use the storage chest items
on the kinhouse to try differenct looks. Even the paint is re-usable.
We have a lot of different music boxes so that you can change the music
playing inside the house. The only thing we ask that you not move
(without Ancalagon's permission) is the taxidermy item that greets you
as you open the door. Certain monsters drop purple "bodies" that may be
taken to the taxidermist in Bree to be made into decorations for the
kinhouse and personal houses. Crafting members generally are willing to
make items for personal houses too, but may need your help with
materials.
Oct. 23, 2007
Membership:
Morwe-(V) opted to
change to Morwe-(TV), no longer interested in gaming but interested in
the Tolkien site. Update, the next day he decided to keep gaming in
LotRO and is back to Morwe-(V). We're glad you stayed! (The run with
you in the new High Pass and Goblin-town was great fun!)
Oct. 21, 2007:
Tolkien Site / Stories:
The Temptations of Eönwë by Enerdhil-(TV). "Eönwë and Morgoth, and the futile bids for pardon I imagine Morgoth must have made before he was sentenced."
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Varda
Attending (14):
Aerandir V/mordacil, Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, AriehnV, ArPharazonV,
arwenv1, austeinM, Eonwe Valar, fladrifv, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco,
GilraenV, Glorfindel VG, GwaihirValar, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1
(presiding)
Membership:
New: Maedhros-(V)
Web:
Stories
WoW Lothar Tourney Report
Gaming:
Solitaire
WoW
LotRO
Tolkien:
Rhythmic images and events in Tolkien.
After-meeting:
Science-fiction convention that Menelvagor went to
Helping Eonwe test his new Tourney area on the Games page
Reviews for the Games page: what is acceptable
Game ratings
Info on the Internet
Wiki and Britannica
AIM Lite
Oct. 17, 2007
Tolkien Site / Stories:
The Prisoner by Jay of Lasgalen. "What if" a different decision had been taken, drabble challenge. Legolas, Thranduil.
Brigid and Greg in Middle-earth by Maedhros-(V). Humor drabble: comments on a Noldo.
Oct. 14, 2007
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Maedhros-(V)!
Maedhros joined us today in LotRO, where he has a lifetime
subscription, with a perfect score of 5/5 talking with Varda (me). His
Galadhalion and my Fainan gamed together a couple of times, yet he was
still willing to join! He may be gone sometimes for two months at a
time, but returns so don't write him off. He's read the Hobbit several times and the Lord of the Rings
twice. His favorite character is Gandalf with his snarky personality;
other favorites were Bilbo and Legolas. The changes to Faramir were a
prime movie gripe. He has a blog that includes this short Middle-earth story; also note the animated icon at the top.
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (11)
Arathorn Valar, ArPharazonV, AriehnV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar
(presiding), Fladrif, GilraenV, Glorfindel VG, Farmer Maggot-(V)
/thesirg3, Pallando Valar, VardaValar1
Suggestion:
Fladrif: one live chatroom all day for a particular day.
Tolkien:
Elf hair color
Silmarillion main events, equipment to make a card game.
Oct. 11, 2007
Tolkien Site / Stories:
Mind's Eye by Cassia-(TV) and Siobhan-(TV) is up. "Aragorn lost his memory in Harad. It returned, but not all of it
returned at once. The healing mind is a funny thing. So when he finds
himself somewhere strange, in an unthinkable situation, what is he
supposed to think? Where is he? What’s happening? How can he set it
right?" Aragorn, Legolas, Death, Namo. Follows "Stars of Harad" in the "Mellon Chronicles" series.
Oct. 10, 2007
Tolkien Site / Articles:
Tolkien and Beowulf by Ancalagon-(V). Sent in for the Tenth Anniversary of the Valar Guild.
Tolkien Site / Stories:
Discoveries in the Dark by Jay of Lasgalen. AU drabble challenge for The Hobbit. Bilbo.
Old Swords by Jay of Lasgalen. Could have happened during The Hobbit. Elrond.
Gaming:
WoW Uldaman server night, Elwing-(V) reporting:
I was on Uldaman tonight from about 8:30 to 11:00 - didn't spy another guilder :{
Oh, well...my char for the evening spent some time questing a bit and
doing leatherwork for a change. While in Ogrimmar, I accidentally found
the orphanage - it's in the far east ("military" sort of) section,
close to the pool there :}
[Editor's Note: Time was CDT, so 9:30 to 12:00pm EDT.]
Oct. 8, 2007
Tolkien Site / Stories:
The Valar Guild
by Alcardilme-(TV). Young Boromir and Faramir's differing opinions on
the Valar. Sent in for the Tenth Anniversary of the Valar Guild.
The reasonably complete List of what the Valar Guild did for the Tenth Anniversary.
Oct. 7, 2007 Sunday
Chat Room Marathon, last day, participants:
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, ArathornValar, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar, fladrifv, Pallando Valar, VardaValar1.
Silmarillion Card Game! Tenth Anniversary project. Fladrif-(V) and Ancalagon-(V) are working on a card game based on the Silmarillion
in the style of Magic the Gathering. Join in to create cards that may
(or may not) be used, or just for the fun of suggesting a card for your
personal Tolkien adopted character; go to this Forum thread under Games/ General Game Talk.
Tolkien Site / Articles:
"The Corruption of the Lord of the Rings" by Ancalagon-(V). Sent in for the Tenth Anniversary of the Valar Guild. Another one will be put online soon.
Sunday Meeting: Tenth Anniversary
5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda. This will be only the meeting, not the entire week's marathon although we could do that. You had to be there. :)
Attending: (9)
Ancalagon-(V)/
Sarujil,
Arathorn Valar, ArPharazonV, Arwen-(V), Eonwe Valar,
Fladrifv, Farmer Maggot-(V)/
thesirg3,
Pallando Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding).
Tolkien:
Eonwe Valar: The choices of people had an impact of the fates of their
kingdoms, their people, and their lines. Usually they greatly affected
the longevity of the aforementioned.
Oct. 6, 2007 Saturday
Tolkien Site / Articles:
The Complete Chronology of the First Age of Ea by Arveleg-(V)
is now online! This is an enormous resource in progress, intended to
show the timeline from the creation of the Ainur to after the end of
Arda. It was written to come out for the Tenth Anniversary of the Valar
Guild, and is complete through the First Age of the Sun.
Gaming: WoW Lothar and LotRO were active.
Chat Room Marathon participants partial list:
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, ArathornValar, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar, fladrifv, Pallando Valar, VardaValar1.
Oct. 5, 2007 Friday
Gaming:
WoW Lothar Friday:
For the Tenth Anniversary,
Eonwe/Auros had an idea he tried out for a WoW Guild Tourney game,
based loosely on past tourneys in other games. Arwen, Bellene/Dracxil,
Eonwe, Fangorn, Sauron gamed together in Scholomance.
People showing up in
Lothar (that I know of) were Arwen, Bellene/Dracxil (guild-friend),
Elwing, Eonwe, Eowyn, Fangorn, Sauron, and Varda (briefly).
LotRO:
Added more to the LotRO housing report for Oct. 4.
Chat room marathon participants seen Friday:
Ancalagon-(V)/sarujil, ArPharazonV,
AriehnV, arwenv1, Bombur-(V)/MrMonkey2002Blah, Eonwe Valar, Farmer
Maggot-(V)/thesirg3, Fladrifv, Pallando Valar, VardaValar1
Farmer plays Team Fortress 2, free if one buys the Orange Box from Valve.
Tolkien Site:
Stories:
"A Song the Size of the World" by Fladrif-(V) is now online. Written and illustrated for the Valar Guild's Tenth Annversary.
"Old Swords" by Jay of Lasgalen. A story that could have happened during The Hobbit. Elrond's pov.
Oct. 4, 2007 Thursday
Happy Tenth Anniversary to everyone in the Valar Guild. Thanks
to every person who has ever been in the Valar Guild, making it the
wonderful creation it is today. May we enjoy the next ten years
together!
The reasonably complete List of what the Valar Guild did for the Tenth Anniversary.
Tolken Site:
Articles:
First Age Timeline:
Arveleg-(V) has been working hard on research to make a
complete timeline for Arda. His first installment of the First Age is
now done, just in time for the anniversary as he had hoped. Thank you!
Varda hopes to have it online today.
Stories:
New today: A Song the Size of the World
by Fladrif-(V), betaed by Arien-(Valar). This story is done and almost
ready to go online, and should be up today (was but not linked in). It was written and illustrated by Fladrif for the anniversary.
Stories
already up and written for the anniversary are re-listed here:
The Game of Kings
by Branwyn-(TV). Early Tolkien gamers. The leaving and returning of the
rangers is a salute to the soldiers in our group who leave for a while
and return.
Revelation: What Evil Fears by Eonwe-(Valar). Sauron's fear.
Roots Up: An Ent's Tale by Fladrif-(V)
Poetry:
The Guild - Ten Years On
by Barahir-(V) already up, but now the formatting has been improved by
his request to make a special quality more obvious. :)
Chat room marathon participants spotted in room Valar Guild Meetinplace:
Arien-(Valar), Ancalagon-(V), Ar-Pharazon-(V), Arwen-(V),
AuSteinM-(TV), Eonwe-(Valar), Eru-(Valar)/Eru68, Fladrif-(V),
Varda-(Valar).
Gaming:
LotRO:
Landroval server: We grouped together when we saw each other (before the world went down at noon) in Angmar: Irmo, Miriel, Gorlim, and Varda.
Roheryn test server: Housing test started today.
Ancalagon's personal house
is at 6 Fairwood Lane, Gundalaf, Falathlorn Homesteads. Drop by for a
visit! As Fainan, I (Varda) went with him to see it going through the
house person at Duillond. The place is a deluxe edition, and Anc kindly gave fellow decorator privilege.
The place was in elf-lands and very grand. He had already bought a
storage chest, trees and pumpkins and a well for the spacious yard,
interior decorations including fireplaces, a lawn chair, fancy rugs for
a couple of rooms, elf-style dresser and floor vases, a standing
candelabra, and much more. He could also choose a color theme and had
picked red, which went well with his beard. Since his character is a
dwarf, he plans to next try out dwarf housing when it comes available
from the Frerin's court area at Thorin's.
A simple personal house is 1
gold, deluxe 7 gold. It does require monthly upkeep in the silvers
(deluxe is about 45 silver per week) to make sure that houses go to
active players. The first month's rent is included in the initial cost.
About 25 silver can cover decorations. Only one house is currently
allowed per account. Please remember that this is the test server's
first day with housng and many things may change.
Ancalagon then brought me for an open house tour to an unused kinship house.
That thing was a mansion! Nearly a castle. It even has stairs and an
upper floor. It too may be decorated and furnished. We can set
privileges to let all officers or even all members be decorators and
helpers with the weekly cost.
A kinship house can only be
bought by the guild leader of a guild that has reached level 7; in
Landroval, we are already level 8. Good thing we have about a month to
prepare, as I sure don't have 15 gold. If everyone can pitch in a gold
from a high level character, then the lower level alts can probably
handle quite a few decorations, many of which are in the low silver
range. Kinhouse tax is about 100 silver per week. Please weigh in on
where we should put the kinhouse and why. One or a few personal houses
held by kin members in the same neighborhood can make the kinship house
price drop.
Wherever we choose, we need to
join together for reputation quests in the nearest town to unlock the
superior forge and workbench.
WoW Lothar:
We have members coming in and out of Lothar as time and computers
permit. Don't forget to type /join Valar since the last patch pushed
everyone out of the channel. Speak friend, and enter.
Oct. 3, 2007 Wednesday
Chat room marathon continues for Wednesday.
Ancalagon/Sarujil, AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1,
austeinM, Eonwe Valar, Fladrifv, and VardaValar1.
Tolkien Site / Art
"A Song of the World" by Fladrif-(V).
Poem for the Tenth Anniversary from Barahir-(V):
The Guild - Ten Years on
by Barahir-(V)
October 2, 2007
Vast and wonderful was this new place,
a mighty bastion within cyber-space.
Luring Tolkien fans into their brigade,
a small yet passionate fraternity.
Revering Tolkien's works, chatting and playing
games on Middle-earth, for a decade.
Under its banner, a common liking
imbibed a bond, ever enduring.
Led to blissful peace, by the Council's grace,
destined to last for all eternity.
Poet's note: This poem contains exactly ten syllables in every line and is an Acrostic with a twisted Rondeau!
Oct. 2, 2007 Tuesday
Chat room marathoners spotted on Tuesday:
Members: Aerandir V,
Ancalagon/Sarujil, AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, austeinM, Eonwe
Valar, Fladrifv, VardaValar1
Friend: excelsiorjss
Tolkien Site / Stories:
More new stories written for the Tenth Anniversary of the Valar Guild! Thank you!
The Game of Kings by Branwyn-(TV). Early Tolkien gamers. :)
Revelation: What Evil Fears by Eonwe-(Valar). Sauron's fear.
Brotherly Love by Jay of Lasgalen, formerly titled "Charity Begins at Home", is now complete as a story told in five drabble chapters. This is not connected to the
anniversary. The drabble series has lengthened and changed in story line so much that she decided this change was needed.
Gaming / LotRO: Housing report from Ancalagon-(V)
In the test server, Roheryn,
where guild housing is being worked on, Ancalagon found a taxidermist
in Bree to whom one turns in bodies to make into statues for the house.
So far the taxidermist can do a barghest, two different bears, wolf,
warg, cave troll, and another that Anc forgot. :)
House prices are locked until Thursday at least.
Four housing areas are being tested:
Southeast of
Staddle, along the road just over halfway towards the Lone Lands. Not
very close to Bree.
South of Michel Delving, in the Southfarthing.
Southwest of
Thorin's Hall, just a bit south and a bit west of the horse. With
acquaintance reputation, Thorin's Hall has a superior forge &
superior workbench.
Across the
river from Celondim, but the one in Celondim is actually closer to
Duillond; its just south of the gate to the Shire.
Oct. 1, 2007 Monday
Chat room marathoners for Tenth Anniversary Monday:
Ancalagon/Sarujil, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, Fladrifv, VardaValar1
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Sept. 30, 2007
Tenth Anniversary Week begins with this meeting and ends with the meeting next Sunday. Have fun!
Chat room marathoners for Sunday:
Ancalagon/Sarujil, Arathornv, AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, Fladrifv, VardaValar1
Sunday Meeting
5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Varda
Attending (7):
Ancalagon/Sarujil, Arathornv, AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, Fladrifv, VardaValar1(presiding)
Membership:
Tenth Anniversary week begins now!
Web:
Robert Jordan passed away.
Gaming:
Regular gaming reports, with talk of the Forum rp
scattered through the whole meeting, since most of those active are in
it.
Tolkien:
If we looked at the whole Fellowship ensemble as one
person, what would each member have contributed to this one over-all
great hero?
Marathon chat room week begins.
Sept. 28, 2007
New spot for
the fun Search Everything search engine by Arveleg. He's been working
on it to clear glitches and would like to know if we find more.
Explorer has been strange today, but the site seems alright on Netscape.
Tolkien/Stories:
Two new drabbles by Jay of Lasgalen in which Aragorn meets his brothers at Bree and what happens next.
Charity Begins at Home
Charity Begins at Home II
Sept. 27, 2007
Sauron-(Valar)'s birthday.
Sept. 24, 2007
Bilbo-(V)'s birthday.
Sept. 23, 2007
Membership:
Erkenbrand-(V)
left the guild. He joined as a kindly friend to help us form the LotRO
kinship within the tight time limit, but he is uncomfortable with the use of book characters as
names. He continues to be a friend under the name "Herdy".
Guild pages:
An additional Search engine
for looking up everything in the Valar pages rather than just for the
articles, by Arveleg-(V) using Google, is currently being experimented
with.
People have expressed discomfort
with the way the pages are currently set up, so we are trying to make
stronger divisions into the three main areas of the guild as Community,
Tolkien, and Gaming. Use of frames or no-frames menus continues to be
supported so the individual may take his pick. Comments may be directed
to Varda.
Sunday Meeting
5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00 Sept. 23
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Varda
Attending: (10)
Members: Arathornv,
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1/windofhyperia, Eonwe Valar, Fladrifv,
Gelmir-(V)/Shaggyjoe, Glorfindel VG, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Friends: Srekal86
Membership:
Eonwe-(Valar)
Erkenbrand-(V)-ex
Bilbo-(V)
Sauron-(Valar)
Ar-Pharazon-(V)
Varda-(Valar), Varda's family + guild-friend, Elwing-(V)
Web:
New: Search engine for everything experiment under Tolkien/Fun. From Arveleg-(V).
Gaming:
Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Eve Online
StarCraft 1
Suggestion: SC1 party during the week before the new SC2 comes out.
gtr2
Diablo 2 Expansion LAN party
WoW:
Possible tourney gaming for WoW
Argent Dawn
Uldaman
Lothar
LotRO
Magic the Gathering Online
Tolkien:
Bilbo and Frodo's birthday
After-meeting:
German, Swedish, Spanish
Art: Fladrif's project for Valar, suggestions, links.
Photoshop
Bryce
Blender
Zbrush
Eonwe's pick-up truck
WoW gaming afterwards in Lothar by Arwen (using Evenstarr and Myrrh, outsider characters), Bilbo, Dracxil
(guild-friend), Elwing, Fangorn, Sauron, Shanaynae (guild-friend), and
Varda.
Sept. 22, 2007
Bilbo and Frodo's Birthday! The two book characters were born today.
Sept. 19, 2007
Varda and family as of this evening now have a new working DSL modem installed and are back online.
Sept. 16, 2007
Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series, has passed away. He will be sorely missed.
Sunday Meeting
5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by
Eonwe and Varda
Attending: (9)
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, ArathornValar, AriehnV,
arwenv1, Elwing V, Eonwe Valar (presiding), Fladrifv, GilraenV,
Glorfindel VG
Membership:
Varda and family's DSL modem is dead and a new one ordered.
Arwen is now able to be online for meetings and games now that she's set up at the University.
Arwen collected new books by Tolkien or related to gaming.
Web:
Stories this week:
Roots Up: An Ent's Tale by Fladrif-(V) has been updated.
Wedding Nerves by Jay of Lasgalen is a new story for this week.
Gaming:
StarCraft 2:
New unit announced
WoW:
general: in-game voice chat and guild banks (like LotRO) are planned in the future.
Lothar
Uldaman
Argent Dawn
LotRO:
Arathorn discovered that his problems
were due to dirty RAM and motherboard, LotRO worked afterwards so he
bought the game. He is now in the Kinship with us.
Chess: Fladrif
LotRO for the SuperNintendo: Fladrif, Eonwe
Tolkien:
Elwing's topic: What were the descriptions and actual uses of the Three Elven Rings?
After-meeting:
Ancalagon's riddle solved.
Sept. 12, 2007
Gaming: WoW Uldaman server Wednesday report from Elwing-(V):
I was on WoW from about 8:15 to 11:15;
chatted a bit with Theodwyn (~10 level char of Vaire), she was running
thru dungeon accompanied by high level of Vlmo. She commented I was
first "guildie" she'd caught in awhile, thought maybe most were in
other games more now. I said I thought school starting might be big
reason for scarcity too.
Report end :}
Elwing (as Thtarthpray)
Sept. 11, 2007
Tolkien Site / Stories:
Updated: Roots Up: An Ent's Tale,
by Fladrif-(V)
New story: Wedding Nerves by Jay of
Lasgalen. Aragorn, Elladan, and Elrohir. "Aragorn as King, on the brink
of his wedding to Arwen. Elladan and Elrohir - of course - make their
presence felt." Short story, written as a birthday request.
Sept. 9, 2007
Sunday Meeting
5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by
Arien-(Valar), Ar-Pharazon-(V), and Varda-(Valar)
Attending: (12 or 13)
Members:
Aerandir-(V)/mordacil, Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil,
Arathorn-(Valar)/mikenowo, Arien-(Valar)/AriehnV(presiding),
ArPharazonV, Arveleg-(V)/King Arveleg I, Elwing V, Eonwe Valar,
Fladrifv, GilraenV, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1
Guest: rienzi0711
Membership:
College started this week in UK and Europe. Ar-Pharazon, Arien, Fladrif, Menelvagor.
DSL modem for Varda's family will have to be
replaced, cuts off intermittently. Repairman came just before the
meeting started. Arien chaired the meeting. Thank you, Arien!
Eonwe had to leave shortly after the start of the meeting for family activities.
Arien's family is having car troubles, but managing.
Arveleg tried to enter the AIM meeting but had connection protocol difficulties not allowing him to stay.
Web:
New story by Fladrif-(V): Roots Up: An Ent's Tale
New music poll on the Forum by Fladrif-(V). Vote for your favorite style of music.
Gaming:
StarCraft: Aerandir-(V)
Doom 3: Arathorn-(Valar)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Arathorn-(Valar), Fladrif-(V)
Archlord: Fladrif-(V) still downloading, as it's a
large file, hoping to test it this week. Arien-(V) intends to try it.
WoW:
Argent Dawn server: Arien and Valandil
Lothar server: Friday saw Eonwe
and guild-friend Beline (Eonwe's brother aka Dracxil). All week long
the Laytonrim (Varda's family and rl friends) came in for many hours at
odd times, along with guild-friend (Bilbo's g/f).
Uldaman server: Elwing. (Most
remained on Lothar Wednesday including Varda, slackers). Some short
questing during the week by Laytonrim.
LotRO:
Arathorn started the seven-day
LotRO trial during the meeting, but it's crashing his computer a lot.
Kinship Recruiting Faire. Valar
was represented by Ancalagon, Beleg, Melkor, Meriadoc, and Varda
Gamers for the week (off the top of my
head) included but not restricted to: Ancalagon, Beleg, Borin,
Finduilas, Gorlim, Irmo, Melkor, Miriel, Orome, Meriadoc, Rumil, Varda.
Tolkien:
Topic by Arien-(Valar): What might have happened in the Brown Lands that they got devastated?
After-meeting:
WoW Lothar gaming by one group, LotRO gaming by another group.
Sept. 7, 2007
Tolkien Site / Stories:
Roots Up: An Ent's Tale,
a short story by Fladrif-(V), long-time member but new author for the
Stories page. In the early days, Tom Bombadil fears that immortality
will lead to boredom but discovers that it is not so. Written for the
Tenth Anniversary of the Valar Guild.
Sept. 5, 2007
Tolkien Site / Stories:
The Price of Being Peredhil by Jay of Lasgalen. Elrond and Elros.
Sept. 4, 2007
LotRO:
Regular questing including
grouping together, then a run by nearly all the high levels together in
the Ettenmoors as freeps (free peoples) versus creeps (creature
players). Varda's first pvp group raid ever, including any other MMORPG.
Sept. 3, 2007
Barahir-(V) said hello by email, and congratulations to everyone on the upcoming 10th Anniversary of the Valar Guild.
LotRO:
Much questing together and leveling by nearly everyone!
Sept. 2, 2007
Sunday Meeting
5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V), Fladrif-(V), and Varda-(Valar)
Web:
Stories:
New one sent in during the meeting by Fladrif.
Website needs work. Do we want to go with a wiki?
Problems in navigation of the website, due to using two systems at the
same time.
(Previously meeting
mentioned Forum colors are hard to read and they might be better in the
same color as the main site.)
Gaming:
Eve Online: news and offer from Pallando-(Valar)
Tolkien:
Posted a discussion topic to the Forum, riddles are still going.
After-meeting:
More discussion about improving the website
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Aug. 29, 2007
Sorry for the belated News notice on this new MMOG. Please see Aug. 24.
Aug. 26, 2007
Sunday Meeting
5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending: (11)
Members: Aerandir V/mordacil, Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil,
Arien-(V)/AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, Fladrifv, Gilraen-(V)/Star
of Phaet, Glorfindel VG, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Friends: Ecthelion-(V)-ex/suilenroc01, Hyarion/Srekal86
Suggestions for the Valar Guild's Tenth Anniversary:
For anything written or drawn especially for that,
please label as such so that
it will be included with the story, article, poem, translation, etc.
(One story was being written during the meeting by Fladrif.)
10 question quiz on Guild history? :} (from Eonwe)
Tradition (started by Orodreth who is now Pallando)
of keeping the Valar Guild Meetingplace open all anniversary week.
Meet in person where possible: Netherlanders, Texans
might meet up in their areas. Texans might get together in garb for the
Texas Renaissance Festival. Please send in at least a short report of
who came, photos if possible, for the News.
Collage of our characters from various games, if
anyone is able to handle putting bits of screenies together in one
spot? Volunteer photo-manippers, please email Varda. One suggestion was
adding photos of gamer's actual faces onto the character body.
Special anniversary decorations for the Valar front page: http://valarguild.org (from Fladrif, side window).
Show up in-games for fireworks, ale, food, crafting,
chat, questing. Get good screenies and perhaps also add them to the
collage.
More suggestions may be made by email to Varda to be included on the News, or put on the Forum.
Membership:
Classes starting soon for many members
Rumil goes on vacation Sept 6
Ar-Pharazon will be missing all or part of upcoming
meetings due to upcoming school - early Monday morning class.
Elwing's birthday party is going on today at Varda's house
Web:
Riddles
Stories
PHP and CSS for the Tolkien Site
Book Reviews
Timeline project
Gaming:
D&D Eberron tabletop
StarCraft 2 news report by Eonwe
Terran Banshee unit added. SC2 page.
LotRO: report 1 from Varda, report 2 from Arien.
WoW:
Argent Dawn server, report by Arien
Lothar server, report by Eonwe
Uldaman server, reports by Varda and Elwing
General news:
Armory, report by Eonwe
RSA, which is
Menelvagor and Ar-Pharazon's old raiding guild group (non-Valar) is
disbanding. report by Ar-Pharazon.
Archlord (free game downloaded by Fladrif)
Tolkien:
Fladrifv: Was the sun there during the creation of the ents?
Riddles
After-meeting: riddle discussion continued to rule, so we had no actual "after" meeting.
Aug. 25, 2007
Tolkien Site / Stories:
"The Duel in the Sky" by Ancalagon-(V). Ancalagon versus Earendil in the War of Wrath. Silmarillion fic. New author but long-time member.
"Some Words from the Mor-galad" by He that Walks Unseen-(TV). "A message of old has been delivered by
fate. Read it and pass it on for he who arose in might must be heard".
Aug. 24, 2007
Invitation for Joining into the AOA
US 2nd CB test. From Snailgame.net
Hello,
Our MMOG title Age or
Armor is supposed to start its 2nd Closed Beta test by the end of Aug,2007.
It's a Robot-type online
game which emerged those characteristics of the famous Transformers and the
Gundam. For many robot fans, this game might be a good choice to entertain.
We realized that your guild is
one of the best online-game guilds, so we try to invite you and you teammates to
join into our game for testing the guild-war system. If you accept our
suggestion, I will afford you beta keys which are different from those given
away from the official website. These keys will supply you and your friends all
the armors and weapons for characters before 21 lvls and afford an initial fund
for the guild. We will also take your suggestions into our consideration if you
want any extra bonus for guild.
We sincerely invite you to test the
AOA. You could find more information about it at: http://www.aoaus.com
Aug. 22, 2007
Tolkien Site / Stories:
"Watching the Sunrise" by Jay of Lasgalen. "On midsummer's day, Elrohir tries to persuade Elladan to wake up early."
Aug. 20, 2007
Tolkien Site / Quizes:
The Riddles page has been repaired. Enjoy!
Tolkien Site / Stories:
"Too Much of a Good Thing?" by Elwing-(V) for her Lessons of Life
series. "Searching for comfort in the aftermath of battle, Legolas
discovers whether one can truly receive too much of a good thing. A
‘gap filler’ set just after the battle at Helm’s Deep in Two Towers."
Legolas, Aragorn, Gimli, Eomer, Gandalf, and Herubrand.
Membership:
LotRO: Rumil-(V)
emails that he accidentally quit the Kinship trying to leave a note
that he was going to be absent on vacation. He requests a re-invitation
for Rumilden. His greatly needed vacation will last until September 6.
Aug. 19, 2007
Sunday Meeting
5pm EDT (GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending: (11)
Members: Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, AriehnV,
ArPharazonV, Beleg-(V)/bigdadd363cook, Elwing V [Happy Birthday!], Eonwe Valar, Fladrifv,
Glorfindel VG, Pallando Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Friends: Srekal86
Aug. 15, 2007
Tolkien Site / Stories:
Two short stories by Jay of Lasgalen:
Balrog's Balls! Celebrian sometimes finds parenting the twins difficult around Glorfindel and Elrond.
Promises to Keep Thranduil takes a walk in the snowy woods during a difficult time with an unexpected meeting.
August 13, 2007
Tolkien Site / The Riddle Game:
The Riddle Game is
a new section put up today by Varda. The riddles are by members of the
Valar Guild, continually in progress. It collects riddles from the
Forum and the Poetry page
in one place. The riddles must be in poetic form. Riddles not yet
answered on the Forum may not have the answer posted on the Riddle
page, and are answered in turns so no more than two riddles should be
unanswered on the Riddle page. This new section is linked to both the
Poetry and Quizes sections. (Taken down on Aug. 19 to repair bugs discovered at the Sunday Meeting.)
Aug. 12, 2007
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending: (8)
Members: Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), Fladrifv, GilraenV, VardaValar1
Visitor: excelsiorjss (friend, now in LotRO, hasn't yet read LotR)
Membership:
New Full Member: Rumil-(V)
New Tolkien-only Member: Bohemian Weasel-(TV)
Gwaihir-(Valar) has a throat infection.
Grimbold-(V) and Muzgash-(V) have birthdays today!
Web:
New helmsman and website for the Book Reviews page: Arveleg-(V) on googlepages.
New story by He that Walks Unseen-(TV): "Two Eyes Stare at Mine"
New art Cave for Bohemian Weasel-(TV)
Gaming:
SC2: new info on the upcoming game
WoW:
Lothar: Eonwe, Sauron
Uldaman: Elwing
Argent Dawn: Arien, Valandil
WC3: Ar-Pharazon
LotRO: new member Rumil from there, we've been having around 8 online at once.
Tolkien:
Fladrifv: what if lord of the rings was in the modern time: would sauron have won?
Riddle-game. Starts with Ancalagon's riddle on the
forum, then we did another batch of riddles, the end results of which
may be seen on the Forum LotRO trivia thread. Our meeting chroniclers
had to leave before the riddling finished.
Aug. 11, 2007
Welcome to the Valar Guild, to the Bohemian
Weasel-(TV)! The Bohemian Weasel is the talented Soni
Alcorn-Hender, a
working artist who exhibits her artwork on her gallery site. The Bohemian Weasel Galleries.
As a fellow Tolkien fan, she has allowed us the use of her artwork to
illustrate our Tolkien Encyclopedia. She has allowed us to place the
artwork on our site. However, all is still copyrighted and any use for
another site must be requested from her. Originally from England, she
now lives in Portugal.
Tolkien Site / Art:
New Cave in the Glittering Caves of Aglarond, the Valar Guild's Tolkien Site art section for Bohemian Weasel-(TV).
Aug. 9, 2007
Tolkien Site / Stories:
"Two
Eyes Stare at Mine"by He
that Walks Unseen-(TV). Who is that looking back?
Sudden fiction. The author calls
it a Proem, for poetry in prose form.
Aug. 8, 2007
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Rumil-(V)! Rumil
gamed and chatted in LotRO with us as Tagmyre for several days, tested
for the overall guild, then joined the branch with his freshly made alt
captain metalsmith Rumilden. He's 26 from Alberta, Canada, using MST.
His birthday is September 13, 1980, so he'll be 27 in just a month.
He's usually online in the evenings but has a hectic schedule; in
practice, he's on a lot and seems like one of our later night runners
due to the time zone. He dropped WoW for LotRO, and used to play BfMe2.
He's read the H, LotR, and the first part of the Sil. His favorite LotR
character is Sam, whom he considers inspirational with his loyalty,
innocence, and goodness "without being all warrior-like about it. For a
story so enmeshed in battle, he was a refreshing reminder of the
more...humanitarian (if you will) side of the conflict."
Aug. 5, 2007
Tolkien Site/ Book List & Reviews
Arveleg-(V) is now at the helm for
the Tolkien Site section: Book List &
Reviews for Tolkien Subjects. See
the new link and rebuilt section. Lungorthin, after long
service, has decided to step down from the site as he no longer feels
he has time to
work on it properly.
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)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Fladrifv, Eonwe Valar,
GilraenV, Glorfindel VG, GwaihirValar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
New member in LotRO still trying to choose a name.
Web:
New Book List and Reviews management by
Arveleg-(V) and on a new server.
Gaming:
LotRO: added Roheryn test server branch for the
Valar Guild this week
WoW: Expansion Wrath of the Lich-king
Tolkien:
Sections of HoMe we'd like to see pulled out for a
separate book like Children of Hurin, and made into movies.
Ainur on Middle-earth
Ancient viewpoints in Middle-earth
Glorfindel-(V) agreed to write an article on
Glorfindel (side window). Current ones are on the problem of the two
Glorfindels and on names.
After-meeting:
In-chat playful rp of Ar-Pharazon unluckily invading
Fangorn Forest.
Aug. 1, 2007
Happy Birthday, Orome-(Valar)!
Tolkien Site/Stories:
"Pride
Goeth..." by Jay of Lasgalen, drabble. Elrohir overreaches
himself, but achieves victory.
top
July 30, 2007
LotRO:
Roheryn server now has Book 10 up
live for testing.
July 29, 2007
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 and 1/2)
Members: Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, AriehnV,
ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presided over Business), Gilraen-(V)/Star of
Phaet, Glorfindel VG, Menelvagor Valar (presided over Tolkien chat),
Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory.
Visitor: brief pop in by Khamul-(V)-ex
Membership:
Includes Tolkien discussion on Numenor and its
colonies.
Ar-Pharazon is back from vacation and transcripting
again for the guild.
Quite a few members will be starting back to school
during August, about midway, including Eonwe. If Ar-Pharazon's
University hopes work out, he will be in class in September.
A Valar group went to the movies together
(unfortunately during the meeting) including Elwing, Gimli, Fangorn,
Eowyn, Sauron, and Varda.
Web:
Articles by
hard-working Arveleg-(V)
Gaming:
LotRO: The Valar Guild is adding a new
server for guild use when Landroval is down: Roheryn, which is the test
server.
WoW:
New short story.
Lothar
Uldaman
Argent Dawn
WC3: Ar-Pharazon-(V)
BfMe2: Arveleg-(V)
Tolkien:
Topic 1: Numenor and its colonies, during the
Membership section. from Ar-Pharazon-(V).
Topic 2: tales of Dark Elves within Tolkien's books?
from Eonwe-(Valar).
After-meeting:
Forum Role-play parts for "Scouting Ahead" are
now stickied by Eonwe in the order that one would read them.
July 24, 2007
Tolkien Site
Articles by
Arveleg-(V):
Animals:
Arroch
Men: Gethron,
Grithnir,
Titles
and Names of Turin,
Úmarth
Objects: The
Helm of Hador
Places: Haudh-en-Nirnaeth
July 23, 2007
Please pardon the recent lack of updates. My
usual
computer has died a horrible death and the rebuild attempt combining
parts of two computers has not worked out (yet). Files have been
shifted to another computer so that webwork can continue as
usual. If you see this message, then /cheer! -Varda Backlog now
being handled.
July 22, 2007
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by
Ancalagon-(V), Eonwe-(Valar), and Varda-(Valar)
Attending: (6)
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, AriehnV, Eonwe Valar,
Fladrifv, Glorfindel VG, VardaValar1
Some chatted by relay through Varda from LotRO.
Membership:
Includes working out times when we game in LotRO, in
EDT:
Arien 3pm, maybe every second day.
Eonwe: midnight to 4am.
Irmo and Miriel: around 2-6pm. Miriel:
also 4am.
Dirhavel (for now) and Varda:
Random.
Web:
Articles by
Arveleg-(V)
Timeline project, partly into it with the Events and
Kings pages. Help especially needed to fill in articles for kings and
leaders of any race, especially human.
Ted Nasmith's art site keeps having more pictures
Gaming:
BFME2: Eonwe
WoW:
Argent Dawn: Arien, Valandil
Lothar: Eonwe, Fangorn, Sauron,
Bilbo, Eowyn, Varda
Uldaman: Elwing
LotRO: (17 this week) Ancalagon, Angrod, Arien,
Beleg, Dirhavel, Dis, Elrond, Eonwe, Finduilas, Gorlim, Irmo, Melkor,
Merry, Miriel, Orome, Varda; Aeronwy.
Tolkien:
Mixed into Web and After-meeting sections. See
several After-meeting topics
After-meeting:
Review of book by Arien: Rise of the Horde
by Christie Golden
Game: Graal
Game site: free rpg games
Why didn't Glorfindel go with Frodo? This was more
of a fun rp with Glorfindel-(V) who doesn't resist the Ring all that
well.
Numenor = the lost city of atlantis
When was the first time Aragorn heard he should go
to the Paths of the Dead?
Then we went into trying the trivia questions on our
Forum and discussing them:
What craft alone out of all crafts is it said the
Dwarves were never outmatched?
No man am i and no man is me...
Suggestion: Put a Riddle section on our Tolkien Site.
What craft alone out of all crafts is it said the
Dwarves were never outmatched?
July 15, 2007
Tolkien Site/Articles:
by Arveleg-(V) for Places: Bar-en-Nibin-noeg,
Cabed-en-Aras,
Celebros,
and Crossings
of Teiglin.
Sunday Meeting
5pm
EDT
(GMT-5), GMT 22:00
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by
Ancalagon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending: (9)
Members:
AriehnV, Eonwe Valar, Fladrifv, Gelmir-(V)/Shaggyjoe, GilraenV,
GlorfindelVG (after-meeting not recorded), Lungorthin-(V)/sauronjag,
Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Hello's from over
the shoulder or from another game (5): Irmo-(Valar) in LotRO,
Fangorn-(Valar) in WoW, Sauron-(Valar), Eowyn-(V) in WoW, Bilbo-(V).
Membership:
No new members this week.
Web:
Links: author
updated link to the novel "Isildur".
Games:
Eonwe updated LotRO members and made a sortable table out of it.
Tolkien
Site.
Book List
and Reviews section: Lungorthin-(Valar) requests a new webmaster
for his section of the Tolkien Site, and regrets that he cannot find
time for it. This also means we will be losing that server space and
the section will be moving, possibly to the area donated by
Alatar-(Valar). Volunteers please email Varda.
Articles:
New articles (sixteen) by Arveleg-(V).
Stories:
Chapter
46 up for "To See a World" by Nightwing
Gaming:
Overlord:
Fladrif-(V)
Battle for
Middle-earth 2: Eonwe-(Valar)
WoW:
Argent
Dawn: report by Arien.
Summary: Thursday is the chosen night but is not working out very well.
Arien and Valandil quested.
Uldaman:
report by Varda. Summary:
Wednesday night gaming in the Barrens by Elwing, Sauron, Varda. Eowyn
made a new Horde character and brought her into the branch, although
not yet ready for the Barrens.
Lothar:
report by Eonwe. Summary:
Arathi Highlands questing by Eonwe, Eowyn, Fangorn, Turin, guild-friend
Dracxil (as Wymor). Varda's 63 hunter Fainan ran alongside when the
group was full, joining when one or another had to leave for short
times. We completed Stromgarde quests, some several times, and the
entire Myzrael chain quest. Later, Sauron and Eonwe took Elwing through
every quest in Maraudon.
LotRO: report by Varda for the News page.
Monday is the requested special
get-together and event day/night, suggested by Orome-(Valar) with no
dissenting voices. No time was set, so it is assumed to be the usual
time of 5pm EDT until we find a better time. We have a definite day and
night group that have difficulty getting together, and some who play at
times across both groups.
The level 50 group is mostly
broken up, playing alts now to try out new things.
Lindir-(V) pulled out of the
Valar LotRO kinship, although not out of the overall guild, as it was
not consistently active enough for him.
Turin-(V) is trying to join the LotRO
kinship, but may not be able to until after his new computer comes in.
Arien-(Valar) is now gaming in the
LotRO kinship, using several characters.
Borin-(V) and his wife Finduilas-(V)
each pulled out one character to help friends start a new kinship, but
still have their other characters in the kinship and are still playing
them.
Tolkien:
Nature of Dwarves, including the Petty-dwarves, the
Seven Fathers, and more.
July 14, 2007
Tolkien Site/Articles:
"Gamil
Zirak" by Arveleg-(V)
July 13, 2007
Happy Friday
the 13th!
Tolkien Site/Articles:
"Aranrúth"
by Arveleg-(V)
Tolkien Site/Stories:
"To
See a World": Chapter 46 by Nightwing is now up.
Gaming: WoW Lothar
Friday:
Eonwe, Fangorn, Eowyn, Turin, Varda and
guild-friend Wymor (Eonwe's brother)
gamed together mostly in the Arathi Highlands. Afterwards, Eonwe,
Sauron and Elwing completed every quest in the Maurodon instance,
adjourning after the wee hours started growing large. Leveling and
upgrading happened along the way.
Sauron, Eowyn, and Fangorn played
together again once they were more or less conscious on Saturday
morning. And of course we don't just play Friday, that's just the
special day for it.
July 11, 2007
Gaming: WoW Uldaman
Wednesday:
Sauron and Varda, then Varda and
Elwing, partied in the Barrens knocking off strings of quests. Eowyn
brought a new character into our Horde guild. Everyone leveled at least
once.
July 10, 2007
Tolkien Site/ Articles by Arveleg-(V):
Men: Algund,
Andróg,
Forweg,
Orleg,
Ulrad,
"Gaurwaith:
Outlaws of Turi