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2013
April 20, 2013
Cave of Luthien-(T):
New paintings: "Nienna", hi-res "Sunrise at Mount Taniquetil".
High-resolution versions added for "West of West", "Elbereth", Yavanna"
April 12, 2013
Cave of Luthien-(T):
New paintings from 2012 done with chalk pencils and water on paper:
"Alqualonde", "West of West", "Elbereth" final version, "Yavanna", "Luthien at Tol Galen" final version.
March 2, 2013
Cave of DeepGroover-(T):
"Wolfman, life-sized" model.
Jan. 15, 2013
Cave of Elatan-(T):
"Véantur and Entulassé coming to Mithlond with the tower of the Palantiri behind." mosaic
Jan. 7, 2013
Cave of DeepGroover-(T):
"Vampire" model.
Jan. 6, 2013
Cave of DeepGroover-(T):
"Teenaged Werewolf" model, not from the movie.
2012
Nov. 6, 2012
Cave of DeepGroover-(T):
"Higher Intelligence" model. A Nameless Evil.
Oct. 31, 2012
Cave of DeepGroover-(T):
"Brute" model. A Nameless Evil.
Oct. 21, 2012
Cave of DeepGroover-(T):
"Bust of the Living Dead" model
Sept. 23, 2012, online Oct. 21, 2012
Cave of Deepgroover-(T):
"Werewolf" werewolf bust, four views of the model.
Aug. 5, 2012
Cave of Deepgroover-(T):
"Wolfman" life-sized model head and how-to.
July, 12, 2012
Cave of Maedhros-(V):
"Maedhroc and the Troll"
Cave of Deepgroover-(T):
"The Crusader" bust that could be of one of the weary human warriors in Middle-earth
2011
Aug. 9, 2011
Cave of Deepgroover-(T):
"The Confrontation" group model fight
Oct. 4, 2011
Cave of Nerdanel-(V):
New cave!
"Nerdanel": The new cave shows a painting of Nerdanel sculpting. This work was done for the Valar Guild's 14th Anniversary and also illustrates the article "Nerdanel" in the Valar Guild's Tolkien Encyclopedia.
July 16, 2011
Cave of Rombadillo:
Link name change. Anonymous Belgian Fan is now Rombadillo.
July 14, 2011
Cave of Anonymous Belgian Fan: new cave, lots of new drawings. See July 16 for link change.
June 27, 2011
Cave of Deepgroover-(T): new model:
"King of Dwarves" bust of a dwarf king.
May 1, 2011
Cave of Deepgroover-(T): new models:
"Crusader" full figure and setting
"Goblin Bust" bust of a goblin
April 2, 2011
Cave of Deepgroover-(T): new models
"Cedric of Wessex" full figure
"Medieval Knight" bust
March 12, 2011
Cave of Deepgroover-(T): new models
"The Dwarf King" a bust of a dwarf king
"The Guardian" a complete scene of a human guarding an interior castle door.
Feb. 7, 2011
Cave of Elatan-(T) : new mosaics
Three new mosaics
by Elatan-(T) are now online at his cave in our art site. They are
"Ulmo at Vinyamar", "Breaking of Spring", and "Smaug and the Lonely
Mountain". Enjoy!
Feb. 6, 2011
Cave of Elatan-(T) rearranged by type of media.
Jan. 23, 2011
Cave of Luthien-(T): new art
"Luthien in Tol Galen". Her painting illustrates her poem, "Song of the Moon and Melian".
2010
Aug. 30, 2010
Cave of Luthien-(T): new art, revamped area.
Menel Forodhren
section added with art done in watercolor and crayon of subjects mostly
found in the Silmarillion and Histories of Middle-earth. New art there:
"Aule's Dwellings"
"Elbereth, lady of the stars"
"The elves are concerned about Telperion."
"
Pond in a forest under rising full moon"
"
Company walking up a hill outside Alqualondë"
"Nost-na-Lothian in Gondolin"
Feb. 20, 2010
Cave of the Bohemian Weasel: new art
"A Weasel's LotR Guide to Receiving Unwanted Christmas Presents Politely"
"LotR - sketchcard - Aragorn03a"
"lotr-arwen-face01"
"Lotr-sketchcard-Frodo-face2"
"Lotr-sketchcard-Haldir02-1"
"Lotr-sketchcard-Haldir-Legolas01"
"Lotr-sketchcard-Lorien-flets"
"Lotr-sketchcard-Coronation"
"Boromir"
"x-sketchcard-Holly-Celeborn.jpg" In new section Celeborn.
"lotr-eowyn-face01"
"Lotr-sketchcard-Lorien-boat.jpg"
"Galadriel"
Feb. 15, 2010
Cave of Turgon-(V) should now load all sections much faster.
Cave of Ulmo-(Valar) should load much faster now.
Jan. 18, 2010
Cave of DeepGroover-(T):
"Dwarf: Drunegar Runekeeper" model from Andreas; put together, modified and painted by DeepGroover-(T).
Jan. 7, 2010
Cave of Maedhros-(V):
Black and white sketch of Maedhroc, a hobbit warden character played by the artist in the Lord of the Rings Online game.
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2009:
Dec. 19, 2009
Cave of DeepGroover-(T): models put together with his own modifications and painted by DeepGroover-(T):
Viking model from Young Miniatures.
Nov. 15, 2009
Cave of DeepGroover-(T): models put together with his own modifications and painted by DeepGroover:
Knight model from Dark Swords
Creature model from Dark Swords
Oct. 31, 2009
Menelvagor-(Valar)'s and Turgon-(V)'s Caves should be displaying properly now.
August 5, 2009
The entire art collection is moving off the old
server, with which we are again having problems, and on to the same
server as the main text of the Tolkien Site. Bookmarks may be changed
by going through normal navigation to the desired artist and picture,
eventually again to the article and associated pictures. Thank you to
AuSteinM-(T) for going to all the trouble he's had to bear with on the
old server, and thank you to Alatar-(Valar) for the very generous
amount of both web space and bandwidth added today on the text site.
July 20, 2009
Cave of Hansen:
Dragon head trophy made by Hansen. A
similar one may be bought from his site, listed at the bottom of the
page.
July 15, 2009
The art server changed its policy and now requires
payment for any forwarding between http://www and a domain name. This
required most of the art site's links to change. Please let Varda know if any of those pages are still showing problems.
April 30, 2009
Cave of Luthien-(T):
Added table of contents.
Updates now showing the most recent at the top.
Mixed Media: new section to hold YouTube movies put together by Luthien-(T).
Beren and Luthien - high definition version added
Song of Earendil added
March 6, 2009
Cave
of DeepGroover-(TV):
"Fighter" model
"Wizard" model
"Spearman" model
March 4, 2009
Cave
of DeepGroover-(TV):
"Maximus" model.
"Knight of the Holy Grail" model.
"Waterfalls in the Smoky Mountains" photos
"Dragon Fight" model
Repaired the link to the "Spanish Knight".
Feb. 17, 2009
Cave of Maedhros-(V):
"Unimpressed". LotRO humor, free-hand.
Feb. 6, 2009
Cave of Turgon-(V):
On the side of the Valar:
Aule
Fingolfin vs Morgoth
On the side of Morgoth:
Drake
Objects:
"Shield"
Jan. 31, 2009
Cave of the Bohemian Weasel:
Added sections for Gondor , Moria, Osgiliath, and Topps Cards.
Added pictures from a Jan. 14, 2009 email.:
Arwen in Rivendell
The fading of Arwen and Rivendell.
Arwen, "There is always hope".
Arwen with the banner.
Arwen mourns Aragorn's death.
Eomer
Searching in the rain for Prince Theodred or his body.
During the drinking game.
At the coronation.
Eowyn
In autumnal Rohan.
Eowyn, the White Lady of Rohan.
Éowyn at Théodred's bedside.
Haldir's last moments.
Moria's doors.
Rohan's Meduseld.
Sam Gamgee, the contented gardener in the Shire.
Sam and Frodo passing through the Shire in September.
Shire: View of the Party Field in the Shire.
Rivendell , the golden twilight.
Jan. 16, 2009
Boromir: "For Gondor!"
Elrond: "looking thoughtful during the Council of Elrond."
Eowyn vs the Nazgul Witch-king.
Jan. 16, 2009
Cave of the Bohemian Weasel:
Boromir: "For Gondor!"
Elrond: "looking thoughtful during the Council of Elrond."
Eowyn vs the Witch-king: under Eowyn, Nazgul, Witch-king
Jan. 15, 2008
Cave of the Bohemian Weasel:
New portal entrances to the Character
and Places sections were made by The Bohemian Weasel especially for us!
Thank you very much!
Jan. 14, 2009
Cave of the Bohemian Weasel:
New pictures! Many are not even up on
her own site yet! More are coming, but your webmaster tuckered out.
Enjoy the pictures under these character sections:
Aragorn: Aragorn as Strider. Aragorn at Bree. Leading the Hobbits into the wild. Aragorn and Legolas fleeing the Paths of the Dead.
Faramir:
Faramir in plate armor (magnificent oil painting, added to the Valar
Guild index page). Faramir in Ithilien in Autumn. Spying Gollum.
Frodo: Frodo feels the influence of the Ring. Sam and Frodo upon the slopes of Mt. Doom.
Galadriel: 2nd Age and detail. Celeborn and Galadriel
Hobbits: Aragorn leading the Hobbits "into the wild". Sam and Frodo upon the slopes of Mt. Doom.
Legolas: Seeing the Crebain from Dunland. Aragorn and Legolas fleeing the Paths of the Dead. Inspecting arrow fletching.
Merry: new section. Merry lost in Fangorn Forest.
Sam: Sam and Frodo upon the slopes of Mt. Doom. Sam vs Shelob
Sauron new section: Annatar in the 2nd Age and detail.
Jan. 13, 2009
Cave of The Bohemian Weasel
No longer a straight link into
The Bohemian Weasels' site, these pictures are on the Valar Guild's
site and include only those related to Middle-earth, organized by
Characters and by Places. A link back is still provided in order to
enjoy the rest of her work and to buy her originals and prnits, and to
read her blog. She (Soni Alcorn-Hender) has allowed us to host these
pictures with credit and no change in resolution, and with a link back,
to grace the Caves and the Encyclopedia.
2008:
Dec. 29, 2008
Cave
of Maedhros-(TV) (new!)
"Legolas
does a little pest control" free-hand art, colored.
Dec. 25, 2008
Cave of DeepGroover-(TV)
"Knight
Hospitaller" model
"Spanish
Knight" model
Oct. 4, 2008 (11th Anniversary of the Valar Guild)
Cave
of Luthien-(TV) (new):
"Botanic
Gardens" photos.
"Beren and Luthien"
video.
"Netherlands"
photos.
"Canada"
photos.
"Valinor"
art.
August 17, 2008
Cave
of DeepGroover-(TV):
"Templar
Sergeant" model
July 31, 2008
Cave
of DeepGroover-(TV):
"Monk
Warrior" model
July 21, 2008
Cave
of DeepGroover-(TV):
"Wounded
Knight: Agincourt". Model assembled and painted by
DeepGroover-(TV).
April 29, 2008
Cave
of DeepGroover-(TV):
"Viking
Warlord". Model assembled and painted by DeepGroover-(TV).
The warlord is from 10 A.D. and includes his axe and dog.
March 12, 2008
Cave
of DeepGroover-(TV):
"Germanic
Warrior". Model assembled and painted by DeepGroover-(TV).
As always, click the thumbnail picture to see the enlarged version.
Feb. 21, 2008
Cave of Elwing-(V):
"Gift of the Evenstar". Young Arwen with her mother,
Celebrian.
This cave has been re-done by Varda,
all thumbs. :)
2007:
Dec. 30, 2007
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.
Dec. 16, 2007
Cave
of DeepGroover-(TV):
"Cave
Troll". 3
photos of different views of a model of a cave troll fighting with
humans (Saxons, like the Rohirrim). DeepGroover describes how he came
up with this model by modifying parts of several kits and painting it.
Nov. 3, 2007
Cave
of Turgon-(V):
"Ulmo in the Waterfall of a Lake"
Oct. 27, 2007
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."
Oct. 3, 2007
New cave and new art from Fladrif-(V)!
Cave
of Fladrif-(V):
"A
Song of the World"
Aug. 8, 2007
Cave
of The Bohemian Weasel-(TV):
New cave!
New art for the Cave:
Elrond:
"Elrond
Half-elven"
"Elrond,
Lord of Rivendell"
"I
was there the day the strength of Men failed."
(Below links are now incorrect for those articles, still up to
allow
the editor to keep track to make corrections. Links will be from the
cave instead of her personal site.)
Elrond:
"The
Day the Strength of Men Failed" (new)
Eomer:
"A
Drinking Game"
"Eomer,
Horse-lord" Sam's picture is at the top of the page, Eomer's at the
bottom.
Eowyn:
"In
Search of Glory"
Haldir:
"Haldir,
Warden of the Golden Wood"
"Proud
to Fight Alongside Men Once More", also called "Haldir at Helm's
Deep"
The Shire:
"The
Party Field", "Frodo Reading in the Shire" on the same page.
Faramir:
"A
Gentle Man"
"Faramir
of Ithilien"
"If
I Should Return"
Boromir:
"A
Mighty Gift"
"The
Clear Ringing of Silver Trumpets"
Arwen:
"As
Dark as Twilight"
"Arwen";
"Rivendell Scene with Arwen and Aragorn"
"A
Long-awaited Day"
Galadriel:
"Galadriel,
Lady of Light"
June 26, 2007
Cave
of Lindir-(V):
New cave!
"The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" photo. Lindir-(V)
is sharing a photograph of himself in Tom Bombadil garb and
his wife as Goldberry, while he tells a tale as Tom to the Bay Area
Hobbit Picnic.
May
5, 2007
Cave
of DeepGroover-(TV).:
New medieval and fantasy
models!
"Sanctuary Defiled"
"Field of Carnage"
"Blue Knights"
"Death
of a Warrior" updated showing
the completed, award-winning model.
May 3, 2007
Cave
of Varda-(Valar):
New cave!
"Legolas Portrait" pencil
sketch.
April 7, 2007
Cave
of DeepGroover-(TV).:
New cave!
New art: photos of
medieval and fantasy art built and painted by DeepGroover.
"Death
of a Warrior"
"Barbarian
with Trophy"
"Mounted
Knight"
"Eastern
European Viking 12th Century"
Cave
of Elwing-(V):
"Braiding
Session", illustration for the artist's story, "Midnight Musings".
March 4, 2007
Cave of Turgon-(V) / Places:
"Dol
Amroth"
Feb. 27, 2007
Cave of Turgon-(V) / Places:
" Tol
Sirion" kep012
Feb. 24, 2007
Turgon-(V)'s cave is re-done, separating
topics into pages for quicker loading.
Feb. 23, 2007
Cave of Beorn-(V)
New cave!
New art: a photo of Beorn-(V) in armor
that he made himself.
Navigational improvement: back link to Caves at the
top of each individual cave instead of just at the bottom.
2006:
Nov. 3, 2006
Cave
of Turgon-(V)
"Book of Lore" A book that may
have been found in either Minas Tirith or Imladris.
"Elwe Singollo"
"Green Dragon" A mug from the
Green Dragon.
"Gates of Nargothrond"
"Ring of the Nine" One of the
nine rings.
"Morgoth and Manwe" Morgoth is
brought before Manwe.
Oct. 12, 2006
Cave
of Turgon-(V): original sent in Sept. 3, 2006, re-done
and posted Oct. 12
"Beleriand" An elf of Beleriand
looks out at the dawn.
Sept. 22, 2006
Cave
of Turgon-(V): sent in Sept. 20, 2006 posted Sept 22
"Winged Beast" Fell beast,
the mount of a Nazgul
"Feanor"
"Gorthaur the Abhorred" Sauron
on the Battlefield
"Sauron" Inspired by the Silmarillion's line:
"Sauron stood in his upmost tower, wrapped in his dark thoughts"
Sept. 5, 2006
Cave
of Turgon-(V): new drawing of the dragon "Ancalagon".
Aug. 5, 2006
Cave
of Cassia-(TV): not
yet thumb-nailed but still fun art for the Mellon Chronicles stories
series!:
"Betrayal", "Priceless Treasure", "The Stars of Harad", "Dark Visions",
"Traitor", "Escape from Mordor", "Curse of Angmar", "Siege of Dread",
"Between Darkness & Dawn", "Never Cold in Your Shadow", "Trouble
Follows", "Cave Story 1: It Had to Be Caves", "Cave Story 2" It Had to
Be Stairs", "Cave Story 3: Down and Up Again: The Elves and Ranger's
Holiday" story by Katie, "Cell Number Eight", "And So the End",
"Remember How to Smile".
July 31, 2006
Cave
of Ulmo-(Valar): New cave! Photos of the sailing vessel,
Hirilondë, refitted and sailed by Ulmo himself.
Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "To
the Ends of Middle-earth". Art by Cassia for a story by Jay of Lasgalen.
June 21, 2006
Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Seventh Stone"
June 13, 2006
New art: Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Sickness"
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V): "Ancalagon
the Black", "Dol
Guldur".
June 12, 2006
Membership News:
Excerpt from a letter by Siobhan-(TV)
concerning Cassia-(TV):
Isn't photomanip
hard! I leave that all to Cassia, she is the expert
in that area. She's even been taking classes to get better at it
and
now has a paying job creating images for a tv station! I thought
that
was really cool. Who knew you could actually get a job doing something
like that that you enjoyed.
June 9, 2006
New art: Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Black
Breath" illustrating the linked story of the same name.
New art: Cave
of Turgon-(V): "Manwe's Halls", "Earendil's Ship".
May 25, 2006
New art: Cave
of Elwing-(V): "Halbarad". Used as an illustration for the
article on Halbarad and as this week's header.
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V): "Faramir", "Minas Tirith",
Silmaril" (silmari.jpg). The Cave has been separated into still more
Rooms (tables).
May 18, 2006
New art: Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Black
Breath". Illustration for the linked story of the same name by Cassia
and Siobhan.
May 17, 2006
New art: Cave of Elatan-(Valar): New photos from Elatan-(Valar) of
the bows, which he made, in use. He
also has a new photo of the mosaic of a tree done by his brother and
himself on the side of Elatan's brother's house.
May 15, 2006
Arwen-(V) kindly aided the page by making the Cave
of Turgon load far faster. She cropped and resized the large amount of
work, then made thumbnails.
May 11, 2006
New art: Cave
of Elwing-(V): "Elleth Muse". Received and copyrighted May 5,
2006.
May 5, 2006
New art: Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Vilya", illustration for the story of the same
name.
May 2, 2006
New art: Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Mistaken Identity", illustration for the story
of the same name.
May 1, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V) "Ringil". Actually
received and copyrighted April 29, 2006. Posted May 1, sorry for the
delay.
April 28, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V) "A Silmaril"
colored, ivy-wrapped.
April 23, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V) "The
Silmaril of Maedhros""
April 2, 2006
New cave with new art: Cave of TJ-(TV) : Map of
Middle-earth at the time of the War of the Ring. A series of photos
showing part of his archetype table-top game set on this map.
Changed Cassia's
Cave to show the titles at the top, to make it neater.
March 28, 2006
New art: Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Father's Love", "You Make Me Home", "Never
Alone"
March 23, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V): "Makar"
March 22, 2006
New art: Cave
of Cassia-(TV): "Change of Heart, Change of Mind", "Exile",
"Return"
March 21, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V): "Iron Crown"
March 20, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V) : "Silmarilli",
"Mandos"
March 12, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V) second version of the Necromancer:
"Necromancer_II".
March 10, 2006
New art: Cave of Turgon-(V):
"Gimli"
March 9, 2006
New art! Cave of Turgon-(V):
"Feanor", "Elrond with Thror's Map", "Eonwe_II"
March 8, 2006
New art!
See a "Musical Ringwraith" in the
Cave of Turgon-(V).
New art! See
"First Meetings", "Change of Heart, Change of Mind" in the Cave
of Cassia-(TV)
March 7, 2006
New art! See "Hope" in the Cave
of Cassia-(TV).
March 5, 2006
New art! See "Gorthaur" in the Cave
of Turgon-(V).
New cave! See the Cave
of Cassia-(TV). It already shows two illustrations for a series in
our story section, for stories by the same names. Cassia and Siobhan
co-wrote this series, called The Mellon Chronicles. The illustrations
are "Tears Like Rain" and "Captive of Darkness".
March 2, 2006
New art! See the Cave
of Elatan-(Valar). It's been redone into multiple tables linked
from a menu at the top. The new art is in photos of bows and arrows he
made, the sculpted skeletal heads of two Orcs who may have been victims
of his archery, the process of his making a bust of Aragorn, busts he
made of Arwen, adn two castles which don't look as if they were made of
paper but were.
More new art! See the Cave
of Turgon-(V). It's been re-done into tables for the Side of the
Valar and the Side of Morgoth, with Silmarillion subjects on the top,
and LotR on the bottom, for a semblance of chronology. Seven new
pictures!
Feb. 22, 2006
New art! The Cave
of Turgon-(V) added the exhibits of "Illuin", "Ranger", and "Mouth
of Sauron".
These were first sent Dec. 13, 2005 in a format unreadable by the
webmaster. Then Turgon's internet connection and computer had woes. He
returned and sent the files as .jpg's, so Turgon has conquered all and
you may enjoy his work. The art will also be linked in the future as
illustrations for the Valar Guild's Tolkien Encyclopedia plus.
Feb. 20, 2006
New art: Cave
of Turgon-(V): "Northern
Ranger"
2005:
Dec. 13, 2005
Turgon-(TV)'s cave is now Turgon-(V),
as he has
become a Full Member. Congrats! His file names have also changed. He
has more art coming, but the current file is not readable by me, as it
is in a compressed .rar which I cannot open.
Everyone!
Please send files as jpg. I prefer them on separate emails but together
can be handled at need. If they must be compressed, please use WinZip
as I have that program.
Dec. 11, 2005
New "cave". Aerandir-(V) made his own personal page
with scan of what he's made including armor, trebuchets, and a sand
version of Minas Tirith.
Dec. 2, 2005
New cave and art: "Tengwar text of the One Ring",
transparent background, gold letters, in Thorondor-(Valar)'s
Cave.
Nov. 29, 2005
New cave and art: "Ungoliant vs Morgoth", in
Turgon-(TV)'s
Cave. This cave name and URL may change in the future, as he wishes
to become a Full Member, but will still be available from the Caverns.
Oct. 20, 2005
Added frames linking the Art section to the rest of
the Encyclopedia, with internal frames as well.
August 25, 2005
Added the new drawing: "Elf Twins", in Elwing-(V)'s
Cave.
August 7, 2005
Added Elwing-(V)'s
Cave, new drawing.
July 31, 2005
Added Arathorn-(Valar)'s
Cave. Drawings. He kindly re-sent the
pictures. Thanks, Arathorn!
July 27, 2005
"About" Page :
- added directions on enlarging
images a second time after clicking the thumbnail. Also added below
Elatan's Starmap, most in need of it.
- added JRR Tolkien's information
on
his Glittering Caves.
July 26, 2005
Added Hansen's
Cave: sculptures
Added Eowyn-(V)'s
Cave banners, graphic titles
Added Elatan-(Valar)'s
Cave paintings, graphic art
Updated Dwalin-(TV)'s
Cave painting
July 23, 2005
Vinicius is now the illustrious Dwalin-(TV).
File and link names have been changed and are now working.
July 21, 2005
Opening page/index: Trying to find the best links to
put in, plus arranging them in the most helpful way while retaining
aesthetics, if any.
Collected Orc heads for Ronnie Hansen's Cave. Tried
to locate if he had a special guild name in TV archives, need to check
Forum.
Trying to locate Arathorn's funnies. Two of our
current picture
servers changed to other uses with no warning.
The entire Valar and Varda
sections were wiped from Farmer Maggot's server. Dug through Forum and
emails, no success yet. Contacted him in-game about the problem in
case he still has any files.
July 20, 2005
Completed caves:
Menelvagor-(Valar)-ex, Tuvo-(V)-ex. Might put the sculptures on html,
as the paintings are, later on. Let's get the caves operational!
Started cave: Arathorn-(Valar)
Completed name figuring, except for Vinicius' Cave
since he hasn't picked a name yet.
Pictures loaded into all current cave areas except
Arathorn's, Book, TwoRings.
Uncaved: Book, TwoRings
Text files on
the valarguild.org server, images on
the game-host server. Links changing.
July 19, 2005
Building new
front page, which goes on Alatar's
server.
The other parts are better served if they all sit on the same
server, using AuSteinM's.
Figuring out
the current guild names of people who
have been listed for years in the caves.
Adding caves
for old and new folk, some from this
week, as
the names straighten out.
Eowyn-(V)
agreed to make a graphic for the
Glittering Caves title, to match the ones she did for the Valar
Guild index and Tolkien Encyclopedia.
Considered
using frames, but they seem to distract
from the pictures. Sticking with Elatan's system for the most part.
Caverns being
kept: Elatan-(Valar)'s many original
works, Menelvagor's are all original
Caves being
made new: Arthorn-(Valar),
Elatan-(Valar), Eowyn-(V), Vinicius (became Dwalin-TV).
Caves being
dropped: Ghan-buri-ghan-(V)'s (page was
named Turin) as it contained no original work, although some beautiful
links, and he is no longer active in the guild. Durin's, same comments.
As this art
gallery is part of the Valar Guild
Tolkien Encyclopedia, we already have sections there for articles,
poetry, stories, book reviews, etc. They will have links to relevant
parts of this art page. Link backs to the articles may be provided from
the art's page.
July 18, 2005
Tried using
Elatan's old set-up, but I don't have
the same software. Re-building, but still going with a number of
Elatan's great ideas, such as the name, the idea of caves, and the
thumbnails for each cave that lead to the full-sized versions. I have a
collection of pictures sent directly to me that never made it into the
original caves, since GeoCities could not let Elatan back in to work on
it after their merger with Yahoo.
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July
17, 2005: AuSteinM, creator of DoorMan Bot, donated space for the
images. The starting page and text portion server space was donated by
Alatar-(Valar). Varda (me) tried out the new server and it's ftp and
was
pleased. It also has no ads!
Glittering Cave management passed from Amillo-(Valar) aka
Elatan-(Valar) to Varda-(Valar). The site now takes only original
work for that person's cave, and is therefore sure to give credit.
Contact information is also intended.
GeoCities, which hosted Amillo's Glittering Caves, merged with Yahoo
and, despite much
email, could not help Amillo reach the page anymore as they could not
recover the password. He was therefore
unable to put the proper credits on the page, or do anything else with
it. He has since become
very interested in making his own bows and other hobbies, with a little
World of WarCraft gaming.
Dec. 9, 1998: Amillo-(Valar) created the original Glittering Caves of
Aglarond
for Valar Guild members to post favorite links and original work on
GeoCities.
Already available due to over seven years of existence:
Server space: Alatar-(Valar) donated space heavily
used by the
various Valar Guild pages including the Tolkien Encyclopedia text,
Gaming pages, and guild business pages. Farmer Maggot-(V) has also
donated server space and very helpful programs that he made himself,
including channel greeter/info/botmail bots and bridges between our
meeting areas so that all can be heard and be heard at the same time
from AIM, IRC, SigmaChat, and Battle.net. He created a search program
for the Encyc, but it had problems, including requiring each article to
be entered into the program.
Forum: to discuss Tolkien, other authors, gaming,
business, to greet, to type our LotR
role-play text game, and to generally
chit-chat.
Meetings: every Sunday AIM meeting at 5pm EST for
business and then Tolkien chat, often breaking afterwards into gaming.
Gaming: where a lot of our discussions also occur.
Currently World of WarCraft is the most popular, with an official
branch in the Alliance, Lothar server, Americas run by Eonwe-(Valar)
and an unofficial
shadow guild on Argent Dawn, Europe in a more general guild run by
Menelvagor-(Valar).
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