2003 News Archives

There are quite a number of things that are going on, all of which I'd love to be more interested in (if it weren't for my job; I work for an investment bank in New York so my hours have been horrible, plus, I'm now engaged so wedding plans take a front seat to Tolkien).  It's hard for me to add anything to the list....

Although here's an idea...

My fiance and I both enjoy Tolkien, and we were actually thinking of having our wedding bands inscripted with tengwar writing.  (The running joke is that while my ring will say 'I love you' and so on, hers will say 'One Ring to rule them all')  We've seen a couple of places on the web where one can get this, but if anyone else knows where to get customized Tolkien jewelry, i think that would be nice.

Thanks once again,

Ulfang

any clan member who has registered an e-mail address with WC3 can be contacted through 'clanmail'... allowing you to contact at least me (I registered mine) over bnet when I'm not online.

Sorry we have dropped off the map. The two of us were relying on a satellite broadband connection for gaming that
was extremely dibilitating due to a huge latency. Quickly dying in every game we played, we opted to retire to the
green hills of Southfarthing. Recently I ditched the satellite connection (because DSL became available in our
area). BTW, if you are ever faced with the choice between a Hughes Direcway Satellite and stepping outside to send
smoke signals, choose the tried and true blanket and fire method! We would love to get back into to loop after the
winter solstice. 

Hail!

Just thought I'd let you know I won't be able to make the meeting Sunday.  One of our shift managers quit (this place seems to be rough on management, hehe), leaving just me and my main manager (like it was most of the semester during school), and so she could attend a family Christmas thing I went ahead and said I'd close for her.

Hope you have fun.  I assure you I'll be wishing I was there :}

Take care.
Eonwë

you CAN invite yourself into a chat. if you know the name of the chatroom, that is.

All you have to do is type your name in stead of someone else's into the section where it asks you to type who you want to invite... and type the name of the room into the appropriate spot and then push invite. It'll open up the chatroom and you'll be in it

Namarie,
Gwaihir

You can invite yourself into an AIM chatroom. You just type your name in stead of someone else's into the "Screen names to invite" section and the chatroom you wish to go to into the "Buddy Chat Room" spot. Then push invite and the chatroom will pop up and miraculously enough, you'll be in it

I want to begin this letter by expressing my sincerest
apologies! My life has been really hectic as of late,
because I have moved to Paris. I have not had a
computer until just yesterday, when it finally arrived
by mail!

During this time, I have had no mail and no contact
from my server, so I assume that it went off-line due
to non-payment! I want to apologies as well for this,
but I have had no idea until today when I was surfing
and noticed that everything is gone!

I truthfully miss the old times at the guild, but I do
not have enough time to drop by regularly. I do not
exactly want to hand in the badge, so to say, but
realistically I am unable to fulfill my duties as a
member!

Perhaps in a little while, my prospects will look up
and I will once again be able to smash some goonies
with you all! Send my wishes to the guild for me,
until the day when I will be able to send them myself!

Yours,
Tom
jbgentry4@yahoo.co.uk

I was on the d2.net forums yesterday & ran into
Thingol of our guild there. He wanted me to let the
guild know that he is doing fine in Germany and wants
to say Aiya to everyone and he also hopes he can soon
patch in to the the wireless internet there with his
laptop.

Namarie,
Galdor

Aiya,

 

I can't make the sunday meeting because im goign out to hunt.

 

Namarie,

Boromir

DaoC meetings have lately been scarcely attanded, and last very short
anyway. Since we have organized pretty much everything which need organizing
(crafts/house/alliance) the need for business meetings has indeed lessened.
Most members are not too fond of organizationale discussions and want to
hunt as soon as possible, and I grant them that if possible, hehe:).
So not much to make reports about, really.
Cheers,
Irmo.

    Orodreth-V here, and I have a few things to report.

     First and formost, I have started a public tourny for the Starcraft: Brood War UMS Lord of the Rings Tress of the Valar map. You can find more deatiled info here: http://www.blizzforums.com/showthread.php?t=29443.

     Also, I have started a Lord of the Rings RPG here: http://www.blizzforums.com/showthread.php?t=29484. It is set in 1596 S.R., or Fourth Age 175. More deatils (much more) can be found at the link.

 Namarie,

Orodreth AKA Ondollo, Halmundo, and Alan

Aiya Valar!

While I regret the fact that I was unable to attend the meeting Sunday, or be present for games and chat, in celebration of our 6th anniversary, I would like to congratulate everyone on keeping the guild going thus far. While I joined a few years after the “bleak period” I myself have run into a few occurrences that are akin to that in one sense or another. Namely the Ex-communication, if you will, of Grimbold. While he made some mistakes, and said some things that weren’t quite pleasant, the vault of the misunderstanding should have fallen largely upon his brother. This situation wasn’t too different from incident that befell Aule. But I didn’t write this to defend a comrade. I wrote this to both congratulate us all, and to announce that I have now been a member of this glorious guild, and taken haven in its channel, when it was a haven, for a little over three years now. I know that I’ve upset a few members, and that I said some things that were quite immature. I say this because I’ve changed a lot in the past three years, I’ve seen a lot of friends come and go, both in the guild and in real life. That makes me appreachiate what we have here, and I hope to rekindle or spark anew friendships with a lot of you. This group has been a constant in my life when I had nothing else. For that I will be forever grateful. <sighs> real life beckons me once again. Perhaps I shall write a brief history, it would be nice to see some more on that page. <pokes and Prods>.

Once more, congratulations! May we endure for years to come! I take my leave.

Namarie Melinde,

                        Gelmir

Sorry... been involved in getting a loan for my MCSA certification ... been a long couple of weeks.. finally went thru and will be WAY busy trying to pass my 4 major certification tests in the next few months ... I apologies for being so brief last meet but my sleep habits have been very tiring and non-existent... I hope to have more to offer the group in a few weeks.. don't expect to hear from me for a bit... but please keep me on your thoughts.

 Namárië,
    ~Arathorn~  

Yay Congrats to all! Orome

I work week-ends too  Orome

Hail,

 I do not have B.net access anymore so not able to join the 6th Anniversary
there.  Gave my Cd`s away.  I will try get on Yahoo though.
 With some luck the 7th in MEO  ? http://www.lordoftherings.com/meo/

Happy Anniversary to everyone
Elatan

Haill all!

I regret to inform all I will be working all day Saturday and thus will have no time to attend any festivities that day.  I wish you all a Happy 6th Anniversary and hope you will all have fun.  Hopefully I'll see you Sunday.

Take care all and Happy 6th Anniversary mellyn.
Eonwë

Unfortunately, I'm in the same situation as Eonwe Saturday... between work and my school situation, I won't be able to make more than a token appearance at best on Saturday... I know not yet whether I work Sunday, but I hope I do not, so that I can attend the meeting at least... but I'll have to wait and see... Happy 6th anniversary to you all from me as well! I hope to see you all tomorrow and Sunday...

Namarie,
Gwaiihr

Hail all,
 
I wish I could attend.. college is robbing me of my time! fell behind in classes and hoping to catch up.
 
sorry and hope to see you all soon,
Lungorthin / Rauko

I'll try to drop by either this weekend or
next.
And to let the people know who seem interested, my
character names on Melmoth are:  Maglor, Tirion
(obviously another Tolkien ref.), Myrddraal, Locklear,
and Krys.  The clan I lead is Vendetta, and my best
friend plays the character Attarno.  
So if anyone is interested you might want to let them
know about that so they have someone to talk to and
hang with when they first join the mud.
Alright, thanks again, I'll see you at the next
meeting (hopefully... this is homecomming weekend,
so... lol)
Namarie,
- Rumil

hey its been forever since i sent a msg to any of you ive been soo busy lately but i do hope to start coming to meetings.  Im getting my car soon so i might be on and off but i finally retreived my starcraft disk from a friend and might be able to start attending meetings... i was trying to check up on all the news ive missed but theres alot.  Tell all the members i say hello and im definately still active and boy i cant wait for the third movie to come out.
Namarie
Mablung

DeadAim: add-on to AIM (AOL instant messenger):

 ***

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Link to download:

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 Namárië,
    ~Arathorn~ 

Heya all! :}

  Just thought I'd give a reminder (to go on the News page as well if possible) that I need everyone's current gaming info.  That's for you and any family/members of honor who have not yet responded themselves.  Out of the ~140 members in this guild only 33 have responded so far.  I need the info by September 30th if at all possible.
  For some of you Council guys, it may be painfully obvious :}  but then you also might be playing online games I don't know about :}  Humour me please :}
  Please encourage people you see in your games to send in their gaming info and include their guild name (Earendil e-mailed me, didn't include his name, can only guess it's him by his e-mail address.  I don't know everyone's e-mail that well :}).
  Any full member who hasn't recieved a letter requesting this info is hereby requested :}

Thanks and take care :}
Eonwë

I wrote up a web page that outlines how I setup my router that may help
others. You might want to take a gander to see if you can figure out yours
based on this example as reference. If anyone wants help testing 'Open Bnet'
with their router, they can email me and we can set up a mutually convenient
time (maybe you can jot down a short note in the News or we can bring it up
at the next meeting).

Here's the URL for the new page at its current location (will let you know
if that changes):

http://members.fortunecity.com/mikenowo/lotr/open_bnet.htm

l8r,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Namárië,
    ~Arathorn~

  For the last 4-5 years I've been playing on a MUD
(Multiple User Dimension).  I don't know if you've
ever played one or even know what it is... but I
thought I'd let you know about it so you can let the
rest of the guild know (if you think it's a good
idea).  
  Basically a mud (if you don't know) is an online,
text-based rpg.  I can explain it more in more detail
if you want.  But basically this one has a fairly
small, centralized player base (average of 20-30
people on during average hours).  I run a clan on that
mud and also help build new areas for it.  It is a
fantasy/mideval times based mud (as opposed to sci-fi
or star wars based... there are a lot out there) so i
thought some of the tolkien people might be
interested.  However, I already use the name Maglor
there (I made the character over 4 years ago, long
before i joined the guild) so the guy who has Maglor
in the guild might not appreciate not being able to
play his char (of which you can have many).  Anyway,
just thought I'd let you know.  Let me know if you are
more interested, I can give you the address and all. 
It's called Melmoth, the website is www.melmoth.org,
though it isn't fantastic or anything (the mud is far
better than the website).
Anyway, give it some thought & I'll see you later.
Namarie,
- Rumil

I havent come on recently for a variety of reasons, but I still maintain an Interest in being a part of our community.  Near the time when the 1.10 beta was released I purchased my very first hub.  I setup a LAN with my gf and her sister's computers and I didnt even get on the internet till literally 3 weeks after that.  But I couldnt come on to play much because I had to work a lot before school.  Finally, I returned to college after an entire year of absence.  I'd be interested in learning about that Port thing you said Arathorn discovered.  After we complete d2x beta i was hoping to introduce my girlfriend and her sister to the mod.  They have both not yet completed the game on hell yet.

Well its nice to be back in school.  I'm taking easier classes to take it slow at first but its coming back and I'm really enjoying it.  I have to go back to studying so this is all I can write for now but I wanted to let you know that I missed playing with you.

Peaceful be your journeys,
Lenwe

    Amroth   
    Angrod
    Beren
    Beor - parents require him not to give out email. Beor, please contact us at a meeting, game, discussion board, message board, ValarBuddy botmail, or send word through another if you are still with us and what you are playing. If someone has seen him, please email or tell Eonwe or Varda.
    Beorn badiccico
    Bolg
    Celebrimbor
    Daeron
    Ecthelion
    Elrohir
    Falathar
    Finrod
    Finwe
    Folca
    Fuinur
    Gelmir
    Gildor
    Gloin
    Gorgenhad
    Luthien (heard from another member it is now Silamiliel@yahoo.com)
    Rog
    Rose
    Smaug
    Smeagol 
    Tuor
    William 

    I just wanted to send you and all of my Valar
buddies greetings from Germany.  I've been here for
about a month now and I'm having a great time.  My
german language training is coming along nicely and I
can almost keep a decent conversation (much emphasis
on the almost part   
     I hope everyone is doing fine without me.  I
really miss all of those games of D2 with my 
Valar buddies, but the real world was calling me. 
After my language training is over I will have a host
family for 9 months in the city of Chemnitz.  I'm not
sure if they will have a computer that I will be able
to use, but if they will let me install D2 then I
might be able to jump online for a meeting or two.
     I'm keeping up with the news page whenever I get
a chance, so I'm not completely out of the loop.  I
hope to keep everyone informed of my adventures in
Europe.  Namarie for now.  /  Elu Thingol

P.S.  Maybe the 1.10 patch won't be out until I get
back, that way I won't miss out on too many goodies 

FYI:

I talked online with Bnet support today and they admitted that they have been having problems with players being 'tagged' after being disconnected from a game and thus not being able to join other games unless those who created them were tagged as well. This is some kind of problem that fixes itself in a few days but as such is an annoyance when it happens. SO, it has nothing to do with our firewalls, it's a Bnet 'anomaly'. That's why we've been getting the errors at times. Only way to get around it right away is to create a passworded game. They work fine in all cases.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Namárië,
    ~Arathorn~  
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Attending:
    Members present (12): Alatarch, Gaffersong, Gelmirv, Gerontiusia, Gorgenhad, Jarn, Lashus, Morgothv, Odernia, Orome, Turgonv, Yrma (pres.).
Celebration: 
    We celebrated the fact that Valar exist as a Guild in Hibernia (Percival) for a half year! (since januari 11). Many of us gathered for this anniversary occasion: twelve members sets a new record for Valar-DaoC meeting attendance!
Guildhouse:
    As a surprise anniversary gift Yrma presented to Valar a brandnew Guildhouse. The house is in Fullerton (nr. 9), House # 3700.
It has a grandmaster merchant, a Domnann portal, a forge, a consignment merchant, a Vault keeper and a Guild Vault.
    The meeting was held in the new house.
    House access:
    The house can be accessed in four ways:
        1. fast: Buy a portal token and port to Guild Hearth from either Drum Ligen or Domnann.
        2. slow: Enter the housing area from TNN North, buy a horse ticket to Ainslee, at Ainslee walk NE and East left of river bank to Kilcullen, stables Gowan, buy horse ticket to Cassidei, at Cassidei type /houseface guild and walk the few yards to House.
        3. very slow, unless bard/chanter: Enter housing area from TNN North, type /houseface guild and walk East and Southeast to House. Retype /houseface guild now and then.
        4. very fast, but hardly recommendable: type /release house after dying.
    House decorations:
        The house is both internally and eternally fully decorated (meaning that nothing further can be added unless something is removed first <grin>).
    Guild Vault:
        Pages 1-3 in the Guild Vault are mathoms (gifts), to be taken or put there freely by any member. Please be selective with what you put in there! Pages 4-5 are craft materials for transferability reasons, not to be touched.
    Domnann Portal:
        The Domnann portal can at request be changed temporarily by Yrma/Fantura to a Tir Na Nog portal or a Drum Ligen portal. Later there will be alternatives to the GM merchant as well.
    Bindstone: 
        Thanks to donations by Orome, Alatar and Gerontius the house got a bindstone. Type /release house if you want to release at home.
Membership:  
    Cloaks:
        Jarn, Gelmir and Gerontiusisa received their emblemed cloak because they came of age (20^th season). More power to them! Congratulations!
    Ranking system:
        Yrma explained the new ranking system The resulting ranks for each character are now on the Message Board .
        Members are requested to help Yrma, Fantura or Morgothv with the implementation of the new ranking system for their characters.
Guild Fund:
    Previous saldo (June 29): 941 g
    Expenses since then:
        Guildhouse plus ingredients 8500 g,
        Bindstone 1000 g,
        Stipendia spellcrafting 2231 g (Ontius)
        Alchemy 472 g (Gerontusia),
        Member armor 56 g.
    Donations since then:
        Alatar 500g, Gerontius 400 g, Orome 500 g, Yrma 10.000 g.
    New saldo (July 13): 82 g.
    At this place a note should be made that Melkor is of course not expected to donate to the Guildfund, because advancing the craft skills of weaponsmith Austi (for which he does not request support from the Guild Fund) is as expensive as it can get.
    Also be noted the fact that in Valar only the rich are expected to donate to the Guildfund.
Guild Hunt:
    Between many things to arrange in and around the house, the ranking system and crafting services, some of us found an opportunity to hunt after the meeting.
    Alatarwalker first led a hunt of young ones around Dromnan.
    Later Gerontius, Alatarsong and Yrma went to hunt in the Vale of Balor,
    while Fedelone and Gelmirv went to Thidranki battlegrounds.
    Edanyael dropped by during the hunt to say greetings in between RL obligation

I am finished with my army life at last!
now, just give me a month or so to restore something I can call an internet connection, and you should be seeing me some more again ^_^
...
Apart from that, nothing much to report.
I hope I'll find you and the rest of the guild in good health upon my return.

Salutations!
Beregond, proud member of the Valar guild!

Hail all! :}
Today, July 1st, 2003, the Valar Guild's Warcraft 3 branch has been officially set up through Blizzard's clan support system! :}  In a Tulkasian effort, 10 of us managed to gather in Channel Valar to begin this branch of the Valar Guild. The founders number 11, as one was lost for a time while we sought to gather our required 10.  All listed showed great patience, waiting for an incredible 2 hours to piece this together.  They are: Fionwë(myself), Aragorn, Draugluin, Gwaihir, Thror, Maedhros, Ecthelion, Bombur, Leaflock, Turgon, and Quickbeam.

My Shamen are Gwaihir and Draugluin.  If any WC3 players would like to have their Guild account added to the branch through bnet, all you need do is e-mail the Cheiftain(me) or one of the Shamen(as soon as Blizzard lets me promote them), or run into us on bnet :}  News later on any tasks they have brought upon themselves aside from what I've given them :}

Our Guild name on WC3 is "Valar Guild" and our tag is "Vala," since the maximum number of characters was 4.  In an unexpected turn of events, Blizzard gave us a channel named for our Guild tag rather than our Guild name.  Since "Clan" channels are no longer accessible save by those clans, it will cause problems with our meetings.  I would encourage members at this time to check both Channel Valar and Channel Clan Vala before assuming we have no meeting. (Also try a /whois on Varda-(Valar) and others while we work this out.)

Information concerning the Grunt and Peon ranks will come at a later time to WC3 members, but suffice it to say:  Blizzard will have a Clan ladder ranking.  If you wish to participate in this and have your non-custom games counted toward our rating, you will get to be a Grunt.  If you prefer not to have any of your bnet games counted either for or against our rating on this ladder, the rank of Peon is for you.  This will not affect or represent your actual standing in the Valar Guild itself.  New invitees are required by bnet to stay a peon for at least one week.

With the introduction of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Battle.net chat channels with the prefix "Clan" are reserved for Warcraft III clans.

Users of the "classic" clan channels (supported by Diablo II and Starcraft) can get the old functionality of clan channels by using "/join op <account name>" instead of "/join clan <account name>".

Lome tulin ar en nar laiqueni na tampe ta, 

nan ava anta ama ilya estel an aure enteluva. 

Nan ana nte man nar voronda i cala selma calta i yonta 

velice.

At long last I have returned to the world of internet and will be able to join once more with my brethren.

 

Fingon

Well my searches have been fruitful! Now I have not taken apart the words yet, but I found a website that had quotes from The Two Towers movie. One of them had "Hannon le". That is thankyou in Sindarin. I assume "Hannon" means thank and "le" means you. I hope this comes of use and let me know if you need anymore phrases or etc.

Namárië,
Fëanáro

     I have taken up a search on "thankyou" in Quenya. Now I am not suer this is right, but this is what I got. Based on information from our own Quenya page and Ardalambion, I have deduced that thankyou that is courteous would be "Hantalyë" or just "Hantal". These are both hypothetcial, but I will explain how I got them. On Beren's High Elven Page, "hanta-" is a root meaning thank. It is from "hantalë" meaning thanksgiving. Now on the Ardalambion site and the Beren's site, the suffix "lyë" means familiar you. Now I guess a thankyou to somone that is familiar would be "hantaccë". The suffix "-ccë" being you formal. As for the Sindarin thankyou, I have not begun searching because Quenya is my favorite . Well I hope this information can be of some use. When I find the Sindarin equivalent to thankyou, I will let you know.

Namárië,
Fëanor

Warcraft III Multiplayer Map Contest
    Attention map designers. The opportunity to have your multiplayer maps included in the retail version of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne has arrived. The final Contest winners will have their map added to The Frozen Throne CD-ROM, along with a grand prize package that includes a signed copy of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, inclusion in the game’s online credits and more.
    Click here for further details on the contest -- which will be ending on April 11th -- and click here to read the official rules. Good Luck!

From now on we will have a Guild hunt each sunday starting at 3:30-3:45 =
PM EST, depending on the amount of Guild announcements. All members are =
welcome to join. Depending the attendance we can form multiple parties =
from different seasons

1. How are the books of Tolkien (LOTR/SIL/HOME etc.) related? In what order can they best be read?

2. Why did the High-elves of Middle Earth not participate actively in the War of the Rings? Why did they limit themselves to defending their homely regions? (With the explainable exception of Elrond's sons)

3. The Eldar and the Numenorean-related humans sometimes have the power of foresight and hindsight, seeing what is hidden both in future and past. Do we have examples that even hobbits can have that ability?


Eonwe of Battlenet also suggests this topic for one of our chats:

What form do you think the guidance of the Valar will take in the future, or do you think mankind will be on its own until the End?

Bowman, Mike wrote:

> Houghton Mifflin is the exclusive U.S. publisher for these line of 
> books.  I am sorry, but I do not know who would be able to grant you 
> license (if
> anyone) to use the names.
> Check this site for more info
> http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/lordoftheringstrilogy/
> We only do some of the software games for these titles.  EA also has a line.

> I would assume there are many, many places where this is broken up and I
> don't know if you will ever find the proper person who can say for sure if
> you are allowed to use the names for non-profit or not.
> 
> Michael Bowman
> Manager Online Support
> Vivendi Universal

I have the pleasure of reporting the first successfully completed Quest for Four in D2X:
Team Score: 35
Tie-breaking number if needed: 203,224

Bain's assassin (lag, dropped a number of times, but completed!): 8 with 38,000
Gelmir's druid: 9 with 56,792
Thror's sorceress: 9 with 50,880
Varda's amazon, found bow early: 9 with 57,552

  A bit of gaming news to pass along, and I didn't want to forget it before next Sunday. The World Cyber Games, a kind of Olympics for video games, are about to begin signing up entries. In fact they may have already started. The world finals are being held in Seoul, South Korea next November, and the grand prize is $20,000. The point is, Brood War and Warcraft 3 are two of the "events" in this year's games, along with other games like Counterstrike and Age of Mythology. Thought I'd send this along, since maybe some of our guild's game masters would like to take a shot at this. 50 or so countries participate, so pretty much everyone can enter. Finally, the web site is http://www.worldcybergames.org/. Hope to see some Valar members there!

Namarie, Draugluin Wolfsire

    I just tried it, and I think I have found the problem people are having.
    They are running WindowsXP and need to have Java installed.  Microsoft does not offer a download for this (although there was a court injunction against them on this particulare issue)
    Java can be downloaded from here: http://java.sun.com/webapps/download/Redirect/25697325/5847479377282807053505607246086069333228071972022813600060132859339008063305596058473206-3865/j2re-1_4_1_01-windows-i586.exe
    I'll install java before I format.. having some puter problems 8-/

Scatha

I installed java from the Sun microsystems site and it doesnt want to work with yahoo's java chat client.  Go figure.
Heres microsofts java page: http://www.microsoft.com/java/
And microsofts java resources page (download their version): http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/gosupport.asp?TARGET=/support/java/default.asp
They sure made it interesting on how to get java to work on WinXP.. 8-/

Scatha

Scatha continues on the Discussion Board.

     Not sure if you have heard yet but the Frozen
throne beta testers may not release any information
about the game. Im sorry to tell you about this but it
is in the contract if you sign up, so the guild will
not beable to write out any story about this without
being sued by the state of california. Also my
computer crashed thursday and i cant get it fixed till
probably monday. Hope to see you on b.net soon..

    This is only a suggestion but it will help guild members get together on NWN.  What Turgon-V and I did was make Game Arda and use guild password on action tab and would suggest that be the format for any guild members playing on NWN.  I.E. use same names as Guild Diablo 2X games and same password.  Hopefully this will help us to play together more often.

    Sincerely, 

Gerontius Took

Members:
Alatar (late), Bain (after meeting), Beorn, Curufin (came in before meeting, had a hockey game, couldn't stay), Dain (after meeting), Draugluin, Elenwe, Elrond, Eonwe (was also on DB), Erestor (late), Eru, FarmerMaggot, Gerontius Took, Gil Galad, Gwaihir, Khamul, Lungorthin (came in after meeting, was also on DaoC), Thingol, Thror, Turgon, Varda (preciding).

Visitors:
Gotr-Uldor, Ibun (was quite a nuisance), Telchar, ThesilverDragon (didn't stay for whole meeting).

The ranking system is as follows:
Hobbit: (DaoC nrs 6-9): Invited, not yet passed entry questions
Rohirrim: (5): Member 
Gondorean: (4): Member, after a few weeks, if active
Numenorean: (3): Member, after a few months, if active
Firstborn (2): Member, after specific merits to the Guild
Maia: (1): Maia in Motherguild
Vala: (0): Vala in Motherguild

  DaoC, report from Irmo: 

Heya!

 

Long time no see... :(

 

    My fault, of course!, because real life has been taking away my time. I'm incredibly busy with what we call "Academic Bowl", its like a trivia contest basically (I got a question about Bilbo last weekend!!), and debate which takes countless hours to research. Between these two, and my other homework and friends, I have virtually no time on the computer. What time I DO have left, I spend with friends.

    However, debate is letting up since academic bowl is taking up more of our time. FYI, our entire debate team is on the academic bowl team, and most of us chose academic bowl. So we're putting all our effort into that right now, which is a bit easier and less time consuming than debate. On top of all that, we've started our research paper!! I'm doing mine of globalization. I haven't picked a thesis yet though...

    So, needless to say (as of right now), my weekends are officially gone, my weekdays are spent at home studying or doing research, and all the time left is spent doing something I didn't have time for.

    I know how you told me about all the maiar that attained the honor, then fell into inactivity. Rest assured that I am still checking the site everyday for all the current news, and am have my fingers crossed that all this hectic stuff will be over soon.

 

Take care,

Lungorthin

Just checking in with my friends at the Valar Guild.  I regret that my online absence continues, however plans are in the works to fix this problem.  I will continue to check out the webpage whenever I can.

 

Namarie!

Eol

Aiya All.

Yesterday, sunday januari 13, at 5:30 Guild Time (EST), the Valar Guild has been officially founded at Dark Age of Camelot, on the server Percival, realm Hibernia!

For this joyful occasion the following members were assembled at the Guild Registrator in Tir Na NoG:

Elatan, Falathar, Gandalf, Haleth, Irmo, Lindir, Melkor, Orome and Tuvo.

These will now forever be remembered as the founding fathers of Valar at DaoC!

The occasion brought old friends and new friends togther, together we toasted many merry chats and hunts to come.

May the Guild prosper on DaoC as it has been prosperous in so many virtual worlds since 1997!

Namarië,

Irmo.

The vertigo site is down for the time being cause the project is on hold. I
unfortunately have not had access to the internet for the last four months
due to the costs of setup and my living arrangements in San Francisco.
However I along with my new buds have moved out into a fantastic 3 bedroom
apartment in downtown san fran and they are fortunately avid gamers. When i
return to my apartment on the 17th at which my new dsl should be installed
our hope is to begin playing diablo2 on my return. A note coming this spring
i may be a part time employee at a game development company upon review of
my portfolio i will keep you posted upon my return to battle.net. The last
four months have been hectic and crazed but I think things are finally all
put together so that i can do some online gaming. AND GOOD LORD DID U SEE
TWO TOWERS? BEST PICTURE BLAST IT.
Anyway if i get any free time to myself  (pshht right!)i plan on trying to
launch my own website this spring showing my continuing work on my own
projects. If u can offer a chat client that i can use to get on battle.net
this sunday id greatly appreciate it cause they don't seem to exist anymore
(Im in CHicago right now and dont have access to any blizzard games). Well
back to modeling and drawing.

Namarie,
Menelvagor A.K.A. Kingfisher