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Feb. 7, 2010
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (6)
    AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), fladrifv, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1
Gaming
Tolkien:
    Rangers of the North.
After-meeting:
    Forum Role-play discussion and postings.
Jan. 31, 2010
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (6)
    AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), fladrifv, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar
Membership:
    Arien's birthday
    Ar-Pharazon and a discussion of terms for tests in different countries.
    Menelvagor's progress on stopping smoking.
Web:
    Humor page:
        New link to Sauron's Blog.
Gaming:
    LotRO:
       Amongst much other running, skirmishing, and crafting, two main runs mentioned at the meeting were Sword Halls for the high levels and Dol Dinen for the low levels.
    WoW:
       Lothar server: Zul Gurub run after the meeting. (note: The instance was utterly owned by Elwing, Eonwe, Eowyn, Fangorn, Sauron, and Varda. Varda's family arrived home just in time for the run.)
       Authenticator
    Miscellaneous:
        Gruntz, Guild Wars
Tolkien:
    Menelvagor's Tolkien moment: Gandalf discussing with Frodo of deserving death or life. Mercy, Pity, free will.
    Art links to ROLOZO Tolkien's full-sized pictures are down due to coding problems on their new server, outside our control. Emails have been sent.
    RP: posting.
Jan. 29, 2010
    Tolkien Site / Humor / Links:
        Sauron's Blog
            Found and recommended by Elatan-(Valar), also recommended by Indis-(V). Middle-earth history from Sauron's point of view! Some language may not be suitable for young children, as might be expected from the Dark Lord. Enjoy!

    Gaming / LotRO:
       Traits and Deeds Guide
now on the official LotRO forum.
          Game Info in the official LotRO Forum, which include links to the official LotRO Lorebook presented differently:
              Traits --> Lorebook Traits
              Deeds --> Deeds
              Virtues --> Virtues
              Racial Traits --> Racial Traits
              Trait Sets --> Trait Sets
              Legendary Traits --> Legendary Traits
       LotRO Epic Story continues soon in Volume 3 "Allies of the King: Book 1: Oath of the Rangers".
           It will include one new skirmish, four expanded skirmishes.
           Also, the entire Volume I epic story will become soloable.

Jan. 24, 2010

    Tolkien Site illustration problem:
       The majority of pictures our Tolkien Encyclopedia uses for illustrations are not currently available due to a change in the server coding where the Rolozo Tolkien Site resides. Emails are now passing around and we hope the issue will be resolved. Fortunately we have our own art site, although not nearly as extensive. Anyone wishing to add their artwork to aid our Tolkien Encyclopedia or for particular stories or poems, please contact Varda.

Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (7)
    Ancalagon-(V)/Joldahks, AriehnV, ArPharazonV, fladrifv, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Web:
    Art:
       "Dwarf" by Deep-groover-(T)
    Stories:
       "The Art of Diplomacy" by Jay of Lasgalen.
Gaming:
    Miscellaneous
    WoW:
       Argent Dawn server branch was dissolved by Arien-(Valar) for non-attendance. Arien's WoW account was trojaned earlier in the week, but the items and gold were recovered by the Devs.
       Lothar server branch: added Menelvagor-(Valar) from the Argent Dawn group.
       Uldaman server branch: becoming more active again.
    LotRO:
       Landroval server: very active.
Tolkien:
    RP (mixes into the Tolkien discussion).
    The Black Numenoreans (King's Men) and where they settled in Middle-earth. Nazgul. Sorcery. Swords. Legolas.
Jan. 21, 2010
    Gaming / LotRO:
       Free welcome back weekend: Jan. 21 - Jan. 25.

Jan. 18, 2010
    Tolken Site / Art:
           Cave of DeepGroover-(T):
                "Dwarf: Drunegar Runekeeper" model from Andreas; put together, modified and painted by DeepGroover-(T).
    Tolkien Site / Stories:
                "The Art of Diplomacy" by Jay of Lasgalen. "Elladan and Elrohir find their skills of diplomacy and tact stretched to the limit when Estel asks for advice." Aragorn is 13 years old.

Jan. 17, 2010
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (7)
    Ancalagon-(V)/Joldahks, AriehnV, ArPharazonV, fladrifv, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, TulkasValar61, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
    Daddy Twofoot will be missing from LotRO starting February and plans to return later with his wife as well.
    Pallando contacted Ar-Pharazon saying that he would miss the meeting.
    Eonwe-(Valar) will be working through the next few meetings.
Web:
    Stories pages: formatting
Gaming:
    Miscellaneous:
       StarCraft/Broodwar
       Gruntz
       Diablo 1
       Wii fitness with the balance board
       Second Life
       Chess
    WoW
    LotRO
Tolkien:
    Indis-(V)'s topic: Linguistics, especially Dwarvish.

Jan. 10, 2010
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (7)
    AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, pallandovalar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Before-meeting:
    Some rp discussion.
Membership:
    Meriadoc-(V)
    Arien-(Valar)
Web:
    Membership Page:
        Varda's question for the membership (email answers welcome also): How would you feel about adding links to our Facebook pages onto the Membership page?
    Art:
        "Maedhroc" sketch by Maedhros-(V)
    Forum:
        Arien's question about finding new posts on the Forum and changing the order of the posts.
Gaming:
    Miscellaneous:
        Tales of Monkey Island
        Total Annihilation expansion called Core Contingency
        Second Life
    WoW:
       Servers: Argent Dawn (European Alliance), Lothar (Americas Alliance), Uldaman (Americas Horde).
    LotRO:
        Server Landroval
Tolkien:
    Tolkien Moment from Eonwe-(Valar) with discussion: Faramir learns that Frodo has the One Ring.
    Forum Role-play discussion and posting.
After-meeting:
    A little continuation of the rp.
Jan. 9, 2010
    Happy Birthday, Meriadoc-(V)!

Jan. 7, 2010
    Tolkien Site / Art:
      
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.

Jan. 3, 2010
It was a Happy Birthday that brought J.R.R. Tolkien to us, on this day in 1892!

Sunday Meeting: 5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript contributed to by Ar-Pharazon and Menelvagor who sent raw transcripts of different parts of the meeting, and by Varda who did the webwork.
Attending: (7)
   Ancalagon-(V)/Joldahks, ArPharazonV, AriehnV, Eonwe Valar, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
    New Full Member: Faramir-(V)
    Menelvagor-(Valar) has gone 78 hours without smoking. Good luck!
    Aragorn-(V) is working on his Civil Engineering degree, but is still with us.
    Arth-(T) is still with usand asks to have his poetry actually on the Valar Guild site, not just linked, as a back-up.
Web:
    Games page: automatically updates for the viewer's personal New Year.
    Membership and News pages are set for 2010.
Gaming:
    Miscellaneous:
       BroodWar, Second Life, Tales of Monkey Island
    WoW: the activity this week was on Lothar server. Fangorn is now up to joining in on Heroics.
    LotRO: the major guild activity. :)
Tolkien:
    In honor of JRRT's birthday today, Eonwe's topic was: How do we see birthdays celebrated by the peoples of Arda?
    Forum Role-play discussion and posting.

January 1, 2010
Happy New Year!!

Fireworks over the Shire

   
    Welcome to the Valar Guild, Faramir-(V)! Indis scouted Faramir in LotRO, and he tested with Varda. He's 43 from San Antonio, Texas, in the CST. He's read the H, LotR, and Sil. His current game is LotRO, and he joined our kin on Landroval server. He plans to play Star Trek Online later this month. His favorite character is Boromir as a heroic man, fatally flawed, who redeemed himself. And he has a big horn.

    Activity drops:

    Please let Varda know if you wish to continue your association with the Valar Guild for 2010. Many of you automatically move onto the the next year for being currently active, but mistakes are made, so please check the 2010 page for your name with an asterisk and 2010 in the "Confirmed for year:" column.
    The News page has been cleared for 2010 news, with 2009's archived as usual and reachable from the bottom of this new page.


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