News:
May 4, 2008
Sunday Meeting: 5pm EDT
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by the fabulous Ar-Pharazon, Menelvagor, and Varda
Attending: (9 of 138 members)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Elwing V, Eonwe
Valar, fladrifv, Glorfindel VG, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1
(presiding)
Before-meeting:
A wee bit of Dutch at the start, pretty cool, see if you can follow it. Time shown is for them also.
We learn that AIM invitations fail if someone else invited the person aleady.
Membership:
New Full Member: Peregrin-(V)
Return: Legolas-(V) has had a lot of real life problems, but hopes he is back in LotRO much more now.
Birthdays: Ar-Pharazon (in 2 days will be 23), Eonwe
(will be 26, one week after Fladrif), Fangorn (May 25 will be 55),
Fladrif (May 10 will be 26)
Graduations: Lots including Arwen (yesterday), Eonwe (next week)
Marriage: Gimli (yesterday)
House moving: Fladrif, Gimli
Web:
Art:
"Viking Warlord". Model assembled and painted by DeepGroover-(TV).
Stories:
Trouble Follows by Cassia-(TV)
The Love of One's Life
by Elwing-(V)
Gaming:
"Other":
Ar-Pharazon-(V) played
StarCraft:BroodWar, War Wind, Warzone 2100, and downloaded Guild Wars
(during the meeting).
WoW: Argent Dawn, Lothar
Children's Week is going: escort a war
orphan around town! Gain a new pet (sorry, not the orphan).
WoW Event Calendar
LotRO:
Our Carn Dum 6-man instance ran from
Saturday morning well into the afternoon. All were Valarites with extra
Valarites on stand-by to fill in for those who might have to leave.
Fishing and more fishing, fishing
trophies in the kinhouse and personal houses. Irmo claims he will not
fish.
Much Valar grouping in the new Forochel
area this week. Some like Irmo and Miriel completed it during the week,
a major feat with over 100 quests mostly in chains, but they have Book
13 to do next. Some of us have started on Book 13 (Elrond in the Last
Homely House will send you on this mission.)
Tolkien:
Fladrif's Ent news:
Ent one-panel webcomic address.
Two guild ents with birthdays this month.
Varda's topic: Aging in different folk of
Middle-earth: Ents, Dwarves, Men, Hobbits, Elves, continues in
After-meeting.
After-meeting (continued aging topic since we just couldn't stop):
Elf sleepwalking: memories and sleep may also affect quality of life as they age.
Orcs
Istari
May 3, 2008
Congratulations, Gimli-(V), on your wedding! Gimli was married today, cheered on by Sauron-(Valar) as his usher and by Varda-(Valar) and Eowyn-(V). Happy honeymoon!
May 2, 2008
Tolkien Site / Stories:
Lessons of Life series:
The Love of One's Life
by Elwing-(V). ""During a rare idyllic day in Mirkwood, Legolas
meditates on his surroundings." Vignette written for Earth Day and
Arbor Day.
May 1, 2008
Tolkien Site / Stories:
Mellon Chronicles series:
Trouble Follows by Cassia-(TV). A day in a rather confusing market place goes a
little bit askew for the elf and ranger. Humorous vignette.
This is the first story with any Valar
editing by someone other than Varda, all hail pre-editor Gilraen-(V)!
She also kindly honored the request to use her CSS programming
expertise, so this is also the first story to use CSS for styling and
is rigged to keep the same look as before. Slight tweaking by Varda
made the Story style sheet available for all stories that are set up for it.
April 29, 2008
Tolkien Site / Art:
Cave of DeepGroover-(TV):
"Viking Warlord". Model assembled and painted by DeepGroover-(TV).
April 28, 2008
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Peregrin-(V)!
Peregrin is a long-time friend who, at work, has been helping Varda's
family (and some friends) build, repair, and upgrade their computer
network. He has often gone beyond the call of duty and has been fun
company. WoW players may have seen him on Lothar as a guild-friend, and
he retains his account there. But his current seventy-hour work-week
leaves little time for play and could wreck his health if he isn't
careful. (Of course I said that, Pippin, I'm Varda!) He has a ten-day
account on LotRO (starting today or tomorrow) and, with luck, hopes to
be able to take advantage of the LotRO anniversary life-time membership
and be around for a long while. His favorite LotR character is the
little hobbit, Pippin, the one who gets in trouble all the time.
(Meriadoc-V, take note!)
April 27, 2008
Sunday Meeting: 5pm ESDT
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (11)
ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
fladrifv, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet,
GwaihirValar, Lungorthin-(Valar)/sauronjag, Menelvagor Valar, Pallando
Valar/Oessala/OrodrethV, VardaValar1
Membership:
Ar-Pharazon will be going to Spain. Help needed for a new person to send in transcripts of meetings.
Menelvagor is still on track to go to the US in
summer and hopes to drop by a number of Valarites on the trip.
Varda's family's main computer keeps blue-screening and having to go back to the shop.
Web:
Web help: more editors and writers needed.
Menelvagor volunteered to help work on the Humor page again and finish a story.
Gilraen volunteered to help edit
in the Stories section and has her first assignment. She is also
considering working on the html and css for the story as an experiment.
Gaming:
WoW
LotRO: Forochel expansion is live. Fishing is live. Anniversary sale on lifetime membership at only $199.
Other games: Ar-Pharazon made a request for others to join in
Tolkien:
Continued with the topic of LotR characters whose pride brought them down.
April 20, 2008
Tolkien Site / Stories:
Bonds Without Hope by Arien-(Valar). In this short story set in the Second Age, Numenoreans capture a woodman.
Arien's story author's page has moved to here.
3rd night of the Rift Raid: 6pm EDT.
Sunday Meeting: 5pm ESDT
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon, Fladrif, and Varda
Attending: (10)
Members: Amaranth-(V)/
Hobbitlass19,
AriehnV,
arwenv1, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
fladrifv,
Glorfindel VG,
Menelvagor Valar, Olwe-(V)/
FallenGlory, VardaValar1
Friends:
LaurealasseHelka
Membership:
Ar-Pharazon (see Before-meeting)
Eonwe and the storm: two days of no power.
Menelvagor's summer vacation: coming to Texas and hoping to drop in on some of us there.
New member: Lindir-(V)
Web:
New transcripter needed during the summer while Ar-Pharazon is on vacation.
Pidgin might be a
good cross-platform program for those of us whose OS can't handle the
new AIM update. Recommended by Fladrif-(V) who uses it.
Article: Helge Fauskanger:
Tolkien-linguist Extraordinaire by Amaranth-(V).
Story: Bonds Without Hope by Arien-(Valar)
Gaming:
WoW
LotRO
StarCraft
War Wind, War Wind II
Tolkien:
Glorfindel's topic: Who's more beautiful: Arwen or Galadriel
Eonwe's topic: Pride in LotR. Who exibits it? Why is it that person's downfall?
April 16, 2008
Tolkien Site / Papers:
"Helge Fauskanger:
Tolkien-linguist Extraordinaire" by Amaranth-(V). The article includes an interview at the end with Mr. Fauskanger, the author of the excellent Ardalambion site for all Tolkien languages.
April 13, 2008
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Hurin-(V)! Hurin ran with Irmo in DAoC helping him run the guild there, and is now playing with the Valar Guild LotRO kinship.
Sunday Meeting: 5pm ESDT
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (8)
Amaranth-(V)/Hobbitlass19, AriehnV, ArPharazonV,
Eonwe Valar (presiding), fladrifv, Gilraen-(V)/Star of Phaet,
Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1
Before-meeting:
AIM problems. Problem with AIM updating versions,
and Varda's usual meeting comp has an incompatible operating system
with the new version. Meetings will continue. AIM versions are
currently causing difficulties with invitations as they are not seen
between each other.
Forum had a record number online.
StarCraft 2
Membership:
New members:
Hurin-(V)
StarLight-(TV)
Web:
Story
Games page
Forum: new category for StarCraft 2.
Gaming:
StarCraft 2
WoW:
General
Lothar server
Uldaman server
Argent Dawn server
LotRO general
Other games played:
Diablo 2 X Middle-earth mod
StarCraft
Zuma Deluxe
Tolkien:
The most ancient trees still living
Ents and glaciers
After-meeting:
RP on the Forum plotting ahead
April 7, 2008
Tolkien Site / Stories:
New author and new Tolkien-only member. Welcome to the Valar guild StarLight-(TV)!
Of Snowballs and Changes. 4th Age, post LotR.
"Legolas feels that his mortal friends have changed too
much, and he is the only one who had stayed the same. But there is
something he fails to realize."
Legolas pov; Aragorn, Eldarion, Gimli
April 6, 2008
Sunday Meeting: 5pm ESDT
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (10)
Aerandir-(V)/mordacil, Amaranth-(V)/Hobbitlass19, AriehnV,
ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar (presided over part of Tolkien),
Glorfindel VG, Menelvagor Valar, Pallando Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding
over business and part of Tolkien)
Membership:
Beleg reinjured his back and may have to have surgery.
Amaranth-(V) came to her first meeting and said her "few words".
Tolkien:
Those in the heavens.
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