28th Anniversary of the Valar Guild

October 4, 2025 Saturday



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October 4, 2025
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• Theme: Trees and Forests
• Themed images
• Marathon Chat
• Forum anniversary greetings
• Gaming Screenshots of anniversary events:
• Lord of the Rings Online
• Tolkien Site anniversary contributions:
• Art
  
• Articles
• Poems
• Stories
• Games Site Mass Update letter
• State of Valar Gaming 2025

More entries will be taken for this page through October and November. Please email yours to Varda (NOSPAMvarda.elentari (AT) gmail (dot) com) including a note that it is for the anniversary, using your name in the guild (such as Anarion-V) for credit. Thanks!

Please note that all of these entries are presents from the Valar Guild folk for all folk to enjoy made especially for this wonderful time, but not intended to be taken without permission. Thank you to the contributors from all of us who are fortunate enough to receive them. Yay!

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Theme:

This year's theme voted for in our Discord poll is "Trees and Forests".

The theme(s) can give suggestions for your screenshots from your favorite games, real life pictures, stories, poems, songs, and articles.

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Marathon Chat:

• When: September 28th meeting continuously through the Oct 5th meeting.
• Where: The marathon chat is in the Valar Guild's Discord chat program in "meeting_place".
• What: Free chat including fun chat and fun safe links. Also we enjoy Tolkien Moments and url's related to Tolkien and the anniversary.
• Who: all the same folks that are welcome at meetings such as members, polite family and friends and fellow Tolkien fans.

Participants:

So far:

Forum:

Forum thread not yet up.. Feel free to post your comments/cheers about the anniversary on our forum thread!

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Gaming Screenshots of Anniversary events:

How do I take a screenshot?

In LotRO, F12 removes quickslots etc from the display. N toggles names on and off. F11 makes a screenshot that goes into your computer's Documents folder under Lord of the Rings Online.

In WoW, use your keyboard's version of PrintScreen (PrntScrn on the top row on mine) to make the screenshot. The image goes into the game's folder under Screenshots.

If you can't join a group, feel free to take solo screenshots in your game of choice.

To send the image for this page, do it by way of sending to Varda's email (and let her know your guild-name for credit!): NOSPAMvarda.elentari (AT) g mail (dot) com.

Lord of the Rings Online Anniversary screenshots:

Started at Bree Oct 4 at noon and at 5 P.M. Eastern time (which is /servertime) to give everyone a chance to come. For those who can not come at those times, show up when you can, do the same thing, take screenshots for this page, and maybe coordinate with friends in-game or in Discord.

The plan: Ride into the main towns and shoot fireworks, /yell Happy 27th Anniversary, Valar Guild! We might also dance and hand out goodies such as pipeweed and fireworks. Emotes for a sort of play might be tried.

Riders of the Nooning!

Participants:

What happened.

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Riders of the Evening!

Participants:

What happened. This is usually the largest group.

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Theme screenshots, real life pictures, art:

Theme: Trees and Forests

Tolkien Site Contributions for the 27th Anniversary!

Art:

• "Art" by Artist
• Facebook Video reel of a "tree walking". (Spoiler for after watching this: the foreground hides the truck that transports the tree down the road.) Thank you to Kelliewyn, guild-friend (and fellow LotRO player)!

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Articles:

• "Article" by Author.

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Poems:

• "Poem" by Author

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Stories:

• "Story" by Author

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State of Valar Gaming 2024:

The State of Online Gaming 2025. (On the Games Site).

The Letter for updating the Games Site that also includes the year's news by Eonwe-(Valar)

Feel free to update any time by emailing Eonwe (NOSPAMdeneltir@hotmail.com).

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