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31, 2010
Congratulations to Gimli-(V) and his wife for
the birth of their daughter today!
Dec. 29, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EST: Thror's Coomb.
Participants: Indis, Malva, Tulkas, and
Varda.
Dec. 27, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm EST: Grand Stairs.
Participants: Galdor, Gildor, Melkor,
Nimrodel, Orome, and Varda.
Dec. 26, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Gaming:
WoW
LotRO
Tolkien:
Sigurd and Gudrun
Favorite scene from any of Tolkien's books about Arda
Dec. 25, 2010
Merry Christmas!
Dec. 22, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EST: Annuminas
boss wing.
Participants: Gildor (minstrel
Fairmaiden), Indis (lore-master Mereniel), Nimrodel (hunter Ardisian),
Tulkas (hunter Astald), Ulmo
(warden Wingilot), and Varda (guardian Timbridhil).
Dec. 19, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (6)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar, and VardaValar1
Membership:
Varda
Eowyn
Web:
Gaming Site: Eonwe's external hard drive died,
problem being handled.
Gaming:
Battlenet 2.0 is about to include StarCraft2 to
allow chat capabilities.
Christmas-style festivities began in WoW and LotRO.
LotRO: considering afternoon runs on Monday for
small groups, due to time difficulties. Monday 8pm EST 6-mans will be
run when we have sufficient numbers. Wednesday 8pm EST is for high
level instance runs.
Tolkien:
RP
Magic,
sub-creation spun off from the RP talk and went enjoyably long.
Tolkien discussion continued into the After-meeting.
Dec. 15, 2010
LotrO / Gaming:
Wednesday 8pm level 65 instance:
Annuminas.
Participants: Galdor
(hntr), Melkor (rk), Nimrodel (hntr), Pippin (wrdn, champ), Ulmo (min),
and Varda (grd).
Annuminas is also planned for next
Wednesday with the same group (change, Melkor can't come). Monday's
instance is not yet decided due
to uncertainty of who can come.
Dec. 14, 2010
LotRO / Gaming:
Yule Festival begins.
Your mail tells of the new stable hands next to the main city
stablehands who can send you to the festival. This time we have a new
region like a short-term mini-expansion including a plot (help versus
the greedy mayor after having seeing the problems), an eating contest
where you're the one eating, theater (where three of the audience are
randomly chosen as actors and the audience throws flower petals or
rotten fruit), and snowball fights. New items are available for barter.
Dec. 13, 2010
LotRO / Gaming:
Monday 8pm EST level 65 instance. We
didn't have enough people who could stay long enough to run a 6-man, so
we ran some smaller groups including the 3-man School and Library for
marks. Participants of the "official" run were Gildor (minstrel
Fairmaiden), Tulkas (hunter Astald), and Varda (guardian Timbridhil).
Other questing and book runs were also happening.
Dec. 12, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (7)
Ancalagon-(V)/Ancbeard, AriehnV,
ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (co-presider), fladrifv, Indis-(V)/karakedi25,
VardaValar1 (co-presider).
Membership:
Eowyn and Faramir-to-be are moving to Arizona
starting their trip Monday, and intend to read more of the The Hobbit
to each other during the long drive. Now there's a good use of a book.
Gaming:
WoW:
The group is very busy with Cataclysm, and the
Lothar guild branch is already nearly to level 3.
LotRO:
Reorganization of instance
nights now in progress, taking suggestions, taking volunteers for
running book and lowbie log-jam quests. Mon/Wed 8pm EST nights need to
be for level 65 6-mans as that is hard to get during the week. Two
3-mans run starting at the same time are also fun.
Help wanted: member
volunteers needed to help with picking a time and running the
log-jammed instances for books and regular quests.
Tolkien:
Help wanted for the Tolkien Site's Encyclopedia
section.
Forum Role-play discussion: what we do as we leave
Mirkwood.
Dec. 8, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EST run:
Book 2.5.5's first part,
"Battle of the 21st Hall", was completed and is now updating properly,
thank you Devs for fixing that!
Thanks to this run, a problem was
pointed out of needing our Monday and Wednesday runs to be for high
level instances that we can't normally do during the week. We need to
have a regular time for book and regular questing log-jam spots to aid
progress of the membership's main and alts, run by members who can come
regularly.
During the week we heard from
volunteers willing to help with such runs including Eomer, Galdor,
Indis, and
Pippin. No special nights have yet been chosen, although Pippin did
suggest to call out in the kin and they'll see about setting up runs.
We're also asking people to add the number of the book quest into the
note: 1.2.3 would mean Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 3, but please keep
your name at the start of the note..
Dec. 7, 2010
Gaming / WoW:
Much questing going on in the
new area, Hyjal seems to be the more interesting of the two directions
so far. Old areas look quite different after Deathwing flew overhead,
trainers and portals are in new places. We're starting to try out the
new Worgen race. Guild rep goes up with quests and quite a bit with
cooking repeatables.
Dec. 6, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday morning game
update, Patch 1 to the November update. Servers were down from 6am to
10am EST. Official
release notes.
Afternoon runs for some
folk unable to run later:
Library,
School: Indis (lore-master Alasse), Ulmo (minstrel Niequi), and Varda
(guardian Timbridhil).
Thror's Coomb:
Eomer (captain Erkendan), Indis (lore-master Alasse), Ulmo (minstrel
Niequi), and Varda (hunter Fainan).
Instance run 8pm EST.
6-man canceled due to lack of people, so we ran in duos instead.
Gaming / WOW:
Cataclysm expansion comes out at
midnight. Deathwing awaits. Urgent last-minute questing is going on.
Dec. 5, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (5)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, Indis-(V)/
karakedi25, VardaValar1
Gaming:
WoW: Tuesday of the coming week is the release of
Cataclysm.
LotRO: Monday the November Update came out.
Eve: war
Guild Wars
Tolkien:
Arien's topic: Dragons. What do we know about them?
Where did they come from?And special importance for our special friends
Bilbo and company.
After-meeting:
WoW Cataclysm.
Gaming / WoW:
Regular Sunday 7pm EST WoW run. Report
from Eonwe-(Valar):
The scheduled run is ICC, if we have
enough, but first, the plan is to finish the AQ40 run from Friday night.
Attending: Eonwë, Sauron, Fangorn, Bofur, Nob, Gimli, Dracxil,
Rayearth
We finished Ahn'Qiraj 40 fairly quickly, but didn't have enough to try
ICC.
Eonwe, Rayearth, Fangorn, Bofur, and Sauron went into Blackrock Spire
and got those of us who need it attuned to Blackwing Lair. We then went
into Blackwing Lair, and with virtually no problems took the place
apart.
Dec. 3, 2010
Gaming / WoW:
Report from Eonwe-(Valar):
Our scheduled run was Molten Core, but
we had time so went into Ahn'Qiraj 40 as well. Attending were
Eonwë, Gimli, Bofur, Sauron, and Rayearth.
First we popped into Blackrock Depths to get the Molten Core attunement
for a couple of us, then went into MC. We cleared the area easily,
defeating all bosses. The whole trip took about 1 and a half hours.
Having some time left, we went into Ahn'Qiraj and fought to the Twin
Emperors. Unfortunately, we couldn't kill them before they enraged, and
so that's where we stopped for the night. The plan is to finish them
Sunday night.
Dec. 1, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Instance:
The Wednesday 8pm EST scheduled run was held in the level 65 Annuminas
instance: Valandil's Tomb where we collected the Annuminas instance
mark and Superior Third Mark.
Participants were Fundin (60 lore-master FundinV),
Melkor (rune-keeper Passim), Nimrodel (hunter Ardisian), Pippin (warden
Illiardo), Ulmo (minstrel Niequi), and Varda (hunter Fainan).
Suggestions for a smoother run were to have quicker
interrupts for Dolvaethan, such as from a champion, and to trait
Tolerance.
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Nov. 29, 2010
Gaming/ LotRO:
The November
Update
is being added today, so the servers will be down in the morning. Official
Release Notes.
Instance
time at 8pm EST was in the Great Barrows level 65 instance, two runs
for Superior Third Marks.
First run participants were Eomer
(captain Erkendan), Gorlim (minstrel Aeronwy), Indis (lore-master
Alasse), Melkor (Passim), Pippin (warden Illiardo), and Varda (guardian
Timbridhil).
Second run participants were the
same except that Dis (hunter Laurel) substituted in for Eomer who had
to leave.
Nov. 28, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (7)
Ancalagon-(V), AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe
Valar, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Gaming:
WoW
WoW video short
LotRO: Nov update Monday
Guild Wars
Eve Online
Tolkien:
Topic:
LotR:
The two main sides have very different philosophies. Sauron's side is
mostly into monolithic activity, while
the free peoples operate in small ensembles, duos, and sometimes even
alone yet work together. Can we come up with examples of these two
opposing
philosophies? One operating solely under the boss, the other with a lot
of individual and small group activity?
RP discussion
Gaming / WoW:
After the meeting, the Lothar
World of WarCraft branch met for a raid, Ahn'Qiraj 40-man, and
successfully completed it all the way through the final boss C'Thun (a
huge eye on a tentacle, with tentacles and damaging shadow edges that
can swallow players whole), taking out optional bosses along the way
and collecting new mounts. Some swapped out characters for parts of it,
such as Gimli changing to successfully go for new pets for his hunter.
Participants were all level 80:
Bofur (paladin Atesia), Eonwe (paladin Auros), Fangorn (mage
Treebeerd), Gimli (death knight Jimuri, hunter Suzuuka), Nob (death
knight Peralt), and Varda (priest Varda). Also helping in the early
part was a real life friend of Eonwe and Dracxil's: Rayearth (dranei
shaman, druid).
WoW Report from Eonwe-(Valar):
We intended to go to ICC, but didn't
quite have enough so we went to Ahn'Qiraj instead. Attending this run
were Eonwë, Varda, Fangorn, Gimli, Nob, Bofur, and a rl friend of
mine who we'll call Rayearth, after his Shaman.
Our run went mostly smoothly, except for some snags while we were
trying to help Gimli tame two of the three bug bosses grouped together.
He got Vem and Lord Kri, but Princess Yauj proved too much of a pain.
We also had a bit of trouble with the Twin Emperors, but we eventually
prevailed. C'thun was easy after those two :}
Nov. 21, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (6)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1
Membership
Web:
New story posted today: "
The
Hands of the King" by Branwyn-(T). "'The Pyre of Denethor' with a
different twist. Alternate universe,
inspired by a visit to a huge exhibit of medieval reliquaries and
relics this afternoon."
Gaming:
WoW
LotRO
Guild Wars
Eve Online
Tolkien:
Forum RP discussion and posting.
Nov. 18, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Next expansion announced for
Fall 2011: "The Rise of Isengard". Trailer. Press release.
The current game will continue developing as we head that way.
Nov. 17, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Orome-(Valar) was installed as
Heir for the LotRO kinship.
Wednesday 8pm EST runs:
Helegrod
drake, spider, and giant wings in order to pick up Helegrod marks, ran
successfully.
Participants for drakes and spiders all 65's: Galdor
(hunter Andwe), Landroval (hunter Rana), Nimrodel (hunter Ardisian),
Pippin (warden Iliardo), Ulmo (minstrel Niequi), and Varda (hunter
Fainan).
Participants for giants: same as above plus Gildor
(65 minstrel Fairmaiden).
Volume 2
Epilogues: Cucheron's Bow, Barvessain (including Gath Ulunn) completed.
Participants: Melkor (rune-keeper Passim), Pippin (warden
Illiardo), and Varda (hunter Fainan).
Nov. 15, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Library run, other small runs,
but we had a good turn-out.
Membership:
"Valoh" is now an initiate in our LotRO kin,
brought in by Melkor. He's re-reading the books and choosing a name to
become a Full Member.
Sigurd-(V) is now belatedly on the
Membership page. My apology for the delay. His write-up is on Oct. 29,
2010.
Tulkas is back to sea but should be
back in December.
Eomer passed the test for the New York
State Security Guard and Firewarden.
Malva will be in surgery Nov. 30, but
expects to feel better afterwards.
Nov. 14, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room
named Valar Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (6)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar
(presiding), Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, Indis-(V)/karakedi25
Membership:
Today, Eowyn and her husband are back from their
honeymoon.
Festival in the Shire event.
Sinterklaas visited the area of our Netherland
members.
Web:
Nothing new.
Gaming:
StarCraft patch.
WoW: pre-Cataclysm elemental invasion.
LotRO: no LotRO gamers gave a report.
Guild Wars: Ar-Pharazon
Bible Online: Ar-Pharazon
Eve Online: Arien
Tolkien:
RP mention.
Arien-(Valar)'s topic: Was there a kind of
Christmas or Sinterklaas or some figure of that sort in Middle-earth?
Additional note on the subject from Varda at the end of the transcript.
Nov. 7, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar
Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (9)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar
(presiding), fladrifv, galdorandwe, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, GwaihirValar,
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1
Membership:
Daylight Savings Time in the USA ends.
Varda is traveling this week. Back
Thursday night. Gone during next Sunday's meeting.
Web:
Tolkien Site / Stories:
"Beruthiel's
Kittens" by Branwyn-(T). "During the Siege of Minas Tirith, the
healers are not the only ones tending to the wounded."
Gaming:
WoW
LotRO
Bible Online
Tolkien:
Good and evil.
Overall guild RP (not the forum RP).
Email Varda if you wish to add to the discussion or say aye or nay.
Nov. 3, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EDT instance runs:
Mirobel: Nimrodel (hunter
Ardisian), Pippin (warden Illiardo), Landroval (hunter Rana).
Bounties starting from
Esteldin, did all of them: Galdor (hunter Andwe), Melkor (60 champion
Melcor), Nimrodel ( hunter Ardisian), Pippin (champion Avengelina), and
Varda (55 minstrel Tinwetari).
Nov. 1, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm EDT instance run:
level 65 Great Barrows.
Participants: Galdor
(hunter Andwe), Gildor (minstrel Fairmaiden), Indis (lore-master
Alasse), Nimrodel (hunter Ardisian), Tulkas (65 hunter Astald), and
Varda (guardian Timbridhil).
Steeds
of Middle-earth: Page of LotRO horses with real horse information
too. Link suggestion by Indis-(V).
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Oct. 31, 2010
Daylight Savings Time in Europe ends. Next
weekend it ends in the USA.
Happy Halloween!
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar
Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (5)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar
(presiding), Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar
Varda was absent, going with the
remaining wedding guests and family to the Texas Renaissance Festival.
Valarites present for the festival (as well as the wedding), were
Arwen-(V), Elwing-(V), Fangorn-(Valar), Meriadoc-(V), Sauron-(Valar),
and Varda-(Valar). Yes, we went in costume.
Oct. 30, 2010
Eowyn-(V)'s marriage.
Oct. 29, 2010
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Sigurd-(V)!
Sigurd is from Texas, USA, in the Central Time Zone. He now games only
in LotRO and has put each of his characters in different kins, so we
should see him as Tinuariel weekly. His favorite character is Faramir
Oct. 27, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EDT run: Thror's
Coomb Nar's quests, lots of gold tokens. Oh yeah!
Participants: Belladonna
(lore-master Wraithlyn), Landroval (hunter Rana), Tulkas (hunter
Astaldovalar), and Varda (hunter Fainan).
Oct. 25, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm EDT instance runs:
Great Barrows, picking up
Superior Third Marks that time! No, they don't always drop.
Participants: Galdor
(hunter Andwe), Melkor (rune-keeper Passim), Nimrodel (hunter
Ardisian), Pippin (warden Illiardo), Tulkas (hunter Astaldovalar), and
Varda (guardian Timbridhil).
Book 1.7.8: The Gates of Carn Dum, and
on to Sara Oakheart when we had to stop for sleep.
Participants: Galdor
(hunter Andwe), Landroval (hunter Rana), Melkor (59 champion Melcor),
Nimrodel (56 lore-master), Pippin (warden), and Varda (55 minstrel
Tinwetari).
Oct. 24, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar
Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (10)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar,
fladrifv, Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, Gil-galad-(V)/Xseanzee disco,
Menelvagor Valar, mimvalarguild, pallandovalar, VardaValar1 (presiding).
Tolkien:
the three Kin-slayings.
Oct. 22, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Guide
to the Haunted Cellar made by fans and suggested by the LotRO
launcher news.
We ran the Haunted Cellar and other
Harvest Festival events.
Gaming / WoW:
Eonwe-(Valar), head of the WoW
branch said:
Heya all,
We haven't done the Friday Lothar grouping too strictly for the last
bit, understandably due to real life and the like. With the coming of
Cataclysm, I'd like to revive it.
If some of us can't make it on Friday, and anyone would like to add
another day during the week, let's talk about that. Right now I'd
strongly recommend against Monday and Wednesday, since several of us
play LotRO on our grouping days there, and I wouldn't want them to have
to choose between LotRO and WoW.
Oct. 19, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Harvestmath begins. New: Haunted
Cellar of Hobbiton, with new rewards including decorations.
Oct. 18, 2010
Screenshots
from the Anniversary fireworks run in LotRO taken by guild-friend
Lycius.
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm EDT instance run. We
ran the high level GB (first two parts before we needed bed) to make a
lot of us eligible to go straight to Sambrog and to pick up goodies.
Participants: Galdor
(hunter Andwe), Gildor (minstrel Fairmaiden), Indis (lore-master
Alasse), Nimrodel (hunter Ardisian), Tulkas (hunter Astaldovalar), and
Varda (guardian Timbridhil).
Gaming / WoW:
Hallow's
End begins.
Oct. 17, 2010
Forum:
New trivia
games started! Try your luck at the Name Games!
Silmarillion and LotR trivia:
new question time, since it's been so long since the last person was
supposed to post. Ask one!
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar
Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon, Menelvagor, and Varda.
Attending:
(10)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
fladrifv/alwin0, Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, Indis-(V)/karakedi25,
Menelvagor Valar, mimvalarguild, pallandovalar, VardaValar1
Tolkien: the land and people
between Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains.
Oct. 14 2010
Gaming / StarCraft 2:
Patch 1.1.2 is out.
Oct. 13, 2010
8pm EDT Wednesday LotRO run: Thror's Coomb in
Enedwaith. We ran all of Nar's quests, setting up some characters so
that these can be run together without having to go back to the cave
half-way. A plus to this run is that we can take a lot of hunters at
once; happily they proved their quality leaving aggro to the excellent
tank all the way through.
Participants were Galdor (hunter Andwe), Indis
(lore-master Alasse), Nimrodel (hunter Ardisian), Pippin (warden
Illiardo), Tulkas (hunter Astaldovalar), and Varda (hunter Fainan).
This was Tulkas'
first time leading a Valar Guild 6-man, and it was very successful,
with thought taken for both those who had never been and those who had
been before, and completion of all objectives.
Other folks were on and we tip the hat to them!
We've been having more than we can take every instance night, a healthy
sign, so we give preference to those who need the run most and are
ready to go on time. The rest are welcome as stand-bys and to start
another run of any kind together or do their own thing.
Oct. 12, 2010
Gaming / WoW:
Patch 4.0 is out, major. Time to get
used to the class changes.
Oct. 11, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
8pm EDT Monday LotRO run,
regularly scheduled instance. Carn Dum:
Four of the group members had class quests there: Galdor, Gildor,
Landroval, and Nimrodel.
Participants were: Eomer
(captain Erkendan), Galdor (hunter Andwe), Gildor (52 guardian
Marella), Landroval (53 minstrel Tulamarth), Nimrodel (56 lore-master
Wildwyn), and Varda (54-55 minstrel Tinwetari). A special thanks to
Indis and Melkor for bowing out of the fellowship to let two members
come in their places for class quests.
Afterwards some of the kin
went on a Helegrod run: Bofur,
Dis, Indis, Nob, and Pippin among them.
Oct. 10, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
8pm EDT LotRO CD run put
together by Landroval-(V), started a bit late since two that needed
their class quest, Gildor and Nimrodel, needed to be away to tend to
their cat who's been with them 22 years and may be dying. We went ahead
and worked for Tulamarth's class quest.
Participants were Aungrod, Khori,
Mirminuial, and Tinwetari (54 minstrel).
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda.
Oct. 7, 2010
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Beregond-(V)! Beregond
is 38, from Nottingham, UK and has a degree in Religion and Philosophy.
He's currently interested in ancient Anglo-Saxon studies. He joined in
LotRO as Akanlor, a 31 elf hunter, leveling that fast in only a week of
starting LotRO. He's played other MMO's before including WarHammer, DDO
(and books), SWG, EQ1 and 2. He left EQ2 since the last expansion
seemed to be just a money-making scheme. He's read H, LotR, Sil and
picked up a copy of Children of Hurin for more light reading ;) .
He was scouted and tested by Varda, 5/5. In the books, he found the
book Beregond to be an outstanding character because he had hope during
a time of little or no hope, showed determination, and seemed more
human than the other, larger than life characters. He had a son and was
willing to sacrifice himself for Faramir.
In other great
news, Malva-(V) is still with us in the overall Valar Guild and
has learned after surgery that she does not have cancer. Rejoice, all
ye folk!
Belladonna Took-(V)
has gone from initiate status to Full Member! Congratulations!
Oct. 6, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EDT instance runs. Fil
Gashan, Forges. FG was bugged, unfortunately.
Participants
were: Gildor (64 minstrel Fairmaiden), Indis (lore-master Mereniel),
Melkor (rune-keeper Passim), Nimrodel (hunter Ardisian), Ulmo (warden
Wingilot), and Varda (guardian Timbridhil).
Oct. 4, 2010
Happy
13th Anniversary, Valar Guild!
Art by
Elwing-(V).
Click it to see the full-sized version.
WoW:
Fireworks planned to be shot in World of Warcraft starting on Lothar
server
around 7pm EDT/ 6pm CDT. [Side note: Cataclysm is officially Dec. 7.]
LotRO:
Fireworks were shot in LotRO, using the start of
the regularly scheduled Monday event/instance time of 8pm EDT. Bring
your mains! Bring your fancy party duds!
Tolkien Site:
Send in your bit for the Tolkien Site to Varda,
marked that it is in honor of the 13th Anniversary. This might be an
article, art, poetry, humor, translation, music, or anything else your
creative minds do!
Art (see that picture just
above? :)
Articles: Elendilmir
by Varda-(Valar), The
Kinstrife in Gondor by Arien-(Valar)
Forum: lift
a glass of good cheer in the 13th
anniversary thread!
13th Anniversary Page.
State of Valar Gaming 2010:
annual report by Eonwe-(Valar).
Fladrif-(V)
won a months-long chess championship today!
Oct. 3, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Oct. 1, 2010
Membership:
Scatha-(V) says that
Makar-(Valar)-ex is a daddy now!
People responding to the Games
Site Mass Update
(GSMU) automatically have membership for 2011! These cool people are:
Angrod,
Arathorn, Arien,
Ar-Pharazon, Bofur, Elwing, Eonwe, Falathar, Indis, Irmo, Landroval,
Melkor, Menelvagor, Merry, Miriel, Sauron, Scatha, Thorondor, Thror,
Tulkas, and Varda.
Gaming / LotRO:
20% off shared storage
and deed accelerators at the LotRO store now through Oct. 8.
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Sept. 30, 2010
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Mim-(V)!
Mim is 30, from Ontario, Canada in the Eastern Time Zone, and his wife
is a Linguistics professor. Mim plays LotRO and can be on a couple of
hours in the evenings on weekdats and some on weekends. He was scouted
by Nimrodel and tested by Varda, with a 5/5 in LotRO on his Borodoin
character.
He's read H,
LotR, Sil, and UT.
He enjoyed the Gimli and Legolas relationship and that they journeyed
together after the War of the Ring through the Glittering Caves and
Fangorn Forest. Mim also enjoys characters that span across the Silmarillion into the LotR, such as Galadriel and
Glorfindel, and enjoys reading about how the characters developed in
JRRT's mind over time.
Sept. 29, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EDT instance run:
Skumfil
left side for the minstrel quest against Crackjaw, successful!
Participants, all 65 except 62
Fairmaiden: Eomer (captain Erkendan), Galdor (hunter Andwe), Gildor (62
minstrel Fairmaiden), Indis (lore-master Mereniel), Nimrodel (hunter
Ardisian), Varda (guardian Timbridhil). This was Eomer's first time leading a Valar
Guild 6-man; congratulations on a successful completion of the mission!
Sept. 27, 2010
Membership:
Happy birthday to
Sauron-(Valar)! (Did we just say that?)
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday morning downtime for
servers for an update and repairs.
Monday 8pm EDT instance run: "A
New Devilry" epic book 6-man, completed. Indis' Alasse won the Singed
Cloak.
Participants were
all 65 except Gildor's: Eomer (captain Erkendan), Gildor (minstrel
Fairmaiden), Indis (lore-master Alasse), Nimrodel (hunter Ardisian),
Tulkas (hunter Astaldovalar), Varda (guardian Timbridhil).
Sept. 26, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (13)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1,
Ecthelion-(V)/BFIIShotgunner, Eonwe Valar (presiding), fladrifv,
Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25,
Luthien-(T)/luthienathariel, Rory-(V)/cipher nemo, TulkasValar61,
VardaValar1
Membership:
Bilbo-(V)'s birthday
Arien-(Valar): death of a monitor
Web:
GSMU
13th Anniversary of the Valar Guild Oct. 4
AIM shortcut
Gaming:
WoW
LotRO
SC2 and others
Ventrilo for laptop problem solved
Tolkien:
Luthien's topic: composer for "Born of Hope" is
looking for aid with translations of Quenya and Sindarin for a choir to
sing, Luthien is helping.
Varda's topic in honor of Sept 22's joint Bilbo and
Frodo birthday in the books: Why Bilbo adopted Frodo and how that
worked out for the both of them
After-meeting:
More Tolkien chat:
Eonwe's topic 1: Noldor still
considered themselves Amanyar (Elves of Aman) after the Exile.
Ar-Pharazon's topic 1: Let's say
Feanor and his own had gotten the Silmarilli back. Like, within a few
years, and no major casualties. Would they have returned to Aman if
they had permission?
Ar-Pharazon's topic 2: We know
Beren got away with a Silmaril (though it cost him his hand). What if
he (or someone else) had gotten away with all 3? What if all 3 were
returned to the Noldor (dead or alive Feanor) through stealth instead
of war, and Morgoth's forces as it stood remained undefeated?
Eonwe's topic 2/tangent: While
we're on the subject, way to help Huan save face. Huan doesn't die to
any "normal" evil wolf of Morgoth's, he dies to a Berserking evil wolf
of Morgoth.
Sept. 24, 2010
Happy Birthday to Bilbo-(V). :)
Sept. 22, 2010
Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo!
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm Eastern Time
instance runs.
Annuminas level 65 re-match.
Participants: Eomer (captain Erkendan, for first part), Galdor (hunter
Andwe), Indis (lore-master Alasse), Nimrodel (hunter Ardisian), Pippin
(champion Avengelina, subbed in for Eomer), Ulmo (minstrel Niequi),
Varda (guardian Timbridhil).
Grand Stairs: completed hard mode.
Participants: Melkor (rune-keeper Passim), Nimrodel (hunter Ardisian),
Pippin (champion Avengelina), Tulkas (hunter Astaldovalar), Ulmo
(minstrel Niequi), Varda (guardian Timbridhil).
Sept. 20, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm Eastern Time instance
run: Annuminas 65 scaling.
Went a long
way but needed an actual tank to complete.
Participants:
Eomer (65 captain Erkendan), Indis (65 lore-master Alasse), Nimrodel
(65 hunter Ardisian), Pippin (65 champion Avengelina), Tulkas (65
hunter Astaldovalar), Ulmo (65 minstrel Niequi)
Sept. 19, 2010
Talk Like a
Pirate Day
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5) Sept. 19
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (7)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, fladrifv,
Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership News:
Malva-(V):
LotRO
mail from Malva-(V):
I
regret to say that I must resign my position in the kin. I find
that I have little time to devote to both Valar and arda. Since I
am not active it seems ingenuous of me to stay. with Valar.
I love you all and I wish I could do both.
Malva [Note:
Oct. 7, 2010 In conversation, she explained that she meant she was
pulling out her LotRO character from the kin branch, but would like to
remain in the overall Valar Guild. She's having surgery and is not well
enough for everything she wanted to do.]
Arien-(Valar)
Ar-Pharazon-(V)
Pallando-(Valar)
Web:
13th Valar Guild Anniversary coming up Oct. 4.
Please start gettting your Tolkien Site contributions ready and send
them to Varda.
Games Site Mass Update is underway. Send your
current gaming info to Eonwe.
Gaming:
LotRO
WoW
SC2
Tolkien:
Varda's topic: How did pirates (Corsairs) affect the
Lord of the Rings storyline?
After-meeting:
Tolkien chat continues
RP talk
Forum bookmarks and how to re-set for email
notifications, editing your Profile info.
Sept. 13, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm Eastern Time
instance run.
Pre-instance instance runs:
Sword
Hall: Indis (65 hunter Tinirian), Malva (65 minstrel Tulipan), and
Pippin (65 warden Illiardo).
Tham Mirdain
Library: Melkor (65 rune-keeper Passim), Ulmo (65 lore-master Vailimo),
and Varda (65 hunter Fainan).
Main instance:
Carn Dum in
Angmar for class quests for three kinmates: Gildor, Nimrodel, and
Varda.
Participants: Gildor
(57 minstrel Fairmaiden), Indis (65 lore-master Alasse), Melkor (56
champion Melcor), Nimrodel (54 lore-master Wildwyn), Pippin (65 warden
Illiardo), Varda (52 minstrel Tinwetari)
Sept. 12, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Varda-(Valar)
Attending: (8)
ArathornValar, AriehnV, ArPharazonV,
Eonwe Valar (presiding), fladrifv, Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe,
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1
Membership:
New Full Member:
Rory Brandybuck-(V)
Arathorn-(V) returned after the loss of internet for
a year.
Web:
Stories:
"
Guarding
the Heedless Folk" by Branwyn-(T) posted today. "When a man
disappears, the Breefolk reluctantly enlist the aid of an untried
ranger."
Forum revamp and suggestions.
GSMU: Games Site Mass Update
Gaming:
LotRO:
Free to Play has begun, In-game store,
new area for level 64-65's Enedwaith.
WoW:
Pre-Cataclysm events have begun,
including calls to save Gnomeregan and the Echo Isles.
SC2
Tolkien:
Galdor-(V)'s topic: other battles going on during
the War of the Ring.
After-meeting:
Tolkien chat continues
Sept. 11, 2010
|
9/11.
We remember.
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Sept. 10, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Free to Play begins for people
who've never paid for LotRO before.
Sept. 8, 2010
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Rory Brandybuck-(V)!
Scouted by Indis, tested by Varda for 5/5, he's 35, a software writer,
and lives in Pennsylvania, USA, in EST. He plays LotRO, Age of Conan,
and Star Trek Online and is waiting for Star Wars: The Old Republic.A
character in the LotR that
stands out for him is Frodo, for
volunteering to take the Ring to Mordor.
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm Eastern Time instance
run: Grand Stairs.
New servers up. Beta and paid
subscribers can try out the new content.
Sept. 7, 2010
Gaming:
LotRO:
The worlds will be down
today to put in the free
expansion containing free to play, the new Enedwaith area for level
64-65, and the in-game store. This will be available to beta players
and subscribers on the 8th, free on the 10th. Imladris server was
chosen by the players to be the second rp server after our Landroval
server so, if you're visiting, please remember to use our friend
channel to find each other.
WoW:
Pre-Cataclysm event: At long last, The
High Tinker calls us to retake the surface area of Gnomeregan!
Sept. 6, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm Eastern Time instance
run.
Sept. 5, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (7)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
fladrifv, Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, GwaihirValar, Indis-(V)/karakedi25
Sept. 1, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EDT instance run:
Urugarth for class quests, deeds, quests. We went alllll the way
through. Congratulations to everyone for having plenty of people
available early so that we started on time!
Participants: Indis (65 lore-master
Alasse), Melkor (60? captain Melkus), Nimrodel (65 hunter Ardisian),
Pippin (65 warden Illiardo), Tulkas (65 hunter Astaldovalar), and Varda
(50-51 minstrel Tinwetari).
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Aug. 30, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm EDT instance run: Fil
Gashan.
Tolkien Site / Art:
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"
Aug. 29, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room named Valar Guild Meetingplace.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (7)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, fladrifv/alwin0,
galdorandwe, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
Arien-(V) is back from her holiday.
Ecthelion-(V) is moving, so he'll be out of LotRO
for a bit.
Web:
Art: Luthien-(T)
Games Site Mass Update: Eonwe is about to start
emailing.
Gaming:
SC2
WoW
LotRO
Tolkien:
Arien-(V)'s report: the Festival in the Shire
Menelvagor-(Valar): LARPing.
RP: discussion tabled due to some RP'ers not present
or just leaving.
Varda-(Valar)'s topic: JRRT had certain ideals that
were naturally a part of his creative work. Topic kept to just
LotR for brevity.
After-meeting:
More concerning the Elessar stone worn by Aragorn in
the
LotR.
Aug. 25, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
8pm Wednesday instance gaming: Fil Gashan.
The main purpose was to complete Gorlim's captain's class quest, quite
a hoot! An additional parameter was that Gorlim had a limited time in
which to play. This quest starts right after getting past the potential
pan-searing of the chef and picking up medallions, but in the same
room. The captain started the quest then, and we handled wave after
wave of orcs until we finally killed enough. We had at least one more
wave to complete after that, as it started up during the time that the
number needed was hit. This is a great way to help handle the orc deed
in there! Although our objective was complete, we continued on for the
fun of it (more medallions and deeds didn't hurt either) since it
wasn't quite time for Gorlim to have to leave. When he did have to go,
Tulkas came in as his replacement. We made one try at General Talug,
not quite succeeding, and then we had other members whose time was up
and had to stop.
Participants: Gildor (65 hunter), Gorlim (Athyn 59
captain), Malva (Tulipan 65 minstrel), Nimrodel (Ardisian 65 hunter),
Pippin (Avengelina 65 champion), Tulkas (Astaldovalar 65 hunter), and
Varda (Timbridhil 65 guardian).
Aug. 23, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Morning: The three high population
servers, including our Landroval server, are down for maintenance this
morning.
8pm Monday instance gaming: Forges.
The group went through the first boss before some of the people needed
to leave. Participants were Eomer (Khori 65 champion), Galdor (Andwe 61
hunter), Indis (Mereniel 65 lore-master), Melkor (Passim 65
rune-keeper), Nimrodel (Ardisian 65 hunter), and Ulmo (Wingilot 65
warden).
Aug. 22, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
The meeting is held in the AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace. AIM,
Pidgin or Trillian are programs that all work for joining in.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (6)
ArPharazonV, AuSteinM-(T)/austeinm, Eonwe Valar
(presiding Tolkien), fladrifv, Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, Menelvagor
Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding business)
Web:
Art: new art from Luthien-(T) incoming.
Forum (ours) and how to use the skins. The old one
is still available.
Gaming:
WoW: Cataclysm Collector's edition can be ordered
LotRO: Free to Play's new content available for
those in it already Sept 8, Free to Play is available Sept 10.
StarCraft 2 Patch 1.0.3; character renaming
AIM: can be used to talk between games like our old
Bnet. Eonwe is making himself available more in AIM for folks looking
for a tester.
Tolkien:
Menevagor's topic: Valar and the Greek pantheon.
Galdor's topics: Loss of Silvan language, Oropher's
rash charge, Fangorn and Celeborn on boundaries.
RP
Upcoming articles
Aug. 19, 2010
Elwing-(V), have a happy birthday today!
Indis-(V) is traveling today but taking her
newly repaired laptop, so we should still be seeing her in LotRO.
Aug. 18, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Free-to-play LotRO
is now planned to come out on September 10 next month.
Wednesday 8pm EDT
instance time: we ran Dark
Delving
to successfully finish Pippin's class quest for the warden in killing
the Mad Captain, incidentally collecting Moria medallions, DD quests,
and deeds. Participants were Finarfin (Gilothalion 65 hunter,
replacing Tulkas after he crashed and could not return), Indis (Alasse
65 lore-master), Pippin (Illiardo 65 warden and, for the part after the
warden quest, Avengelina 65 champion), Tulkas (Astaldovalar 65 hunter),
Ulmo (Niequi 65 minstrel), Varda (Timbridhil 65 guardian).
Aug. 16, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm EDT instance get-together time. Not
enough people showed up to run an instance, so some of us worked on the
deed of killing trolls in the Foundations of Stone together.
Troll-hunters were Indis, Ulmo, and Varda.
Aug. 15, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace. AIM, Pidgin or Trillian are
programs that all work for joining in.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (6)
ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), fladrifv,
Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar
Membership:
Ar-Pharazon's grandmother has passed away.
Landroval's wife is now an initiate in LotRO.
Arien is missing this week while traveling.
Fladrif is traveling, probable reason for his
connection problems during the meeting.
Web:
Forum revamp for the Valar Guild. Send comments and
suggestions to Eonwe.
The RP
section moved from the LotRO area to the Tolkien area of the Forum.
Gaming:
LotRO
WoW
StarCraft 1 & 2
Tolkien:
Indis' topic: RP chat only, no Tolkien discussion.
Forum unavailable for posting at the moment.
Aug. 11, 2010
Membership:
A hearty welcome to Landroval's
wife, on her Isawen character, who joined in LotRO as an initiate. She
has read LotR and will be
taking her test and picking a name to gain her Full Membership. [Note:
chose Belladonna.]
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EDT scheduled
instance grouping: book instance 2.6.8. Will the cloak ever drop?
For some reason some scheduled
participants showed an hour late as if we had time zone confusion.
Participants: Isawen (60 minstrel),
Landroval (Rana 65 hunter), Pippin (Avengelina 65 champion), Ulmo
(Wingilot 65 warden), and Varda (Fainan 65 hunter).
Aug. 9, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm EDT scheduled instance
grouping: book instance 2.6.8.
Aug. 8, 2010
Mail suggestions for changes to the guild's Forum to Eonwe-(Valar). All
emails are listed on the Membership
page.
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace. AIM, Pidgin or Trillian are
programs that all work for joining in.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (9)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV,
Ecthelion-(V)/BFIIShotgunner, Eonwe Valar (presided Tolkien),
Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25,
TulkasValar61, VardaValar1 (presided business)
Membership:
Arien-(Valar) is on holiday, will miss the next two
meetings.
Fladrif-(V) is traveling.
Tulkas-(Valar) is going on leave in ten days.
Gaming:
SC2
WoW:
Gwaihir-(Valar) requests Real ID
Bnet info from other members who are willing to trade it with him.
LotRO:
The ban against talking about the
LotRO beta was lifted August 2nd.
Forums:
Facebook -
some of us are friending each other. Most of those at the meeting were
against us going as far as having a Valar Guild page or putting our
Facebook info on the Membership page of our website.
Forum for our guild:
Complaints were made about the colors and format, which are now being
addressed and will be worked on during the week, hopefully with the
major changes completed by next meeting.
Forum for MyLotRO: Complaints
were made about some of the text, fixed during the meeting.
Forum for LotRO Kinships on Landroval:
Since the format was changed for that, we got dropped out of sight. A
new page was made that day, but it was not made exactly according
to the template given and will probably have to be remade.
Tolkien:
Several different discussions.
Tulkas' quote for a Tolkien Moment:
of bliss and glad
Eonwe's topic: Aule and Yavanna's argument over the
woods and their use suggests that everything and everyone has its use.
It also suggests why some relations are not as cordial as they might be
in Middle-earth such as for dwarves and ents. Manwe and Varda are like
the opposite side of the coin, more complementary to each other.
Morgoth - excessive pride, greed; he could not attract the Valie of his
choice.
Galdor's topic: Palantiri size
Arien's quote for a Tolkien Moment: Who
deserves death?
Galdor's topic: Galadriel and Celeborn's different
stories in
Unfinished Tales
are not resolved in
UT.
Aug. 6, 2010
Gaming video funness: WoW gnome + "Big Iron"
Meriadoc-(V), who just incidentally
plays a gnome on WoW, suggested this YouTube
link as proof that gnomes rule. Enjoy!
Aug. 4, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EDT regular instance
time: we ran the epic book instance
2.6.8 a couple of times. The first
group did very well, the second had horrible Link Deadness and had to
call it a night. We will be doing it again, don't worry. Participants
today were all level 65.
Group 1:
Gildor (Gwennair hunter), Indis (Mirminuiel captain), Nimrodel
(Ardisian hunter, winner of the Singed Cloak), Pippin (Avengelina
champion), Ulmo (Niequi minstrel), and Varda (Timbridhil guardian).
Group 2:
Finarfin (Gilothalion hunter), Gorlim (Aeronwy minstrel), Nimrodel
(Ardisian hunter), Pippin (Illiardo warden), Ulmo (Wingilot warden),
and Varda (Timbridhil guardian).
Aug. 2, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm regular instance time: Sixteenth Hall.
Having three hunters meant we shot through fast; we also had a very
large number of Fellowship Maneuvers. Gemsin, a friend of Nimrodel's,
aided as minstrel for the first part before he had to leave, and is
welcome to run with us again. Valar Guild participants: Gildor
(Gwennair 65 hunter), Gorlim (Aeronwy 65 minstrel) replaced Gemsin as
we came to the first boss, Malbeth (Etheron 65 hunter), Nimrodel
(Ardisian 65 hunter), Pippin (Illiardo 65 warden), Varda (Timbridhil 65
guardian).
August 1, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace. AIM, Pidgin or Trillian are
programs that all work for joining in.
Meeting Transcript by Eonwe,
Menelvagor, and Varda
Attending: (10)
AriehnV,
Arwenv, Ecthelion-(V)/BFIIShotgunner, Eonwe Valar,
Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25,
Menelvagor Valar, TulkasValar61, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
Lalwende-(V)
is our new member this week.
Eilenel-(V) has made contact again.
Gaming::
StarCraft2 came out Tuesday. Send your review to
Eonwe to publish on the Games Site.
Sacred 2
EverQuest 2 is getting a free to play option, but on
different servers than for the main population.
World of WarCraft
Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Ring of Gyges
Politics that might have
been discussed around the dinner table or campfire during the time of
the
Lord of the Rings in the
Shire, Gondor, and Mordor.
Role-play story discussion and posting.
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July 30, 2010
Membership:
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Lalwende-(V)!
Lalwende is a long-time friend of Indis', who scouted her, and tested
with Varda in LotRO. She's from California in the USA, PST. She's 43
with a husband who read LotR and a 10-year old son who's had it read to
him. A favorite character in the LotR for her is Eowyn, the only woman
who did much, including killing the Witch-king.
July 29, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EDT scheduled
instance time: Skumfil
run. Participants included Indis (Alasse 65 lore-master), Maedhros
(Galadhalion 65 champion), Nimrodel (Ardisian 65 hunter). Pippin
(Illiardo 62 warden), and Ulmo (Niequi 65 minstrel)
Tolkien:
Galdor-(V) commented that there
is a possibility that a story called "Ring of Gyges",
XII-Glaucon in Plato's Republic, may have
influenced Tolkien, a suggestion also given by others online since it
predates the Lord of the Rings
and was very likely part of Tolkien's reading. In it is a ring that
turns the wearer invisible (no retaliation for anonymous behavior),
that Glaucon insists to Socrates would corrupt even the just if they
had an opportunity to use it.
Perhaps Tolkien's answer to how
to handle the problem is in Faramir's comment: "Not if I found it on
the highway would I take it", and in Gandalf's refusal to take it.
Playing anonymously online lets
us show our true quality.
July 28, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Skumfil
run both sides, stopping at the spider Hwandrith.
The run went a long time so we had a few people who had to
leave and were replaced. Thanks go to our patient guild-friends Isawen
(60 min) and Vandred (65 ).
Participants included Indis (Mirminuial65 capt), Maedhros (Galadhalion
65 champ), Malva (on both Necta 65 grd and Tulipan 65 min), Nimrodel
(Ardisian 65 hntr), Pippin (Illiardo 62 wrdn), and Varda (Timbridhil 65
grd).
July 26, 2010
Gaming / StarCraft 2:
StarCraft 2 is now out. Please
email Eonwe to let him know if you are playing.
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm EDT scheduled run (as
opposed to whim runs all during the week): We ran 2.5.5 in all three
parts successfully, requiring some substitution as some had to leave
due to work the next day.
For aid in healing, we had the
level 65 rune-keeper, Keshin, known to Indis-(V) who is now a welcome
guild-friend in the friend channel. Valar participants included Gildor,
Indis, Maedhros, Nimrodel, Pippin, and Varda.
The Wednesday run is expected to be for
Moria medallions, with requests so far for Skumfil (class quest
included), Grand Stairs quest mode, and Dark Delving.
July 25, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EDT (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace. AIM, Pidgin or Trillian are
programs that all work for joining in.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (10)
AriehnV,
ArPharazonV, Ecthelion-(V)/BFIIShotgunner, Eonwe Valar, fladrifv,
Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25,
Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
Ecthelion-(V)
is our new member this week.
Ar-Pharazon will not be here next meeting.
Gaming:
StarCraft/BroodWar
StarCraft 2 pre-orders
WoW
LotRO
Tolkien:
RP: Forum RP discussion and posting continues
through the rest of the meeting. The Gilraen chat is during a wait. The
Spider digression is sparked by the RP talk.
Gilraen
and Aragorn's experience compared to other sons of chieftains.
More RP
Spiders
in the books: Ungoliant, Shelob, Mirkwoodians
Yet more RP.
We collapse after a four-hour meeting.
July 23, 2010
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Ecthelion-(V)!
Ecthelion joined us in LotRO today after responding to a call from
Varda. He has bragging rights from testing 5/5! He's been in LotRO
since 2007, and was recently off for three months. Some of the games
he's played or still plays are LotRO, Titan Quest, and Sacred 2. He
used to play StarCraft and looks forward to SC2 and Diablo 3. He's
played a lot of Bioware games including Baldur's Gate 2, NeverWinter
Nights 1 and 2, Mass Effect 1 & 2, Dragon Age, Knights of the Old
Republic, and Jade Empire.
Ecthelion has read H, LotR, Sil, and parts of HoME.
His favorite character is Gandalf, whose sacrificial bravery to save
the group made him feel safe.
July 22, 2010
Membership and Gaming / WoW:
Menelvagor-(Valar)
transferred a level 76 character to our Lothar server branch group in
World of Warcraft.
July 21, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday night 8pm EDT instance
run: Grand
Stairs Hard Mode, ran twice, both successfully, and both times the
Insidious Cuff dropped.
Participants: Gildor on the first run
(Gwennair 65 hunter), Indis (Mereniel 65 lore-master), Melkor (Passim
65 rune-keeper), Nimrodel on the second run (Ardisian 65 hunter),
Pippin (Illiardo 60-61 warden), Ulmo (Niequi 65 minstrel), Varda
(Timbridhil 65 guardian)
July 19, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday night 8pm EDT instance run:
Grand
Stairs Quest Mode, went through Igash on quest mode and wiped out a lot
of quests,
gathered all possible medallions.
Participants: Indis (Mereniel 65 LM),
Maedhros (Maedhroc 65 wrdn), Melkor (Passim 65 rk), Nimrodel (Ardisian
65 hntr), Pippin (Illiardo 59-60 wrdn), Varda (Timbridhil 65 grd)
July 18, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace. AIM, Pidgin or Trillian are
programs that all work for joining in.
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (9)
AriehnV,
ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), Fladrif-(V)/fladrifv/alwin0,
Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, GwaihirValar, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor
Valar
VardaValar1 (After-meeting)
Membership:
Gilraen and Gwaihir are going to Blizzcon this fall.
Arien is going to The Festival in the Shire in Wales
this August.
Indis is heading to California late August.
Gaming:
WoW
LotRO
StarCraft 2 pre-ordered by Ar-Pharazon.
Tolkien:
Link to "
The
Tolkien Professor"
Role-play on the forum.
July 12, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
For the Monday 8pm EST
get-together, we ran Fellowship quests in Gathburz of Mirkwood, doing a
few dailies on the side.
Participants were: Indis (65
rune-keeper), Maedhros (65 warden), Malva (65 guardian), Varda (65
guardian).
Melkor and Aratan ran together working
on leveling Aratan's level 60 hunter so that he can run the higher
level areas too.
Other folks were present but had
characters too low-level to come.
July 11, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (10)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar, fladrifv,
Galdor-(V)/galdorandwe, GwaihirValar, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor
Valar, TulkasValar61, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
Voted to keep meetings in AIM even after LotRO goes
free to play.
Galdor-(V)'s Few Words.
Web:
Link:
Born of
Hope online movie
Gaming:
WoW Realid
Second Life: Fladrif's one year anniversary party.
Master of Orion
Tolkien:
Menelvagor's topic: How did the Doom of the Children
of Húrin affect the Doom of the Noldor? (and possibly vice
versa?)
July 6, 2010
Links:
"Born of Hope": LotR-based movie,
link suggested by Eomer-(V).
July 5, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Epilogue instance run.
July 4, 2010
Happy
July 4th!
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (8)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar,
fladrifv, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1
(presiding)
Membership:
July 4th.
Indis' birthday.
Eowyn's engagement.
Gaming:
WoW beta for Cataclysm may now be talked about and
Arwen gave us some cool info.
Tolkien:
Arwen-(V)'s
topic concerns the Archetype of the Hero's Journey, and how Frodo
didn't follow it in the usual way. A related url brought up was on
TV Tropes
with the
Hero's
Journey.
Forum
role-play story discussion and posting.
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June 30, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Fil Gashan: we successfully
completed hard mode, taking down General Talug.
Participants: Indis (lore-master
Mereniel), Maedhroc (warden Maedhroc), Nimrodel (hunter Ardisian),
Tulkas (hunter Astaldovalar), Ulmo (minstrel Niequi), and Varda
(guardian Timbridhil).
June 29, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Summer Festival begins! Details.
June 28, 2010 Monday
Gaming / LotRO:
8pm instance time, to be determined
by who shows up. I'm hoping for a Moria instance to grab medallions
and/or slipping into the Warg Pens long enough to complete some of the
quests we started..
June 27, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe and Varda
Attending: (7)
AriehnV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1
Pallando-(Valar) in Gmail-chat.
Membership:
Two new Full Members this week:
Frodo-(V) and
Galdor-(V)
Web:
New stories this week:
The
Robin's Tale by Branwyn-(T)
Meals
on Wheels by Jay of Lasgalen
Gaming:
"LotR: Aragorn's Quest" coming out probably later
this year.
"LotR: War in the North" coming out probably early
next year.
"Starcraft 2" coming out in about one month from
today.
"WoW" Patch 3.5.5 is out including Real ID that
might be useful to someone.
"LotRO" free to play is coming out this fall and
several members have said they may be able to join us then who can't
now.
Tolkien:
Eonwe's
topic: Legitimacy of Sauron's claim to the Ring, and should he get
it back according to other Middle-earth precedents.
Forum
role-play discussion and posting together. Check out a lot of new
stuff!
After-meeting:
A little more rp talk, Pallando said hi from
Gmail-chat and may join us in the free to play LotRO this fall.
June 25, 2010
Membership:
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Galdor-(V)!
Galdor joined us today in LotRO after locating us on his own and
emailing Varda. He's played Diablo, Baldur's Gate, NWN, and Icewind
Dale. He's read the H, LotR, Sil and UT and tested 5/5. He's 41, from
New York State in the USA, EST, and married to a fellow Tolkien fan. A
stand-out character from the LotR for him is Gandalf, the counselor who
could also fight.
June 24, 2010
Tolkien / Stories:
"Meals
on Wheels" by Jay of Lasgalen. A dwarf is spotted by orcs that have
never seen one before. Drabble.
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday instance running: Warg Pens.
We tried two three-man groups and got a good start on the quests. One
team was of Nimrodel (Ardisian hunter), Ulmo (Niequi minstrel), and
Varda (Timbridhil guardian). The other team was of Gildor (Gwennair
hunter), Landroval (Rana hunter), and Maedhros (Maedhroc warden).
June 23, 2010
Membership:
Welcome
to the Valar Guild, Frodo-(V)!
Frodo joined us today in LotRO. He's 16, from the USA, in the Central
Time Zone. He's read the H, LotR, Sil, UT, and Children of Hurin. He
likes to game daily. One of the most stand-out characters in the LotR
for him was Elrond. A difference between the book and movie versions
was that he reforged the sword for Aragorn right away, and certainly
didn't go to Rohan while wearing his Ring and leaving Imladris
undefended by it.
June 22, 2010
Tolkien / Stories:
"The
Robin's Tale"
by Branwyn-(T): "How the least of Lord Denethor's servants came to his
defense." This short story includes Denethor, Faramir, and Gandalf.
June 21, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
8pm EST: instance time. A group of
us ran in Mirkwood in the Gathburz area that needs fellowships to
complete.
June 20, 2010 Sunday
Happy
Father's Day!
Elrond and Estel (young Aragorn), art by
Cassia-(T)
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Eonwe and
Varda
Attending: (4)
AriehnV, Eonwe Valar, fladrifv, VardaValar1
(presiding)
Gaming:
Chess:
Fladrif has moved into the chess finals
in Second Life.
Star Trek Online:
STO is now out of beta and some members
are trying it out.
WoW:
A new upcoming Cataclysm area was
unveiled:
Grim
Batol.
LotRO:
LotRO Beta started and some of our
members are in it. Don't forget to use our usual friend channel to find
each other!
We learned that the ctrl \ command to
move items in the interface is different on the European keyboard where
the command is ctrl # although this part of the meeting is not in the
transcript. Differences like this make it difficult for Europeans doing
programming in the US.
Tolkien:
In Middle-earth, who are some of the fathers we can
think of?
June 16, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm EST Dark Delving. This is in the
Foundation of Stone, nearest stable is at the Shadowed Refuge.
We completed two class quests: guardian
and warden, which was the main intention. We also learned for sure that
we couldn't swap and run another guardian or warden back in the same
run for a class quest. Today Ulmo's Wingilot warden and Varda's
Timbridhil guardian completed their class quests, and our group made it
up to Gurvand to take a look at the last boss fight. We also completed
or made progress on quests and deeds.
Participants were all level 65: Gildor
(Gwennair hunter), Indis (Alasse lore-master), Nimrodel (Ardisian
hunter), Pippin (Illiardo warden and Shamat guardian), Ulmo (Niequi
minstrel and Wingilot warden), and Varda (Timbridhil guardian and
Fainan hunter). Shamat, Wingilot, and Fainan were present only for
short sections. Other folks showed up as well, but did not get to make
it into tonight's run.
Pippin will be working during the
upcoming.Monday instance.
lotro-wiki walkthrough
of the Dark Delving, a little dated as it refers to the old style coins.
A successful Gurvand
boss fight.
Shouts might
cause attacks such as "Shut Your Mouth" and "Bleeding Ears".
June 14, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday instance day!
First we successfully ran as two groups
of three people through the Library
in Eregion, near Echad Mirobel: Ulmo (Wingilot warden), Nimrodel
(Ardisian hunter), and Gildor (Gwennair hunter); Maedhros (Maedhroc
warden), Finarfin (Gilothalion hunter), and Varda (Timbridhil
guardian). For some members, this was the first time through.
Then we ran the Sixteenth Hall
Moria instance (in the Foundations of Stone, with a stable at the
Shadowed Refuge) all the way through with Indis (Tengwarien
rune-keeper), Finarfin (Gilothalion hunter), Nimrodel (Ardisian
hunter), Pippin (Avengelina champion), Ulmo (Niequi minstrel), and
Varda (Timbridhil guardian). The main purpose was to complete Indis'
rune-keeper class quest, but we continued on and cleared all the way
through the Lost One. This was the first time into this instance for a
couple of the participants.
Wednesday we hope to do the Dark Delvings Moria instance and
pick up class quests for wardens and guardians.
June 13, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (8)
Ancalagon-(V)/Sarujil, AriehnV,
ArPharazonV, fladrifv/alwin0, Eonwe Valar, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth,
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
Indis-(V) is back from Egypt with her repaired
computer.
Ar-Pharazon-(V) is back from Spain temporarily
before heading to England for a WoW gathering.
Dreamlord-(T) recently had a birthday.
Web:
Art: Ryan Lovett repaired the Rolozo site which is
now working again, and also happens to be the main source of
illustrations for our Tolkien Encyclopedia.
Games Site: now hugely revamped by Eonwe-(Valar).
Gaming
Tolkien:
Does it seem to you folks that J.R.R. Tolkien used
blond hair as something special in Middle-earth or perhaps as a plot
device? Did any villain have blond hair?
After-meeting:
Afterwards, Fladrif showed Varda around his
beautiful homes and garden in Second Life, and showed some of the
costumes he's made including a tree, tree-man, and tiger-man.
June 11, 2010
Tolkien Site:
Ryan Lovett, who does the Rolozo
Tolkien art site that is our main source of Tolkien Encyclopedia
illustrations, has repaired the coding. We have art again!
June 9, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
For Wednesday instance night,
Varda and Dis, with Dis' husband Alrid, joined Lhee group for a quick
Watcher run. (Lhee is Amroth-V, Lhee group includes a good number
of guild-friends and is a mixed kin group that raids and whom we've run
with at times since LotRO went live.)
Afterwards, we had enough
Valarites to make a full fellowship and did Drowned Treasury, the epic
book quest in which we find where the Watcher went after it blocked the
doors to Moria. Some members used the pool to enter the instance, and
aided Nimrodel's Ardisian and Varda's Timbridhil to complete the quest.
Thank you! Participants were Dis (Freyah), Gildor (Gwennair), Nimrodel
(Ardisian), Pippin (Avengelina), Varda (Timbridhil) and guild-friend
Alrid (Dis' husband).
June 6, 2010
Tolkien / Stories:
"Refuge"
by Branwyn-(T). "The White City lies becalmed in the summer heat. Set
after the Ring War."
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
June 4, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
This fall, LotRO begins a
Free-to-Play set-up going to level 50. Paid and Lifetime subscribers
have a lot more privileges. http://www.lotro.com/betasignup/
includes how to sign up for those who haven't played and info on paid,
plus the new perks added to the game. That info and more is also on the
regular
LotRO forum.
June 2, 2010, Wednesday:
Gaming / LotRO:
8pm EST: Forgotten Treasury. Come
finish deeds and help Ulmo's warden with this 6-man instance.
Humor YouTube:
Bruce Lee vs Iron Man,
suggested by Meriadoc-(V) for the cameo at the end.
Hobbit movies:
May 30: Guillermo del Toro is no
longer directing the movies, although willing to continue helping with
some duties, due to MGM Studios foot-dragging. He was signed for a
three-year contract, after which he had a lot of other projects lined
up, but MGM wanted to drag it out to six years. Already done: script,
choreography for battle scenes, costumes, sets, at least partial
casting.
His statement
is on the OneRing.net.
Peter Jackson is already
committed to directing other movies, but there's a chance he might do
it if no one else can be found. See The
Dominion Post.
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May 31, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday 8pm EST: Forgotten Treasury
run planned, to aid Ulmo's young Warden and to complete deeds. Not
enough people could make it at that time.
Tolkien / Art:
New model photos from
DeepGroover-(T): Evil
Wolf; Grand
Master of the Teutonic Order.
May 30, 2010:
Happy Memorial Day!
Sunday
Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5) May 30, 2010
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Indis and
Varda
Membership:
Fangorn's birthday was May 25.
Indis will be out of the country on a business trip
between the 2nd and the 12th of June.
Arien has her vacation days set and is trying to get
tickets to be our reporter for the Festival of the Shire Convention.
Gaming:
World of WarCraft (WoW)
Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO): Monday Forgotten
Treasury is the planned instance.
Tolkien:
In honor of Memorial Day, name one battle from any
Tolkien book, with at least one participant and what that person did.
May 27, 2010
Varda, Fangorn, and Sauron will not be available
as they are going overnight camping and leaving this morning.
May 26, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
8pm regular Moria run: Fil Gashan
We ran Fil Gashan and completed it,
then went back to clear trash mobs for deeds. At least two people
finished up enough medallions for radiance items. We want to hit it
again to complete the deeds and improve our smoothness.
Participants: Gildor (Gwennair 65
hunter), Indis (Tengwarien 61 rune-keeper), Nimrodel (Ardisian 64
hunter), Pippin (Avengelina 65 champion), Ulmo (Niequi 65 minstrel),
and Varda (Timbridhil 64 guardian)
May 25, 2010
Happy Birthday, Fangorn-(Valar)!
Gaming / WoW Lothar:
Eowyn, Fangorn, Sauron,
Schlep, and Varda got together in WoW Lothar server and did a couple of
old world instances for Fangorn's birthday: Stockades and Gnomeregan.
Gnomeregan will probably be gone with the Cataclysm expansion, so we
went completely through it.
Gaming / LotRO
Landroval:
Free weekend starts today, for the
Memorial weekend holidays, May 25-31. Free stable rides and extra
experience. Details.
May 24, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
8pm Fil Gashan run. We worked more
on clearing some questing and deeds this time and still picked up a few
Medallions of Moria.
Participants were: Gildor
(Gwennair hunter, had to leave for work near the end), Indis
(Tengwarien 65 rune-keeper), Melkor (Passim 65 rune-keeper, connection
problems and had to bow out early), Nimrodel (Aridisian hunter), Pippin
(Avengelina 65 champion, took Gildor's place), Tulkas (Astaldovalar 65
hunter, took Melkor's place), Ulmo (Niequi 65 minstrel), Varda
(Timbridhil 64 guardian).
May 23, 2010:
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5) May 23, 2010
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Eonwe and
Varda
Attending: (8)
AriehnV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar
(presiding), fladrifv, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25,
Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1
Gaming:
World of WarCraft (WoW)
Across games: Eonwe intends to be more available to
both WoW and LotRO and to general chat by being in AIM more often, sort
of like our old Battlenet days.
In WoW, Eonwe got with some of the members in-game
on the Lothar server and discussed how to use the guild bank best.
WoW Guild bank
summary by Eonwe:
In June I intend to do some "spring
cleaning" of the Lothar Guild Bank. Today, I posed to the Lothar
membership present in World of Warcraft a series of questions
concerning the layout and organization of the Guild Bank. Of the
discussion that ensued, we generally agreed on a few things:
1.) That the guild bank should focus on collecting rare or generally
harder to obtain items, with a preference for items from the current
expansion. For example, armor, weapons, and crafting recipes should be
of rare (blue) quality or higher, glyphs should focus on the more
useful ones, and consumables should be from the current expansion.
2.) That a single bank tab should be allocated for items encompassing
the experience from levels 1-60. Whatever falls between this level
range is to be put here, but once it's full, it's full until something
out of it is used. There is to be no spillover into other bank tabs.
Anything falling beyond this level range can be stored normally, with
respect to the above.
3.) That items used to gain reputation with a faction were generally
given a pass.
4.) Profession-specific items (i.e blacksmith keys, leatherworking
drums) should not be stored in the Guild Bank, as they are not
universally usable. It's better to store these in one's personal
inventory.
More detailed (though not necessarily
comprehensive) notes will be put into the info tab for each bank tab
once the cleaning is done. For anything that will not be found in the
guild bank after the cleaning, members are welcome to seek these items
from other members either in person, or through the WoW Trading section
on the Forum.
Lord of the Rings
Online (LotRO)
Monday and Wednesday night 8pm EST
group instance running has had very good attendance, possibly needing a
second group running soon.
Chess
Fladrif is moving into the last section
of the chess matches.
Tolkien:
Festival
in the Shire conference,
first one. Anyone who can attend in Wales should have a great time.
Arien (from the Netherlands) hopes to go with her husband and bring
back a report. Music demos are on the site under J.R.R. Tolkien
Inspired
Music,
and small, rolling demos of art under
Artists.
May 21-23
Varda was out of town only until Saturday night.
Work called us back to town earlier than expected.
May 19, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Wednesday instance night: Fil Gashan
completed.
All Valar run. Champion on Talug the
whole run. Guardian on the Fang-caster for the whole run, during the
first part bringing it to the middle since it drops fire traps. First
part: The champion drags Talug into the fire traps making him
vulnerable, and then the dps goes after Talug. Second part: Then drag
the Fire-fist next to Talug and when it dies, the splatter damages
Talug.
Participants: Gildor (Gwennair hunter),
Indis (Alasse 65 lore-master), Nimrodel (Ardisian hunter), Pippin
(Avengelina 65 champion), Ulmo (Niequi 65 minstrel), Varda (Timbridhil
63 guardian).
May 18, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Monday instance night: Fil Gashan
as planned. Varda was late due to being unable to get home in time, so
we got a late start. Most had to leave because the time needed would
run over sleep time ahead of work, and some were at work and could not
pay close enough attention for an instance. We did run Fil Gashan 5-man
up to General Talug, when we added one more person, but did not bring
down Talug. We did pick up some Medallions of Moria and had a mithril
flake drop.
We partnered with friends from Keepers of Ayrshire
for this run and enjoyed their company.
Participants: Dis-V (Lilyblossom 65 minstrel,
Keepers of Ayrshire co-leader), Pippin-V (Avengelina 65 champion),
Varda-Valar (Timbridhil 63 guardian); Alrid (65 hunter Keepers leader
and Dis's husband), Connaver (63 burglar Keepers, now in our friend
channel), Litesha (65 hunter Keepers, Connaver's wife, came in to help
with Talug).
Suggested: take wound potions vs fire (waterfall
helps too), be sure hunters have fire oil vs Talug, lore-masters are
good for fire damage spells. A minstrel is required to Distract
sentries for hard mode. A champion is good to Clobber interrupt Talug's
helper, the Fangcaster, who otherwise hits the party with powerful fire
arrows. The Fangcaster is immune to being Riddled by a burglar.
May 17, 2010
Letter from Faramir-(V)-ex
I
decided to move my characters to a kin that some of my old friends
recently started that's going to focus a lot on raiding. I hope
there are no hard feelings. I enjoyed my time with Valar Guild,
but have lately felt that perhaps I don't quite fit in the way I would
like. I would still like to keep in touch with you guys if
possible, so feel free to ask me for help if you need it. Your
friend, hopefully, always ...
Faramir
May 16, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5) May 16, 2010
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (9)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar,
fladrifv, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar,
VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
Ar-Pharazon-(V): one month field trip starting
tomorrow
Fladrif-(V): birthday
Web:
Links
News page
Gaming:
Guild Wars: Ar-Pharazon
Second Life: Fladrif
Chess: Fladrif
Armadillo Run: Arien, Fladrif
World of WarCraft (WoW)
Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO)
Tolkien:
RP discussion. The plot is hung on getting a message
from Calaron.
How much information would the Avari pick up from
the Silvans?
May 14, 2010
Links:
"The
Tolkien Professor".
Recorded lectures from Dr. Corey Olsen, a tenured English professor at
Washington College, whose PhD is in medieval literature and a long-time
Tolkien fan. Link recommended by Daddy Twofoot-(V).
"Festival
in the Shire Journal". An online magazine discussing Tolkien and
Tolkien-related works.
May 12, 2010
Gaming/LotRO:
Wednesday 8pm was for our scheduled
instance run. Some who had come earlier were running the Dannenglor
book skirmish instance together. The group running the scheduled
instance completed Forgotten Treasury
in the Flaming Deeps, one that several of us had quests for and that we
had tried previously but run out of time. For Monday's 8pm EST
run, we will probably do Fil Gashan, its neighbor, which has
medallions.
The group started as a five-man,
adding the sixth when Indis was able to come online, despite a case of
the flu and a bad internet connection. Those running were Gildor (63
hunter), Indis (Mirminuial 65 captain), Nimrodel (Ardisian 62 hunter),
Pippin (65 champion), Ulmo (Niequi 65 minstrel), and Varda (Timbridhil
63 guardian).
May 11, 2010
Gaming/LotRO:
The gang tried out Skumfil, a Moria radiance
instance. (Varda was out of town.) According to Gildor's report in chat
(which he didn't expect to be on the News):
"did Skum for the first time last
night with fellow Valar. Unfortunately it was bugged and and we to
leave. Kept resetting.
"the main baddies in the Hive
Nest kept respawning. You would kill one boss, then another, but 30
seconds later they would appear again and again and we kept dying. No
medallions."
Some of the participants were Dis,
Gildor, Melkor, and Pippin. I'm guessing Nimrodel was there.
May 10, 2010
Happy Birthday Fladrif!
Gaming / LotRO:
Planning to do an instance 8pm EST. We'll see which
one when we see who comes. :)
Next planned instance Wednesday 8pm EST.
Other instances will be done spur of
the moment as usual.
We are trying out Mondays and
Wednesdays as planned instance times, and by in-game discussion found
that 8pm was best due to work schedules. This will not replace
spur-of-the-moment runs, but add to them.
First scheduled run since Turtle days:
8pm EST may be too early.
Most showed up around 9pm. For that hour, Nimrodel, Gildor, and Varda
(as Timbridhil) knocked out a few Moria quests to clear quest room for
instances and to level Nim's and Gildor's mains. Faramir's Celebrandt
was already on pugging in Sammath Gaul, a successful run.
When enough of us came online at
around 9, we joined up for Forges,
a Moria radiance instance in the
Flaming Deeps. Fil Gashan is right next to it allowing a few of us to
complete the exploration deed. The instance seemed bugged according to
several members who had done the instance many times before, but we
still picked up Moria medallions, a first for some of our characters
and some folks leveled. The problem was that despite any varieties of
aggro, the two trolls kept getting back together.
Participants were Faramir
(Timbenzedrine
minstrel alt), Gildor (Gwennair 63 hunter main), Gorlim (Sprain 62
guardian alt), Indis (Mirminuial captain alt), Nimrodel (Ardisian 63
hunter main), Pippin (Avengelina 65 champion main, subbed in when
Gildor had to go to bed), and Varda (Timbridhil 63 guardian alt). The
company was great! Fun was had by all.
One suggestion generally
agreed on was that we all need to get our mics working.
Dis brought in a new alt
to the kin during the same time: Disvandl (vandl means staff).
Eonwe was also on but his
main was not quite up to the Forges yet. Give him just a little more
time and he'll be in the thick of it.
Next planned instance is on Wednesday
at 8pm.
May 9, 2010
Happy
Mother's Day!
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5) May 9, 2010
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (5)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
fladrifv, VardaValar1
Tolkien topic: mothers in
Tolkien's works, their children, and their husbands.
May 6, 2010
Happy Birthday Ar-Pharazon!
May 2, 2010
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Nob-(V)! Nob, aka
Elenrandir, joined as a Full Member in LotRO today, then in WoW
transferred his level 80 Peralt from another server and joined our
guild branch on Lothar. He's been gaming with us in LotRO for months,
finding us through Indis. Varda tested 5/5. He's 24, from Texas, USA in
CST. He has training in web design. His favorite character from LotR is Sam the awesome, brave and
clever, who was able to resist the One Ring.
Welcome to the
Valar Guild, Bofur-(V)!
Bofur, aka Eldwin and Dagr, joined as a Full Member in LotRO, then had
a playful contest with Nob to see which of them could transfer their
WoW character faster. He, too joined our WoW Lothar branch and the two
gamed with Bilbo and Eonwe there. As Dagr in LotRO, he is the leader of
the kin Goldtaggers Anonymous, with his friend, Nob-(V) above and a
couple of other people rarely seen, and they will be keeping their
kinhouse. He too has been gaming with us in LotRO for months with
Elenrandir, finding us through Indis. Varda tested 5/5. He's 24. One of
the characters he finds most interesting in the LotR is Sauron. "Conquering the
whole world via jewelry? Genius."
Welcome to the
Valar Guild, Bard-(V)!
Bard, aka Anglaf, joined as a Full Member in LotRO where he's been
gaming with Varda (5/5), and is fairly new to LotRO. He's played many
MMO's before this but now plays exclusively LotRO. He's 19, from Ohio,
USA in EST. Bard is going for his degree in Information Systems
Management with a minor in Computer Science. He works in IT at college,
where he's in R.O.T.C., and will be going into the military for eight
years. Bard has read the Hobbit
(favorite book), the Lord of the
Rings, and the about the first one-hundred pags of the Silmarillion. His favorite LotR
character is Aragorn for plot development and archetype, and is the one
he can relate to the most for himself and for his struggle. Bard is
also a softy for love stories.
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5) May 2, 2010
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon the Golden and Varda
Attending: (5)
ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), Gilraen-(V)/
Iryenth, Indis-(V)/
karakedi25, VardaValar1
Tolkien:
Peter Jackson knighted.
In-game trivia with prizes.
Badguys in Tolkien: Redeemable or not?
What the free people would do if they
had the Ring.
Eonwe's illustration: Different
moralities for mankind shown in
LotR
and
Wheel of Time.
April 28
Peter
Jackson knighted.
This article was brought to the guild's attention by Meriadoc-(V). As
he points out, this brings the Lord
of the Rings
movies up to four real knigts: Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Ian Holm, Sir
Christopher Lee, and Sir Peter Jackson. A quick Google search confirms
the news with a very great many posts. :) The title is Knight
Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Video
interview after being knighted.
The Hobbit. According to Peter
Jackson, the two movies for The
Hobbit are now scripted, but not expected to come out until
2013. The only three actors expected to be returning
are Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen), Elrond (Hugo Weaving), and maybe
Galadriel (Cate Blanchett).
April 26
Gaming / LotRO:
Third anniversary of LotRO
celebration begins.
Log in all your characters no matter
how small to pick up the Writ of Virtue: 20% off on traiting with a
Bard. This will be available until the end of the celebration, probably
to June 30..
April 25, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (5)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1
Fladrif is unable to enter the chat room again, but
now only his alwin0 name works at all now. Please make sure that name
is on your friend list.
Membership:
DeepGroover-(T)
Gaming:
WoW
LotRO
Tolkien:
Forum role-play discussion
After-meeting:
Above discussion continued a little longer.
April 22, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Patch
notes for April 26.
April 21, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Happy Third Anniversary to Lord of the Rings
Online!
Update
on the anniversary celebration by LotRO, moved slightly:
Starting on April 26th and running
throughout the celebration, a token of appreciation will be placed in
your bag when you log in and join the party: The Writ of Virtue. Log
into the game between April 26th and June 30th. The Writ grants a
passive skill that gives you a 20 percent discount with Bards all
across Middle-earth. In order to receive your Writ of Virtue, you must
have a free bank slot at the time of your character log-in. If you have
not received your gift and fully expected it to arrive, your inventory
was most likely full when delivery was attempted. Please empty a space
in your inventory, log out of the game and back in, and your Writ
should be delivered.
Sign up for any 3, 6, or 12 month
subscription plan, and play LOTRO for only $9.99 per month!
Monsters of all levels will drop tokens
when you defeat them! You can exchange these tokens for Anniversary
Gift Boxes brimming with level-appropriate party favors to aid in your
adventures. Available for players of all levels
April 20, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
News from the LotRO site:
"Warner Bros.
Home Entertainment Group announced today the acquisition of Turbine,
Inc., the largest privately-held online gaming studio in North America,
further strengthening Warner Bros.’ position as one of the industry’s
fastest growing, full-scale games publishers." Press
release link.
April 18, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by the
magnificent Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (6)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Indis-(V)/karakedi25,
TulkasValar61, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Fladrif was unable to enter the chat room.
Membership:
New member:
Malva-(V)
Gaming:
LotrO:
Ulmo-(Valar) offered help
with LotRO raids. Help him plan by putting your interest and info on
our forum under LotRO/Raids and Quests.
Other folk who are willing to help
run quests or raids are Indis-(V) and Malva-(V).
WoW
StarCraft beta
Second Life
Dragon Age
Warhammer
Tolkien:
"Children of Hurin"
Christopher Tolkien: does he have an opinion on
LotRO, the various movies? What would JRRT's feelings have been?
How JRRT worked on setting up the world for the free
people if they could defeat Sauron.
Segued into: What could have gone into the sequel if
JRRT had gone ahead and written "A New Shadow" as he started to.
April 16, 2010
Links page:
Tolkiendil: A French Tolkien
site recommended by Indis-(V), listed in our links under
Tolkien/"Tolkien Encyclopedias and Articles".
Gaming / LotRO:
April 21st is the third anniversary of
LotRO. Monsters will be dropping level-appropriate barter tokens. A
Writ of Virtue will be given to any player who logs in between April
21st and June 30th, giving a 20% discount at any Bard in Middle-earth.
Three, six, or twelve-month subscription plans will be available for
$9.99 per month.
April 12, 2010
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Malva-(V)!
She's been gaming with us for quite some time as her minstrel, Tulipan,
and honored us by deciding to put her young Guardian, Necta, in our
LotRO kin, taking the test from Varda and Eonwe.
Malva has a degree in Botany and worked in the
Biotech field. She's 63 and lives in southern California, USA, so her
time zone is PST.
The full name of her character is Malva "Headstrong"
Brandybuck, chosen because "Headstrong" plus hobbit felt like a
comfortable fit.
She first read LotR in 1966 and has been re-reading
it every two or three years since. She also read the Silmarillion
once.In LotR, the friendship between Legolas and Gimli was a favorite
part. Malva tends to like parts evoking sympathy for the worthy, such
as the ents losing all of the entwives. Another was Frodo who
volunteered to take the Ring to Mount Doom. Fighting the evil of it
left him marred. He had lost his parents and came home to find his
village taken by the wizard. He never got his peace back in
Middle-earth.
April 11, 2020
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by the
fantastic Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (6)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, fladrifv, GwaihirValar,
Indis-(V)/karakedi25,
VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
Times some members will be away from the guild:
Arien-(Valar) - May 2 Sunday
Indis-(V) - 1st half of May intermittent
Ar-Pharazon-(V) - May 17 - June 9. Another
transcripter will be needed at that time.
Tolkien: Writing systems
April 4, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by the
fabulous Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (7)
ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), fladrifv,
Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, TulkasValar61, VardaValar1
Membership:
New member: Tar-Palantir-(V)
Daddy Twofoot-(V)
Tulkas-(Valar)
Web:
Search Everything engine repaired.
Timeline will be continuing and will need your
proof-reading and aid with link-out articles and pictures.
Easter egg on the News page for today. Find and
click it.
Gaming:
WoW:
April Fool's jokes
Noblegarden
New lore/story forum
LotRO
Tolkien:
There are moments in Tolkien that stand out. Some
for beauty, some for amazement, some for horror:
The Glittering Caves of
Aglarond was found during the battle of Helm's Deep.
Beren's payment. Quote.
Galadriel's
near-"transformation" when Frodo offers her the Ring.
Fingon on eagle-back
rescuing Maedhros. Quote.
For next meeting, Indis requested that we discuss
writing systems.
RP discussion
April 2. 2010
Tolkien Site:
The Search Everything
search engine is now much more usable. A sudden server change hadn't
accepted his old coding, now modified. He also updated several links
that it was searching. Give the new Search Everything a test-drive and
let Varda or Arveleg-(V) know how it did for you. (The Search
Everything is not to be confused with the Search Articles,
programmed by Eonwe-(Valar) to work on just the articles for research
purposes.)
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March 31, 2010
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Tar-Palantir-(V)!
Palantir joined us in LotRO this evening, tested by Varda and greeted
in the wee hours of the morning by Morwe-(V) and Gwindor-(V). A
character from LotR making a strong impression on him was Gandalf,
since Palantir always likes the wizened old wizards who know what's
going to happen, and still deal with fate and all that entails.
March 30, 2010
Letter from Tulkas-(Valar):
Hello Varda, our vacation was cut
short when we received news of the unexpected death of our son at
home. would you consider posting this link on our news page
http://www.tompkinsfuneralhome.ca
His name is
cory
mccarthy and he was 23 years old. my wife kelly and i
are brokenhearted. I just came into the game to escape for a bit.
Letter from Daddy Twofoot-(V):
hello,
Wanted to let you know, Daddy Twofoot is back for good. My wife and I
are both officially lifetime subscribers now. I have been playing an
alt named Creighton to help her level. Drop me a line if you see me on.
Talk to you soon.
March 28, 2010
Tolkien Site / Poetry:
My
Immortal by Alcardilme-(T). Faramir's lament for Boromir.
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (6)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1
Membership:
Nimrodel's birthday
Menelvagor's birthday
Web:
Poetry:
"
My
Immortal" by Alcardilme-(T)
A-Z
Encyclopedia:
Links added for the non-articles.
A-Z links repaired.
Games
Page:
New header.
Gaming News links repaired for all of
2010 retroactively, will probably not be done for 2009.
Links Page:
New
webcomics
added suggested by Ar-Pharazon-(V).
Gaming:
Diablo 2:
1.13 patch up
WoW:
3.3.3 patch up
LotRO:
Spring Festival
Welcome Back Weekend
Dragon Age
Mass Effect 1
StarCraft/BroodWar
Guild Wars
Tolkien:
Tolkien trivia showdown: Whoever gets the answer
first asks the next question.
March 25, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Welcome back weekend started today, a
little early maybe, but we're not going to argue with the free stable
runs and extra 5% experience.
March 23, 2010
Happy Birthday to Nimrodel-(V)!
Gaming / LotRO:
Spring Festival began today. New games!
Gaming / WoW:
Patch 3.3.3 went live.
March 22, 2010
Happy 29th birthday, Menelvagor!
March 21, 2010
Tolkien Site / Articles:
Raft-elves
by Varda-(Valar).
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (6)
Ancalagon-(V)/Joldahks, AriehnV, Eonwe Valar,
fladrifv, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Web:
New article:
Raft-elves
by Varda
Gaming:
Misc:
Second Life: Fladrif, Varda
Diablo 2 patch coming
Oblivion: Pippin, Ar-Pharazon
WoW:
Pre-Cataclysm event
LotRO:
Bullroarer Day
Spring Festival
Tolkien:
Ted
Nasmith, the artist.
Fell
beasts and dragons.
Forms
of Sauron. Also,
did
he use the form of Annatar while in Numenor? How
would the Numenoreans know he was a Maia?
The
evil magician Kuruki.
Forum Role-play discussion:
Side Tolkien bit:
Is
the Forest Path in Mirkwood enchanted?
March 19, 2010
Hobbit movie to start filming in July. Article
recommended by Elatan-(T).
March 17, 2010
Letter from OneRing.net:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theoneringnet/2010/03/21/theoneringnet-radio-show-episode-12
TheOneRing.net Radio Show Welcomes Ted Nasmith this Sunday, March 21st
at 2pm Eastern.
We’re pleased to have internationally acclaimed artist Ted Nasmith on
the show this weekend! Tune into TheOneRing.net Radio Show on
BlogTalkRadio at 2pm Eastern for your chance to chat with Ted and ask
him questions about anything from his love of LOTR, to his long history
on the Tolkien calendar and more! Be sure to check out our
BlogTalkRadio page and set yourself a reminder for this Sunday at 2pm!
http://tinyurl.com/ybw7bfx
About Ted Nasmith
Ted Nasmith is best known as an illustrator of J. R. R. Tolkien's works
— The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
In 1972, Nasmith mailed photographs of some of his paintings to J. R.
R. Tolkien. Tolkien responded by letter a few weeks later, both
praising the work and making the comment that the rendition of Bilbo
Baggins seemed a little too childlike. Still a teenager at the time,
this early feedback from Tolkien encouraged Nasmith to strive for a
more literal interpretation of Tolkien's works.
Nasmith is also considered a Tolkien scholar, well-read in ancient
history, religion, and other areas. He is a prominent member of several
Tolkien-related organizations (such as The Tolkien Society, the
Mythopoeic Society, and Mensa's Beyond Bree).
Nasmith is a musician, guitarist and tenor. Much of his musical work is
likewise inspired by Tolkien's writings. His first commercial album,
The Hidden Door: Songs in the Key of Enchantment, was released in 2007.
He has also worked on a musical project entitled Beren and
Lúthien: A Song Cycle, with his friend Alex Lewis, and has a
close friendship with the founders of The Tolkien Ensemble.
http://www.TedNasmith.com
All the best,
Michael Regina
Editor in Chief - TheOneRing.net
xoanon@theonering.net
March 14, 2010
Daylight Savings time starts Sunday.
Sunday
Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
AIM seemed pretty well settled.
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (9)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eomer-(V)/IWF519, Eonwe Valar
(presiding), fladrifv, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Grimbold-(T)/HearNoEvil80,
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1
Membership:
Grimbold-(V) is back. Lots of news.
Web
Gaming
WoW: pre-patch
LotRO: Pi(e)
Other: SCBW, GuildWars, SC2, D3
Tolkien:
Indis' topic: In honor of Pi(e) Day, I thought I
might bring up the role of food (and perhaps drink) in Tolkien's
Legendarium.
Forum Role-play discussion.
March 7, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
AIM's team repaired a lot of what caused the problems during this last
week, huzzah!
Meeting Transcript by the
illustrious Ar-Pharazon, Arwen, Indis, Eomer, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (8)
AriehnV,
ArPharazonV, arwenv, Eomer-(V)/IWF519, Eonwe Valar, fladrifv,
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Gilraen tried but was unable to enter the chat room.
Membership:
A death in Arien's family.
New members this week: Gwindor-(V) and Nellas-(V)
Web
Gaming:
A request was made for our gamers from all
games to please communicate more using our Forum. Let us know what game
you're in and under what name so others of us can join you, even
without any formal branch.
Tolkien:
Topic requested by Landroval-(V): Information from
the books about the Great Eagles, especially as a help to role-playing.
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Feb. 28, 2010
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Gwindor-(V)! Gwindor
is a friend of Melkor's who scouted him, and was tested by Orome this
morning. We were happy to see him this evening in LotRO and enjoyed
meeting his Lore-master Baragrod and Champion Gwindor-(V). He used to
be a member of the Valar Guild in Dark Age of Camelot enough years back
that he has forgotten the previous name, but is enjoying Gwindor, whom
he finds an interesting character in the Silmarillion.
Welcome to the Valar Guild to Nellas-(V)! She
responded to a call from Varda, and wanted a stable group that has
screening of members. She and her family have all read LotR, although only she plays
LotRO. She has also read the Hobbit
and part of the Silmarillion,
which seemed too much like a reference book for her to read straight
through. Her level 65 hunter, Nimromiel, is now with us in the LotRO
kinship branch. Sometimes she also plays the Diablo 2 Expansion. Nellas
is a college student in Canada studying Biology, which can eat into her
time as it should. She also shares one computer with her family, so
that also can limit time. Her favorite LotR character is Aragorn. She
would have liked the movie to have also included Elladan and Elrohir.
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
For the first time we could not hold a proper
meeting in AIM. It has updates and a beta going on that might have
caused the bugginess. Among those clawing their way into the room or a
side window for at least a short time were Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Fladrif,
Gilraen, Indis, Menelvagor, and Varda. We think others tried but
couldn't get that far.
The planned Tolkien topic was on the Great Eagles,
suggested by Landroval-(V) who would like to hear more about them.
Feb. 27, 2010
Tolkien Site /
Art:
Cave of DeepGroover-(T):
"Aragorn"
model put together, modified, and painted by DeepGroover.
Membership:
8.8 Earthquake and tsunami.
An email has been sent to
Dwalin-(T) of Brasil and we look forward to hearing that he is well.
An email was attempted to
Beren-(Valar) of Argentina but was undeliverable. We hope he is well.
Beren, o Lord of Lag, a note on the Valar Guild forum would be
appreciated to let us know you're ok.
Friends in Hawaii seem to be ok except
for a scare, as the tsunami didn't go as high there as predicted.
Letter from
Dwalin:
Hail Varda,
If you see at
Google eath or google maps, you will see that we are completely safe
here (for a while)... Thank you very much for ask, Varda.
It´s very kind of your part.
I hope you be fine too and
thanks for updatting the cave. That´s all fine to me.
May all Valinor put
their eyes on your head and your heart.
Dwalin - Dwarf of the Far South Coast
Feb. 25, 2020
Gaming / LotRO
Announcement quote:
The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, March 1 from
6:00AM – 10:00AM Eastern (-5 GMT)
to launch the latest free content
update, Volume III: Allies of The King, Book 1 Oath of the Rangers.
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Click here) for the release notes.
Feb. 23, 2010 Tuesday
Gaming / LotRO:
LotRO gaming will be down from
about 4am to 4pm EST while the last information from the database
shifts to the new servers.
Melkor is on vacation far from
computers, even LotRO gaming, until May.
Feb. 21, 2010
Tolkien Site / Poetry:
"Fall
of the Similarill" by Peregrin-(V). The end of the elves.
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by
Ar-Pharazon, Arwen, Gilraen, and Varda
Attending: (9)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv, Eonwe
Valar, fladrifv, Gilraen/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor
Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Gwahir-(Valar) over-the-shoulder
Web:
Links - new
Art - new from the Bohemian Weasel-(T), plus repairs.
Humor - new from the Bohemian Weasel-(T), plus
repairs.
Poetry - new from Peregrin-(V)
Gaming
Tolkien:
Request for short quotes usable as messages of the
day in our various gaming branches.
Quotes (not necessarily short) and discussions
firing off of them, including Ulmo's appearance and actions in
Middle-earth, other Ainur affecting Middle-earth.
Feb. 20, 2010
Links page:
Link: this
gentleman makes what anyone can see is a hobbit house.
Tolkien Site / Art:
Cave
of the Bohemian Weasel-(T):
New art: Aragorn,
Arwen,
Aragorn
and Arwen at the coronation, Boromir,
Celeborn
(new Celeborn section made), Eowyn,
Frodo,
Galadriel,
Haldir,
Haldir
and Legolas (movie), Frodo,
Lorien
flets, Lorien
boat, A
Weasel's LotR Guide to receiving unwanted Christmas presents politely.
Tolkien Site / Humor:
Frame linking repaired. Please email
Varda when you find something not working.
The Weasel's Christmas Guide from above
is included here.
Feb. 19, 2010
Happy birthday to Eowyn-(V)!
Feb. 15, 2010
Website news:
Varda's new computer is
running. The website was loaded back into her computer from a flash
drive backup, but some items were not current and were updated from the
online website.
Turgon's and Ulmo's art sites
should now open much more easily, as thumbnail pictures were added
today instead of using the temporary constrained images.
Meeting transcripts for Feb. 14
were kindly sent by Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Gilraen-(V), now put together
and online.
Feb. 14, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting
Transcript by Ar-Pharazon, Gilraen, Eonwe, and Varda.
Attending: (10)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eomer-(V)/IWF519, Eonwe Valar
(presiding),
fladrifv,
Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar,
Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory, VardaValar1
Fladrif-(V)/fladrifv tried to enter the room but AIM
wouldn't let him in. He participated in a side window.
Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory chatted in a side window, but
was unable to
join the meeting chat, so he participated in a side window. He's in
college trying not to play any MMO's for now so that he can study, but
would like to indulge his interest in Tolkien's Middle-earth, so he is
interested in the Tolkien Site.
Gwaihir-(Valar) is working during meetings.
Gaming
Tolkien:
Valentine's day game
RP: Sindarin language discussion, story posting.
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.
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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!!
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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