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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (4)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
General report by Eonwe and others.
Side Tolkien chat on the Heart of the Mountain (just after the LotRO report). Started with a joke and turned into actual discussion.
Tolkien:
Topic: Give suggestions for entry-level questions over the LotR. We need fresh ideas. Email or Discord message Varda if you have more entry question suggestions.
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Some folks may be hanging around Discord at or around their midnight tomorrow (and just odd times) to say Happy New Year!
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (4)
Discord: Arien (presiding), Ar-Pharazon, Elladan, Varda (After-meeting)
Gaming:
General report.
Tolkien:
Topic: What do we know, from LotR and The Hobbit, about marriage among Middle-earth's people?
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (4)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Falco, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Congratulations to Miriel on her birthday!
Web:
Updated pages
Gaming:
General report.
Tolkien:
Topic: How do we see the arts used by the characters in JRRT's works?
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (4)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Falco, Varda (presiding)
Membership news
Web
Gaming:
General report.
Tolkien:
Topic: Fingolfin vs Morgoth
After-meeting:
LotRO
Diablo 3
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Elladan (After-meeting), Falco (After-meeting), Pallando (After-meeting), Varda (presiding)
Membership news
Web
Gaming:
General report.
Tolkien:
Topic: Diction shifts.
After-meeting:
YouTube music "Lament for Lorien" suggested by Arien.
LotRO, working together for kinning from here.
Eve Online report by Pallando
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (9)
Discord: Anarion, Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Elladan, Eonwe, Gorlim, Pallando, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
(Mostly already done as hello during Before-meeting chat.)
Gaming:
PlanetSide2 review by Anarion-(V)
General gaming news
Lots of Eve Online news from the players.
Tolkien:
Topic: How did JRRT handle the subject of space? As in where you Eve guys are flying around?
We realized that most of this information is in the Histories, only a little in the Silmarillion with a bare mention in the LotR.
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Falco, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Walda-(V) joined the Valar Guild. (see Nov 10)
Web
Gaming:
Lord of the Rings Online:
During the meeting we set up another kin branch on legendary server Ithil, at the request of members who were taking hours to get on overcrowded legendary server Anor. Landroval will remain our main server.
We are taking votes on where to put the kin house in Anor and the one in Ithil, before we eventually pick up an island in Belfalas if we do that.
General report.
Tolkien:
Topic: Maiar known to be on Middle-earth, especially ones that Gandalf bumped into. Which Maiar do we know of that went to Middle-earth (after the walls were put up for Valinor)?
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Elrond, Falco, Ioreth, Varda (presiding)
Before-meeting:
Time changes in the US
Web:
Tolkien Site: Working on diacriticals
Gaming:
General report
Destiny 2: free for a short while
Pillars of Eternity 2: Celebrian's review after playing.
Diablo: Immortal: comments on this new phone game
Tolkien:
Topic: Dwarves and dragons
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (11+2)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Arwen, Celebrian, Elrond, Eonwe, Gorlim, Ioreth, Lenwe, Pallando, Varda (presiding)
Discord voice: Ztuke (guest)
LotRO: Luthien, Varda
Before-meeting
Time changes
Web:
Forum: riddle game
Gaming:
General gaming news by Eonwe and others.
Tolkien:
Topic: What was the origin of Gollum?
see also After-meeting for a Tolkien question.
After-meeting:
Halloween jokes
Tolkien question: If Gollum would have survived and the ring was destroyed, would he have reverted back?
"Ringbearer" links
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (8)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Elrond, Falco, Gorlim, Lenwe, Pallando in side chat, Varda (presiding)
Membership news
Gaming:
General gaming reports
Tolkien:
Topic: Book "The Fall of Gondolin" is in.
Topic: Tolkien Moments and discussion. The names Gollum and Frodo used personally for Sauron.
After-meeting:
Painting tabletop gaming miniatures being done by Gorlim, with links.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
Phar's personal Blizzard gaming.
Riddle game on the Forum
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Summary of the transcript:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Arwen (After-meeting), Celebrian, Elrond, Pallando, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Speculation about the future.
Gaming:
General news about games.
Tolkien:
Topic: Tolkien Moment when the Fellowship first sees Edoras. Discussion.
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
Meeting Transcripttop
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (8)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Elrond, Eonwe (before-meeting), Ioreth (before-meeting), Pallando, Varda (presiding)
Before-meeting:
This ran long as it includes much of the ongoing chat marathon and planning.
Membership news:
21st Anniversary of the Valar Guild.
The chat marathon ends with this meeting.
Screenies for the anniversary and theme continue all October.
Tolkien Site contributions (theme: drink) continue all October.
Web:
Tolkien Site: new article and stories this week.
Games Site: updated with this year's games.
Gaming:
State of Valar Gaming Report
General gaming news
Tolkien:
Topic: When did you guys and gals first get interested in Middle-earth? Were you kids or adults? Was it books, movies, games, school, family, friends?
After-meeting:
Chat topic continues.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
Personal multi-gaming report by Ar-Pharazon
Personal Eve gaming report by Elrond
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (4)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (presiding), Pallando (After-meeting)
Web:
Games Site Mass Update finishing up. Statistics from that are intended to be given for the Anniversary report.
Gaming:
General gaming reports by Eonwe and others.
Tolkien:
Forum Riddle Game ongoing
Today's game for the meeting: guess a character from the clues.
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
Chat Marathon (free chat) begins today in Discord meeting_place and continues to the next meeting, for the Anniversary celebration. Feel free to pop in and say hi or jump into whatever you want to chat about, picked up and replied to when other people see it during the week.
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Summary of the meeting:top
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Elladan, Elrond, Eonwe, Pallando, Varda (presiding)
Web:
Community / Forum:
The riddle game has started again on the Forum, during today's meeting. News given during After-meeting.
Gaming:
Games Site Mass Update ongoing.
General gaming reports.
Tolkien:
Topic: Bilbo and Frodo's birthday, moving on to the One Ring and Mt. Doom.
After-meeting:
Shadows of War review by Pallando
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (8)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Elrond, Ioreth, Menelvagor, Pallando, Varda (presiding)
Twitch stream: Gwaihir
Before-meeting:
Eve Online
Membership:
Twitch stream
Online D&D Beyond class held on Discord: Lost Mines of Phandelver module
Web:
Games Site:
Mass update has begun. Check your email! If no email, send an email to Eonwe or leave him a message on Discord with updated gaming info.
Community:
Next month is the 21st anniversary of the Valar Guild.
Start now on your art, poetry, stories, articles, etc.
Gamers, get ready to take screenshots in your games of choice. Now is a good time to start collecting fireworks or the equivent if you can, or check to see if you still have some in your stash. The branch storages will be trying to stock some for those that don't have fireworks on Anniversary Day. Passing around drinks, using the /drink emote is a fun extra for the theme. The usual rides together on anniversary day for various games into selected cities/locations will need to be coordinated, probably with two runs to handle time zones and our crazy schedules. We can try to arrange staggered times for those of us in more than one game.
Forum: We'll have a thread to say howdy and yay for our 21st anniversary. Don't forget the Shout box for between times too.
The riddle game will be starting up again on the Forum.
Gaming:
General gaming reports.
Tolkien:
Topic: Discussion of the Ainur and how to answer when someone asks "What do you mean, Valar Guild? Did you misspell valour/valor?"
After-meeting:
More chat on various subjects such as the word(?) "Valarites", SC2, Aratar jobs, and a link to a webcomic that shows why there's a difference between the book and movie concerning Aragorn's sword.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (presiding), Ioreth, Lenwe, Pallando
Web:
Tolkien Site:
Review by Lenwe-(V) of "Critical Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien"
Games Site:
Mass update has begun. Check your email! If you don't receive an email from Eonwe asking what your current games are, please email him or leave him a private tell in Discord.
Gaming:
General gaming report by Eonwe and others
Tolkien:
Fall of Gondolin
Topic: Game: Each of us will pick a character from Lord of the Rings, and describe that character until one of the others can guess who we're describing.
After-meeting:
The riddle game will be starting up again on the Forum.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Elrond, Gorlim, Marigold, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Varda
Marigold
Ar-Pharazon
Pallando
Gorlim
Arien's in After-meeting
Gaming:
General gaming report
Tolkien:
Topic: One of the things that keeps showing up in Tolkien's work is the concept of service. I'm not sure if this was intentional or just natural to him. Can you think of someplace where he shows what he thinks of the idea of service?
After-meeting:
Arien's membership news.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Anarion, Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Elrond, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
General gaming report
Tolkien:
Topic 1: Newsweek and JRRT
Topic 2: JRRT making combinations
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien (presiding), Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Elrond, Gorlim, Ioreth (After-meeting), and Lenwe
Gaming:
General gaming report from Eonwe's Gaming Site, Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, and Elrond
Tolkien:
Topic: Comparison of the song of the Barrow-wight with Bombadil's.
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
Gaming by Ar-Pharazon and Elrond
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Attending (and spoke): (6)
Discord: Anarion, Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Elrond, Eonwe, Varda (presiding)
LotRO: Gorlim, Varda
Web:
Tolkien Site / Articles
Updated "Kings and Lords of the Lands of Men", and "Kings of Arthedain".
New articles: "Amlaith", "Beleg, King of Arthedain", "Mallor"
Gaming:
General gaming report
Tolkien:
Topic: Elanor and the Red Book(s?)
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Elrond, Ioreth, Varda (presiding)
LotRO: Gorlim, Orome, Varda
Web:
Change to the HTML editor now being used to work with the Tolkien Site and community sites that Varda handles for the guild.
Varda is now trying out the SeaMonkey Composer for the HTML editor. Transcript is now .html instead of .htm
Gaming:
General gaming report
Tolkien:
Topic: Melian and Thingol's reaction to the coming of the Feanorians.
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
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Attending: (4)
Discord: Arien (presiding), Ar-Pharazon, Lenwe, Marigold
Web:
Arien's new art section (added June 25)
Gaming:
General gaming report
Tolkien:
Topic: Finding things in games that remind us of or actually come from Tolkien's works.
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
Meeting Transcript by Vardatop
Attending: (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Gorlim (After-meeting), Pallando (After-meeting), Varda (presiding)
LotRO: Orome, Varda
Web:
Tolkien Site: Art:
Bohemian Weasel-(T): book-style (not movie) sketch for Legolas in Lorien listening to the lament for Gandalf.
Gaming:
General gaming report by Eonwe.
LotRO:
News from the Launcher:
"The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, June 4th from 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT)
to launch Update 22.2. Click here for the Release Notes.!"
Changes to our classes and legacies are listed, so it's a good idea to look these over to help us adapt more quickly.
Tolkien:
Topic: How Tolkien's characters did at adapting to change.
Announcements and links by Arien:
Tolkien Exhibition in Oxford
Tolkien language speaker
After-meeting:
Flash-gaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript by Vardatop
Attending: (8)
Discord: Aranuir, Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Dis, Elrond, Pallando, Varda (presiding)
LotRO: Dis, Orome, Varda
Gaming:
General gaming report
Tolkien:
Topic: the Powers and the Fall of Gondolin
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
Meeting Transcript by Varda.top
Attending: (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Dis (After-meeting), Gorlim (After-meeting), Varda (presiding)
LotRO: Aranuir, Dis, Orome, and Varda
Membership:
Dis's news, during After-meeting.
Gaming:
General gaming report
Tolkien:
Topic: Tolkien chat and Moment.
Tolkien Moment: The Dead that Live
After-meeting:
Tolkien chat continued.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
Meeting Transcript by Vardatop
Attending: (6)
Discord: Aranuir, Arien, Ar-Pharazôn, Fladrif, Pallando, Varda (presiding)
LotRO: Aranuir, Oromë, and Varda
Gaming:
General gaming report
Tolkien:
Topic: What are the main plot-changing points, as in changing the plan, for the good or evil side, in the LotR? See how many we can think of.
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazôn
Meeting Transcript by Vardatop
Attending: (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Lenwe, Pallando (After-meeting), and Varda (presiding)
LotRO: Varda
Membership:
Arien back to work after vacation.
Erkenbrand back to college.
Web:
Varda's main computer is in the shop.
Gaming:
General gaming report
Tolkien:
Topic 1: Which two towers might have been the Two Towers of the title of the second book of the Lord of the Rings?
Tangent: What did the two halves of the Two Towers books have in common?
Topic 2: Hobbits: what were they like, that the Wise and the Enemy (and Saruman was both!) overlooked them, but they became central to the destruction of Sauron?
After-meeting:
A little more Tolkien talk, Tolkienesque links.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
