Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (4)
Discord: Arien, Eonwe, Falco, Sandalf13, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic: What brought a sense of wonder to a member of the Fellowship?
After-meeting:
puzzle
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Sandalf13, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
World of Warcraft, Diablo 4, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic: Is Sam's beloved Rosie Cotton an essential character to the story?
After-meeting:
Continued chat.
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (presiding), Sandalf13, Shelob, Varda
Gaming:
World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Diablo 2
Tolkien:
Topic: The Fallen King statue
RP: mention of postings made recently
Topic (tangent): the Valar overwatch of Middle-earth.
After-meeting:
Topic (tangent): elvish statuary
RP: honey and fish
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (8)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Fangorn/Treebeard, Irmo, Lenwe, Sandalf13, Varda (presiding)
Before-meeting
Chat topic: snow in Middle-earth
Suggestion to guild artists: we would like a snowy picture maybe in the Shire with hobbit children at play. Painting, screenshot.
Membership news:
Irmo and Miriel's new house.
Gaming:
World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Diablo 3, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone. More LotRO. Mentions of Final Fantasy, Starcraft, Minecraft.
Tolkien:
RP. What is it? More later including postings and question about elf hearing.
Links requested for the Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO) game and system requirements.
(For more Tolkien chat topics see Before-meeting and After-meeting.)
Chat topic: How is atmosphere used in the weather sense to create atmosphere in the tone sense in the books?
After-meeting:
Chat topic: How Arda came to be.
Anne Rice
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (7)
Discord: Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Falco, Fangorn/Treebeard, Ioreth, Sandalf13, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Web:
Update on the Games site
Gaming:
LotRO Brawler Class report by Falco
World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online, FFXIV
Tolkien:
Topic 1: Time contrast.
Topic 2: Reading the names of the dead in memorial and how it helped the story.
After-meeting:
Topic 3: Using "cal" for "light" in some of the gaming character names and how it got odd.
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Fangorn/Treebeard, Sandalf13, Varda (presiding)
Before-meeting
Our voice and video channel.
Membership news
Web
Gaming:
World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
RP: order of posting
YouTube link from Arien: Where there's a whip, there's a way.
Topic: What was needed to take a boat to Valinor? The discussion moved into what happened to mortals if they went to Valinor?
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Fangorn/Treebeard, Sanford13, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Before-meeting
RP forum story: Eonwe's suggestion for handling the orc camp section.
Membership news:
Gimli is out of the hospital.
RP: what we mean by the RP story and where to find it.
Gaming:
Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online
Forum
How to turn in an article for our site.
Tolkien:
Topic: RP including fruit
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (8)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Falco, Fangorn/Treebeard, Sanford13, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Elwing is out of the hospital and doing well.
Web:
How to reach several spots in our site.
Tolkien:
Topic from Sandalf13: I have some problems with Tolkien's use of caves in the canon.
RP discussion (group story on the forum)
Gaming:
Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Overwatch, more LotRO
More RP
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Before-meeting
Time change for Eastern from daylight savings to standard. Valar time is Eastern time to keep us all in synch.
Membership news:
Gimli
Elwing
Arien
Eonwe
Web:
Tolkien Site / Stories:
"Rillin" by Eonwe-(Valar), posted Nov 4
Gaming:
World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Hearthstone, more World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic from Varda: How do we answer when people who need to do art, such as painting or sculpting expensive material that they only have one piece of, when it's a controversial question such as "Do Balrogs have wings?".
Possibly the best answer given during the discussion.
After-meeting:
Tolkien discussion continued.
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Tolkien discussion continued.
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Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (4)
Discord: Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Eowyn/Cenedra, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Halloween today!
Yesterday was the wedding anniversary of Eowyn and Faramir.
Web:
Tolkien Site / Stories:
"Morchaint" by Eonwe, for Halloween.
Anniversary page (Another story made for by Eonwe will be showing up this coming week.)
Tolkien:
Topic from Norvat Gorlimsson: I know that Galadriel has one of the three elven rings of power. But
why is she considered in such high esteem and considered to hold so much power compared to others within Tolkien's works?
Gaming:
World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (10)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Fangorn/Treebeard, Irmo, Miriel/Maha, Pallando, Sandalf13-(T), Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Irmo and Miriel have finished moving into their new home. Congrats!
Sandalf is working on his essays for the geology of Middle-earth.
Shelob broke an ankle.
Web:
Anniversary page (continues taking your contributions to the Tolkien Site as Anniversary-marked through the end of October.)
Tolkien:
Geology of Middle-earth
Gaming:
World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Sandalf13-(T), Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Sandalf13-(T) says his few words. :)
Web:
Anniversary page (continues taking your contributions to the Tolkien Site as Anniversary-marked through the end of October.)
Gaming:
World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online, Starcraft, Minecraft
Tolkien:
Topic from Arien: visited the area near Tolkien's Oxford.
Topic from Sandalf13: Books or movies?
Topic from Sandalf13: Beards
Topic from Sandalf13: Denethor
Topic from Sandalf13: Tolkien did NOT intend for the fate of mortals and the Eldar to be forever separated.
Topic from Sandalf13: Saruman, a downfallen character.
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (4)
Discord: Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Falco, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
The anniversary chat marathon ends after this meeting. Take a breath.
Web:
State of Valar Gaming now available, from the data you sent.
Anniversary 24 page (continues taking your contributions to the Tolkien Site as Anniversary-marked through the end of October.)
Gaming:
World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Hearthstone Mercenaries, more WoW, Special Edition for Metroid Dread
Anniversary kin house now bought for our branch on LotRO's Shadowfax server.
Tolkien:
Tolkien chat went on all week in the meeting channel and even in-game, so not all is in the transcripts. Apologies but we had nothing during this meeting.
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Our chat marathon is now over.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Fangorn, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
24th Anniversary of the Valar Guild is tomorrow.
The anniversary chat marathon begins now and continues through next meeting!
Web:
Anniversary page is now online and ready for input.
Thank you, Phar, for the image! His new art is also on his art page/Cave.
Gaming:
Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, more WoW
Tolkien:
(please see the ever-updating topic list in the Meeting Transcript's contents at the top of that page for links):
Topic from Eonwe: contests and sports in Tolkien's world.
Topic from Ar-Pharazon: Numenorean culture.
Topic from Varda (aside that grew): the great ocean Vai.
Topic (just intended as a question) from Varda: telepathy.
After-meeting: This also becomes the continuing Chat Marathon for the rest of the week! Keep our meeting_place open all week!
Topic from Eonwe: a "natalma" in Tolkien is the signaling heliograph of JRRT's real life experience.
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Topic from Eonwe: mushrooms and which groups liked and didn't like.
Topic from Eonwe: why Oropher led his Sindar into silvan life.
Fireworks ride times for Landroval on LotRO: noon and 7 P.M. Eastern. Also plan to hand out beverages to passersby.
Topic from Eonwe: Numenorean bows (hollow metal).
Oct. 4 (marathon continues):
Forum has a section for wishing Happy Anniversary.
Topic from Eonwe: need a Quenya word for "battle" as between two people.
Happy Anniversary cheers have started in Discord, led off by Eonwe.
Topic from Varda, continuing above Numenorean bows topic from yesterday: Bard's black arrow.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Lenwe, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
GSMU (see under Web)
Web:
Games Site Mass Update! Please send in your data to Eonwe.
Gaming:
General news: World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online, Diablo Resurrection
Tolkien:
Topic: Gundabad (brought up in gaming and is near the next area for the forum story)
After-meeting:
The anniversary theme word is Hastilude. Sort of like "interlude". (old-fashioned games other than full tournaments)
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (presiding), Irmo, Shelob, Varda (way After)
Before-meeting
The Nature of Middle-Earth bits of info (Scattered throughout the transcript, but collected under "Tolkien" below).
Membership news:
Ar-Pharazon's computer problem. (After-meeting)
Gaming:
General news:
report from Eonwe: World of Warcraft
Tolkien:
Topic from Eonwe: nuggets of info from the new book: The Nature of Middle-Earth. (More scattered through transcript.)
Numenoreans and wild animals.
Numenorians and crossbows.
Elves and fungi/mushrooms.
Elvish growth and aging.
Elvish "death".
Elvish growth and aging (more).
Lembas.
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
New website preserving real flashgaming: BlueMaxima's Flashpoint.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Gilraen, Irmo, Miriel/Maha, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Birthdays, moving, wedding, and joining. Much goodness happening, including fun silliness.
Web:
Story from Sandalf13-(T) is readable but still undergoing formatting.
The Nature of Middle-earth book is out and Ar-Pharazon has it, giving some comments. Now we all want it. More info during the After-meeting.
Gaming:
Some overlapping comments about The Nature of Middle-earth.
Games Site Mass Update email should be in your mailbox. (Please respond by Sept 30.)
General news:
report from Eonwe: World of Warcraft
report from Varda: Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic The Nature of Middle-earth (a bit more about the book)
Topic from Varda inspired by Arien: Would they have had a power vacuum after Sauron's demise that caused a ton of infighting?
After-meeting:
Eonwe's comment: On October 3rd, Gandalf was attacked by Nazgul on Weathertop. The next day, the Valar Guild was formed.
Diablo 2: Resurrection
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
heya guys. sorry i have been offline so long .. i was in the hospital starting mid March and was in rehab for 4 weeks in April /May and then was in outpatient rehab until late Augest.
[4:22 PM]
It wasnt COVID, I had a major bleed in the kidneys. We drove over to the hospital and my wife went in to get me a wheelchair, and came back and found I had passed out on the concrete in front of the Memorial Hermann hospital. Major concussion from the fall too .. (sigh) I was in surgery for a bunch of hours and then was incoherent for 7 days while i was in the ICU.
Rehab wasnt too bad but they had me on the heart care diet and EVERYTHING tasted terrible. Three and half weeks of white bread about put me back in the hospital.
Anyhow I should be back on more or less.. Ive pretty much stopped doing WoW as everyone I knew is gone or objecting to Blizzards policies. Its terrible when you find you have fallen back on mobile games and Pokemon Go.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and typed): (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (presiding), Gorlim (Sept 9), Irmo, Shelob
Membership news:
Gorlim is out of the hospital. (see Sept 9 news).
Web:
Story from Sandalf13-(T), readable but still undergoing special formatting: "Das Buch", posted Sept 1.
Games Site Mass Update emails came out Sept 11 (Yep, I'm late getting this transcript up so you get updates! Please respond by Sept 30.)
Gaming:
General news:
report from Eonwe: World of Warcraft, Hearthstone
Tolkien:
Topic from Eonwe: Hastilude. What it is and how it may have been used in Tolkien's world. Also, this word is going to be our Anniversary theme, so check it out!
After-meeting:
Arien found a fix for the recent buggy game crash in LotRO.
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Game of Thrones and Blizzard games.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (presiding), Irmo, Varda
Membership news:
Irmo's move
Two new Tolkien-only members: Aunt Dora Baggins-(T) and Sandalf13-(T)
Web:
Games Site Mass Update incoming.
If gamers don't receive Eonwe's email, please update your email with him and/or Varda, and email or Discord message Eonwe (or Varda who will send it to Eonwe) with which games you currently play.
Tolkien Site story: "Chance Meeting at Rivendell" by Aunt Dora Baggins-(T) posted Aug. 27, 2021
Gaming:
General news:
report from Eonwe: World of Warcraft
Tolkien:
Topics from Eonwe:
Can Elves have freckles?
Did Elves gamble?
Did any Elves go into Moria during the Third Age before it was abandoned?
What was Lothlorien like while Amroth ruled?
What kind of games/tests of skill would Elves have? Or Dwarves for that matter.
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (After), Gilraen, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
General news:
reports from Eonwe: World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone
report from Varda: Lord of the Rings Online
report from Gilraen: Final FantasyXIV
Tolkien:
RP chat (ongoing story on our forum)
Topic from Arien: Can you think of instances where villains did good where they wanted evil?
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Pallando (Before), Shelob (Before), Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
The loss of Walda-(V).
Gaming:
General news: World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
RP story on the Valar Guild forum, some discussion with digressions and mixing into After-meeting, with links below to main sections. A batch of posts made.
RP1 (we start posting again and digress to cats)
RP2 (more discussion and posting)
RP3 (Auros asks our favorite fruits as it relates to storage: Calion uncertain; Frali asleep; Fainan blackberries)
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon.
"My husband Alrid Died 1.5 days ago. Just wanted to let all know." -DisAlrid is his LotRO main character name; his guild name is Walda-(V).
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Pallando, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
General news: World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo Immortal, Lord of the Rings Online, Eve Online, Starcraft 2
LotRO upcoming: Aug. 10: Farmer's Faire/Summer Festival
Job openings with Daybreak, SSG. Austin and other places. Includes remote work. (Has location drop-down box.)
Tolkien:
Topic 1 from Varda: JRRT was a little bothered by all the merch and the use of his place and character names for various things including pets, boats, children, etc. Why do you think that might be, considering that it was usually done for love of his works?
Topic 2 from Varda: Why can we call his works a "mythology", rather than just simply a series of novels?
Tolkien upcoming: Sept. 22: Bilbo and Frodo's double birthday anniversary
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Quick tutorial for how to make things like ë, ™, ‰
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (8)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Falco, Irmo, Pallando, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
General news mostly from Eonwe: World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic from Varda: What kind of communication was there between Valinor and Middle-earth? (use any of the books)
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Fangorn/Treebeard, Gimli, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
General news from Eonwe, Varda, and Gimli: World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo 3, Overwatch, Lord of the Rings Online, Starcraft 2, Minecraft
Tolkien:
Topic from Varda: Did Huan really have the power to take down Sauron?
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Gimli, Pallando, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Ar-Pharazon
Shelob 1, Shelob 2
Gaming:
General from Eonwe, Varda, and Pallando: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online, Eve Online
Tolkien:
Topic from Eonwe, Shelob, and Varda: Was it possible to read scrolls and books by other races in Middle-earth?
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (Before-meeting), Pallando (After-meeting), Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
General: World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Lord of the Rings Online, Starcraft 2, Eve Online (during After-meeting)
Not mentioned: Tabletop games for Pathfinder and Fate/Dresden Kaiju and more: players include Gimli, Sauron, Varda, Doc Mortand-(T), and Rob Roy's Girl-(T).
Tolkien:
Game: three rounds of the name/place game.
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Eve Online report by Pallando.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Irmo, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Independence Day (greatly affects gaming in people's availability)
Vax
Gaming:
General: World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online (includes info on the two new Legendary servers), Ninja Gaiden Collection (more reviews).
Arien requests a Fornost instance run on LotRO Landroval server with her 27 champion next weekend before the meeting, as she could not make it today.
Tolkien:
Topic from Meriadoc: Look at the reasons the ringwraiths retreated from Weathertop when they could have stayed to finish off Frodo.
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript (Accidentally labeled July 27, fixing.)
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Fangorn/Treebeard, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Weather
Tolkien (from Fangorn): traveling in the snow
Gaming:
General: WoW, LotRO, SC 2, Ninja Gaiden (review of the collection)
Arien requests a Fornost instance run on LotRO Landroval server with her 27 champion next weekend before the meeting. (This was later moved to weekend after next.)
Tolkien:
Topic from Fangorn (during Membership): traveling in the snow.
Topic from Eonwe: Interview with JRR Tolkien on YouTube.
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Gilraen, Irmo, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Father's Day
(more during After-meeting)
Gaming:
General: World of Warcraft, Diablo 2: Resurrected, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic: from Shelob, whose books were lost in a clean-up: Does Arwen have the right to choose between immortality and the Doom of Men, like her father, or is she, as I think it is, counted among Elves because of her father's choice, and that only her love for Aragorn would eventually cause her to choose the Doom of Men.
After-meeting:
More Tolkien chat and more Membership news.
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (8)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Elrond, Eonwe, Ioreth, Pallando, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Web:
Since we started adding links to the chat, it turned into Web.
Gaming:
General: World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Overwatch, Diablo 2 Resurrection, Lord of the Rings Online, Starcraft 2
New global Battlenet. We started adding each other during the meeting.
Eve Online: Pallando's report on an enormous battle.
Tolkien:
Topic: from Varda: After removing Morgoth, the Valar (Lords of the West) knew his will would continue to move his servants to thwart the will of the Valar and kill those that were loyal,
so the Valar moved to protect and aid the first and secondborn. What about the adopted dwarves?
Eve Online report given at this time.
After-meeting:
Continued chat including finding a book type and more about Eve Online.
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Elrond, Eonwe, Fangorn/Treebeard, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
General: Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone
Tolkien:
Topic: from Eonwe: Intriguing oddities occurred in Eregion with the Fellowship, before entering Moria.
After-meeting:
Tolkien chat continues quite a while.
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
But Eomer said to them:
Mourn not overmuch! Mighty was the fallen,
meet was his ending. When his mound is raised,
women then shall weep. War now calls us!
Yet he himself wept as he spoke.
-"The Battle of the Pelennor Fields", The Return of the King
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (8)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Falco, Gimli, Irmo, Treebeard/Fangorn, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Memorial three-day weekend this weekend, with Memorial Day tomorrow, so travel or time-off for many is affecting gaming.
Gaming:
General: Eonwe: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic: from Varda: How were the dead honored in Tolkien's tales, especially in the LotR? (We opened it up to all books.)
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
The Ashbringer sword (whisper it)
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Ioreth (After), Irmo, Varda (presiding)
Web:
Changes to the Games Site for LotRO/Ithil and other sections.
Gaming:
General: Eonwe: Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, Overwatch 2
Tolkien:
Topic: from Varda: Some say Tolkien had no romance. Do we agree? Do we say there was a little? Do we say he had plenty?
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
The Legendary World of Ithil will be closing to public log-in after June 15th, 2021, with the world formally becoming unavailable after our regular 8:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) weekly restart on the 16th. Through the end of the year free character and shared item transfers will remain available from Ithil to any other game world, including our remaining Legendary World of Anor. After December 31st, 2021, the Ithil game world will be closed permanently, and any remaining characters will not be able to be transferred or accessed. Kinship leaders should log in to abandon or sell their kinship houses before June 16th to allow for successful character transfer. Mail does not transfer, so please login all characters before June 16th to detach any mail attachments.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Gimli, Shelob, Treebeard/Fangorn, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Bilbo got married May 14th.
Gaming:
General: Eonwe: World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone
Tolkien:
Topic: From Eonwe: 1.) do we have any indication of similar building techniques (related to MASH) being used by any of the peoples of Middle-Earth, to be able to set up structures for use at a rapid pace, then be able to take them down just as quickly to relocate or use later?
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Tue, 11 May 2021 18:55:04 +0000
The Lord of the Rings Online will be deprecating support for Windows XP and earlier operating systems as of June 8th, 2021. All of your characters and progress will remain, and you can continue to play the game by running LOTRO on a Windows 7 or newer operating system. Players who need to can contact Account Support at help.standingstonegames.com
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Eowyn/cenedra, Fangorn/Treebeard, Irmo, Varda (presiding).
Membership news:
Mother's Day
Ar-Pharazon's birthday brought much gaming loot.
Web:
Article by Irmo: "On the Fate of the Leaders of the Rohirrim" (posted May 8)
Gaming:
General reports: Eonwe: World of Warcraft. Varda: Lord of the Rings Online, Starcraft 2.
Tolkien:
Topic: In our group chatting just now, which races do we have represented?
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
RP posts and comments
LotRO group run of small alts with Eowyn, Fangorn, and Varda.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Fangorn/Treebeard, Frodo/Prontious, Ioreth, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Request for LotRO players around level 67ish to join with Frodo-(V) as warden Abbofast and his son hunter Auldryth to play instances and epic battles on Sundays 12:30 to 4 pm. (We played after the meeting which ends at about 6 pm EDT.)
Phar's birthday incoming!
Eonwe suggested we consider a theme for the Valar Guild anniversary in October.
Web:
Irmo sent a new article. Should go up this coming week.
Gaming:
General reports: Eonwe: World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Overwatch. Varda: more LotRO, Starcraft 2
Tolkien:
Topic: RP forum mention during After-meeting, since we ran long.
After-meeting:
Lots and lots of chat about various things.
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
LotRO gaming thanks to request during the meeting.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (8)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Fangorn/Treebeard, Gimli, Irmo, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
General reports: Eonwe: Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo Immortal goes to alpha. Varda: more LotRO
Mentions: Shelob boardgame: 1822: The Railways of Great Britain; Gimli: No Man's Sky. Varda: StarCraft2, No Man's Sky. Ar-Pharazon: Guild Wars
Tolkien:
Topic: from Irmo: Who but the elves and Aragorn (and Gandalf, duh) would have knowledge not only of the healing power of Athelas, but would actually know how to use it to be able to heal with it?
My thesis though, is not only the herbs, but to know the words of the incantation.
After-meeting:
(non)Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Angmar map linked by Phar: Middle-earth Hobbit Poster for sale, with magnifying lens to show more detail.
RP - new posts. Auros asks the group whether to keep their presence completely hidden or as Telperos says, not. Scattered discussion.
RP - we buried the arrow-ridden orc
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (9)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Ioreth, Irmo, Miriel/Maha, Pallando/Debes, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
General reports: Eonwe: World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online. Varda: continues Lord of the Rings Online. Pallando: Eve Online
From Celebrian: Amazon Game Studios cancels it's Lord of the Rings MMO project. Article.
Daedalic Games is working on a very different game: Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Article. Delayed to 2022, as announced by the new publisher they're working with, Nacon.
LotRO: Update 29.5 Monday.
RP - just kidding around
Tolkien:
RP - comments on what was posted and soon to be posted.
"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt To Publish J.R.R. Tolkien's Final Middle-Earth Writings In 2021." This Article is from Nov 2020, but the book is intended to come to the USA in June 2021.
Topic from Eonwe planned but we had to push it to next time: What differences are there in the situation where Boromir deemed himself strong enough to wield the Ring, and Aragorn deemed himself strong enough to use the palantir?
After-meeting:
RP - planning and joking
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (8)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (presiding), Ioreth, Irmo, Miriel, Pallando, Varda
Membership news:
Chair
Vaccination
Pallando (After)
Web:
Fun chat, links.
Gaming:
General reports: Eonwe: World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, Overwatch, Hearthstone. Irmo: Lord of the Rings Online. Pallando: Eve Online livestream Twitch. Varda: Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Quote promised during earlier part of the meeting concerning when all other lights go out.
RP forum story plug, link.
Topic from Eonwe: The Fellowship members know each other well. One example we went over is showing they knew Boromir was not a liar.
Next week's topic from Eonwe: What differences are there in the situation where Boromir deemed himself strong enough to wield the Ring, and Aragorn deemed himself strong enough to use the palantir?
After-meeting:
RP chat about posting, not about story.
Pallando: Eve and membership stuff.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Blizzard gaming and chat.
Ioreth.
Elwing.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Ioreth, Irmo, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Happy Easter!
Forms.
Vaccinations.
Gaming:
General reports: Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Hearthstone, (more news for LotRO and other games)
Tolkien:
Topic: Examples of hope in Tolkien's works.
After-meeting:
Quick RP mention.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
It's officially no longer flashgames on Kongregate as badges of the day.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting: (let it happen first!)
Attending (and spoke): (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Fangorn/Treebeard, Irmo, Varda
Membership:
Europe is now also on Daylight Savings Time.
Web:
Tolkien Site / Art:
"Hide and Seek" painting by the Bohemian Weasel-(T), posted here today, painted 2020. Aragorn searches for Gollum.
Gaming:
General reports: World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic (from Varda): The War of the Ring stories really didn't have just one hero, but many who helped save Arda from Sauron. Can we think of some that did something actually helpful and what that was?
Topic (from Arien): Special new LotR Edition coming out.
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Ioreth, Irmo, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
Shelob's birthday
Gaming:
General reports: World of WarCraft, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic (from Varda): So, what kind of work did the Fellowship do after "disbanding" due to the lack of a Ring to turn into lava goop? (We gave serious answers here and there amongst the jokes.)
After-meeting:
More jokes
RP comments (our forum story)
Guild Wars by Ar-Pharazon (and music link that got him started gaming GW again).
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (presiding), Falco, Ioreth, Pallando, Varda
Membership news:
Daylight Savings time began today for Eastern Time.
Falco: earthquake.
Pallando: moved.
Gaming:
General reports: Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Overwatch
Tolkien:
Topic (from Eonwe): What do orcs know/believe of their relation to Elves?
After-meeting:
Chat continued.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Gaming chat.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Eonwe, Irmo, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
side chat: Ioreth
Membership news:
DST (Daylight Savings Time) for Eastern (which is Valar time) starts next Sunday.
Ioreth's birthday is today!
Gaming:
General reports: World of WarCraft, Diablo 3, Heroes of the Storm, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic (from Varda): What were the intentions of Sauron if he collected the One Ring again?
Multiple tangents, and more during the After-meeting.
After-meeting:
RP chat with tangents into Tolkien's actual world.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Non-flash-only is now scheduled for April.
Gaming chat, mainly WoW.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Irmo, Varda
Before-meeting:
RP posts
Gaming:
General reports: World of WarCraft, Diablo 3, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
RP chat (role-play story on our forum)
Idling animations tangent
After-meeting:
RP chat continues as Arien joins
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Gaming chat
RP chat continues
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (presiding), Ioreth, Varda
Membership news:
Ioreth's news (during after-meeting)
Web:
Artwork: models painted by DeepGroover-(T) of Saruman and of the Elf King. Posted Tuesday (see below)
Gaming:
General reports: Blizzconline; Lord of the Rings Online, World of WarCraft, Hearthstone
Tolkien:
RP story on our forum. Posts added this last week by Ar-Pharazon and Arien. Discussion. Three Maps of Middle-earth were linked (keep scrolling down), mainly south of Angmar where the RP group is traveling.
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (8)
Discord: Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Fangorn/Treebeard, Irmo, Lenwe, Miriel/Maha, Tulkas, Varda
Membership news:
Happy Valentine's Day!
Gaming:
General reports: World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
RP mention by Varda.
Two Tolkien conferences online
Topic for chat: The Tolkien Society asked, "How was Tolkien's writing received?". Here we're asking:
What brought the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings or other Tolkien work to your attention first such as friend or family recommendation, school, advertisement, interesting title on the bookshelf where you shopped or used the library?
After-meeting:
Chatting with Tulkas. :)
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
RP mention by Eonwe.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (5)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (Before-meeting), Irmo, Varda
(Helm and Fladrif continue to be active.)
Membership news:
Snow in the Netherlands!
Gaming:
General reports: World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online, New World
Blizzcon
Tolkien:
RP mention
Topic from Varda: The Fellowship was nine, and the comment was made that they were the Nine Walkers against the Nine Riders. What role did each Fellowship member do that could have translated into a role that a Black Rider could have had as well?
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
RP chat
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (13)
Discord: Anarion, Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Eonwe (presiding), Falco, Fangorn/Treebeard, Gimli (Before-meeting), Ioreth, Irmo, Lenwe, Pallando, Varda
Membership news:
LotRO event: some of us are working on doing a wake/memorium for the people we lost in LotRO this past year and the start of 2021, inspired by the loss of Jadeana of the Palantiri kinship, with whom our guild is friendly since early after Alpha during Beta.
Gaming:
General reports: World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, more LotRO
Tolkien:
Topic: During the Before-meeting, replies concerning the RP in the previous meeting.
Topic from Eonwe: RP forum story.
Topic from Varda: When looking at ruins, what might be a tip-off of which race built it?
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews / Browser Game Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (6)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Falco (After-meeting), Ioreth (Before-meeting), Varda (presiding)
Web:
News 2021 updated, dropping 2020 to News Archives.
Gaming:
General reports: World of WarCraft, Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online; Diablo 2
Under the D2 link: Vicarious Visions (part of Activision with Diablo 2) merged into Blizzard; Diablo 2: Resurrected.
Tolkien:
Topic from Eonwe: RP forum story discussion. Recap and what the characters do going forward.
After-meeting:
RP chat continues
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon. (This section name may change to Browser Gaming Reviews.)
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Celebrian, Eonwe (Before and After-meetings), Irmo, Pallando, Varda (presiding)
Web:
Membership page update for 2021 ongoing.
Gaming:
General reports: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
Topic: plots
After-meeting:
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon and the problems being dealt with due to the end of flash.
Lots of chat.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (Before and After-meetings), Falco, Irmo, Varda (presiding)
Gaming:
General reports: World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online,
Tolkien:
Topic from Varda: the uncommon "common" person in Tolkien.
After-meeting:
More Tolkien chat, gaming chat.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon.
Meeting Transcript
Summary of the meeting:
Attending (and spoke): (7)
Discord: Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (Before and After-meetings), Falco, Frodo, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
Membership:
Falco: How to watch his commentary for the Space X cams:
YouTube
LabPadre
Nerdle Cam 4K- Starship SN9 Live At SpaceX Boca Chica Launch Facility
Gaming:
General reports: World of WarCraft, Diablo 3, Lord of the Rings Online, Cyberpunk 2077, Endless Space, flashgaming and the demise of Flash.
Tolkien:
Topic: Tolkien Moment from Varda. In Rivendell, Gandalf wonders what Frodo may change into.
Announcement (during Aftermeeting): JRR Tolkien's birthday is today! Traditionally, at 9 P.M. your time, drink a toast and say "To the Professor!" We often do this in-game. LotRO also had dancing and music outside the Prancing Pony.
After-meeting:
WoW talk.
LotRO two runs done from requests during the meeting.
*RP discussion. [Note: the asterisk is to help find RP meeting discussions easier in the future, rather than a word like "splurp". Eonwe had a request for dates of last discussions:
For 2020: Sept 20, Sept 6, Aug 16, June 7, May 24, May 17, May 10.
Flashgaming Reviews by Ar-Pharazon
Toast to Tolkien!
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