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July 4, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".
Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (10)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Elladan (Before), Eonwe (Before and After), Fangorn/Treebeard, Ossë, Pallando, Sandalf, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
        Gaming:
            World of Warcraft, more World of Warcraft, Eve Online, Hearthstone, Diablo Immortal, Lord of the Rings Online, Stormgate (alpha version)
        Tolkien:
            Topic: Staff breaking.
        After-meeting:
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


May 31, 2023 Wednesday

    Gaming/LotRO:
        The LOTRO game worlds were unavailable on Wednesday, May 31st form 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 36: Gondor Renewed.


May 28, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".
Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (4)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Sandalf
        Gaming:
            Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo 4, Diablo Immortal, LotR: Gollum, more LotRO
        Tolkien:
            Topic: Food and plants. (Played with archaic words as well.)
        After-meeting:
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


May 23, 2023 Tuesday

    Gaming/LotrO:
        Today your characters can reforge LI's up to 490. It's not automatic.
        Check your Virtue traits, as they went up so yours are no longer topped off.
        May 24 normal Wednesday maintenance downtime 9 A.M. to noon EST (same as /servertime).


May 22, 2023 Monday

    Gaming/LotRO:
        https://www.lotro.com/news/lotro-public-event-schedule-en
            May 23: Legendary Item item level increase 485-490     5/23 9:15am Eastern


May 21, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".
Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (5)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Sandalf (After), Varda (presiding)
        Web:
            Tolkien Site / Stories:
            "Loa" by Eonwe-(Valar) posted May 18, 2023
        Gaming:
            World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, Diablo 4, Diablo Immortal, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic: The economy in Middle-earth.
        After-meeting:
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


May 18, 2023 Thursday

    Tolkien Site / Stories:
        "Loa" by Eonwe-(Valar). Auros' father gives needed advice. Loa means "growth". Short story written early but intended for Father's Day.

    Gaming / LotRO:
        "The Hunt for Buried Treasure" event begins.


May 14, 2023 Sunday

Happy Mother's Day!

Sunday Meeting

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".
Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (6)
            Discord:  Arien (presiding first part of the meeting), Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Pallando, Sandalf, Varda (presiding rest of the meeting)
        Gaming:
            Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, Diablo 4, Diablo Immortal, Warcraft 3 Reforged, Hearthstone, more LotRO, EVE Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic: Tolkien spoke of the eucatastrophe. What  is it?
        After-meeting:
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


May 10, 2023 Wednesday

    Gaming / LotRO:
        "The LOTRO game worlds will be unavailable on Wednesday, May 10th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) to release Update 35.1.3."


May 7, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".
Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (7)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Eowyn, Pallando, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Membership news:
            Phar's birthday was yesterday
        Gaming:
            Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, Diablo 4, Diablo 2 Resurrected, Diablo Immortal, Hearthstone, EVE Online
            Lord of the Rings players on Shadowfax server which is closing: take advantage of the free transfer to another server such as our Landroval or Crickhollow server kin branches to rejoin with us.
        Tolkien:
            Topic: What kind of a place do you think of when you think of Middle-earth? First one in your head?
        After-meeting:
            More chat
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


May 3, 2023 Wednesday

    Gaming / LotRO:
        Shadowfax server is closing. Free transfers now available. Valar Guild members are welcome to transfer to either of our kin branches on Landroval (our main) or Crickhollow. Only mail does not transfer.


April 30, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript


April 28, 2023 Friday

    Gaming/LotRO:
        LotRO news from the Launcher April 28:
            Shadowfax is almost over! The Legendary World gets its level cap 140 update on Wednesday with Fate of Gundabad and Before the Shadow. We'll have more information about a free transfer period from Shadowfax in the near future.
            In cheerier LotRO news for all servers: The Curator is available in-game through May 7th.


April 23, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".
Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (6)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (After-meeting), Sandalf, Shelob, Varda (presiding)
        Membership news:
            Sandalf: tales of settlling into the new house.
            Shelob: new job plus Covid
        Web News:
            Tolkien Site / Stories:
                New story: "For the Future" by Eonwe-(Valar). Young Auros and his friends game and talk about what they want to be when they grow up.       
          Gaming:
            World of Warcraft, Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, Diablo Immortal, Lord of the Rings Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic from Shelob: Did movies and TV overwrite your own imagination of Middle-earth?
        After-meeting:
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


April 16, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".
Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (6)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Eowyn aka Cenedra, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Web:
            Should now need only the domain valarguild.org although valarguild.net also works as a redirect.
        Gaming:
            Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Diablo 4, Hearthstone, Diablo Immortal
        Tolkien:
            Topic: What do we think Tolkien shows to be the most important thing(s) to learn for the people of Middle-earth?
            Mention: Tolkien may have been influenced by an interest in American Indians, specifically the story of Hiawatha.
            Tangent: Early Glaurung
        After-meeting:
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


April 9, 2023 Sunday
Easter!

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (6)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Pallando, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Web:
            We have both domains: valarguild.org and valarguild.net going. The .net refers you back to .org
        Gaming:
            Eve Online, Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Diablo 4, Hearthstone, Diablo Immortal, Overwatch
        Tolkien:
            Topic: monsters in JRRT's writing
            RP
        After-meeting:
            Continuing monster chat
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games. (to be added)


April 6, 2023 Thursday

    Gaming / LotRO:
        Code: RUNSPEEDBOOST
            Now through April 13 for Run Speed Boost x5


April 5, 2023 Wednesday

    Gaming / LotRO:
        Update 35.0.1 release notes.
        Launcher notes quoted below:
            The Leading the Charge Deeds remain available through May 17th.
            Return to Carn D�m instances (Sant Lhoer, Thaurisgar, and Sagroth) are now available on Tier 4.
            We are temporarily closing the Tier 4 version of Thaurisgar, the Vile Apothecary due to a bug where instance completion is not awarding its proper Tier 4 chest. The Tier 4 version of this instance will return in our next game update.


April 2, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (7)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Pallando, Pengolodh, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Membership news:
            Comicpalooza convention in Houston, Texas, USA coming up May 26-28, 2023.
        Web:
            Testing the web site live with the kindly help of everyone.
            valarguild.net now redirects to valarguild.org  Both domains work.
            Lots of work done to the website, a lot more intended.
        Gaming:
             Beware the April Fools jokes
            World of Warcraft, Diablo Immortal, Diablo 2: Resurrected, Hearthstone, Lord of the Rings Online, Eve Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic (during After-meeting): drinks (mainly joking): ent draughts, miruvor for elf secret agents, suggestion for real-life miruvor
        After-meeting:
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


April 1, 2023 Saturday

    Caution! Many of your games will have April Fools nuttiness going on. :)


March 26, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".
Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (6)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Pengolodh, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Membership news:
            Elwing, Fladrif, Ar-Pharazon
        Web:
            valarguild.org domain returning! Not here yet, but on its way!
        Gaming:
             Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, Hearthstone, Diablo Immortal, Lord of the Rings Online (more info), Diablo 4 open beta
        Tolkien:
            Topic: Moving in Tolkien's mythology, as in from Bag End to Crickhollow.
        After-meeting:
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


March 19, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (7)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Marigold (After-meeting), Pallando, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Web:
            .org currently unavailable, so please use .net
        Gaming:
             World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo 4, Diablo Immortal, Lord of the Rings Online, Eve Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic: Effects of training by the Istari
        After-meeting:
            Tolkien chat continues
            Names from Middle-earth show up in many places, including lizards and undersea formations.
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


March 17, 2023 Friday
Happy St. Patrick's Day!


March 16, 2023 Thursday

    Gaming / LotRO:
        Task item, Dye, and Junk item Carry-Alls are now permanently available in the LOTRO Store.


March 12, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
Attending (and typed): (6)
    Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Pallando (After-meeting), Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
Membership news:
    Daylight Savings Time hits Valar Guild time today (Eastern).
Web:
    Working our way through the new webspace and waiting to see if we can regain our old domain name before going fully into the new valarguild.org
    If you have a non-working bookmark, try replacing .org with .net
Gaming:
     World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, Hearthstone, Diablo Immortal, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
    Topic: JRRT made a mythology for England, which suggests the origin of natural phenomena. Can we think of a few?
After-meeting:
    (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.



March 5, 2023 Sunday

  Namarie, Alatar-(Valar).
    We just learned today about the passing into the West of Alatar-(Valar): November 1, 1960 to December 12, 2022.

    Here is a memorial:
        https://intotomorrow.com/in-memoriam-mark/

    Here is the church service:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w0c7-onFfY&t=1s

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (7)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Pallando, Pengolodh, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Membership news:
            Alatar-(Valar) has passed into the West.
            Sandalf is still moving into a new house.
            Gimli's birthday and health improvement.
            Pengolodh-(V) joined us this week and said his few words. :)
        Web:
            Alatar was the source for most of the web space and our domain name.
            Pallando gave the guild web space in Alatar's place today, and a new domain name.
            We are in the process of trying to regain the old domain name as well.
        Gaming:
             World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo Immortal, Lord of the Rings Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic: What happened to the Orc bodies after Helm's Deep. There were two batches.
        After-meeting:
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.



Feb. 28, 2023
Tuesday

    Welcome to the Valar Guild, Pengolodh-(V)! He passed his Full Member test today with Bragging Rights of 5/5 with Varda in Lord of the Rings Online. His favorite characters are the Ents because, they took no sides.. they were put their for a reason, to protect the forest and (entwives) to help with the smaller plants.. (by the will of Yavanna)! He also games on Laurelin server in LotRO, and used to play World of Warcraft.


Feb. 26, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (~7)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (Before-meeting), Fangorn/Treebeard, Pallando (After-meeting), Pengolodh (Before-meeting), Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Gaming:
             World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo 4, Diablo Immortal, Lord of the Rings Online, Eve Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic (during Membership news, started by Ar-Pharazon): Pronouncing names and other words in Tolkien's works.
            Topic (during Web news, started by Treebeard): Audio of Tolkien reading from his own works.
            Topic (during Tolkien): Tolkien Moment (means quote) on the gifts of Iluvatar.
            Topic (during Tolkien): Entwives, where they went, chances of the Ents finding the Entwives again.
        After-meeting:
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


Feb. 19, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (5)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Web:
            Tolkien Site/Stories:
                "It Takes Two..." by Eonwe-(Valar) posted Feb. 14
        Gaming:
             World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Diablo 4, Diablo Immortal, Lord of the Rings Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic: Can any of you think of an item or two in Helm's Deep different between the book and movie?
        After-meeting:
            (non) Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


Feb. 14, 2023 Tuesday
Happy Valentine's Day!

Tolkien Site / Stories:
    "It Takes Two..." by Eonwe-(Valar). Dancing and strategy. Written for Valentine's Day.


Feb. 12, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (4)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Varda (presiding)
        Gaming:
            Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, Hearthstone, Diablo 2: Resurrected, Diablo Immortal
        Tolkien:
            Topic: Two members of the Fellowship became Mayors of the Shire. Who were they?
        After-meeting:
            (non)Flashgaming Reviews(plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


Feb. 5, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (7)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Eowyn, Pallando, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Gaming:
            Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, Overwatch 2, Hearthstone, Eve Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic from Varda: Little things: Bilbo's gifts to the hobbits after the War of the Ring.
            Topic from Sandalf: What was the relationship between the Dunedain and Rivendell?
            Topic from Varda: Little things: Swans in the reeds.
        After-meeting:
            (non)Flashgaming Reviews(plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
            Pallando told us what's happening in Eve Online.


Feb. 2, 2023 Thursday

    Gaming / LotRO:
        The Ill Omens skirmish event begins today and runs through Feb 27. See Nedda Pinleaf at a skirmish camp, such as outside Bree, and she gives the daily skirmishes in which to find the harbinger monsters (Harbingers of the Dead) that need to be defeated. Four harbingers in a day is enough. This may be done solo, duo, trio, or in a larger group. The skirmish counts if it is within 8 levels of all players involved, such as a level 140 setting the skirmish at 132, for speed. Drops are better on level. Deeds are available and have the usual Advanced version after the first.
        Deeds:
            Banisher of Ill Omens: Minimum player level is 20. Defeat 60 harbingers over the course of the event before killing the final skirmish boss.
            Banisher of Ill Omens (Advanced): Defeat 120 and gain the title of "The Ominous".
            Bat whirl emote skill gained permanently: Earn the barter item for the consumable emote "bat whirl" from Nedda Pinleaf (comes in batches of five), use "bat whirl" 100 times.
            Harbingers of the Dead: defeat at least one each of the harbingers. See link for list.
            Skirmish Assault: defeat harbingers in every skirmish with the difficulty set to Tier 3. See link for list, but only the ones offered by Nedda daily are available that day. Solo cannot set Tier 3. Title gained is "Dispeller of Ill Omens"; also gain a box of 18 essences for that character's level.


Feb. 1, 2023 Wednesday

    Gaming / LotRO (Lord of the Rings Online):
        Weekly maintenance downtime 9 A.M. to 1 P.M. Eastern time. Here are the release notes.


Jan. 31, 2023 Tuesday

    Gaming / LotRO:
        The 5th Season of the Legendary Items Reward Track begins on February 15th.


Jan. 29, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (5)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Web:
            Geology paper update.
        Gaming:
            Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Overwatch 2, Hearthstone, Diablo Immortal
        Tolkien:
            Topic from Arien: Bat-people in Middle-earth.
            Topic from Varda: Tolkien Moment, a tale of two darknesses, one good and one evil.
        After-meeting:
            LotRO birthday run for Arien.
            (non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.



Jan. 25, 2023 Thursday

    LotRO's plans for changes for the Captain and Warden, both articles written by +OnnMacMahal for LotRO.com.


Jan. 22, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (5)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Gaming:
            World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, Hearthstone, Warcraft 3: Reforged, Diablo Immortal, Lord of the Rings Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic: Gandalf showing his true colors. Various times.
                Tolkien Moment (quote): Gandalf on top of the hill.
                RP posting by Ar-Pharazon (as Calion).
                    (The RP refers to the ongoing group story on our Pro-boards forum, originally intended as a role-playing story for the Middle-earth Online game that changed to the Lord of the Rings Online game. When the game finally arrived on the internet, the story had developed a life of its own and still continues. Of course we also have ongoing RP in the game. Valarites can speak mind to mind because they are f�ar spirits operating various bodies in order to learn more of others so that we can eventually be good enough to make Arda Reborn. It's easy to believe one is that body character even when operating many bodies - hroar.)
        After-meeting:
                RP: comments on the recent postings.
            (non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


Jan. 19, 2023 Thursday

    Gaming / LotRO:
        Developer plans for LotRO for 2023, letter from +Orion, the Lead Systems Designer.


Jan. 15, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (4)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (After-meeting), Varda (presiding)
        Gaming:
            World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, Diablo Immortal, Lord of the Rings Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic: 3 Tolkien Moments brought up for discussion:
                Moment 1. Life finds a way, even in Mordor.
                Moment 2. Where Ungoliant went after Morgoth's scream calling in the Balrogs against her.
                Moment 3. The Valar were unmoving and silent but they were very busy in the spirit world.
        After-meeting:
            (non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.
            The RP story on our forum has a new post.


Jan. 11, 2023 Wednesday

    Gaming/LotRO:
        Today's Update 34.1.2 hotfixes: Release notes.
             Among other things: "Missions that feature Delvings require players entering the Mission space to also have the corresponding wrapper quest from the Mission giver. If you do not have the corresponding wrapper quest you will be returned to your first saved milestone location upon entering the Mission instance."


Jan. 8, 2023 Sunday

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (5)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe (After-meeting), Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
        Gaming:
            World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2, Lord of the Rings Online
        Tolkien:
            Topic: Gollum and Shelob's relationship.
        After-meeting:
            (non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.



Jan. 4, 2023 Wednesday

    Gaming / LotRO:
        Shadowfax server updated to a level cap of 120, adding "Where Dragons Dwell" and the "Vales of Anduin".


Jan. 3, 2023 Tuesday

TOAST!

    A toast to The Professor, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, on his birthday, from the Valar Guild!


Jan. 1, 2023 Sunday
Happy New Year!

Sunday Meeting:

    When: 5 p.m. ET (Eastern Time.) (LotRO /servertime 5:00 p.m.)
    Where: The meeting is in the Discord Valar Guild channel under text channel "meeting_place".

Meeting Transcript
    Summary of the meeting:
        Attending (and typed): (6)
            Discord:  Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Eonwe, Pallando, Sandalf, Varda (presiding)
            ThundersnowSarabi dropped by Jan 3, invited by Tulkas-(Valar). Welcome, Thundersnow!
Web:
    General News page now shows only 2023.
    Index images for the new year shows only fireworks related. (Jan 4 back to regular rotating images, with additional model photos.)
Gaming:
    World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Lord of the Rings Online
Tolkien:
    Topic: J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday is January 3. Coin for next year.
After-meeting:
    (non)Flashgaming Reviews (plus) by Ar-Pharazon. Includes Blizzard games.


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