News:

Sunday Meeting

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.

Sunday Meeting

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.

Sunday Meeting

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.

Happy Mother's Day!

Sunday Meeting

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.

Sunday Meeting

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.

Sunday Meeting

Sunday Meeting

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.

Sunday Meeting

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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)

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.

Sunday Meeting:

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.