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March 17, 2010
Letter from OneRing.net:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theoneringnet/2010/03/21/theoneringnet-radio-show-episode-12
TheOneRing.net Radio Show Welcomes Ted Nasmith this Sunday, March 21st at 2pm Eastern.
We’re pleased to have internationally acclaimed artist Ted Nasmith on
the show this weekend! Tune into TheOneRing.net Radio Show on
BlogTalkRadio at 2pm Eastern for your chance to chat with Ted and ask
him questions about anything from his love of LOTR, to his long history
on the Tolkien calendar and more! Be sure to check out our
BlogTalkRadio page and set yourself a reminder for this Sunday at 2pm!
http://tinyurl.com/ybw7bfx
About Ted Nasmith
Ted Nasmith is best known as an illustrator of J. R. R. Tolkien's works
— The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.
In 1972, Nasmith mailed photographs of some of his paintings to J. R.
R. Tolkien. Tolkien responded by letter a few weeks later, both
praising the work and making the comment that the rendition of Bilbo
Baggins seemed a little too childlike. Still a teenager at the time,
this early feedback from Tolkien encouraged Nasmith to strive for a
more literal interpretation of Tolkien's works.
Nasmith is also considered a Tolkien scholar, well-read in ancient
history, religion, and other areas. He is a prominent member of several
Tolkien-related organizations (such as The Tolkien Society, the
Mythopoeic Society, and Mensa's Beyond Bree).
Nasmith is a musician, guitarist and tenor. Much of his musical work is
likewise inspired by Tolkien's writings. His first commercial album,
The Hidden Door: Songs in the Key of Enchantment, was released in 2007.
He has also worked on a musical project entitled Beren and
Lúthien: A Song Cycle, with his friend Alex Lewis, and has a
close friendship with the founders of The Tolkien Ensemble.
http://www.TedNasmith.com
All the best,
Michael Regina
Editor in Chief - TheOneRing.net
xoanon@theonering.net
March 14, 2010
Daylight Savings time starts Sunday.
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
AIM seemed pretty well settled.
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda
Attending: (9)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eomer-(V)/IWF519, Eonwe Valar
(presiding), fladrifv, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Grimbold-(T)/HearNoEvil80,
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1
Membership:
Grimbold-(V) is back. Lots of news.
Web
Gaming
WoW: pre-patch
LotRO: Pi(e)
Other: SCBW, GuildWars, SC2, D3
Tolkien:
Indis' topic: In honor of Pi(e) Day, I thought I
might bring up the role of food (and perhaps drink) in Tolkien's
Legendarium.
Forum Role-play discussion.
March 7, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
AIM's team repaired a lot of what caused the problems during this last week, huzzah!
Meeting Transcript by the illustrious Ar-Pharazon, Arwen, Indis, Eomer, Eonwe, and Varda
Attending: (8)
AriehnV,
ArPharazonV, arwenv, Eomer-(V)/IWF519, Eonwe Valar, fladrifv,
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Gilraen tried but was unable to enter the chat room.
Membership:
A death in Arien's family.
New members this week: Gwindor-(V) and Nellas-(V)
Web
Gaming:
A request was made for our gamers from all
games to please communicate more using our Forum. Let us know what game
you're in and under what name so others of us can join you, even
without any formal branch.
Tolkien:
Topic requested by Landroval-(V): Information from
the books about the Great Eagles, especially as a help to role-playing.
Feb. 28, 2010
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Gwindor-(V)! Gwindor
is a friend of Melkor's who scouted him, and was tested by Orome this
morning. We were happy to see him this evening in LotRO and enjoyed
meeting his Lore-master Baragrod and Champion Gwindor-(V). He used to
be a member of the Valar Guild in Dark Age of Camelot enough years back
that he has forgotten the previous name, but is enjoying Gwindor, whom
he finds an interesting character in the Silmarillion.
Welcome to the Valar Guild to Nellas-(V)! She responded to a call from Varda, and wanted a stable group that has screening of members. She and her family have all read LotR, although only she plays LotRO. She has also read the Hobbit and part of the Silmarillion,
which seemed too much like a reference book for her to read straight
through. Her level 65 hunter, Nimromiel, is now with us in the LotRO
kinship branch. Sometimes she also plays the Diablo 2 Expansion. Nellas
is a college student in Canada studying Biology, which can eat into her
time as it should. She also shares one computer with her family, so
that also can limit time. Her favorite LotR character is Aragorn. She would have liked the movie to have also included Elladan and Elrohir.
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
For the first time we could not hold a proper
meeting in AIM. It has updates and a beta going on that might have
caused the bugginess. Among those clawing their way into the room or a
side window for at least a short time were Arien, Ar-Pharazon, Fladrif,
Gilraen, Indis, Menelvagor, and Varda. We think others tried but
couldn't get that far.
The planned Tolkien topic was on the Great Eagles,
suggested by Landroval-(V) who would like to hear more about them.
Feb. 27, 2010
Tolkien Site / Art:
Cave of DeepGroover-(T):
"Aragorn" model put together, modified, and painted by DeepGroover.
Membership:
8.8 Earthquake and tsunami.
An email has been sent to
Dwalin-(T) of Brasil and we look forward to hearing that he is well.
An email was attempted to
Beren-(Valar) of Argentina but was undeliverable. We hope he is well.
Beren, o Lord of Lag, a note on the Valar Guild forum would be
appreciated to let us know you're ok.
Friends in Hawaii seem to be ok except
for a scare, as the tsunami didn't go as high there as predicted.
Letter from Dwalin:
Hail Varda,
If you see at Google eath or google maps, you will see that we are
completely safe here (for a while)... Thank you very much for ask,
Varda. It´s very kind of your part.
I hope you be fine too and thanks for updatting the cave. That´s
all fine to me.
May all Valinor put their eyes on your head and your heart.
Dwalin - Dwarf of the Far South Coast
Feb. 25, 2020
Gaming / LotRO
Announcement quote:
The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, March 1 from 6:00AM –
10:00AM Eastern (-5 GMT)
to launch the latest free content update, Volume III:
Allies of The King, Book 1 Oath of the Rangers.
(
Click here) for the release notes.
Feb. 23, 2010 Tuesday
Gaming / LotRO:
LotRO gaming will be down from
about 4am to 4pm EST while the last information from the database
shifts to the new servers.
Melkor is on vacation far from computers, even LotRO gaming, until May.
Feb. 21, 2010
Tolkien Site / Poetry:
"Fall of the Similarill" by Peregrin-(V). The end of the elves.
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon, Arwen, Gilraen, and Varda
Attending: (9)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv, Eonwe
Valar, fladrifv, Gilraen/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor
Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Gwahir-(Valar) over-the-shoulder
Web:
Links - new
Art - new from the Bohemian Weasel-(T), plus repairs.
Humor - new from the Bohemian Weasel-(T), plus repairs.
Poetry - new from Peregrin-(V)
Gaming
Tolkien:
Request for short quotes usable as messages of the day in our various gaming branches.
Quotes (not necessarily short) and discussions
firing off of them, including Ulmo's appearance and actions in
Middle-earth, other Ainur affecting Middle-earth.
Feb. 20, 2010
Links page:
Link: this gentleman makes what anyone can see is a hobbit house.
Tolkien Site / Art:
Cave of the Bohemian Weasel-(T):
New art: Aragorn, Arwen, Aragorn and Arwen at the coronation, Boromir, Celeborn (new Celeborn section made), Eowyn, Frodo, Galadriel, Haldir, Haldir and Legolas (movie), Frodo, Lorien flets, Lorien boat, A Weasel's LotR Guide to receiving unwanted Christmas presents politely.
Tolkien Site / Humor:
Frame linking repaired. Please email Varda when you find something not working.
The Weasel's Christmas Guide from above is included here.
Feb. 19, 2010
Happy birthday to Eowyn-(V)!
Feb. 15, 2010
Website news:
Varda's new computer is
running. The website was loaded back into her computer from a flash
drive backup, but some items were not current and were updated from the
online website.
Turgon's and Ulmo's art sites
should now open much more easily, as thumbnail pictures were added
today instead of using the temporary constrained images.
Meeting transcripts for Feb. 14
were kindly sent by Ar-Pharazon-(V) and Gilraen-(V), now put together
and online.
Feb. 14, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon, Gilraen, Eonwe, and Varda.
Attending: (10)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eomer-(V)/IWF519, Eonwe Valar (presiding),
fladrifv, Gilraen-(V)/Iryenth, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar,
Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory, VardaValar1
Fladrif-(V)/fladrifv tried to enter the room but AIM wouldn't let him in. He participated in a side window.
Olwe-(V)/FallenGlory chatted in a side window, but was unable to
join the meeting chat, so he participated in a side window. He's in
college trying not to play any MMO's for now so that he can study, but
would like to indulge his interest in Tolkien's Middle-earth, so he is
interested in the Tolkien Site.
Gwaihir-(Valar) is working during meetings.
Gaming
Tolkien:
Valentine's day game
RP: Sindarin language discussion, story posting.
Feb. 7, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (6)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), fladrifv, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, VardaValar1
Gaming
Tolkien:
Rangers of the North.
After-meeting:
Forum Role-play discussion and postings.
Jan. 31, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (6)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, Eonwe Valar (presiding), fladrifv, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar
Membership:
Arien's birthday
Ar-Pharazon and a discussion of terms for tests in different countries.
Menelvagor's progress on stopping smoking.
Web:
Humor page:
New link to Sauron's Blog.
Gaming:
LotRO:
Amongst much other running,
skirmishing, and crafting, two main runs mentioned at the meeting were
Sword Halls for the high levels and Dol Dinen for the low levels.
WoW:
Lothar server: Zul Gurub run after
the meeting. (note: The instance was utterly owned by Elwing, Eonwe,
Eowyn, Fangorn, Sauron, and Varda. Varda's family arrived home just in
time for the run.)
Authenticator
Miscellaneous:
Gruntz, Guild Wars
Tolkien:
Menelvagor's Tolkien moment: Gandalf discussing with Frodo of deserving death or life. Mercy, Pity, free will.
Art links to ROLOZO Tolkien's full-sized
pictures are down due to coding problems on their new server, outside
our control. Emails have been sent.
RP: posting.
Jan. 29, 2010
Tolkien Site / Humor / Links:
Sauron's Blog
Found and
recommended by Elatan-(Valar), also recommended by Indis-(V).
Middle-earth
history from Sauron's point of view! Some language may not be suitable
for young children, as might be expected from the Dark Lord. Enjoy!
Gaming / LotRO:
Traits and Deeds Guide now on the official LotRO forum.
Game Info in the official LotRO Forum, which include links to the official LotRO Lorebook presented differently:
Traits --> Lorebook Traits
Deeds --> Deeds
Virtues --> Virtues
Racial Traits --> Racial Traits
Trait Sets --> Trait Sets
Legendary Traits --> Legendary Traits
LotRO Epic Story continues soon in Volume 3 "Allies of the King: Book 1: Oath of the Rangers".
It will include one new skirmish, four expanded skirmishes.
Also, the entire Volume I epic story will become soloable.
Jan. 24, 2010
Tolkien Site illustration problem:
The majority of pictures our
Tolkien Encyclopedia uses for illustrations are not currently available
due to a change in the server coding where the Rolozo Tolkien Site
resides. Emails are now passing around and we hope the issue will be
resolved. Fortunately we have our own art site, although not nearly as
extensive. Anyone wishing to add their artwork to aid our Tolkien
Encyclopedia or for particular stories or poems, please contact Varda.
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (7)
Ancalagon-(V)/Joldahks, AriehnV, ArPharazonV, fladrifv,
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Web:
Art:
"Dwarf" by Deep-groover-(T)
Stories:
"The Art of Diplomacy"
by Jay of Lasgalen.
Gaming:
Miscellaneous
WoW:
Argent Dawn server branch was dissolved
by Arien-(Valar) for non-attendance. Arien's WoW account was trojaned
earlier in the week, but the items and gold were recovered by the Devs.
Lothar server branch: added Menelvagor-(Valar) from the Argent Dawn group.
Uldaman server branch: becoming more active again.
LotRO:
Landroval server: very active.
Tolkien:
RP (mixes into the Tolkien discussion).
The Black Numenoreans (King's Men) and where they settled in Middle-earth. Nazgul. Sorcery. Swords. Legolas.
Jan. 21, 2010
Gaming / LotRO:
Free welcome back weekend: Jan. 21 - Jan. 25.
Jan. 18, 2010
Tolken Site / Art:
Cave of DeepGroover-(T):
"Dwarf: Drunegar Runekeeper" model from Andreas; put together, modified and painted by DeepGroover-(T).
Tolkien Site / Stories:
"The Art of Diplomacy"
by Jay of Lasgalen. "Elladan and Elrohir find their skills of diplomacy
and tact stretched to the limit when Estel asks for advice." Aragorn is
13 years old.
Jan. 17, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (7)
Ancalagon-(V)/Joldahks, AriehnV, ArPharazonV,
fladrifv, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, TulkasValar61, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
Daddy Twofoot will be missing from LotRO starting February and plans to return later with his wife as well.
Pallando contacted Ar-Pharazon saying that he would miss the meeting.
Eonwe-(Valar) will be working through the next few meetings.
Web:
Stories pages: formatting
Gaming:
Miscellaneous:
StarCraft/Broodwar
Gruntz
Diablo 1
Wii fitness with the balance board
Second Life
Chess
WoW
LotRO
Tolkien:
Indis-(V)'s topic: Linguistics, especially Dwarvish.
Jan. 10, 2010
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript by Ar-Pharazon and Varda.
Attending: (7)
AriehnV, ArPharazonV, arwenv1, Eonwe Valar, Indis-(V)/karakedi25, pallandovalar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Before-meeting:
Some rp discussion.
Membership:
Meriadoc-(V)
Arien-(Valar)
Web:
Membership Page:
Varda's question for the
membership (email answers welcome also): How would you feel about
adding links to our Facebook pages onto the Membership page?
Art:
"Maedhroc" sketch by Maedhros-(V)
Forum:
Arien's question about finding new posts on the Forum and changing the order of the posts.
Gaming:
Miscellaneous:
Tales of Monkey Island
Total Annihilation expansion called Core Contingency
Second Life
WoW:
Servers: Argent Dawn (European Alliance), Lothar (Americas Alliance), Uldaman (Americas Horde).
LotRO:
Server Landroval
Tolkien:
Tolkien Moment from Eonwe-(Valar) with discussion: Faramir learns that Frodo has the One Ring.
Forum Role-play discussion and posting.
After-meeting:
A little continuation of the rp.
Jan. 9, 2010
Happy Birthday, Meriadoc-(V)!
Jan. 7, 2010
Tolkien Site / Art:
Cave of Maedhros-(V):
Black and white sketch of Maedhroc, a hobbit warden character played by the artist in the Lord of the Rings Online game.
Jan. 3, 2010
It was a Happy Birthday that brought J.R.R. Tolkien to us, on this day in 1892!
Sunday Meeting:
5pm EST (GMT-5)
AIM room: Valar Guild Meetingplace
Meeting Transcript
contributed to by Ar-Pharazon and Menelvagor who sent raw transcripts
of different parts of the meeting, and by Varda who did the webwork.
Attending: (7)
Ancalagon-(V)/Joldahks, ArPharazonV, AriehnV, Eonwe Valar,
Indis-(V)/karakedi25, Menelvagor Valar, VardaValar1 (presiding)
Membership:
New Full Member: Faramir-(V)
Menelvagor-(Valar) has gone 78 hours without smoking. Good luck!
Aragorn-(V) is working on his Civil Engineering degree, but is still with us.
Arth-(T) is still with usand asks to have his poetry
actually on the Valar Guild site, not just linked, as a back-up.
Web:
Games page: automatically updates for the viewer's personal New Year.
Membership and News pages are set for 2010.
Gaming:
Miscellaneous:
BroodWar, Second Life, Tales of Monkey Island
WoW: the activity this week was on Lothar server. Fangorn is now up to joining in on Heroics.
LotRO: the major guild activity. :)
Tolkien:
In honor of JRRT's birthday today, Eonwe's topic
was: How do we see birthdays celebrated by the peoples of Arda?
Forum Role-play discussion and posting.
January 1, 2010
Happy New Year!!
Welcome to the Valar Guild, Faramir-(V)! Indis
scouted Faramir in LotRO, and he tested with Varda. He's 43 from San
Antonio, Texas, in the CST. He's read the H, LotR, and Sil. His current
game is LotRO, and he joined our kin on Landroval server. He plans to
play Star Trek Online later this month. His favorite character is
Boromir as a heroic man, fatally flawed, who redeemed himself. And he
has a big horn.
Activity drops:
Please let
Varda know if you wish to continue your association with the Valar Guild for 2010. Many of
you automatically move onto the the next year for being currently
active, but mistakes are made, so please check the 2010 page for your
name with an asterisk and 2010 in the "Confirmed for year:" column.
The News page has been cleared for 2010 news,
with 2009's archived as usual and reachable from the bottom of this
new page.
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