Announcement

J.R.R. Tolkien Forum

I am very pleased to announce that Shadow Stalker has been made a Moderator. Shadow will be moderating Tolkien and LOTR. http://pages.prodigy.net/indianahawkeye/newpage07/12.gif

Congratulations Nathan on your new status! You are the perfect choice for Moderator! Now you are officially the Tolkien Master!

Let's see if he changes his title to that.

Or Balrog Tamer!

Loremaster will do nicely
and now a list of changes....
jk

Nice avatar! Exactly what I expected from you!

Congrats Shadow!


You are perfect for the job...And that's an awesome avatar!!!

just to let ya'll know, i'm trying to think of ways to keep the LOTR and J.R.R. forus from dying alltogether. if you have any suggestions/ideas just pm them to me.

I was hoping you would try to keep them alive, they seem to be dying...But no worries if I have any ideas, I will be sure to contact you

I have been trying to keep the lord of the Rings books threads alive and I contribute to the movies aswell but I have no sujestions either.

Over at councilofelrond.com we go a little beyond just the books and movies. That's what keeps it alive there. We should do that here too. The Hidden Meanings thread is a great start. We can discuss the anti war message, the Industrial Revolution, conservation and deforestation, world mythologies, and religious subtext. These were major themes in Tolkien's books. I also like Sherry's suggestion of breaking up the Silmarillion into individual threads. Maybe we can resurrect dead threads too. What about the other Tolkien books? I would be interested in reading them if I know I have you guys to discuss it with. I don't know how far that will take our small group, but we can give it a shot. The forum isn't dead yet. And when the DVD comes out it may spark back to life a little.

well anythings worth a shot in my book. lets give the hidden meanings a whirl both here and in the LOTR forum (people seem a little more active there)

Another suggestion...cleaning up some of the threads. I know I am one of the guilty parties. *shame* A lot of really good threads got really really off topic. An example is the Maiar thread in LOTR. It started out really good, but then got really off topic. Can some irrelevant posts be deleted? Do you have the power to do that?

Okay, now I'm on a roll...Games!

We already have the Trivia and This or That, but we could come with others too. And bring back the Caption game. Misty, Pip and I were interested in doing it, but none of us know how to post pictures that aren't attachments.

What about group stories? We had a thread like that in LOTR, but it died. Maybe start another one.

As a mod I can and will delete posts that go to far off topic in my opinion. I think I'll probably be a bit more lenient than KJ or Fuscia, but they had to deal with LOTR at its peak of activity. Currently I'll be focusing on deleting OT posts in threads that are still alive. Dead threads are hardly ever looked at, due to people not wanting to look several pages back for something.
We do have OT threads in each forum, but i believe they require a bit of resurrecting.
As for the caption game idea, it was pretty fun. However, I currently don't have the time to go hunt down pictures and post them.
The group story idea is a good one, but I personally would prefer it if you tried to keep it a little more serious than the last one.

Sub forums can help with the dead threads. We have soooo many good threads. They just need some attention.

And I know there are other INReview members who have read the books and have seen the movies, but don't post here. Perhaps they are intimidated. Invite them to a Q & A thread. Or maybe they just don't know about us. Is there a way to get the word out that there is a Tolkien thread.

And what other books has Tolkien written? Most of us have read Sil at least once. Now we can get into the other ones.

Isn't there the Book of Lost Tales? I will put that one on my birthday list. With these hospital bills, I won't be buying books for a while.

I am trying to find a comprehensive list and then I will post it here.

Okay, found this at www.barrowdowns.com

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings
*Fellowship of the Ring
*The Two Towers
*The Return of the King

The Silmarillion

Unfinished Tales

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

The History of Middle Earth Series
1. The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1
2. The Book of Lost Tales, Part 2
3. The Lays of Beleriand
4. The Shaping of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, The Ambarkanta and the Annals
5. The Lost Road and Other Writings
6. The Return of the Shadow: The Histoy of the Lord of the Rings, Part One
7. The Treason of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Two
8. The War of the Ring: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three
9. Sauron Defeated: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four
10. Morgoth's Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part One: The Legends of Aman
11. The War of the Jewels: The Later Silmarillion: Part Two: The Legends of Beleriand
12. The Peoples of Middle Earth

Roverandom

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo

Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham

Letters from Father Christmas

The Father Christmas Letters

Finn and Hengest

The Monsters and the Critics

Tree and Leaf

The Tolkien Reader

It looks like we have a lot to choose from!




Sherry, PM me and let me know about your kids. I didn't know they were in the hospital.

You guys are coming up with some great ideas. I'm willing to help or go along with whatever you want to do, just let me know what I can do to help!