Talvo and Bifur

FROM: Nob – Tue Nov 11 23:27:10 2008
SUBJECT: Talvo and Bifur
TO: (Best-bb)
MESSAGE: ———————————————————————
BEST’s newest LAs! Praise them with great praise! Notice how this rhymes and RP many times!

Tath

Thanks!

I appreciate the compliments I’ve received about the site, but the thanks should go to everyone at Elendor who roleplays and posts to the BBs. It’s nice to see some activity in the area.

If you see a note up here about roleplay you were involved in, and you know the log is posted on the web, please leave a comment on the appropriate message, and I’ll provide a link.

Khuzdul: The Secret Tongue of the Dwarves

“On one point, however, the Dwarves were always “rigidly secretive… For reasons which neither Elves nor Men ever fully understood they would not reveal any personal names to people of other kin, nor later when they had acquired the arts of writing would allow them ever to be carved or written. They therefore took names by which they could be known to their allies in Mannish forms.” (PM:304) Appendix F in LotR confirms this: “Their own secret and ‘inner’ names, their true names, the Dwarves have never revealed to any one of alien race. Not even on their tombs do they inscribe them.” Hence the names Balin and Fundin, that occur in a Khuzdul context on the slab over Balin’s tomb, are not themselves Khuzdul. They are Mannish names, merely the substitute names Balin and his father Fundin used when non-dwarves were present.”

Take a look at this article I found, by clicking right here!

A query

FROM: Cirdan – Sun Nov 02 18:53:41 2008
SUBJECT: A query
TO: (Best-bb)
MESSAGE: ———————————————————————

I was just wondering to myself, what does BEST stand for in this new cultural grouping? B=Bree E=Ered-luin S=Shire… what does the T stand for with regards to Mithlond? Also what was the basis for Nano as the greeters board/com and minion for the LA board/com. Maybe I am being dense but maybe we should have a cultural competition to come up with more relevant names for all our new boards and coms?

Cirdan

P.S. The Mithlond Admin com is <havens>

FROM: Nob – Thu Nov 06 14:13:56 2008
SUBJECT: Re: A query
TO: (Best-bb)
MESSAGE: ———————————————————————
T = Tower Hills.

Nano is for the little nano-things that go about an organism and keep things working. I confess to picking that one, because I thought it was fun. I’ve asked Rina about a competition.

Thanks, GL -
Nob

Festival? and Opinions on Boosting Activity Levels

FROM: Boldibad – Sun Nov 02 17:28:04 2008
SUBJECT: Festival? and Opinions on Boosting Activity Levels
TO: (Best-bb)
MESSAGE: ———————————————————————
I have found my way to some rumors that the Luinites are heading east with some trade goods. I propose we have a big Shire-Bree festival (I think the Luinites will be gone for a while) to make use of some of the goods that are bought. This would be a great way to bring in the new era of activity everyone’s hoping for!
I think we need to have regular, interesting events (with thought-provoking TPs connected to them) to anchor more peoples’ desire to connect and RP here. Look at Gondor–they seem to have some decent activity. I suspect it’s because people feel like something is going on in their IC lives that they want to work with and develop.
So, if most of the current active players regularly get RP going and everyone gets involved in a TP of some kind (even if it’s just a group of 3 or 4 people RPing with each other every couple of days), I believe it will form something like a glue that will catch more and more people as they check out the cultures in Eriador.
That being said, I would personally find it fun to get some more plots going between all the cultures in the region (ones that fit into the theme of the game). I think it would be easiest for Bree and Shire to interact, ICly, more often. But, I think even our local elves can find some way to become more involved with everyone else.
Thanks for reading my opinions!

New boards and coms reminder

FROM: Torebras – Fri Oct 31 12:01:54 2008
SUBJECT: ALL: New boards and coms reminder
TO: (Best-bb)
MESSAGE: ———————————————————————
Hey folks,

Now that we’ve made the change, here’s a quick summary of our new bboard/com system.

Culture Bree Ered-Luin Mithlond Shire

Main board ——————-Best-bb—————–
RP board ——————-Best-rp—————–
Greeters board ——————-Nano-bb—————–
LAs board ——————-Minion-bb—————

Main local com <bree> <luin> <mithlond> <shirefolk>
Cross-culture com ——————-<best>——————-
Local LAs com <bad> <lula> <mithadmin> <sla>
Cross-culture LAs com——————<minion>—————–
Greeters com ——————-<nano>——————-

Clear as mud, eh?

With all the joint boards, it’s easy for specific culture stuff to get buried. So, to make things clearer, if you’re posting something for a specific culture please could you put the culture name in uppercase at the start of the post title? Or if it’s for all cultures, put ‘ALL: …’

-Hugh (already guilty of not-tagging-by-culture :p)

Charting the Shire Lines

“There were no towns, not even villages. All the former communities were gone. Tharbad, the last town beyond Bree had vanished in floods in 2912, more than 100 years before the War of the Ring. The Shire itself continued to flourish and grow, although there were setbacks during the centuries. After the Brandybuck migration in 2340 there would have been the Long Winter and the Days of Dearth in 2758-60, and the Fell Winter in 2911. So every 300-350 years or so the Hobbit populations seem to have been reduced by famine, war, or plague. It was enough to prevent them from spreading across Eriador, but insufficient to reduce them to a haggard, struggling people.”

Check out the rest of this interesting essay.

Brenden Ferny for Mayor?

Mail Message Number 1 (Message ID #: 16770)
FROM:    Aleswyn – Thu Oct 30 14:32:17 2008
SUBJECT: <fwd> Brenden Ferny for Mayor?
TO:      (Best-rp)
MESSAGE: ———————————————————————

<Forwarded message originally by Keldean (10/19/08)>
Rumors are going around that Brenden Ferny, one of those talk folk living in Bree, is beginning to ask around town about the mayor at great length. It’s even whispered that he thinks he could do a better job…
<End of forwarded message>