Tolkien discussion ideas

[Manveru]

Originally Posted by Haradrim

ALso you might want to consider a total redo of the board. Shut it down, wipe it out and start the whole thing over. I think that might attract a lot of new members. I remember when I first joined 4 days a go that I was a little nervous because everyone seemed to know each other and most of the good threads were every long and would take a long time to read.

definately dont shut down the board. i just joined about 2 weeks ago and enjoy looking thru threads that still arent really discussed anymore

i think a good idea would be to have more organized discussions like character and kingdom analysis sub-forums, so every month there could be a new character or kingdom (or war, item, etc) to discuss

[Nurvingiel]

Wipe the board clean! No way Jose!

I hope we come accross as friendly to you Haradrim. I see you've settled in nicely anyway.

I think prospective members are also attracted to content. And content we have.

[Elemmírë]

I'm new enough to support your statement, Nurvs.

I might never have found this site if everything had been wiped clean... as I've said before, it's SGH's Drooling-Over-Finrod posts that came up in my yahoo searches (ugh... how sad ) and brought me to this site in the first place.

Anyway, I enjoy going back and reading all the old threads.

[Haradrim]

Well I posted this in the LOTR one. But why not have a new forum. THis could be called weekly or bi-weekly discussions. In it are sub-forums with titles like:
characters
wars
races
kingdoms
weapons
fun stuff

In each sub-forum you can post threads discussing different aspects about this one thing/person/or place and you would probably try to correlate them. People talk about them for a weekly or biweekly phase. Then each week you clean out the sub-forum and start it over with a new character/race/war/weapon/kingdom and fun stuf. you delete the old threads or move them somewhere and start each sub-forum again. This would keep the forum clean and organized. I think this would bring lots of new members it would help bring up some topics that havent been discussed for a while. It would also add a whole new dynamic to the board. Whadyall think?

[Artanis]

I have planned to do a character analysis thread of - *surprise* - Artanis ( = Galadriel) but it will not be this year.

[Gordis]

Originally Posted by Aphanuzîr

The life-span of Durin the Deathless
The ancestry of Glorfindel
Did Galadriel, Celeborn and Glorfindel partake in the Last Alliance?
Did Thranduil's realm have a name?
The part of CÃ*rdan
What became of all the heirlooms of the Kings of Númenor?
The Lost Road and the father-son concept
Did Tar-Palantir have a PalantÃ*r?
Was CelebrÃ*an a pupil of Galadriel, and did she have a similar role in Imladris as Melian and Galadriel had in Doriath and Lórien respectively?
Pauline Baynes' map of Middle-earth
The meetings of Elwë and Melian, Beren and Lúthien, and Aragorn and Arwen

You have great ideas here, Aphanuzir! Why won't you start these threads?
Any of them is worth a discussion!

[Aphanuzîr]

I have not researched these yet, but some of them might require little research. But anyone may start the threads; just because I came up with the topics, does not mean that I alone have the right to start threads on them. I just wanted to share my ideas so that others can do the part of starting the threads. I might start threads on these in the future if noone else has by then, but I do not promise anything.

[Gordis]

Thank you for the permission. But perhaps it will be better if you start them yourself. Some of them don't require a lot of research. Especially I like that about the Palantir...

[CrazySquirrel]

And what is your policy, to make fewer threads?
Or just to check that what was discussed alredy would not be discussed anew?

[ecthelion]

construct a tolkien need-to-read list, hobbit-lotr-silmarillion-?

[Beren3000]

How about a thread where people could (for a healthy change) speak about things they hate about Tolkien. Huh? Why are you looking at me this way?