This sounds like it's going to be fun.
I would offer my services as well, but I am the world's laziest person and pretty irresponsible when it comes to things like planning and organization; I'll probably just end up messing everyone up, hahah.
This is great though, I will just sit back and enjoy the ride!!! \ö/

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This sounds like fun. I'd like to take part in this. Who makes the Return of the Rings banners anyway?

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And as he looked into her eyes
Within the auburn of her hair
The trembling starlight of the skies
He saw there mirrored bright and fair

♥In a poly relationship with Kili and Tauriel♥

So.. this is what I get for going to work.. a sea of posts? Oh well, I am just happy all of this advertising is working.

Ellie, it isn't there because I wasn't here to update it, but I will do so now. And I will add the contest, even though I am a little confused as to what exactly it is supposed to be.

Telpeath, awesome! I will put you down for the writing section.

As for the scavenger hunt. I think we should definetly keep it. I would hate to spoil a tradition, and, as Lareal pointed out, the books were the pre-making of the movie, so I see how that falls into the theme. Although, it would be cool to also add trivia questions about the making of also, like from commentaries.

Everyone else, glad to see you here, and, if you want to help, just post.

As far as the "Return of the Rings" banners go. I know JF, Nurr, and I have made them for sure. I am actually going to work on mine tonight. So, if you give any of us a PM or post in the request threads, I am sure we will all be happy to make one for you.

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Alrighty then -salutes- Y'all just give me a job! So long as I dont have to make any graphics. And I'll try to do it best as I can!

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By Goldstrike

Right now, we need to try and get this ball rolling. So, ideas on events and helping the two ball threads already in the Misc Randomness section remain active would be wonderful.

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Aye, aye Cap'n! -shuffles off-

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what is the difference between our banners and the new banners you are talking about Smeag? I don't want to be left out ><

meganelf!!! thanks so much... i'm glad my link worked =)

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The R O C K S that you were trying to step along

And in my head I heard them play a S O N G

The banners I am taking about are like the ones you have. There are a lot of people that are wanting to have a "memory" banner.

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I seem to be having trouble finding the ball links >.<

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By Goldstrike

Here they are:
DRESS THREAD
DATE/GROUP THREAD
PLANNING THREAD

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Telpeath - I'm not 100% certain what all is already planned for writing, but it could be neat to maybe have some sort of collectively-written story. Not like an RPG (in which everyone plays just one or two characters), but something in which people would write, say, a paragraph at a time. Or 100 words. Whatever suits your fancy, really. The theme could be something like "what happens when the camera isn't rolling", or something fun and behind-the-scenes like that. Or you (or whoever runs the writing) could also maybe work with the contest people to have an "untold stories" fanfic contest or something. I dunno. I'm pretty much just throwing out ideas now. There are definite possibilities, though. I'd be happy to maybe co-manage with you, if you're interested, and we could maybe bounce ideas off of each other.


Also, in reference to the extra scavenger hunt category, what do y'all think should be included in that? Just commentary stuff, or should I put in documentary and making-of info as well? And does anyone have any thoughts/comments on improvements that could be made this year in terms of how it's all run? (Not saying that there are any - I just want to know if anyone has any suggestions.)

I'm not here to be helpful, because I pretty much can't be since I'm not talented and I'm going to be gone at random weeks all summer. I just wanted to say that all of the siggies with the quotes from behind the scenes stuff... pretty much made me pee my pants. I love them. This is a brill idea guys. I hope it goes well.

Besides you and Telepeath, PotR, there has been no preparation on the writing. It just has been sitting there, lonely, and wanting to be talked about. However, I love both of those ideas!

For the Scavenger Hunt, I think you probably could have two parts to the Scavenger Hunt: Books and Behind the Scenes. Then, Behind the Scenes will be broken up into Commentaries and Making Of.



I just saw this, and I forgot to answer. JF, what my point of view in the contest realm is that all of the one-round contests will be combined into a big RotR:BtM themed contest, just so they won't be as scattered.

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Oh okay. I'll have to think about what memory I'd want. There's very few with Craig Parker.

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Within the auburn of her hair
The trembling starlight of the skies
He saw there mirrored bright and fair

♥In a poly relationship with Kili and Tauriel♥

So...I'm confused...why are we having a quiz contest thing AND a Scavenger Hunt? I mean, they seem like basically the same thing, so we don't really need two, do we? Especially with all the other contests going on? I mean, it's kind of a tradition that the person who won the Official Tolkien Scholar title then runs the Hunt to see who gets the title again, so...I dunno, the whole quiz thing seems a bit superfluous...? I could just have missed something, though, so if they are different, my bad. I was just kinda wondering

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That is a very good point, Meld. I think we all probably skipped right over it, but we need to see what everyone else thinks. If we are able to clearly define each, we can do both, but that may be a bit hard.

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