[BittenBuggy]

Woo hoo! Less work for BB!



Thank you Anna

[Anna]

Ok, I want 'Of Beleriand and its Realms' and 'Of Beren and Lúthien'. Is that fine with everyone?

And two chapters a week is alright with me, Sind.

[sindohte]

Here is the current state of affairs for the sign up list -

8/30 Of Beleriand and its Realms Anna

9/6 Of the Noldor in Beleriand Sindohte

9/13 Of Maeglin BB

9/20 Of the Coming of Men into the West

9/27 Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin BB

10/4 Of Beren and Luthien Anna

10/11 Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad

10/18 Of Turin Turambar

10/25 Of the Ruin of Doriath

11/1 Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin

11/8 Of the Voyage of Earendil and the War of Wrath

11/15 Akallabeth

11/22 Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age Sindohte

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Are people interested in doing two chapters per week? If so, here is how it would look. It might make sense for one person to do two chapters per week, instead of trying to find two different people to do one chapter each. The reason for that is because we don't seem to have many takers at the moment.


8/30 Of Beleriand and its Realms / Of the Noldor in Beleriand

9/6 Of Maeglin / Of the Coming of Men into the West

9/13 Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin / Of Beren and Luthien

9/20 Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad / Of Turin Turambar

9/27 Of the Ruin of Doriath / Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin

10/4 Of the Voyage of Earendil and the War of Wrath / Akallabeth

10/11 Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age

[BittenBuggy]

[sindohte]

One person being responsible for 2 chapters does have the potential for being a bit of work. I don't have a problem with doing the two people, one chapter per week idea. However, we really need a few more volunteers to be responsible for leading discussion, so that folks don't get burned out. So in my roundabout way, I am agreeing with you

[Anna]

Two chapters a week would be great, really. I agree with BB -- I think we´ll be quite capable of coordinating our ramblings. But, yes, it would be good if we had more volunteers (Helloooo, Inglor...Sara....anyone.... ).

So, does this mean I will share one week with Sind (8/30) and one week with Pumpkin-lady (9/13)?

[sindohte]

Anna, that is exactly what it would mean. But we need more folks to volunteer because at the moment, it is only you, me and the pumpkin formerly known as BB. If it is just going to be the three of us summarizing chapters, I would rather do two chapters at one time. That would mean that we would only have to lead off discussion once every three weeks. If we tried to do it the other way and had two people each week for a chapter, that would mean that one of us would have to do a chapter every other week.

So I am desperately hoping, no I am begging that other folks please volunteer to take a chapter or two.

[Anna]

I agree. As much as I´m enjoying myself, it would be great if we had more volunteers. Can´t we bully people into, eh, 'volunteer'?
You´re the one who picked 'I don´t do cuddly. I do kickass.'!

[sindohte]

Bullying people might get results, but we do want folks to come back and play with us again Therefore I must regretfully refrain from bullying and rely upon begging and pleading

[Anna]

Ah, you´re a better person than yours truly....

[sindohte]

So how shall this arrangement work between the two of us? Will you do the bullying and then I assign a chapter to the poor beaten down soul?

[Andreth]

So you two are going to play good discussion leader/bad discussion leader? Sara is out of the loop for a while, so I don't think she'll be helping with any chapters for a while. It might be up to the four of us who have been leading the discussions so far to just switch around - like Sindohte and I lead one week and BB and Anna lead the next week's. Hopefully when we get to the next book we'll have more participants. The Silm always seems to be kind of daunting for people.

[sindohte]

Correction, Anna and I are playing bad discussion leader and evil discussion leader who pretends to be good I think the pairing up among the four of us and just doing a chapter per week wouldn't be bad. It does take a while to get into reading the Silm, but now I am a Silm whore Yesterday morning I was sitting in the lounge at Jiffy Lube reading the Silm while a bunch of people were looking at me and going WTF?

[sindohte]

Okay folks, here is a tentative discussion leader schedule for the remainder of the Silm. I took into account the fact that some chapters had already been requested by folks, so I left that alone. New people are more than welcome to join in and take a chapter and the regular discussion leaders are free to swap chapters around as they see fit.

Let me know if you love it, hate it, or think it should be changed.


8/30 Of Beleriand and its Realms Anna
Of the Noldor in Beleriand Sindohte

9/6 Of Maeglin BB
Of the Coming of Men into the West Andreth

9/13 Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin BB
Of Beren and Luthien Anna

9/20 Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad Sindohte
Of Turin Turambar Andreth

9/27 Of the Ruin of Doriath Anna
Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin BB

10/4 Of the Voyage of Earendil and the War of Wrath Andreth
Akallabeth Sindohte

10/11 Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age Sindohte

[Anna]

I have no problems with this at all!