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**lindil** · 07-26-2000, 08:33 AM

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Re: may I suggest 3 stages

Mithadan I agree completely about broad-based support-which is why
I asked Cheif-wraith about notifying other boards [to get more folks on board and also why I supported an open[but informed ] voting policy on the debates proper.

I understood Chief-W. to want to hold off on announcements and Galpsi and Cheif understandably want time to get up to speed-which is why I thought - a bit of energy into the non-literary infrastucture would be a good stop-gap activity.
since I have yet to see that this does not need some ground rules - and I have tried to put up all I have seen proposed here and at the [ alas] now
vanished White Council thread and a few of my own and none seem to be currentl acceptable -nor the tone of its presentation.
I have no wish for it to be a fiefdom -if so I would have jumped on Taimar's idea of small ruling board etc.[which I endorsed only as a #2 choice and w/ an amendment to it opening the 'advisory board ' to all.
I am happy to wait{ I have been going over the various versions of
the Ainulindale in silm {it is got to be one of the most powerful things I have read by him} and have turned to the lost tales 1 andHoME 4 today.

I am certainly not tied to any one wat and I do certainly want as many minds as possible on.
I if I understood Chief-Wight aright yesterday he seemed to say that all activities WOULD be open to all . then that sounds like an executive decision we can all live with
{ although we have yet to hear in from Taimar}

I will probably go ahead and delete my proposal in the next day or so and let things gel as they will.

Cheif- did you want to wait on trying to get a bigger crowd until this subsection was created or are there other factors we should wait on?
by the way out of an unusual visit to amazon to read reviews of HoME an extremely sensitve reviewr of Morgith's Ring{ and other books on Byzantium} asked at the end of her review if any one was trying to tie all this great additional material into the Silmarillion. Needless to say, I invited her to the downs.
"A chance meeting as we say in Middle-Earth"

</p>Edited by <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000076>lindil</A> at: 7/26/00 11:01:13 am

07-26-2000, 08:33 AM	#12
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Animated Skeleton Posts: 0</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> Re: may I suggest 3 stages Mithadan I agree completely about broad-based support-which is why I asked Cheif-wraith about notifying other boards [to get more folks on board and also why I supported an open[but informed ] voting policy on the debates proper. I understood Chief-W. to want to hold off on announcements and Galpsi and Cheif understandably want time to get up to speed-which is why I thought - a bit of energy into the non-literary infrastucture would be a good stop-gap activity. since I have yet to see that this does not need some ground rules - and I have tried to put up all I have seen proposed here and at the [ alas] now vanished White Council thread and a few of my own and none seem to be currentl acceptable -nor the tone of its presentation. I have no wish for it to be a fiefdom -if so I would have jumped on Taimar's idea of small ruling board etc.[which I endorsed only as a #2 choice and w/ an amendment to it opening the 'advisory board ' to all. I am happy to wait{ I have been going over the various versions of the Ainulindale in silm {it is got to be one of the most powerful things I have read by him} and have turned to the lost tales 1 andHoME 4 today. I am certainly not tied to any one wat and I do certainly want as many minds as possible on. I if I understood Chief-Wight aright yesterday he seemed to say that all activities WOULD be open to all . then that sounds like an executive decision we can all live with { although we have yet to hear in from Taimar} I will probably go ahead and delete my proposal in the next day or so and let things gel as they will. Cheif- did you want to wait on trying to get a bigger crowd until this subsection was created or are there other factors we should wait on? by the way out of an unusual visit to amazon to read reviews of HoME an extremely sensitve reviewr of Morgith's Ring{ and other books on Byzantium} asked at the end of her review if any one was trying to tie all this great additional material into the Silmarillion. Needless to say, I invited her to the downs. "A chance meeting as we say in Middle-Earth" </p>Edited by <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000076>lindil</A> at: 7/26/00 11:01:13 am __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.