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I'll do this soon. A moderator-to-be-named-later will be responsible for starting each new topic. I'm considering stickying each topic so that they will fall in proper order rather than being all jumbled up. The downside of that organization would be that finding newer posts might be more difficult. Thoughts and suggestions?
My concern with the chapter a week pace is that discussion will go on for over a year. It's hard to keep any core group committed and focused for such a length of time. There's also the consideration that by the time you get to the end of the book, the beginning will seem a distant memory. The book isn't meant to be read at such a slow pace.
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I think that the discussion of LOTR is a great idea, but I have to disagree with having a moderator responsible for starting each new topic. I have experience with this because in another forum I started a
Published Silmarillion discussion chapter by chapter and we assigned a different person the responsability of doing the intro of each chapter. I think that this approach offers a better display of ideas and point of views than say a single person doing that for each chapter, and also that the work is inmense, also it would make the persons more involved because they would have to research in order to make good intros into the discussion in the chapters.
I would not be adverse of the idea of having a single person posting the initial post of a chapter, provided that it is done by different persons so as to assure the quality of the intro.
On the time problem for the discussion. While it is certainly very difficult to maintain for a long period of time, it is not impossible either. For example, I posted the
Ainulindalë chapter in Nov 11 of 2002, and we as of today are nearly finishing discussing the
Eärendil chapter and after that there is still the
Akallabêth and
Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age.
My point is that it not only can be done, but it
has been done.
Here is the link:
The Silmarillion Project