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PotbellyHairyfoot
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Post ***** Important Announcement. The closing of RPs started where they do not belong.****
on: February 01, 2005 01:14
When our sister site, Monkeygames.net was formed, it was intended as the new home for all Non-Tolkien RPs. The site is doing quite well is is slowly growing in size.
In the time since Monkeygames was started a number of theads, that should have been started at that site, have been started here at COE. These RPs are not based on Tolkien's works and often only mention anything relaed to Middle-Earth only rarely.
Over the course of February we will be posting notice in offending threads and at the end of the month we will be moving any threads that are considered TR or TT and in the wrong forum at COE and WE WILL BE CLOSING all the NT RPs that do not belong here. When we started Monkeygames.net, we were able to move all the NT rps to that site, but that was a one-shot deal and we wil not be able to do so again.
In order to give you a better idea of the criteria we will be using, the next post will give you some guidelines that were drawn up by Tasar_Took_Nualda and will be used by us to help us decide which threads to close and which to move.


Notices have now been posted in all the RPs that will be closed, and we will now close any new NT rps that start -to make it easier to relocate them





[Edited on 21/2/2005 by PotbellyHairyfoot]
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Post RE: ***** Important Announcement. The closing of RPs started where they do not belong.****
on: February 01, 2005 01:29
RP thread guidlines

TT: Total Tolkien;

In this forum all of the RPs use Tolkien's published writings as a guideline. This means none of the Rps in this forum should make anything happen to the Fellowship during the parts written about in LotR that will in any way effect outcome or interactions.

The sorts of things that do not happen in TT RP threads:


Legolas does not marry Eowyn.

Neither Meriadoc nor Peregrin die at the Uruk- Hai's hands on the way to Saruman.

Elves do not have random magical powers.

There are no Unicorns, griffins (by any spelling) Pegesi, Vampires of the contemporary form (read the Silmarillion to find details of the only vampiric creature mentioned in Tolkien)

What can happen in a TT RP thread:

History filling and fitting in blank portions of what Aragorn did between his time in Gondor and his joining the fellowship.

Arwen's childhood

A perspective of a dwarf inside the Lonely Mountain the day Smog came and claimed it.

These are just examples, of course. Tolkien's world is vast, so even abiding by the specific ideas he set up there are a plethora of options.

TR: Tolkien Related;

Here there is more leeway. If you want your elf to have special powers of construction or healing, this is probably where he/she belongs. Or if your Halflings found a basilisk egg, again here is where one belongs.

In this forum also belong all movie based rps, since the other forum is Total Tolkien, not Total Tolkien and Jackson .

If you are dealing with places or things that are specifically mentioned _not_ to have happened existed in Tolkien's written works, or just want a little more imaginative room, this is where your RP should be.

What does not happen in TR;

Random Anime or other genre Role play that is only thinly based in Middle- earth. Such as the entire cast of Buffy, just happening to live in a town named Dale. Tolkien related means 98% Tolkien, the rest whatever you want. Not, please, the other way 'round. This is after all first and foremost a Tolkien site. There are many great role play sites out there with far less strict ratings and content guidelines.


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Post RE: ***** Important Announcement. The closing of RPs started where they do not belong.****
on: February 01, 2005 04:44
This seems like a fairly good idea, but what are you going to do about non-canon characters or stuff set a few years after the fall of Sauron? This may tie in with what you've already said, but a lot of threads don't have so much to do with the books and a lot more to deal with the fringes of Tolkein's universe using all non-canon characters.
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