Hall of Fire this weekend focuses on Chapter 17 of the Silmarillion — The ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin. After a long, watchful peace, Morgoth smashes the leaguer of Angband that’s been maintained by the Noldor, unleashing orcs, Balrogs and an all-grown up Glaurung. Ard-Gelen is withered, Dorthonion is destroyed, the sons of Finarfin slain and the sons of Feanor scattered. Sauron takes Tol Sirion and uses it as a base from which to torment Beleriand. And the Noldorin high king Fingolfin rashly throws his life away in a suicidal challenge against Morgoth. In the midst of this tale of woe, is there any good news for the elves and human allies?<\/p>\n
Here’s a couple of famous drawings of the confrontation between Morgoth and Fingolfin:<\/p>\n
John Howe<\/a> Time and date:<\/strong> America: Europe: Asia-Pacific: Chats usually last 45 mins to an hour, and are very newbie friendly. Simply drop in and join the conversation!<\/p>\n Where?<\/strong><\/p>\n Chat happens on #thehalloffire on irc.theonering.net – the TORn IRC server. You can connect instantly via our java chat client that works inside your web browser (find it here<\/a>! ) or choose to install a dedicated chat program such as mIRC on your computer.<\/p>\n
\nTed Nasmith<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSaturday May 27<\/p>\n
\n5.30pm EDT
\n4.30pm CDT
\n3.30pm MDT
\n2.30pm PDT<\/p>\n
\n10.30pm UK
\n11.30pm Central Europe<\/p>\n
\n7.30am (Sunday) Brisbane
\n7.30am (Sunday) Sydney
\n9.30am (Sunday) Wellington<\/p>\n
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![Ted Nasmith<\/a><\/p>\nTime and date:<\/strong>\nSaturday May 27<\/p>\nAmerica:\n5.30pm EDT\n4.30pm CDT\n3.30pm MDT\n2.30pm PDT<\/p>\nEurope:\n10.30pm UK\n11.30pm Central Europe<\/p>\nAsia-Pacific:\n7.30am (Sunday) Brisbane\n7.30am (Sunday) Sydney\n9.30am (Sunday) Wellington<\/p>\nChats usually last 45 mins to an hour, and are very newbie friendly. Simply drop in and join the conversation!<\/p>\nWhere?<\/strong><\/p>\nChat happens on #thehalloffire on irc.theonering.net – the TORn IRC server. You can connect instantly via our java chat client that works inside your web browser (find it here<\/a>! ) or choose to install a dedicated chat program such as mIRC on your computer.<\/p>\nTo find out more about using mIRC to connect to TORn IRC server, check out these<\/a> instructions.<\/p>\nUpcoming topics:<\/strong><\/p>\nOver coming weeks we’ll be continuing chatting about the Silmarillion. Next chat – in two weeks time will be about the tale of Beren and Luthien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Fire this weekend focuses on Chapter 17 of the Silmarillion — The ruin of Beleriand and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[136,117,14,138,91,6,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barliman-news","category-barlimans","category-events","category-old-special-reports","category-events-other","category-tolkbooks","category-silmarillion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6h4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/img-fan.theonering.net\/rolozo\/images\/nasmith\/morgoth.jpg\"){kind=link}