{"id":44087,"date":"2011-05-01T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=44087"},"modified":"2011-05-01T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T04:59:07","slug":"torn-message-boards-weekly-roundup-may-1-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/05\/01\/44087-torn-message-boards-weekly-roundup-may-1-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"TORn Message Boards Weekly Roundup &#8211; May 1 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44088 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/RoundUpPic02052011-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Founders Day and Lord Elrond\" width=\"204\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/RoundUpPic02052011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/RoundUpPic02052011.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/>Welcome to our collection of TORn\u2019s hottest topics for the past week. If you\u2019ve fallen behind on what\u2019s happening on the Message Boards, here\u2019s a great way to catch the highlights. Or if you\u2019re new to TORn and want to enjoy some great conversations, just follow the links to some of our most popular discussions. Watch this space as every weekend we will spotlight the most popular buzz on TORn\u2019s Message Boards. Everyone is welcome, so come on in and join in the fun!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This week we celebrated the 12th Anniversary of the founding of TORn.\u00a0 Just one of the crazy games that took place was this amazingly accurate Madlib by Oiot\u00e1ri, <a title=\"Founders Day Madlib\" href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=350783#350783\" target=\"_blank\">forum members provided the fill-ins<\/a> and <a title=\"Founders Day Madlib Result\" href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=351418#351418\" target=\"_blank\">this is the hilarious result<\/a>. Another game posted by Rosie-with-the-ribbons was this <a title=\"Founders Day Avatar Game\" href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=350865#350865\" target=\"_blank\">Avatar game,<\/a> how many do you think you can get right?\u00a0 The day was great fun, so please enjoy the links to this years craziness and come and join us at next years \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>There has been much excitement over the<a title=\"Casting announcement for Fili and Thranduil\" href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=352358#352358\" target=\"_blank\"> casting announcements of the new Fili and of the Elvenking Thranduil<\/a>.\u00a0 We also welcomed the confirmation of the return of our favourite <a title=\"Lord Elrond returns to the Hobbit\" href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=352683#352683\" target=\"_blank\">Half-elf, Lord Elrond, Hugo Weaving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Founders Day always brings many of us back out of Lurkwood and this weeks <a title=\"Fiesta Friday celebrates Founders Day\" href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=351960#351960\" target=\"_blank\">Fiesta Friday<\/a> reflected that.\u00a0 Come along and join in the toasts, &#8220;To the Founders&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll share more topics next week and hope you can join in on the conversation! Don\u2019t forget, TheOneRing.net\u2019s message boards have over 6000 registered Tolkien fans, just like yourself! Let your voice be heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our collection of TORn\u2019s hottest topics for the past week. 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