“I have come,” he said. “But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!” And suddenly, as he set it on his finger, he vanished from Sam\u2019s sight.<\/p>\n
It’s a key moment of Lord of the Rings where the quest teeters on a precipice. And this weekend we’ll be putting it under the microscope as we discuss the question: “Did Frodo Fail in His Quest?”.<\/p>\n
Join us this Saturday June 4 from 6pm EDT in #thehalloffire on our chat server (irc.theonering.net) where we’ll attempt to find some sort of consensus over another one of Middle-earth’s most vexed questions!<\/p>\n
Upcoming chats in Hall of Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n June 4\/5 — Did Frodo fail in his Quest? Time zone conversions<\/strong><\/p>\n Not sure what time the chat will be where you are? Check this little conversion table out for some help.<\/p>\n America: Europe: Asia-Pacific Our chats usually last 45 mins to an hour, and are very newbie friendly. Simply drop in and join the conversation!<\/p>\n Where — connection details<\/strong><\/p>\n Chat happens on #thehalloffire on irc.theonering.net — the TORn IRC server. You can connect instantly via our java chat client<\/a> that works inside your web browser. Alternatively, you can install a dedicated chat program such as mIRC<\/a> on your computer and just plug in the following connection details.<\/p>\n Server: irc.theonering.net “I have come,” he said. “But I do not choose now to do what I came to do….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[136,117,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barliman-news","category-barlimans","category-barliman-hof"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bGL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44935","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=44935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJune 11\/12 — The Hobbit Chapter 6
\nJune 18\/19 — Hobbit movie rumour round-up
\nJune 25\/26 — The Hobbit Chapter 7<\/p>\n
\n6.00pm EDT (New York)
\n5.00pm CDT (Chicago)
\n4.00pm MDT (Denver)
\n3.00pm PDT (Los Angeles)<\/p>\n
\n10.00pm GMT (London)<\/p>\n
\n8.00am (Sunday) Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne
\n11.00am (Sunday) Wellington<\/p>\n
\nPort: 6667
\nChannel: #thehalloffire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"