{"id":69172,"date":"2013-02-16T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T19:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=69172"},"modified":"2013-02-16T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T19:48:13","slug":"hall-of-fire-tomorrow-tolkiens-lesser-read-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/02\/16\/69172-hall-of-fire-tomorrow-tolkiens-lesser-read-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fire today: Tolkien\u2019s lesser-read works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style>\n<p class=\"intro\">Today<span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> in the Hall of Fire we will be devoting time to some of the Professor\u2019s lesser-read works. Come along at 5pm EST to join in some intriguing exploration of pieces which you may, or may not, be familiar with (if not, then you\u2019ll be able to learn a lot, and enjoy some great company!).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">We\u2019ll be going through:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Leaf By Niggle, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Smith of Wootton Major, The Father Christmas Letters, Mr. Bliss, Roverandom and The Children of H\u00farin.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Some themes that we shall be discussing are the settings, characters, styles of writing, meanings and illustrations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Hope to see you @ the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/chat\">Hall of Fire<\/a> chat room @ 5pm EST; engage with Tolkien\u2019s huge literary imagination! Your hosts shall once more be Barliman\u2019s chat moderators Miriel and Xanaseb, in place of Demosthenes who\u2019s on holidays.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Time zone conversions<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Not sure what time the chat will be where you are? Check this little conversion table out for some help. Alternatively, head to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/fixedtime.html?msg=HoF%3A+CGI+in+The+Hobbit+and+LOTR&amp;iso=20130209T17&amp;p1=179&amp;ah=1\">our event announcer<\/a> on Time and Date.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">America:<br \/>\n5.00pm EST (New York)<br \/>\n4.00pm CST (Chicago)<br \/>\n2.00pm MST (Denver)<br \/>\n2.00pm PST (Los Angeles)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Europe:<br \/>\n10.00pm GMT (London)<br \/>\n11.00pm CET (Paris)<br \/>\nMidnight EET (Helsinki)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Asia-Pacific<br \/>\n8.00am AEST (Sunday) Brisbane<br \/>\n9.00am AEDT (Sunday) Sydney, Melbourne<br \/>\n11.00am NZDT (Sunday) Wellington<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>How long do your topic chats go for?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Our chats usually last an hour to two hours, and are very newbie friendly. Simply drop in and join the conversation! However, our main room, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/chat\">#theonering.net<\/a> is open 24 hours a day. We don\u2019t always talk Tolkien there, but if you have a burning question, you\u2019ll usually find one or two of \u201cthe regulars\u201d up for a chat!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Where \u2014 connection details<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Chat happens on #thehalloffire on irc.theonering.net \u2014 the TORn IRC server. You can connect instantly via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/chat\">our embedded Mibbit client<\/a> that works inside your web browser.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Alternatively, you can install a dedicated chat program such as mIRC on your computer and just plug in the following connection details.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Server: irc.theonering.net<br \/>\nPort: 6667<br \/>\nChannel: #thehalloffire <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the Hall of Fire we will be devoting time to some of the Professor\u2019s lesser-read works&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barlimans","category-barliman-hof"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-hZG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69172","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69172"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69176,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69172\/revisions\/69176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}