I don't know about anyone else, but I've been having a very hard time accessing these boards, let alone posting to them, the past couple of days.
Anyway, Palcadon is busy working on the site pages, and when he's ready to show them, we'll take a gander. We'd both like feedback from those contributing, and those using the material.
Once all the material that has been posted here has been HTML'ed and such, then we'll ask Morrus to post 'em (the pages) and *hey presto* we'll be open for business. So to speak.
We'll continue to take submissions, but there are a few not-so-strict guidelines:
* Please let us know how you want to be identified/credited.
* Please date your submission. The reason will become clear below. The best way to be assured of the material being dated with no chance of confusion is to post it here on this forum. If I receive material via e-mail, and similar material is posted here, whichever is dated earlier gets priority. I'll let you know in case of such an occurrence.
* Complete thoughts only will be posted - that is, whatever is submitted must be completely thought out. Post it here first, and see if anyone has questions. You could always e-mail it to me, but feedback may come more quickly here.
* Material that duplicates, or comes close, to what is already posted will not be posted. What we want to encourage is a wide variety of takes on Tolkien's work. Individual monster and character write-ups are welcome, but are subject to this also; that is, if submissions are very similar - and this is determined at my discretion (sorry; the buck has to stop somewhere) - then the earliest will be posted.
* Remember this is a fan effort. It's unofficial game material using one of the most well-known books ever written as source material. If you have an innovative new system for, say, magic, and you have any incilnation to publish it in some form on your own at some point for a game that is unrelated to Tolkien, you may not want to have it posted. This caveat occurred to me because the current high profile of LotR may result in (relatively) lots of people using the material, and I don't want anyone's pet project disseminated across the internet unless they're sure that's what they want. Ya just never know
So how's that? Not too draconian, I hope.
We also could use more monster and character write-ups, as well as gazetteer-type material. If you have any leads on art or graphics (let's stay away from copyrighted material, please), either e-mail me or Palcadon, or post about it here.