Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza

I suppose the name speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Either way, this thread is here to aid all Plazaites, newbies and oldbies alike. Here, you will be able find your future Plaza family.

An Introduction To Plaza Families (FAQs)

What is a Plaza Family?
A Plaza Family is a group of individuals who generally hang out with each other, and share the same surname. Most of us do this for fun, and some of us also do it for RP purposes. Plaza Families do not have to be very large. In fact, they do not need to be large at all. A Plaza Family can consist of two people, or as many as twenty, or even more.

How do I get a Plaza Family? aka I want to get adopted! How would I do that?
Those looking to start a Plaza Family, please see the next question. So, to address this question. How would one get a Plaza Family? Simple. You sign up in this thread and fill in the Adoption Form. It’s in Blue below.

After which, you wait around for offers to begin coming in. You can choose to pick the first person who wants to adopt you, or you can look around in the different family threads located usually, in LotR Site, Shop and Plaza Related and pick a family that you think would be best; then post the request here or the acceptence. If you choose the second option, you can respectfully go in that family thread and ask around, work your magic and make them want you :smiley8: Either way works fine, so there’s no need to worry at all.

Some families often use the free roaming threads of thier Regions and in them set up family households. Try looking around on plaza; not all names will be found here. This is a service offered that one must request to have thier family's name displayed here.

How do I adopt someone or request for other then an adoption?
You can do this by checking this thread on a regular basis, and offer to adopt anyone who wants to be adopted. If they accept, voila. There's no need to fill in any form if you are the one doing the adopting. If you have a possible desire that is not the usual adoption, then read below to the color codes to see if a need can be met. Post your intent in that color of choice, then wait and see.

How do I start a Plaza Family?
(View the above question.) There you have it, a Plaza Family. (Of course, there are other ways, involving getting Plaza married and then starting a family. But this is primarily an Adoption Thread, so of course that's what I would advocate :smiley8:). There is also the way of posting a request to have your family's plaza name added to the active list displayed below. Good luck to you all who come seeking a family connection.

There were a lot of rules in some of the old Adoption Centre threads, most of which I think are unnecessary now (if they ever were). If you are interested in being adopted into a Plaza family, simply express your interest, possibly by filling out the form below. If you are interested in being the person who adopts someone, feel free to post here indicating your interest. My big sister @Nia making such a post is how I initially got involved in all this, 11+ years ago.

I figure either this thread or Dimcairien's Plaza Family Trees thread can serve as a place for general discussion and housekeeping related to family business, should there be anything to discuss. I know we have current or former members of (at least) the Alarion, Banba, Dagda, Dunami, Eltoran, Girarion, Indaril, Laegiel, Mordagnir, Nenharma, Sadril, Silverleaf, and Suchi-ru families on the Nu Plaza, though I don't know how many of them have any interest in resuming activity.

If you have are a member of an established family from the OG Plaza, I'd love to hear from you in either family thread. If you have ever been a family head, are the most senior active member of your family, and/or just don't mind being a point person, I'd be happy to include a list of extant families and contacts. And if you want to create a new family, the more the merrier!

Nia wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 6:48 pm I feel like there must have been an even earlier thread though?

Nessila wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 5:54 am @Winddancer adopted half the plaza and then got abandoned. That cracked me up

Frost wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 8:58 pmHeck with it! I want to start a family... to do crime things. The Enguson family?

Eldy Dunami wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 8:27 pm
(Seeing the bullets we used as links to specific posts is bringing back way more memories and emotions than a little blue circle should be able to. )[/color]

Eldy Dunami wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 8:38 pm Heads up to my big sister @Nia—who adopted me in an iteration of this thread from nearly 14 years ago—and any other Dunamis who still visit the NuPlaza that our surname just appeared in the Journal of Tolkien Research! My friend Doug Kane reviewed Brian Sibley's The Fall of Númenor for JTR and, with permission, quoted several times from a post I made about the book last month. I asked to be credited as Eldy Dunami, mostly because I've tried to make the connection between my IRL and internet names less obvious in recent years, but also because I liked the idea of a Plaza family surname appearing in one of the more prominent academic Tolkien journals. Fortunately, the book reviews editor (Douglas A. Anderson) signed off on citing an internet nobody by her forum username.

https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolk ... 15/iss2/5/

Eldy Dunami wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 8:38 pm Heads up to my big sister @Nia—who adopted me in an iteration of this thread from nearly 14 years ago—and any other Dunamis who still visit the NuPlaza that our surname just appeared in the Journal of Tolkien Research! My friend Doug Kane reviewed Brian Sibley's The Fall of Númenor for JTR and, with permission, quoted several times from a post I made about the book last month. I asked to be credited as Eldy Dunami, mostly because I've tried to make the connection between my IRL and internet names less obvious in recent years, but also because I liked the idea of a Plaza family surname appearing in one of the more prominent academic Tolkien journals. Fortunately, the book reviews editor (Douglas A. Anderson) signed off on citing an internet nobody by her forum username.

https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolk ... 15/iss2/5/