Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza

You all here? Ok!

The Admin team have decided to bring back ATR's!! We thought that was one of the wonderful things about Old Plaza and we would like to do that here as well as we have so many wonderful people here that deserve tributes!! Each person was picked by us for their awesome contributions thus far and the person got to pick their own ATR!

Ok ok you want to know who it is! In no particular order other than alphabetical, here they are!

Burnt Toast: For being awesome and volunteering to help us understand and develope the Diversity Guidlines
Lirimaer: For her insane work collecting all these wonderful icons!
Mojo: For volunteering to create all the awesome HoK quizzes that we love! (or hate..)
Queen Nerwen: For volunteering to set up the Twitter account and starting that up
Uruva: We made her, she didnt have a choice, sucks to be her as Sil says

How wonderful. There does need to be a way to acknowledge all the non-admin people who are putting in a ton of work to help make the Plaza the special place that it is. Well done everyone!

WHOOO Congrats! Thank you all for your contributions!

Oooeee I saw lots of exciting shiny faces before I spotted this thread! Congrats to all and thank you for everything you've done!

Congratulations you guys, and thank you for all you have done! Now come post here so we don't have to go looking to find out what your pretty icons are. :)

Thanks!

My Fladrif ruler icon makes a triumphant return!

Thank ye! <3
Here's le Smaug ready to toast some things.

Merci!

They look awesome! I went traditional with Lúthien.

Awesome! So glad to see some of the beautiful and heroic icons making a return. Extremely well deserved on all counts!

When Narv first showed me his revived Plaza prototype I actually thought I was dreaming, because it seemed like the weird kind of dream I would have. It's thrilling to have been able to play a small part in it coming to life.

I'd say that feeling and seeing the general success of it is reward enough, but I definitely won't turn down getting to wear an icon with cats on it.

Haha, yay! Congratulations!

(Cats are NEVER wrong on an icon)

I've said it lots and I'll say it again - for many people Plaza means a family they got to choose. It's a joy to be able to play here again x

Brilliant work, folks. Loving the shiny icons.

So lovely seeing the shiny new ranks (and woohoo a real life ENT back in da house @Mojo ). Thanks to you all - five epic contributions from five awesome people. *still looking high and low across the internet for the old rocking head-banging emoji from times gone by, if anyone knows where to find it*

This is quite a special thing, having tribute ranks back! :smiley8:

Congratulations to the five of you! You've achieved great things since coming back and we all appreciate your work.

@Burnt Toast: The Admin team had already been thinking about releasing a statement, so imagine how pleased we were when, as if magically timed, you emailed in to suggest it and offer your help. You approached the whole thing really thoughtfully and put in the work, sharing resources and crafting your words to help make the statement resonate. Thank you.

@Lirimaer, I can only imagine the work that’s gone into collating such a valuable part of plaza history. It’s only fitting we honour you with an ATR as we wouldn’t have been able to offer them like this without you collecting them all! And not only the ATRs but the SCRs and the Maiar and Rulers and Mayors and formatting them into tables. It’s been good to see those faces again!

@Mojo - thank you again for volunteering to help out with the Halls of Knowledge - and in fact doing the bulk of the work, from researching questions, to adding in hilarious references, to your spreadsheet savvy to collate up the “joke” answers... it’s been a real pleasure working with you.

@Queen Nerwen - I don’t know much about Twitter, but thank you for all your efforts in producing us our own account and the plethora of memes we will no doubt share. You’re the best.

@Uruva I’m mostly here to thank you for the roughly ten minutes we shared of laughing hysterically at Narv when he confessed to us what he’d done, and then your agreement that maybe we should try to make it an Actual Thing.

Love all you guys

Wee! Beautiful icons for beautiful persons! Well done, everyone. :)

It's lovely to see the special ranks back, and they are all well deserved!

Thank you to each of you for all you have done to help make the revived Plaza successful.

What Sil said. You all are amazing, and these faces (or puddles or eyeballs) are so well-deserved!

Yay, how lovely to see some ATRs back!

Well done everyone!

@Sil Danke, but I know nothing about the Mayors!!

To the other recipients - great going! You're doing great things for our new playground.

To the admins - thanks, I am really glad you brought these back, and I'll be delighted to see others running around in them after us.

To everyone else - thank you; I'm glad my OCD was bothered enough to begin storing/organising them! I hope you all get to play in them soon, too!

@Nia You mean Mo Rocks? I have him ... *g* of course I do ... I went diving through the wayback and found a plethora of pretty pretty smileys from days gone by!
Now let's talk bribery ... oh, I'm supposed to be nice okay, you can has!

@Lirimaer omg THANK YOU!!!!! This has absolutely made my week.

Well deserved all. Excellent choices of icons.

@Nia <3

"O Balfur, O Balfur, never before has a Dwarf wanted more ..."

i am pretty surprised that @Moriel's been an admin for weeks now and has not yet blown up the smiley list with these and whatever other random ones. I'm sure it's just a matter of time..

oooh this one's fun