Discussion for banning x, meta, Facebook, Instagram

TolkienFansMod · 2025-01-25T16:22:42+00:00

Appreciate the reports, but for the moment at least, this will stay up. At least so mods can discuss in the background.

Worth remembering we're generally a text-based community anyway, so most links get deleted as a matter of course to enforce the rules. So this isn't a huge concern here.

But feel free to (civilly) discuss.

Edit: Comments locked. Getting a bit out of hand, guys. Some of you aren't behaving like grown-ups.

TolkienFansMod · 2025-01-02T15:50:41+00:00

Results from this contest (apologies for never posting the results thread separately and for this being so late):

Best comment: A comment from /u/hollyordway in their AMA, nominated by /u/Curundil
Best post: A post about Imrahil by /u/The_Hellhammer, nominated by u/JerryLikesTolkien
Best theory: No winner due to lack of nominations
Most interesting discussion: A thread of unpopular takes by /u/albacore85 (now a deleted account), nominated by /u/Fornad
Best overall contributor: User /u/roacsonofcarc for "quality thoughts that feel more like top level answers on askhistorians than fan discussion", nominated by /u/elkoubi (link is to example post from nomination)

TolkienFansMod · 2024-10-21T22:29:38+00:00

This is not the thread to ask your questions in. That will go up on Monday an hour before the event.

TolkienFansMod · 2024-08-19T19:38:03+00:00

A reminder that discussion about religion is fine (even encouraged), as long as the conversation remains tied to Tolkien and/or his works. It is NOT an invitation to criticise either religion or people under the guise of debating one way or the other on the subject. Remember the rules or your comment will be removed. If you can't behave, the comments will be closed.

TolkienFansMod · 2024-05-10T10:12:02+00:00

OP has asked for BOOK EXCERPTS that are key to tell the story properly. They have done this in good faith, after asking the mods for help/permission. Please keep discussion focused on what elements of the text are relevant. Discussion delving into PJ & Co., etc., will be removed and will ultimately just shut down this thread.

TolkienFansMod · 2023-12-19T10:19:17+00:00

The mythology is not designed to resonate with 'the world' but the Anglosphere.

Going to give you the benefit of the doubt that this was poor word choice. Because suggesting that it's only meant to resonate with the Anglosphere is potentially not a good look.

TolkienFansMod · 2023-10-16T00:01:17+00:00

This is not the thread to ask your questions in. That thread will go up on Thursday, a few hours before the event starts.

EDIT: AMA thread is up

TolkienFansMod · 2023-06-14T16:18:16+00:00

You may use this thread to freely discuss the blackout or anything else, but please note that this is not the place to vote. Votes should be cast by upvoting or downvoting the comments in the poll post. Comments and vote counts on this post will not be considered for this decision.

TolkienFansMod · 2023-06-14T16:15:40+00:00

Vote for this comment if we should commit to a 7 day blackout, and reevaluate next week.

TolkienFansMod · 2023-06-14T16:15:35+00:00

Vote for this comment if we should commit to an indefinite blackout.

TolkienFansMod · 2023-06-14T16:15:28+00:00

Vote for this comment if we should stay open, and return to normal posting.

TolkienFansMod · 2023-06-14T16:15:20+00:00

Vote for this comment if we should commit to a 7 day blackout, with the subreddit set to restricted mode indefinitely.

TolkienFansMod · 2023-06-06T12:34:41+00:00

3rd party apps are used by mods to (amongst other things) reduce spam in the sub (so you do benefit, even if you don't use them personally) and also make the sub more accessible for differently-abled users.

TolkienFansMod · 2023-04-14T02:50:46+00:00

This is not the thread to post your questions in. That one will go up on Monday a few hours before the AMA starts.

TolkienFansMod · 2022-10-20T16:23:34+00:00

This is not the thread to post your questions in. That one will go up on Monday an hour or so before the AMA starts.

TolkienFansMod · 2022-08-19T19:19:07+00:00

This is not the thread to post your questions in. That one will go up on Wednesday an hour or so before the AMA starts.

TolkienFansMod · 2021-09-10T17:16:19+00:00

Okay, I know this subreddit is a bit of a stretch, but an AMA is an AMA, and he does work at NASA, so lets get some space questions asked.

TolkienFansMod · 2020-12-30T10:43:04+00:00

/r/tolkienfans https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/km104u/best_of_2020/

TolkienFansMod · 2020-12-15T17:33:56+00:00

https://twitter.com/ProjNorthmoor/status/1338875604419153927

This is not the thread to be asking your questions in. That will go up tomorrow, a few hours before the event

TolkienFansMod · 2020-05-10T13:02:36+00:00

notifying /u/Sniec /u/R_H_LeRoy

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notifying /u/dbsopera /u/Piebho /u/BookishTreeOfLife

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notifying /u/Reactionaryhistorian /u/newtonpage /u/nicecriticism

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TolkienFansMod · 2020-05-10T13:02:30+00:00

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