Calling All Tolkien Fans! Let's Help Corey Do a Demo
ATTENTION ALL TOLKIEN PROFESSOR FANS WITH ALTS ON LANDROVAL!!! Corey Olsen is speaking at an academic conference this week about teaching in game. As a demonstration, he is scheduled to conduct two sessions, one on Tuesday June 2 and another on Wednesday June 3, in which he will teach an aspect of Tolkien from within LOTRO.
We need students for these sessions to join him in game. Here are the specifications:
1. Use an alt at minimum level 13 who has NOT completed the Goldberry quests in the Old Forest (start with a quest from Adso)
2. Can be in game no later than 1:45 to be ready to go at 2 pm (until 3 pm...) Eastern time Tuesday, Wednesday, or both days --- MEET AT ADSO'S CAMP
Here is what Corey says: "My plan is to do the Old Forest, going from Tom's house and doing the Goldberry well quest chain. This is not just questing; it will be more like a class session. I'm going to pose some particular questions and have the players make observations in the game and posit answers to the questions. Critical thinking stuff; nothing tricky.
The point of the session is to show what a teaching session in an environment like that would look like. So more of a classroom thing than a Mythgard Adventures thing.
We'll be doing careful reading of the quest text. Participants might want to reread the Tom Bombadil sections of Fellowship of the Ring beforehand."
Respond to Trish (Glordriel) at lambert@mythgard.org if you will be attending and which days you will attend. We will post the Netmoot link here when it is set up.
Here are more details from Corey. Please read carefully:
When you first go to Adso’s camp, you have to do Adso’s initial quest (“Adso’s Delivery” — the one where you ring the bell and talk to Bill Ferny). That activates the second round of quests: Adso’s second quest (Down-payments), a boar-bounty quest from Roger Hawkling (“A Matter of Feed”), and an item-recovery quest from Buckley Sheppard (“Supplies and Demands”). When you complete those three, you will get the third-round quests, which are the ones I want: “Searching for Fresh Springs” from Graham Larkspur, “Wolf-Pelts” from Roger Hawkling and “In the Shadows of Giants” from Buckley Sheppard. (LOTRO-wiki is *wrong* about who confers those quests, by the way. Shocking!)
Complete the first- and second-round quests, but DO NOT ACCEPT the third-round quests yet. I want people to be reading carefully the quest bestowal text on all three of those, so I don’t want people to accept those until the session begins. We’ll meet at Adso’s camp, accept the quests and discuss the dialog, then head into the forest. We can kill wolves and get tree-roots on our way in to TB’s house, which will be our first stop. There we will look around, make some observations, and discuss LOTRO’s depiction of TB and his house. Then we’ll head over to the spring (completing the bounty quest gathering on the way) and meet Goldberry. Then we’ll head back to the camp, turn in the quests, and put together all the observations we have made along the way. The ultimate question that I want us to answer from our observations is: How does this quest chain invite players to view the relationship between people and nature? But there will be a whole lot of preliminary stages along the way to that final conclusion.