What is the Message Board Home?
On the opening page of the forum, the Message Board Home, you will see there are several blocks (Website Talk, JRR Tolkien, Middle Earth, Books, Lord of the Rings Movies, Guilds, Taverns, and Misc).
These are then broken down further into relevant sections. By clicking on any of the sections, you will then open another page containing Threads, or topics, that have been posted there. Some of the more popular sections (eg. Website Talk>General Discussion, might itself contain several pages of Threads. By clicking on one of these Threads, you will open up that Thread, and will be able to read the posts that are contained within.
To keep navigation as easy as possible for all our members, we try to encourage members to post their topics in the relevant sections, and to keep their posts on topic. For newcomers to the forum, we accept it is not always easy deciding where it is best to post your thread, and in some cases these may be moved elsewhere by one of the Council Members. If your post is not actually Tolkien related, we ask that it is placed in one of the Taverns. In our five taverns we have a multitude of non-Tolkien related discussions, as we accept members have other interests they might wish to share beyond Tolkien.
In order to learn how to open threads, and to learn what is contained within them, we advise you to open a few up and have a look. We hope what you find within will be of interest to you.