I just joined these forums and I come to you from Middle Earth Online (don't start throwing things at me just yet
). In MEO I found that most of my enjoyment of the forums came from the books and author threads and I spent very little time discussing the soon-to-be-released game. When someone on MEO mentioned that the Barrow-Downs forums are centered around these types of discussions, I came running.... and here I am a noobie lol.