Thread: "Khazâd Fundinul" - mature, "family"-type kinship, your future home.

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

"Khazâd Fundinul" is still here and recruiting. We've been around for about 4 years now! We seek mature players who want to enjoy the game in group of friends and helpful kinmates. You will find atmosphere in our kinship peaceful and fun. We don't allow any kind of drama or greafing and try to promote every member to be helpful to each other and the most important to have fun while enjoying Middle Earth. Activity on the forums is preferable. Recruitment is based on probation period that may last for up to 7 days.

If you are interested in joining please visit our web site - http://www.kfgamers.com . =/\Read our Kinship Information and then Apply for Kinship /\=. We will contact you shortly in game.

"Khazâd Fundinul" was found as a unique dwarven clan in MMORPG "Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar" during second Closed Beta in 2005. During the process of organization kinship has become mixed type community and at this moment accepts all mature fun people as recruits. We are not RP kinship, more of a family type kinship where members respect and value each other. Hang out after boring work day, keep it fun and relaxing.
At this point we are switching to a multi-game community - "KF Multi Game". While continue in LOTRO we will also be playing SWTOR and GW2 whenever they are out.

We try to be as active as our jobs and families allow us to be. We try to stay on top of things that we have planned. We plan our time ahead and do something fun together at least 1-2 times a week. Weekends are the busiest. During the week we have scheduled events that members can sign up for and have fun together.
KF is one of the oldest kinships on Brandywine server. We have been found during the second closed beta and we are still active and growing.

Our web site provides members with the following useful features:

Full Kinship roster - dynamic information about your real in-game characters that is being synchronized with My.lotro.com once every 24 hours. After joining, members can claim their in game characters that will be available for signing up, personal achievements records etc.
Rapid Raid - dynamic feature that allows us to schedule events/raids/instances etc. Very versatile environment that allows to keep track of everything that has been done by specific characters. Participation, Boss Kills, Item checks etc. Information about items is being pulled from another LOTRO database - Lotro Lorebook and all the item stats are displayed similar way.
Gallery - every member can create galleries and add pictures of their adventures to share with everyone else.
Calendar, synced with Rapid Raid - follow up the scheduled events and sign up for preferred ones from the Calendar directly or from Rapid Raid.
PvP - create PvP team accordingly to 'tribes' in PvMP and chose Latest KoS to hunt down.
Wiki and Forums - create personal pages on Wiki and participate in Forum discussions.

Join us today and let the story begin for you. Check out our promotional video.

After 4 years of LOTROing, we are still here, can you believe that? You would think we are crazy, insane, toasted... Yes we are maybe all that, but we also like this place called Middle Earth and so far nobody was able to get even close to what Turbine did with Middle Earth in this MMORPG. Some players moved on to a more hardcore gameplay, others decided to take a break, but I bet most of them will always keep this memeory of fun days they've used to have in LOTRO.

Some instances you haven't tried yet? Some interesting skirmishes you wanted to run through but didn't get a chance? Some medallions you are missing?
Come to play LOTRO with us! Our events usually happen during the weekends at around or after 8PM EST. Either you want to win the lottery or just want to hang out with us, you are always welcome.
If you are not a member yet, please apply on our website http://www.kfgamers.com and maybe you will be the lucky one for a super draw on September 30th!
The Isengard awaits!

See you on vent or in game!

If you happen to have any questions, forgot your website access password or need any other help related to your membership in KF please don't hesitate to send a note to "dwarf watch" - mightili@gmail.com.

Hi,

I just want to second these words - we are always advancing community with great people as members. If you like to RP you may fit in as well. Sometimes folks RP even on kinship channel. Its fun as long as you want it to be fun. I think fellowship is the core of the LOTRO and as long as you have great fellowmate next to you - that what makes experience in LOTRO unforgettable.

I think I'd be interested.
I'm in the open-beta, but I have pre-ordered.

I have 2 characters. One's a lvl 4 Man Captain, the other is a lvl 1 Elf hunter.
I haven't played the hunter yet, but I don't think I'm liking the captain much. Captain's name is Eodorin, not sure what I named my elf.

I'd love to have a kinship that really enjoys the Tolkein lore & treats the game as not just another MMO out there.

We dont' really treat LOTRO as just another MMO out there... or did you mean DO NOT treat LOTRO as just another MMO out there? Because we don't... We love LOTRO for what it is - unique, Tolkien Lore based beatiful world.

Ooops! I meant as not just another MMO. Typo King right here.

I tried to register on your site & it seemed successful, but the account activation page is seriously messed up. All teh CSS formatting is gone. When I try to log in I get this blank "Information" page that contains a blank box.

http://www.webinfractions.com/misc/lotro/blank_page.jpg

You don't seem to be logged in, on the top right corner as you can see it still says - Log In. Click there to log in. Let me know if ya have any other questions.

Ya, I tried that. When I click log in I get a control panel screen, but nothing shows up and going to any other pages leave "Log In" up there and I get the screen in the screenshot again (blank box).

All forum-related pages show up like that to me... weird.

You account wasn't activated. You can log in now. I've fixed that.

Ok, finally worked. I scoped out the requirements and I think I'm going to have to pass. I love the Tolkien universe and all, but I'm not that into RP and that seems to be a prominent activity for your Kinship.

Thanks anyway though.

I personally like RP but there is not much RP going on at this moment. We will have RP events later on, and I am not sure what those events are going to be about just yet. Only thoughts at this moment. Primarily what is expected from new recruits at this moment is to be respectful and "mature". No cussing, swearing, "relaxed language" on kinship channel. Of course if you look for real laid back guild where you can just log in now and then and have some little fun it may not work since after a few weeks we are going to close recruitment. POG guilds are better for that particular type of activity. They have constant "stream" of members coming and going so you won't ever be asked for anything in particular.
I do have to rewrite that FAQ a little bit.

Originally Posted by Dwarven-Might

POG guilds are better for that particular type of activity. They have constant "stream" of members coming and going so you won't ever be asked for anything in particular.

What's a "POG" guild?

POG = Plenty of Guppies! I just luv guppies!

*hugs Toidy*

+2 landybuns fo choo!

I have a bit of a sailor's mouth (I'm from the Boston area, seen 'The Departed'?), but I can usually keep it under wraps.

Maybe we're confusing what is meant by roleplaying... When I'm in a game, when I talk to/with other people, I talk to them as people, and not usually as what they're representation is. Though, it depends on my mood and who I'm talking too.

As far as comitment would go, I'm not a jumper. If I find a good group of folks that I enjoy being around, I fully dedicate myself to that. As log as limited playtime (only on 3-4 nights a week, depending) isn't a huge factor as far as commitment goes. In FFXI, I participate in a linkshell (guild, kinship) that has similar requirements. It's an endgame LS that has events 2-3 days a week and is quite involved (and fun, sometimes).

Originally Posted by Machaveli

I have a bit of a sailor's mouth (I'm from the Boston area, seen 'The Departed'?), but I can usually keep it under wraps.

My kinda guy!

POG is - pick up on go. Which means that noone knows noone. Members come and go every day. Constant stream of members coming and going. Impossible to create any decent community.

I think I know what Machaveli refers to. One of the section in FAQs of our kinship states that you have to respect tag of the kinship:

In other words if you are engaging in conversation with someone who is not a member of the kinship or is not known to you, you have to hold appropriate attitude to represent the nature of the "Dwarves of Fundin". Vulgarity and rudeness will not be tolerated.

This and a few other sections will be be slightly changed, but they will still state the same nature. The only reason its made this way - we don't want incidents in our kinship, we don't want people start cussing at each other and loose their temper for the worst. We don't want offence or grief, or drama, just becouse someone couldn't hold their mouth.

And there is nothing really about RP. Being respectful as a member of KF is all about creating specific impression about the kinship.

Khazad Fundinul is still open for recruitment and we have some fantastic new members and more joining each day.

Feel free to send me (Lonerider) or Mightili (Leader) a tell in game or a PM in the forums and we will be more than happy to answer any questions you have. Additionally, we recommend you visit http://khazad.org for further info.

Joined the other day. Good group as far as I can tell.
The "required RP" was a bit deceiving, but I'm over it.

Huzzah!

There is a difference between "required RP" and "RP encouraged". We don't require you to be hardcore RP. However, if you like RP we welcome it and will support it. Thats what "encouraged" means.

Be friend, and enter .

Hello I would like to give the guild a try. I messaged everyone in the game mid Sunday and only one fo you were on, Draesael. Except no response.

My Characters name is Lean if you want to send a tell. I just came from a Kinship. Wasn't right for me. Seemed to be all the officers were the kinship and just kinda ignored the rest.

Oh well, hope to see one of you guys on.

Yes, in some kinships higher ranks have some sort of privileges, which would be fair to promote desire to become an officer. But most of the players in my opinion just want to play and have fun. In our kinship Officer first of all is very helpful person, one of the most active in kinship. Kinship Leader and Officers most of all supposed to work on making the kinship better structured, not "enslave" members to get better gear .

And I think we've found you, Lean. Welcome to "KF".

Welcome to the hallowed halls!

Hello. I'm quite interested in joining your Kinship. I was going to go into why this sounds like the kinship for me in my application, but when I log in I can no longer view any of the boards.

Any suggestions? I have 2 and half more hours of downtime at college, then I'm busy up until about 8pm EST before I can go home and play, so I wanted to try and get something accomplished here.

Greetings Razna!

Thank you for your interest and I'd like to direct you to our website at http://khazad.org where you will find information about Khazad Fundinul along with the FAQ and guidelines. We encourage RP but do not enforce it or require that you RP.

Please post in our recruitment section in our Forums but if you're having difficulty I will get in touch with you in game tonite. Alternatively, you may contact me in game by sending a PM to Lonerider. See you then!

Originally Posted by Simren

Greetings Razna!

Thank you for your interest and I'd like to direct you to our website at http://khazad.org where you will find information about Khazad Fundinul along with the FAQ and guidelines. We encourage RP but do not enforce it or require that you RP.

Please post in our recruitment section in our Forums but if you're having difficulty I will get in touch with you in game tonite. Alternatively, you may contact me in game by sending a PM to Lonerider. See you then!

Many thanks. My in-game name is Raldir.

We will find you .

Original recruitment topic is changed, we are approaching finishing recruitment stage.

why do you have two threads?

Cause I did double post and couldn't delete it later, now I have to manage two. I will manage one from now on.

Update.

We're still open to recruitment. If you're interested in joining Khazad Fundinul please visit our site at http://khazad.org send me (Lonerider) a PM or Mightili, Grolig or Draesael.

See you in Eriador!

Just wanted to update everyone that we're still open to recruitment and so far we have really great members that are active, helpful and having loads of fun! If you'd like to find out more about us please feel free to visit our site at http://khazad.org

Although we're open to all classes for recruitment we are looking to add Minstrels, Burglars and Loremasters in our mix. We plan to work on all the fellowship quests by helping one another and just enjoy the game!

Thanks for stopping by!

We are working on a new event, possibly it will take place before Shores of Evendim comes live, because after that everyone will be busy enjoying Shores . We will announce time and place later.

Bumpy bump bump!

colored @'s and *'s hurt my eyes.

You don't like my colors???

me /sad

Originally Posted by Isgall

colored @'s and *'s hurt my eyes.

Problem with your eyes?

I signed up on your boards as Baroden. For some reason I can't see the forumns when I'm signed in, but can when I'm logged out.

I'll PM you my app.

Greetings Val!

Thanks for registering. I will inform Mightili of your problem and yes, feel free to PM me or Mightili directly via our forums. My forum name there is Lonerider.

Talk to you soon!

Thanks Simren.

I sent you a PM on these boards.