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"Something of Valour This Way Comes:"
(Verse 1 of 5)
I've been to the land of me.
There exists nothing honorable I can see.
I've seen what people say success is to be.
The root of their desires is found in greed.
I've studied history of many a King and Principality.
The Fruit of their deeds is not from good seed.
When I take time to pause, bow, and kneel.
l learn to see the fate of everything.
Here in lies the fate of everything.
In Valour Scarred Hands of The Almighty!
I've tested and proven mercy in love.
And found something of Valour this way comes.
-- Lyzonlightheart Paladyn, 2011
"A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken." (Ecclesiastes 4:12, NLT Discover God Study Bible)
It is our hope that everyday finds you excited to be alive on top of the grass, firmly planted close to streams of living water, and good in spirit. Everything we do is based upon Christian values of valour thru mercy, leadership thru humility, and strength thru fellowship. Please note. There exists evidence so many acts of valour committed by my friends in our fellowship alliance of honest kinships on a daily basis that this website can not possibly contain them all. Most of these acts of valour are known only to Almighty God, secretly hidden, awaiting to be discovered. This website is but filthy rag of testaments to the slightest fraction of their existance.
I wrote "Something of Valour This Way Comes" as a tribute to Darner/Mollon within LOTRO's Brandywine Server, a trusted friend and Officer in our Alliance For Valour. I further dedicate this website to honor for their 10+ years of incredible Honorable Service & Sacrifice in the US Army Black Ops.
"[Kinship] Darner: WHILE LYZONLIGHTHEART IS MAILING OUT DAILY VALOUR CHALLENGE DEEDS. FROM LYZON, DARNER STEALS & BLOWS HORN OF VALOUR. LYZON, YOU HAVE BEEN CAUGHT COMMITTING PREDITATED VALOUR BY HONORING THE CODE OF CONDUCT AND DAILY REWARDING VALOUR YET AGAIN!!! HOW SIR, DO YOU PLEAD TO SUCH MOST SERIOUS CHARGES? ...THIS IS MONTHS OF PAY BACK, LYZON!!!"
"[Kinship] Lyzonlightheart: Ummm... I plead GUILTY! And I'm STILL NOT SORRY!"
-- Darner & Lyzonlightheart Paladyn of Alliance For Valour, 2010
HONOR. (OF) (h)onour (honneur), L. honos, honor-; cf. It. onore, Sp. honor. For sense of courtesy, as in to do the honours, pay the last honours, etc., cf. sense-development of curtsy. Honour bright is Anglo-Ir. Honour-able as "courtesy" title sometimes leads to a bull(v.i.). The honourable gentleman [Joseph Chamberlain] is a damned liar (J. Dillion, M. P., in H. of C., c. of 1900). (An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Ernest Weekly)
The specific date of this ceremony has been expunged from all knowledge to protect those guilty of committing valour. As of the date of this publishing, the following valour challenge deed has been created. THE DARNER BANNER OF HONORABLE MENTION! This most extreme act of valourous action is recieved for those truely amazing individuals that lay down their lives to save their friends, and do everything possible to insure their friends are given his just rewards and he gets none! The punishment, err... I mean reward for this is publishing on the valourkin.com Real Life Valour Section with full disclosure of such deeds! How dare Darner do such an Honorable thing and try to get away with it!
In the case that you are curious, I wrote this little ditty with the inspiration while listening to "The Flame Passes On" by White Heart, easily my favorite band, I uploaded to our valour juke box here from my personal CD collection. Help me suggest for them to throw a music concert for Darner and all honorable military veterans and children. And ask them to release some new material if it is God's Will for them to do so. These guys are grossly overwhelmingly guilty for inspiring millions of people to commit such a thing as valour. They can even use this poem as part of their future discography material if they feel it measures up to their exceedingly high standards.
ALLY. To Unite. F. allier, L. alligare, from ligare, to bind (alloy). The noun is from the verb,the latter being recorded for 13 cent. legiance: liegemanship, allegiance, faith, loyalty (Cotg.).(An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Ernest Weekly)
Please welcome a few of our newest allies: "Rise of the Legendary", "The Immortals", "Rohanian Ryders" "Knights of The Valar", "Heren Ereinion" honest kinships during your travels throughout this Middle Earth!... "Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But, his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers." (Psalm 1:1-3, NIV)...
WISDOM. See wise^2. With wisdom tooth, cut at age of wisdom, cf. F. dent de sagesse (Cotg.), Ger. weisheitszahn, G.
WISE^1. Noun AS. wise. Com. Tueut.; cf. Du. wijze, Ger. weise, ON. -vis, in othruvis; cogn. with wise^2, ground-sense of which is knowing the way. Cf. F. guise, from Teut. Hence also suffix -wise, as is likewise, otherwise, often used indifferently with -ways.
WISE^2. Adj. AS. wis. Com. Teut.; cf. Du. wijs, Ger. weise, ON. viss, Goth. un-weis; cogn. with wit. Hence wisdom.
(An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Ernest Weekly)
"There is nothing left to fear, but the fear of being unprepared!"
-- Glenn Beck, 2010
Alliance For Valour was founded by Lyzonlightheart Paladyn on the Brandywine server of Codemasters' & Turbine's LOTRO MMORPG on May 3, 2009. On June 12, 2010, Alliance For Valour expanded to the Landroval LOTRO server. Our kinship is led by a large group of kinship officers that have proven themselves by their everyday deeds to collectively have an daily act upon all of the attributes of valour thru integrity towards others via our daily Valour Challenge reward system.
For, there is no other way to possibly have kinship that is honorable all the time. And as such, each member of our kinship that proves by their daily actions to have attributes of valour thru integrity is promoted to be henceforth a kinship officer and Leadership Steward of the Fellowship Alliance of Honest Kinships. Then, they must quote the oath of valour and go through our secret honorable yet silly leadership hazing ritual so that they never forget their oath.
SACRIFICE. F., L. sacrificium, from sacer, holy, facere, to make.(An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Ernest Weekly)
"You were born a servant... kneel... ALL MEN-AT-ARMS OR CAPABLE OF BEARING THEM, KNEEL! ...ON YOUR KNEES! ...Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth even if it leads tp your death. Safeguard the helpless. That is your oath. (HARD SLAP!) And that is so you remember it. ...RISE A KNIGHT! RISE A KNIGHT!
... Who do you think you are? Will you alter the world? ...Does making a man a knight make him a better fighter?
...YES!"
-- Kingdom of Heaven, 2005
"Stand by my side and I shall know both strength and courage, for how can I fall when I know that my band of brothers and sisters is at my side."
-- Esherdon of Alliance For Valour,
"Valour, What does it mean?", 2011
We are glad you have come and hope that you visit our site and forums often! Our kinship and fellowship alliance of honest kinships is expanding to all the game servers
from where we originated on the Brandywine server of Lord of the Rings Online, so far you can easily find us on the Brandywine, Crickhollow, Firefoot, and Landroval servers. Please feel free to join our forum and post any concerns,
comments, questions, etc. upon your heart in an appropriate and honorable manor.
May His Honor always know all your deeds well,
Lyzonlightheart Paladyn,
Webmaster, Founder, & Elected Leader of Alliance For Valour Kinship &
A Fellowship Alliance of 3 Honest Kinships
admin@valourkin.com
Born Again Christian, Husband, Father, Retired Total and Permanently Disabled US Navy Veteran,
Electronics Engineer, Computer Programmer,
Guitarist, Songwriter, and Poet |
ARTICLES OF VALOUR BLOG!
The University of A Valour Filled Life is forever in session from the dawn of time until the end of days courtesy of Almighty God!"
-- Lyzonlightheart Paladyn, 2011
VALOUR. F. valeur, worth, valour, L. valor-em, from valere, to be worth, to show mercy with wisdom, etc. Sense of value is common in ME. (An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Ernest Weekly)
"Rise and Rise again until lambs become lions, and lions become men!"
-- Sir Thomas Longstride, Robin Hood, 2010
THIS IS PAY BACK DARNER! MUHAHAHA!!! He is a retiring, and returned back home to his lovely wife and us from Iraq with serious injuries from a car bomb attack on the vehicle he was driving. He turned the vehicle on it's side to save the other members of his unit who were not seriously injured, and turned down the recognition for his valourous actions under heavy enemy fire. Instead, he passed the recognition onto all the members of his unit as he has done multiple times over his career. He and his family are struggling to make ends meet after this tragedy. Further information about this event has be addressed directly to Darner. My poor eye witness account and rest of "Something of Valour This Way Comes" poem lyrics for the surprise celebration we threw for Darner within LOTRO can be found here.
INTEGRITY. c.1450, "wholeness, perfect condition," from O.Fr. integrité, from L. integritatem (nom. integritas) "soundness, wholeness," from integer "whole" (see integer). Sense of "uncorrupted virtue" is from 1548.(Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper)
"It must be a Kingdom of Conscience, or Nothing!"
-- Orlando Bloom, Kingdom of Heaven, 2005
"How do you know if your actions are those of one who is valiant and good? How can you, yourself judge what you and others do? A wise friend of mine many years ago had a simple test. He said to me "There is a three part test that I use to help judge my actions".
1. Would I do it again if I knew it would appear on the front page of tomorrow mornings newspaper for everyone to see?
2. Would I do it again if my mother or loved ones were watching over my shoulder?
3. How did it make me feel deep inside my heart, and how did it make those around me feel?
When you see valor make sure to give thanks, let people know that they are appreciated not only for the items or help that they give you, but also for the camaraderie that they have shown you. Do not let others show valour alone. Be prepared to help your band of brothers and sisters, lead them by example and through actions of valour and merit show everyone what valour can accomplish.
Even the lowest level member of the alliance may be able to perform an act of valor that might help the highest level member of the alliance thru a difficult time in their game or even in their real life."
-- Esherdon of Alliance For Valour,
"Valour, What does it mean?", 2011
For, we will NEVER EVER NEVER EVER NEVER EVER to the recursive induction proof:
[limit of 1 x 10^(negative infinity)] do anything intentionally that has the even the slightest extremely absurd suspicion of a hint of a possibility of an inkling of a phantom quantum mechanics itch of a blizzard in ring theory on the equator to do anything remotely close to dishonorable here no matter what by the grace of Almighty God! EVER!
I hope that is abundantly clear. Sorry for the creative calculus, I have studied far too much math than anyone should willingly subject themselves to.
ACCOUNTABILITY. is a concept in ethics and governance with several meanings. It is often used synonymously with such concepts as responsibility, answerability, blameworthiness, liability, and other terms associated with the expectation of account-giving. As an aspect of governance, it has been central to discussions related to problems in the public sector, nonprofit and private (corporate) worlds. In leadership roles, accountability is the acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility for actions, products, decisions, and policies including the administration, governance, and implementation within the scope of the role or employment position and encompassing the obligation to report, explain and be answerable for resulting consequences. (Wikipedia on Answers.com)
"Welcome one and all to our web site which we test locally before release here on an increasing secure local computer network across the 8 major internet web browsers known us thus far to attempt to offer you a safe fully interactive honourable experience you can engage in by your own free will in plain common man everyday language as it is humanly possible. I am completely convinced of the following analogy concerning any technology is true. One man's knowledge of any technology is like trying to retrieve a single unique pea thrown into the largest ocean.
We also, hereby give you permission to use our disclaimer at the top of your main page without the use of fine print as long as your material is equally accurate to the definitions of honour, integrity, valour, and accountability that we have published without fear of persecution to do so daily all free of charge."
-- Lyzonlightheart Paladyn, 2011
HUMBLE. F., L. humilis from humus, ground; with silent h- till 19 cent. Cf. lowly.(An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Ernest Weekly)
"Oath of Valour:"
I do solemnly affirm to do and uphold only that which is honorable, aid & encourage those less fortunate than me, and show mercy with wisdom by example to all I encounter as it is possible to do so!
-- Megavar Paladyn's aka David Hafen, AD&D 1st Ed. Dungeon Master Initation 1977
MERCY. F.
merci, L. merces, merced-, reward (cf. It. mercede, Sp. merced), which in Church L. was applied to the heavenly reward of those who show kindness to the helpless. Current F. sense is thanks (cf. grammercy), that of compassion having been gradually replaced by misericorde, which has even used for dagger of mercy. That's a mercy. something to be thankful for, preserves F. meaning. With for mercy's sake cf. for goodness (pity's) sake. Mercy-seat (ex. XXV. 17) was first used (1530) by Tynd. after Luther's gnadenstuhl, Vulg. propitiatorium. (An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Ernest Weekly)
"By one act of valor by faith with integrity through mercy with wisdom, you can turn the tide and save a life when vigilance equals wisdom. Want proof? Examine and consider Jesus Christ!"
-- Lyzonlightheart Paladyn, 2008
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