Well we are in the General Discussion topic and as I mentioned a while back you need to have a free for all conversation area to make the forums feel more homey and show people that they can hang out and just chat.

I got an email back from Pat and his schedule is very busy, but he has read through the posts and will try to visit.

No, I highly doubt that you are a bad GM. You are far too creative. I think the trick is to make the setting more Tolkien like if that is what he wants.