May 16, 2018

Executive Producer Severlin posted the latest producer’s letter looking forward to what’s ahead for next year. The full text of the letter is at the LOTRO forums, but here are a few bullet points for a TL;DR version: Update 23 will take us into the Lonely Mountain, east to the Iron Hills, then north to the Grey Mountains, exploring dwarven cultures. It will...

Mar 3, 2018

Community Manager +Cordovan posted on the forums yesterday evening: The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Tuesday, March 6th from 6:00 AM – 2:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for an update to the game. Release Notes will be published on Monday. Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you back in the game soon! While Update 22 isn’t officially...

Nov 25, 2017

This week, LOTRO Players received an email from Bludborn about a community event he is hosting through the month of December on his Twitch channel: What: The 25 Days of XPACS Where: http://twitch.tv/bludborn When: Monday-Thursday and Saturdays in December Streams start at 10p EST I have been playing The Lord of the Rings Online for 10 years and streaming on...

Feb 24, 2017

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Feb 14, 2017

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Aug 6, 2016

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  The first of the seasonal dyes has also arrived, and they are available only as pots of dye, despite the community asking for recipes to be made available.  As seen in the above screenshot, two colors are available for barter with festival tokens, while the other two are only available to purchase with mithril coins. The new steed, Steed of Ethuil, is...

LOTRO Community Manager Andy “Frelorn” Cataldo posted a notice on the forums about upcoming server downtime: The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, May 16th from 7:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) for an Update to the game. Release Notes will be available during the downtime. Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you back in the...

LOTRO Community Manager Andy “Frelorn” Cataldo posted a notice on the forums about upcoming server downtime: The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Tuesday, April 12th from 7:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) for an update to the game. Release Notes will be made available during the downtime. Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you back...

Mar 12, 2016

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Feb 19, 2016

Two famous Middle-earth adventurers have announced a new venture aimed at ridding the world of evil. Teriadwyn and Maven, in their various guises, have founded Grrlz of Middle-earth, a consortium of female LOTRO players who have banded together to take on everything from pie delivery to roving threats—perhaps even the Rift. LOTRO Players News was able to obtain...

LOTRO Community Manager Andy “Frelorn” Cataldo posted a notice on the forums about upcoming server downtime: The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Wednesday, January 20th from 6:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for an update. Patch notes will be available during the downtime. Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you back in the game...

LOTRO Community Manager Andy “Frelorn” Cataldo posted a notice on the forums about upcoming server downtime: The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, December 7th from 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) for an update to the game. Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you back in the game soon! Patch notes will be...

In his weekly stream this afternoon, QuartermasterU confirmed that Update 17: The Siege of Minas Tirith will be going live tomorrow, October 27, 2015. Shortly afterward, a tweet was posted on twitter by @LOTRO that the servers would be down from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. for the update.

QuartermasterU posted today about the new updates coming soon to the LOTRO Store. Here are some of the highlights: Completely new look and layout: Resizable window, results displayed on a single scrollable page, and easier browsing through categories and subcategories. Plus, changing item quantities and bookmarking items are now easier: New payment methods have...

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The Rangers, a special force of elite warriors who operate on the fringe of the kingdom of Olaran, are the first line of defense and bring justice to the Borderlands using their training and wilderness skills. This elite caste was founded many years ago by King Alirion, who saw the need to have a force of warriors loyal to the crown, outside of the highly...

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Turbine is giving away five NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960 Graphics cards on their facebook page. Simply vote for one of four images of “where you’d go first” as one of the winners. The choices are: Angmar, The Gates of Argonath, Evendim and Lothlorien.