Jun 26, 2019

Years of being called pig by the man of Bree hasn’t made Noffer anymore of a lover of the hobbits. “It’s the hobbits that always make the mess”, not us! After a few run-ins with the bounders at the storage silos it was time for him to find greener pastures. Don’t be such a boar. I’ll arrange for some better grass. We’ll...

Jun 15, 2019

Previous Post: Outside, South of Ost Anglebad, Central Gondor, overlooking the river with Aerthir in the background.

Jun 1, 2019

Previous post: Tol Ascarnon, Ettenmoors.

May 18, 2019

Previous Post: The Bitter Stair, Misty Mountains

May 11, 2019

Previous Post: On the bridge just to the west of the Last Homely House, Rivendell, Trollshaws.

May 4, 2019

Previous Post: Amon Hen, East Wall, East Rohan, Orc camp.

Apr 27, 2019

Previous Post: Snowman Village, Tâl Methedras, After betrayal.

Apr 20, 2019

Previous Post: Henneth Annun, North Ithilien.

Apr 13, 2019

Previous Post: Tom Cotton’s farm, Hobbiton-Bywater, next to Nibs’ bench during the Spring Festival (shrews)

Apr 6, 2019

Installment #2 Previous installment location: War-stead of the King’s Men in Taur Drúadan, in Far Anórien.

Mar 30, 2019

Installment #1

Jan 1, 2019

Everything was quiet In a peacefull crittersland That was until 3 little boys arrived. Screaming bloody chants. Summoning dark spirits from yonder What’s that over there? A snowman came to life. Run my little snowman, George shouted The little snowman couldn’t hear him. Clucklands *bokking was too loud. A portal was opened and the spirit got out....

Dec 16, 2018

Continuing the instance cluster revival to top it off with a new raid it was an existing time for lotro. Minas tirith and the battle for pelenor fields were the biggest set pieces from the books since Helms deep. Everyone was curious about what parts of the story would find their way into the instances, epic story and quests themselves. On the end of Retaking...

Nov 24, 2018

Two ancient fortress cities once clamored by dwarves and man, laden with treasures and splendor now deserted after adversity struck both. Helegrod was taken over by the great dragon Thorog whereas the war and losses against Sauron made Annuminas fall into decline.  Released in Book 9 and 10 with a scaled update during the days of Mirkwood both annuminas and...

Oct 16, 2018

Isengard, one of the two towers and home to the white wizard and not a purple floating sphere. After venturing through Dunland and guiding the grey company further south you would reach the area of Isengard. Home to the oxclan camp which hosts the instance cluster of this 99 instances. Coming with 2 small fellowships a  6-man and the home of Saruman and it...

Sep 18, 2018

After the critters and Druedain recaptured Bhol-Rudh Wrinkles used Viznahks secret passage. But were quickly send away by the property guard. If their plan to stop the plague and safe Agarnaith had any hope of succeeding they would need some help. Plans were smitten and a frontal assault was ruled out. The underlings of Lhaereath seemed to not have much love...

Jun 13, 2018

Moria was a few months old and the different story lines in Moria were coming to a close.You got the chance to see the sun again as you entered the dimril dale. First you had to prove yourself to the elfs and Haldir only to be send back into the depths to look what started to corrupt the orcs in the shadowed refuge. The balrog and orcs wernt the only forces...

Jun 6, 2018

Many of lotro’s biggest villians are from a time where ancient evil was still just evil. Villians from the books cant be defeated. Isuldur cut off the finger from Sauron, not hobbit #34. And the balrog was banished by Gandalf at the cost of his own life, not legowlassie. And lotro came in a time where players time became more limited. Instances became a balance...

May 23, 2018

Level 60 launch moria instances Back when Mines of Moria launched it came with the two instances we spoke about in Part 1.  Where meant to give you a start in Moria this article is about the “endgame” fellowship instances. You were level 60 and had set your eye all the jewelry and the Moria medallions for your fancy set bonus armor.  Describing everything in...

May 12, 2018

A mine they call it! We call it moria. But Moria is a big place with a lot of instances. We’ll split moria into three pieces for this series. Leveling (50-58), level cap (60) and post launch (lothlorien) with a bonus of some one-boss raids. Lotro was still gearing up to be a challenger to World of warcraft and we’ll also use this look back as a way to look...