LOTRO Players News Episode 85: Deadly Hungry Hobbits

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Peggy left a comment on last week’s show:

“I first found Andang searching youtube for videos on how to play quests instanced battles. These were consistently helpful and very fun to watch as he “acts” out his role and reads the game’s inserted instructions and comments in character. Although I have been playing since September 2008 I still have issues soloing more intense quests and his tutorials have been especially helpful.

So imagine my delight when I discovered Andang to have a primary role in LOTRO Players. I already trusted him so tried to read this blog regularly and finally following it so as not to miss important features. Now I feel as if I know you all in real life having come across you here as well as fun with Frelorn on Thursday Twitch broadcasts. Because Arathaert was so kind to me there in chat, I checked out his Twitch broadcast and follow him. I congratulate his streaming abilities and whoever said today in LOTRO Players that watching and chatting on livestream is tantamount to dropping into the game when you can’t play yourself, nailed it. Now I want to watch other streams too as Arathaert just made it so enjoyable.

I also have played Guild Wars 2 so am intrigued that you do what seems to be this same format for that game. I find GW2 much more difficult to play than LOTRO but have managed to level a ranger and an environmentalist to 80 at which time I found that the end game was not as compelling for my play style so only pop in occasionally these days.

The one additional comment I would like to add regards today’s debate over Aragorn. I came to Tolkien from the books and still read them regularly. The movies have brought them to impactful life and disseminated Tolkien’s vision to millions who would never have come across it otherwise and done so with quality. I admit I have critiqued the movies with the perspective of “that is NOT lore!” But lately have come to see them with more of a “folk process” view. I studied folk guitar in my youth and always worried that when playing my previous lesson for my teacher that I never really knew the tunes to sing along as I had never come across them before so the tunes never really were what he had sung. But he, I think wisely, consoled me with an admonishment not to worry as that was the “folk process”. I only wish Christopher Tolkien felt that to be a valid perspective for his father’s world and allowed more of it to be shared in movies and games if done with responsible creativity as LOTRO has. Therefore I feel all the sides of the debate today were valid. No one view is “right” because once the words leave the pen of the author they become partly owned by the intended audience. And therefore open to interpretation.

Thank you all for a most enjoyable broadcast today!

Peggy aka Hendambar”

Bruthvo left a comment on this week’s poll:

“Obviously Lalia would win, think of the armour she could fashion out of all of her mithril coins! Or she could port right behind you with them and trap you in cloak!”

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LOTRO Players News Episode 85: Deadly Hungry Hobbits

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