Recently Break released a new video in their Super Fan Builds series, where they have Tim Baker and his expert team of modelers make awesome stuff for super fans. This episode’s fan is a super Tolkien fan… with cats! I can definitely relate. So Tim Baker and his crew decided to make him a Bag End litter box and Barad-dûr scratching post for his...

On their Facebook page today, LOTRO posted a new giveaway celebrating the upcoming release of the final Hobbit movie, The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies. US and Canadian residents over 13 can enter their information in to win both The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug on Blu-Ray/DVD as well as 1000 Turbine Points. You can...

According to Malaysian LOTRO Gamer, Chance Thomas today posted on his Facebook wall that he will not be writing anymore music for LOTRO. Thomas writes that it is “the end of an era.” We at LOTRO Players are sad to see this relationship come to an end. The music that Chance Thomas has written for LOTRO has definitely been some of the best in game....

This past week we’ve seen an uproar from the music and roleplaying community about the lack of GM support against griefers during musical events. During a recent concert, event-goers were upset when tickets against a griefer did not yield the intended results. There’s been quite a lot of backlash against this on the forums, Twitter, and elsewhere....

The trailer for the final Hobbit film is finally out! Dwarves, Elves, Wizards, bats, orcs, and more are in this trailer. What do you think of the...

Today marked the release of the first new class in six years: the Beorning! Since I hadn’t posted them yet, I decided to post up my two Beorning outfits I recently made. The Roar is based on the Beorning yellow trait line and The Hide is based on the Beorning blue trait line. The Claw, the red line, has been tricky for me to put an outfit together for...

Today Update 15 launched and with it came some nasty problems for some players. Many have found themselves stuck on “Installing Pre-Reqs” and other patching related problems. Frelorn made a post on the forums with some things that might help fix the issue: Go to your Internet Options Click connections tab LAN setting check the box that says auto...

WarnerBros. has issued the following statement: As part of our normal business process, we’re routinely looking at the strategic alignment of our company. Unfortunately, in order for us to invest in growth areas at Turbine, we have to eliminate some positions. These are always tough decisions, which we don’t approach lightly, but it’s crucial that Turbine is...

Hey everyone! Today saw Update 15 come to the public test server, Bullroarer. I decided to document my first look at the Beorning race/class in character creation as well as the starter intro for the class. I also took a screenshot of the Beorning trait tree Specialization choosing screen:   From what I’ve seen so far, I think the race/class is very...

For this outfit I decided to focus on a group that I had previously never made an outfit for – Dunlendings. This group is difficult to make an outfit around since we don’t get any armour pieces that have a similar style to what they wear. The quest rewards in Dunland look more like something Gondorian or Bree-landers would wear. But with careful...

Since I just finished up Eregion on my Lore-master, I knew I had to make a new, suitable outfit for her to explore the long dark of Moria in. No skirts – don’t want to trip on them in the dark! Heavy boots – need a firm footstep with extra toe protection so she doesn’t stub her toes. Dark colors – Moria is not exactly the...

This is another outfit that was designed while doing my livestream on Hitbox. For this outfit, two young hobbits were looking for bright (but not gaudy) outfits, appropriate for some adventure-some hobbits like themselves. With their input I put together this suitably cheerful outfit. It works well because both the hat and chestpiece can be dyed any bright...

It’s been quite a few weeks since I’ve posted any outfits to LOTRO Players. I’ve been away on vacation but now I’m back! And I bring outfits! This week’s outfit I made on one of my Hitbox streams before I left. I’m looking forward to getting back into streaming and outfit creation after being gone for almost 3 weeks....

This is yet another outfit put together during my live streams! Although this one I didn’t really take input on as I already had a pretty clear idea in my head of what I wanted. This is actually similar to an outfit that my low-level elf champion used to wear (before I deleted her!). I love a lot of the elven-style armour in LOTRO despite not playing...

This week’s outfit was my first outfit that I made over live stream! I’ve started doing live outfit streams at Hitbox on Sundays at 8PM EST. While making this outfit I had quite a few people chatting with me! It was really fun and I got some good input while putting together the outfit. I love the end result – this outfit is adorable! I love...

On November 4th the Extended Edition Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray 3D of the second Hobbit film will be hitting stores. This new Extended Edition will include 25 more minutes of film footage and up to 9 hours of bonus features. You can look forward to commentary from Peter Jackson and Phillipa Boyens, the continued Appendices covering pre-production and filming of the...

I was challenged on Twitter to make an outfit using Trech-helm. It’s an interesting Dunland quest reward – a grey hood with a partial face mask and only the face mask dyes. I accepted the challenge as I already use the piece in one of my Rune-keeper’s outfits. I love how this outfit fits into Lorien and Thinglad both color wise and...

I feel like I can never recommend Eregion as a zone enough. Although the quests there are pretty simple (Kill 10 x, Defeat Signature Mob Y, etc) I just love questing there. I think part of it is just that it’s simple to go from one hub to the next killing and gathering and moving on. The travel times between quest hubs and quest action areas (where you do...

Today on his Facebook page, Peter Jackson announced a new contest to bring a group of “ultimate fans” from around the world to New Zealand to tour the country and then watch the final Hobbit film with Peter Jackson himself. There aren’t a whole lot of details yet, but it seems there will be some kind of “challenge” to determine who...

Continuing with the Gondor theme for Update 14, this week’s outfit is for a Swan-knight in-training! Not a whole lot to say about this outfit that isn’t included in the video. I really wanted to make a swan-knight inspired outfit but I don’t have the full heavy Dol Amroth armour that looks like the swan-knight outfits. So instead I opted for...