This is a look around the city of Dol Amroth in Western Gondor. The focus of this video is the aesthetics and style of the city of Dol Amroth. There’s a vignette filter added to make the video more ‘cinematic’. I plan on doing videos like this for other areas of interest in Western Gondor as the beta continues. Let me know what you think! If...

Last year the online course-offering site Coursera featured a class called Online Games: Literature, New Media and Narrative from Vanderbilt University that focused on JRR Tolkien’s books, Peter Jackson’s movies and Turbine’s LOTRO. This year the course is returning and will be running from July 14 through September 1. From the course page:...

On Thursday, June 12 there was a live Developer chat/Q&A session on Twitch. It included Sapience (Rick Heaton, Community Manager), Rowan (Aaron Campbell, Executive Producer), HoarseDev (Matt Zimmitti, Lead Systems Designer), Jinjaah (Trevor McEwan, Designer), and Todd DeMelle (Art Director). Note: These are very close paraphrases, not exact wording. If you...

I received a request to make an outfit based on the Noldor elves, Feanor and/or the Silmarils. At first when putting together the outfit on that theme I was trying to think of all the star-based cosmetics I could. Unfortunately most of the cosmetics with star motifs are squarely on the Man side of cosmetic styling because of their Dunedain ties. I wound up idly...

The official times have been announced for the Moria to Lorien dwarf run! Players on the various servers will be leading the level 50 dwarf, Tosmii, from the Holin Gate to the Gates of Caras Galadhon. Interestingly the first run will take place June 17th on Bullroarer. Test Run – Bullroarer June 17 2:30PM 1. Eldar Tuesday June 24 2:30PM 2. Dwarrowdelf...

I was planning to do a hobbit outfit for this week but I wasn’t sure what kind of outfit to make. Everything I seemed to try was too similar to the Mathom Society Record-keeper’s outfit I made. While trying to get some more ideas I was aimlessly looking through the outfits my hobbit already had in her character journal and found the jacket from this...

On today’s Take the Hobbits to Isengard live stream on Windfola, Sapience made an announcement about his next streaming plans. Next he will be taking on the challenge of Moria as a dwarf and will be relying on the servers to guide him from the Doors of Durin to the Gates of Caras Galadhon. While Isengard’s challenges were threat generation and...

This week’s outfit features a lot of “Ceremonial” cosmetic pieces. The introduction of these cosmetic versions of actual stat-filled armours from instances and raids has been amazing for those who are more inclined to lounge around Bree making cool looking outfits… like me! I’m trying to keep the outfit distribution amongst the...

While looking at the Trait Trees on my various characters, I realized that directly in the descriptions of each specialization Turbine has used “MMO jargon” terms and acronyms without any explanation. For example in the Lore-master yellow line AoE and CC get used, but no definition given. For a new LOTRO player, especially someone who has never...

A few weeks ago I was asked to make a guide for dressing low level characters. With Weatherstock approaching fast, I figured that now would be a great time to release that guide since many will be rolling new characters on Landroval to experience the event. This is a very simple guide with not a whole lot of specifics, however I think it should give you enough...

One of the first things I realized when Steel Blue came out was that I could make a really good looking Rohirrim outfit using it. The other shades of blue up until now felt too bright for Rohan, as I associate more subdued colors like olive and walnut brown with Rohan. Steel Blue definitely fits into that more ‘subdued’ color scheme… and even...

Since I found out Update 13 was going to include a new dye, I’ve been going crazy wanting that beautiful Steel Blue. Because of the reputation gating of both the scholar recipe to make the dye and the farmer recipe to make the crop that provides the dye ingredient, it has been very hard to come-by. Only within the past week have there been pots of Steel...

Until I started roleplaying, I wasn’t really interested in Bree-town. I mean sure, it was a handy location because of its centrality in Eriador and the services it offered, but it wasn’t terribly exciting to me. But once I started roleplaying I became fascinated with the lives of the everyday sort of people in Bree. I don’t roleplay anymore,...

My husband and I made new dwarf characters this past weekend – mine is a Rune-keeper named Sithi (I could go into the various layers of cleverness with that name but I won’t) and his is a Champion named Navrin. The purpose is to help him re-learn the game he has barely logged into in the past two or three years. But this meant that I needed to make...

I don’t often play my hobbit minstrel, Miniature, but when I do I spend a lot of time picking an outfit, more so than my other characters, if that’s possible! I originally made this outfit for Miniature as an entry for the yearly Fashion Screenshot contest as one of the Profession entries. I imagined the papers in her pack were scores or lyrics and...

This outfit idea was suggested to me by Eryniell on the official LOTRO forums. She wanted me to make an outfit using the Leggings of the Shadow-walker for her female elf hunter. The leggings are almost entirely black with a little bit of silver/grey detailing. The trick was to find other items that also had dark undertones or could be dyed dark. I settled on a...

Rohan is definitely my favorite place in Middle-earth – lore-wise, questing, the landscape – everything about it! Because of this I end up creating a lot of cosmetic outfits based on different aspects of Rohan and Rohirrim culture. This outfit was made for my Warden of Rohan and utilizes the muted golds, olives, greys and browns of the Wold in...

Hello, LOTRO Players! My name is Cithryth and welcome to my LOTRO Outfits! Ever since the cosmetic system was introduced I have loved creating and collecting outfits across all my characters. Most outfit showcases utilize screenshots to display the outfit, however I have decided to try something different and showcase my outfits via video. This is the first of...