*SPOILER WARNING* If you have not completed Volume I, Book II of the epic story, stop reading!  (unless you don’t mind spoilers of course ;)) NB. The text is partly quoted directly from the quests themselves, partly adapted text from the quests and some original dialogue.  The questline is from the epic questline,The Tale of the Red Maid and is concluded...

*SPOILER WARNING* If you have not completed Volume I, Book II of the epic story, stop reading!  (unless you don’t mind spoilers of course ;)) NB. The text is partly quoted directly from the quests themselves, partly adapted text from the quests and some original dialogue.  The questline is from the epic questline,The Tale of the Red Maid and is concluded...

*SPOILER WARNING* If you have not completed Volume I, Book II of the epic story, stop reading!  (unless you don’t mind spoilers of course ;)) NB. The text is partly quoted directly from the quests themselves, partly adapted text from the quests and some original dialogue.  The questline is from the epic questline,The Tale of the Red Maid and is concluded...

*SPOILER WARNING* If you have not completed Volume I, Book II of the epic story, stop reading!  (unless you don’t mind spoilers of course ;)) NB. The text is partly quoted directly from the quests themselves, partly adapted text from the quests and some original dialogue.  The questline is from the epic questline,The Tale of the Red Maid and is concluded...

*SPOILER WARNING* If you have not completed Volume I, Book II of the epic story, stop reading!  (unless you don’t mind spoilers of course ;)) NB. The text is partly quoted directly from the quests themselves, partly adapted text from the quests and some original dialogue.  The questline is from the epic questline,The Tale of the Red Maid and is concluded...

*SPOILER WARNING* If you have not completed Volume I, Book II of the epic story, stop reading!  (unless you don’t mind spoilers of course ;)) NB. The text is partly quoted directly from the quests themselves, partly adapted text from the quests and some original dialogue.  The questline is from the epic questline,The Tale of the Red Maid and is concluded...

I really enjoy the epic quests in Lotro, the stories are compelling and its just great having an over-arching storyline which continues as you level and explore new areas.  However, I found it was easy to lose track of the story and to miss some of the detail as we tended to do the epic questline either along with other quests in the area or were running...

I’ve recently made some emote shortcuts for the festival dances and for the emotes which contribute towards a deed.  As I have to look this up *every* single time and thought I can’t be alone…, I thought I’d share the how to and include a handy reference guide to the quickslot numbers 🙂 To make a shortcut for an emote, type: /shortcut XX...

Common elements: Celon ~ river Duin ~ (long and large) river Nen ~ water Baranduin: Baran meaning golden-brown and duin meaning river.  More commonly known as the Brandywine river. Celondim: Celon meaning river and dîm meaning sadness.  Possibly River of Sadness. Falathlorn: Falath meaning beach or wave-beaten shore and lorn meaning quiet water, anchorage or...

common elements: eryn ~ wood glad ~ wood taur ~ great wood, forest tawar ~ great wood, forest (also pertains to the material) Eryn Laer, Lothlórien: Eryn meaning wood and laer meaning summer or song.  Summer Wood or Wood of Song. Taur Hith, Lothlórien: Taur meaning forest and hith meaning mist or fog.  Forest of Mist. Taur Ornolf, Trollshaws: Taur meaning...

common elements: Celon ~ river Duin ~ (long and large) river Nen ~ water Anduin, Lothlórien: And meaning long and duin meaning river.  Known as the Great River. Bruinen, Trollshaws:  Brui meaning loud, noisy and nen meaning water.  Also known as the Loud-Water. Celebrant, Lothlórien: Celeb meaning silver (particularly of silver deposits) and rant meaning course...

common elements: Amon (pl. Emyn) ~ Hill Orod (pl. Ered) ~ Mountain Dol ~ ‘head’ often applied to hills and mountains Amon Ros, Lone-lands Amon meaning hill, ros meaning spray or foam or ross meaning rain.  Hill of Rain, I think. Emyn Hoedh, Ered Luin Emyn meaning hills, hoedh is the plural of haudh which means grave, burial mound or tomb.  Perhaps Barrow Hills,...

I thought I’d start by translating some of the placenames you will come across early on during your travel in Middle-Earth, including the place name  that got me started (echad candelleth).  I’ve found remembering the common elements isn’t too bad (e.g. ost ~ fortress, amon ~ hill, echad ~ camp) and it makes navigating a little easier if I...

I am starting a series of posts which will translate (hopefully!) the Sindarin place names found throughout LoTRO.   Sindarin is an elvish language but it was also spoken by the Númenóreans in the Second Age and their descendants, the Dúnedain in the Third age, which, at least partly, explains the proliferation of Sindarin place-names across Middle-Earth.  When...

Cooking in lotro makes my head spin (it occasionally does in real life too!)  The amount of ingredients needed (vendor bought, farm produced, cook produced) and the different tiers of expertise involved is pretty complex, so in an effort to tame the virtual storecupboard I produced this spreadsheet 😉  This is just for the Cook’s Guild repasts (rep items)....

  solo = green small fellowship = purple fellowship = blue raid = red I put this together so I could easily find soloable warbands or if I was looking for a particular warband for the daily Forlaw quest.  I hope you find it useful too. Warband tokens drop from the gift box quest reward (the daily auto bestowed quests), they seem to be more common with the...