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Green Dragon Friday celebrates 9 years on Laurelin. There will also be a two-day horse-racing event in the Shire on Belegaer featuring music from popular musicians like Die Bunten Voegel, Frischen Brise, Grünfinken, Fäust Durins, and Ziehenden Muskanten.
This listing of featured events is only published on Fridays, but our Google calendar is kept up to date throughout the week and includes details on many more activities. We always aim to have the most complete events calendar in the game and accept events of all types on all servers. Take a look at this week’s agenda for upcoming events around LOTRO and copy some or all events to your personal calendar. You may add events or post corrections in the comments section, but the fastest and best way to get it on this page and on the calendar is to submit a form.
Server calendars: Arkenstone Calendar, Belegaer Calendar, Brandywine Calendar, Crickhollow Calendar, Evernight Calendar, Gladden Calendar, Gwaihir Calendar, Landroval Calendar, Laurelin Calendar, and Sirannon Calendar
All events listed in Eastern Daylight Time (-4 GMT)/server time. Most Laurelin events will also be listed at British time, BST (+1 GMT), and all events on Belegaer and Sirannon are listed with CEST (+2 GMT). You may add events or post corrections in the comments section, but the fastest and best way to get it on this page is to submit a form. I’m always open to feedback and suggestions, both here and through the submissions form, so let me know if there’s something we should feature. Thanks for reading!
Featured events for this week:
1. Tag des Auenländer Pferderennens
Server: Belegaer
Time: 1pm (7pm CEST)
Location: Pferderennbahn, Bingen-Felder, Auenland
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Green Dragon Friday 9th Anniversary
Server: Laurelin
Time: 2:30pm EDT (7:30pm BST)
Location: The Green Dragon, Bywater
Description: Local hobbits started meeting at the Green Dragon every Friday night nine years ago, so it’s time to celebrate the anniversary! This party features an Arts and Entertainment Competition ceremony, Patron Poem Presentation, Anniversary Meal, Old Patrons lecture, Pony Dance, Anniversary Speech, and a Fireworks Display.
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Merry Meetings at Mar Vanwa Tyalieva
Server: Landroval
Time: 8pm
Location: Mar Vanwa Tyalieva Kinhall, 5 Waterbank Rd, Muiliach, Falathlorn Homesteads
Description: Mar Vanwa Tyalieva, the cottage of lost play, openly invites all travelers of Middle-earth to come partake in its delights at Merry Meetings. This is a new event centered around elven culture and provides an environment for newer and veteran elf RPers to meet, make connections, and foster more RP on the server. Though an elven themed event, other races are welcome.
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2. Tag des Auenländer Pferderennens
Server: Belegaer
Time: 1pm (7pm CEST)
Location: Pferderennbahn, Bingen-Felder, Auenland
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Server: Laurelin
Time: 3pm (8pm BST)
Location: Aldburg, Rohan
Description: Come all to Aldburg for this year’s annual Foaling Festival! As the young horses are born, we celebrate their mother’s success with games, competitions, vendors, and feasts. This is a human only RP event, Rohirrim preferred.
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Ales and Tales
Server: Landroval
Time: 8:30pm for Nibbles & Nobs, 9:30pm for Ales & Tales
Location: Picnic-hill, Staddle, Bree-land
Description: Volunteer to tell a tale, sing a song, recite a new poem, anything you wish to share with others in an RP setting. Nibbles and Nobs offers an open stage to all performers, while Ales and Tales features a house band and scheduled performers (all are welcome to sign up). Location changes every week, so /joinchannel alesandtales to find out more information.
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Green Hill Music Society
Server: Landroval
Time: 9pm
Location: The Bird & Baby Inn, Michel Delving
Description: Green Hill Music Society will be playing a tribute concert to the band Lynyrd Skynyrd for their Tuesday night concert in front of The Bird and Baby. GHMS is one of (if not the) longest active bands in LOTRO. Winner of Peoples Choice Award at year 3 Weatherstock. Enjoy great music, great dancing, and great socializing! Come one, come all!!
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Exploring the Lord of the Rings–On Location
Server: Arkenstone
Time: 9:30pm
Location: Lore Hall across from the Cat Lady’s House, Bree
Description: A free in-depth reading of the trilogy with the Tolkien Professor which will bring in other works that affected the story and considers new angles and aspects. The course takes place every Tuesday throughout January on a different server each week, followed by a field trip to a relevant site. Go to Discord or Twitch to follow the discussion.
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Server: Crickhollow
Time: 11am and 10:30pm
Location: Barrow Downs
Description: Midweek Tunes and Ales is a weekly event every Wednesday at 10:30pm and 11:00am servertime. It’s always in a different place each week, we could be at Weathertop or Rivendell, maybe even the depths of Moria, playing music throughout Middle Earth! We welcome all travelers who are passing through to join if like to share a tune, story, or just dance!
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GoblinFyre
Server: Brandywine
Time: 8pm
Location: Brandywine Goblin Wall in West Bree
Description: Weekly concert
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Coming soon:
The Elders Kinship of Laurelin celebrates their ten year anniversary with a big party on May 26th. Also on Laurelin, Lindamar, the ensemble of Bar-en-Vanimar, presents a concert with elven themed songs celebrating the change of a season on May 27th.
The Minstrel Guild of Bree hosts Summer Music Fest on Brandywine on June 10th. Bands will include Shire Tramps, ARDA, Runic Knights Orchestra, Harlequins, The Country Bluegrass Band, GoblinFyre, and more. To sign up please visit their forums.
Shirefest is coming to Crickhollow next month, June 16th-18th. The full schedule of bands has been announced and is up on the Crickhollow Music website.
Festival time:
The Department of Strategery put together some excellent guides for the scavenger hunt Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, and Year 6.
