Community Events: May 13th-19th

This week’s featured events: The HOPE brings Balrog’s Footfall to Laurelin this Sunday at 2pm EDT/7pm UK time.  Their all metal set was a great success on Landroval in February, but they will have a different playlist for this concert.  In other Laurelin concert news, The Brady Badgers will try to take care of the owlfestation on the roof of...

The Rally in Khazad-dûm on May 14th

Crickhollow’s Second Breakfast presents The Rally in Khazad-dûm, a puzzle race through Moria this Saturday, May 14th at 2pm EDT/server time.  This annual tradition has previously taken participants through the Shire, Bree, and Ered Luin, but this time the race adds the danger of falling from great heights and getting helplessly lost in the mines.  The...

Community Events: May 6-12

This week’s featured event: The Maidens of Vanimor started their 4 part Swan Lake at this week’s Ales & Tales on Landroval.  Don’t worry if you missed it: part 1 is shown below (borrowed from Timcoolish’s YouTube channel) and there are 3 more acts to come.  The next 3 Ales and Tales locations are as follows: May 9th: Windy Acres...

Community Events: April 29th-May 5

This week’s featured events: Die Bunten Vögel starts their “Rabenschwarz” – On The Road 2016 concert series with a show on Sirannon this Friday at 2pm EDT/20:00 CEST/22:00 MSK.  Their guests will be local favorites Les Chantefables.  At the end of each show there will be a lottery for a Rabenschwarz CD, but if you don’t win, never fear: the CD is...

Community Events: April 22nd-28th

This week’s featured events: Notenzauber will present their Blues Brothers tribute concert on Saturday at 3pm on Landroval.  Petaline probably put it best: “It’s 106 miles to Rivendell. We got a full pack of cookies, half a bag of pipeweed, it’s dark out, and we’re carrying sparklers. Hit it!”   All events are listed in...

Community Events: April 15th-21st

This week’s featured events: The second annual Muddy Foot Day will be held on Crickhollow Wednesday, April 20th.  Come to the Party Tree at 8pm EDT for Firebrands, followed by The Breakfast Club at 8:30pm, The Belle Tones at 9, Firefoot Bluegrass Band at 9:30, and Fraggle Rock at 10.  It’s a wonderful way to celebrate the Shire’s many fine...

Community Events: April 8th-14th

This week’s featured events: Today on Sirannon catch Les Daft Pigs downsizing their instruments.  The performance starts at 3pm EDT/21:00 CEST at the Scholar’s Stairs Square in Bree. On Saturday Landroval will be asked to Hunt the Hobbit.  The burglar Navalpar will hide somewhere in the Glirgar neighborhoood of the Falathorn homesteads.  Any players...

Community Events: April 1-7

This week’s featured event: The Brandy Badgers present the Haunting of the Bridge Inn, the tale of Bruco Springrock, a lone wanderer finding his way back home to the Shire.  He is dismayed to find that Stock’s Bridge Inn is closed, but starts to hear tales about mysterious happenings and dangerous creatures.  Come to Laurelin on Sunday, April 3rd at...

Community Events: March 25-31

This week’s featured events: Forte’s Academy of Music officially opens their Landroval school and Concert Hall at 9 Chestnut Street in the Middleham neighborhood of the Breeland homesteads this Saturday at 4pm EDT.  Music will be performed by students and alumni.  The Academy offers a series of weekly in-game music lessons every month on playing and...

Community Events: March 18th-24th

This week’s featured events: Crickhollow welcomes all brave enough to attempt the sixth annual Bullroarer Took Day Pub Crawl, starting on Sunday at 12pm EDT.  Elevenses in the Bird & Baby will wrap up early to allow for visits to every pub in the Shire, with time for ale, tunes, and contests at each stop.  The group will rush over to Hobbiton’s...

Community Events March 11th-17th

This week’s featured event: Thursday’s Bird & Baby Yard Party will be a little greener than usual as they take the opportunity to celebrate Bullroarer Took Day (a holiday with striking similarities to St. Patrick’s Day), March 17th at 3:30pm EST/7:30pm GMT on Laurelin.  The Bramblebury Gazette has put out a call for poets who would like to...

Community Events: March 4th-10th

This week’s featured event: This Saturday four great bands will face off in a battle to determine which one can play the cheesiest music.  Join them at the Thorin’s Hall Festival Arena 4pm EST (9pm GMT) on Laurelin for the Great Schnulz’athlon, two hours of tacky tunes and schmaltzy songs from Die Mondbarden, Instant Play, A Rock and a Hard Place,...

Community Events: February 26-March 3

This week’s featured events: The Party in the Park returns to Crickhollow on February 27th!  Come to the park across from the Bree jail for music from Misty Mountain Hobbs, Travelling Bilberries, Dulcet Tones, and DisEnchanted.  The party starts at 3pm EST (server time) and each band gets one hour.  Find out more about this and other events on the server...

Community Events: February 19-25

This week’s featured event: Laurelin is now home to the Bramblebury Library and Crafting Centre, set to open its doors on February 20th.  This new facility will allow residents and visitors to grow crops, forge tools, shape wooden furniture, and cook.  The chests inside include a collection of maps and books that will be available to all.  All hobbits are...

Community Events: February 12th-18th

This week’s featured events: The Landroval Veterans Council is hosting a welcome event on Saturday, February 13th at 6pm EST in the Bowing neighbourhood of the Bree-land homesteads.  There will be many events to welcome players new and old, including a chance to meet recruiting kins, fashion contests, lore contests, a fishing derby, a neighbourhood tour,...

Community Events: February 5th-11th

This week’s featured events: Daylak Darksbane, a beloved Landroval player and member of the band Bright Star, passed away last month after a battle with cancer. His bandmates played a tribute at their Wednesday concert in the Park, but there will be another chance to celebrate his life on Friday night. Friends and well wishers are welcome to come to...

Community Events: January 29th-Feburary 4th

This week’s featured events: Landroval’s Mythgard will be taking a charity chicken run to Gondor on Saturday, starting at 10am EST from Sandson’s Farm.  Wigend, aka The Tolkien Professor, will assume chicken form to make the journey to Minas Tirith, and all players who’d like to join the protection posse are welcome  (an organising...

Community Events: January 22nd-28th

This week’s featured event: Acorne Oakley started the monthly OAKS (Oldfurlong Amazin Koncert Series) on Laurelin back in 2014.  The series has featured many grand performers, and this month is no exception as they welcome the bearded dwarven lasses of Die Bärtigen Musen.  Head over to the town square of the Oldfurlong neighbourhood of the Shire...

Community Events: January 15th-21st

This week’s featured event: Winterstock III has had several interruptions due to maintenance and login issues.  The schedule remains subject to change.  Follow Zedrock and Lhinnthel for updates. Please note that some bands will forego their regularly scheduled weekly concerts, but I only removed the listing for those who contacted us. All events are...

Community Events: January 8th-14th

This week’s featured events: Elevenses began on Crickhollow the day that the server opened, filling up Michel Delving’s Bird & Baby Inn with light hobbity RP and plenty of music.  More than five years later it is still being served twice a week, on Sundays at 11am and Mondays at 11pm (both EST/server time).  2012 saw the addition of a third...