Hello Friends! Welcome to the 7th edition of LOTRO Poems! This week the Casual Raiders did Barad Guldur raid. It was awesome to do it again after a long time. So the Treasure Hunt started, did you guys get any cave-claws yet? I haven’t checked it out yet but I am planning on doing it tonight. I have just been so busy levelling up my alts and playing with...

Hello, LOTRO! This is a pretty unusual post for me, as I try to restrict my posts on LOTRO Players to strictly LOTRO content. I have decided to participate in the Extra Life charity drive this year, and am humbly asking for members of the LOTRO community to consider a donation to this worthy cause. As you may remember, longtime LOTRO community manager Sapience...

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...

My previous two Real Life LOTRO posts showcased the Hobbiton set under construction. But now we come to my most recent set of pictures from Matamata, taken just over a year ago now. After our very small wedding, our little wedding party took a trip and visited Hobbiton once again. At that point in time of course filming had finished and the set had been fully...

Hello Friends! I am Ali from Italy and I wanted to create place for creative writers who have the same passion for Tolkien as myself.

In my last Real Life LOTRO post, I showed you pictures from my first time ever visiting the wonders of the Shire. While under construction, it was still a glorious and emotional sight. However I’ve got even more construction pictures… this time with more progress! I returned to Matamata in November, which is late spring/early summer in New Zealand....

Registration for the third annual Mythmoot is now open.  Mythmoot is a yearly event hosted by Mythgard Institute. Mythmoot will once again be held at the BWI Marriott in Linthicum, Maryland which is not far from the  Baltimore-Washington International Airport.  The event will be held on Saturday and Sunday, January 10th and 11th, 2015.  As an attendee of the...

New Zealand is a beautiful country. But being a Tolkien nerd means that there are unique aspects of it that I get to appreciate like the film locations and studios. Over the past few years I’ve been to a number of these locations and have taken loads of pictures. This new article series will serve to share these locations with all of you since I know many...

A lost audio recording of a 1958 speech given by J. R. R. Tolkien and a poem within the speech has been found by René van Rossenberg who has partnered with Middle-earth Network to restore the recording from a magnetic tape. The Middle-earth Network a small segment of the speech in a teaser video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC1jXlECkJk Founder of...

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:...