They announced a maintenance, you won’t believe what happened next

They announced a maintenance, you won’t believe what happened next

Jan 26, 2018

They announced a maintenance, you won’t believe what happened next…

LOTRO Family Chicken Run Marathon

LOTRO Family Chicken Run Marathon

Jan 22, 2018

A 12-hour Chicken Run Eggstravaganza to help give back to an awesome person who’s given so much to the LOTRO community.

LOTRO Players News Episode 237: Swarm of Goats

LOTRO Players News Episode 237: Swarm of Goats

Jan 22, 2018

This week we discussed epic battles and corruption removal skills.

LOTRO Players News Episode 236: Reclaim Moria… After Lunch!

LOTRO Players News Episode 236: Reclaim Moria… After Lunch!

Jan 15, 2018

This week we discussed the LOTRO Beacon and entering Moria.

LOTRO Players News Episode 235: Love That Stupid Little Goblin!

LOTRO Players News Episode 235: Love That Stupid Little Goblin!

Jan 8, 2018

This week we continued our review of the Mordor expansion by reviewing Agarnaith.

Deseret News Interviews Chance Thomas

Deseret News Interviews Chance Thomas

Jan 4, 2018

  Yesterday January 3rd would have been Tolkien’s 126th birthday, to mark this Deseret News had a wonderful interview with Chance Thomas about all his work making the wonderful music of LOTRO.     “Everybody is familiar with the Peter Jackson films and the music from those films, I’m the other Lord of the Rings composer.” They talked about...

LOTRO Players News Episode 234: Shing! Shing! Squish!

LOTRO Players News Episode 234: Shing! Shing! Squish!

Jan 1, 2018

This week we discussed skirmishing, naming cosmetic pets, and more.

Pineleaf’s Pictorial Primer to Skirmishing: Solo Lieutenants

Pineleaf’s Pictorial Primer to Skirmishing: Solo Lieutenants

Dec 30, 2017

Welcome to the third edition of Pineleaf’s Pictorial Primer to Skirmishing. In this edition, we will bring the primer up to date with the latest LOTRO releases, consolidate redundant information, make the morale listings consistent, and repost the guides that mysteriously disappeared from our library. We will begin the new edition with two guides. The...

The task to build a Lotro (classic)

The task to build a Lotro (classic)

Dec 28, 2017

Lotro was better when [insert time], because [insert patch] destroyed the game. No Angmar article is complete without a comment like this. But at what time was it better, what has destroyed the game and are there these things? What is a Classic or Vanilla Lotro? If there wasn’t any objection what moment in time would be the best choice to roll back lotro...

[CC] 99 instances – The angmar experience 2/2 – To balrog or not

[CC] 99 instances – The angmar experience 2/2 – To balrog or not

Dec 24, 2017

Part 2 of the angmar experience is mostly travel across time, “old-school” and (technically not) first Raid instance in lotro. Both Barad Gularan (BG from now) and The rift of nurz ghashu (the Rift) werent in the game at launch, but most will remember it as they were. Getting to level 50, running Carn dum and Urugarth to gear up took a long while. I...

LOTRO Players News Episode 233: The Best Time in the Bloody Gore

LOTRO Players News Episode 233: The Best Time in the Bloody Gore

Dec 18, 2017

This week we discussed the release of update 21.3, the Yule Festival, and our week in LOTRO.

Update 21.3. Almost.

Update 21.3. Almost.

Dec 11, 2017

In this article, we review some of the changes we are getting with Update 21.3 and try to recap the year in few short words. We talk about the raid, instances and ash. Join us.

LOTRO Players News Episode 232: Sanswinda’s a Spider!

LOTRO Players News Episode 232: Sanswinda’s a Spider!

Dec 11, 2017

This week we discussed the release notes for Monday’s update and our week in LOTRO.

Downtime Notice: 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) Monday, December 11th

Downtime Notice: 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) Monday, December 11th

Dec 8, 2017

    Community Manager Cordovan posted on the forums about some upcoming downtime The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, December 11th from 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for an update to the game. He also kindly posted the release notes Click here to read about changes. Thanks for your patience, and we’ll see you back...

LOTRO Players News Episode 231: Conga Lines of Orcs

LOTRO Players News Episode 231: Conga Lines of Orcs

Dec 4, 2017

This week we continued our review of the Mordor expansion by reviewing Talath Urui.

[CC] 99 instances – The angmar experience 1/2

[CC] 99 instances – The angmar experience 1/2

Dec 2, 2017

Barad gularan, Carn dum, The rift and Urugarth. As classic as instance go thesedays these can hardly be beaten. When people go nostalgic, they linger in the memories of Mordrith and Thaurlach. Urugarth and Barad gularan are usually thrown in with the other two. But they do deserve a spot in the limelight.  Good thing that there isn’t a story about...

LOTRO Players News Episode 230: Pineleaf’s Bedtime

LOTRO Players News Episode 230: Pineleaf’s Bedtime

Nov 27, 2017

This week we discussed the producer’s letter and Pineleaf’s bedtime.

The 25 Days of XPACS

The 25 Days of XPACS

Nov 25, 2017

This week, LOTRO Players received an email from Bludborn about a community event he is hosting through the month of December on his Twitch channel: What: The 25 Days of XPACS Where: http://twitch.tv/bludborn When: Monday-Thursday and Saturdays in December Streams start at 10p EST I have been playing The Lord of the Rings Online for 10 years and streaming on...

Sale to the west – expansion sails

Sale to the west – expansion sails

Nov 23, 2017

Black friday isn’t saurons version of where the orcs can leave their ties at home before going to work. It’s the time a lot of shops go on a sales bonanza. Including digital sales. Standing stone games isn’t that different. So without further ado. Lotromarket – 85% off – $ sales  Mines of Moria™ – Digital Download...

Executive Producer’s Letter for November 2017

Executive Producer’s Letter for November 2017

Nov 22, 2017

  Executive Producer Severlin posted the latest producer’s letter looking forward to what’s ahead for next year. The full text of the letter is at the LOTRO forums. Much of the letter discusses what is coming in Update 22: The continuation of the Black Book of Mordor. Lands featured in The Hobbit: Northern Mirkwood, Laketown, Dale, and Erebor....