May 12, 2017

Community Calendar: Laurelin is getting ready to celebrate two major milestones.  Green Dragon Friday started nine years ago, and that’s an occasion worth two parties.  The warm up party is this Friday and includes competitions, a parade, riddles, and a lecture.  The Forest of OAKS will mark 3 years on Saturday with their anniversary concert, featuring 7...

May 5, 2017

Community Calendar: Anniversary celebrations continue with Dawning Eclipse’s 10th anniversary on Crickhollow May 6th.  That’s also the date for the coronation of the May Queen and King on Laurelin.  All votes for the Queen and King must be mailed to Nannie prior to the ceremony.  Nost-na-Lothion, an elven festival of flowers, will be held on...

Apr 28, 2017

Community Calendar: Sirannon plays host to a very special 10th anniversary celebration on Saturday, featuring music, racing, quizzes, and a “mystery spectacle.”  Find out more details about this and other featured events below. This listing of featured events is only published on Fridays, but our Google calendar is kept up to date throughout the...

Apr 21, 2017

Community Calendar: The Alefords and Struck by Moonlight are hosting a beer festival, The Moonshine Party, Saturday on Laurelin.  The lineup of musicians, poets, and storytellers is impressive.  Sirannon’s 4th Blades and Needles (De Lames et d’Aiguittes) fashion show will also be held on Saturday.  Sunday is the Great Race from Michel Delving to the...

Apr 14, 2017

Community Calendar: It’s time to celebrate 10 years of LOTRO!  The Anniversary festival will be back on April 20th, as will Crickhollow’s Muddy Foot Day, an annual celebration of pipe-weed featuring music from five of the finest bands on the server.  The HOPE will celebrate the anniversary on April 15th with the Magical Mystery Tour through...

Apr 9, 2017

Greetings, The EPO played their first classical concert in the Lore Hall on Landroval on the 8th April. With arrangements from Sevis, Calanna, Belaya, Anon and Lilikate. You can listen to the concert here: After a slightly nervous start we all settled down to enjoy the music. Thanks to all who listened and performed, especially Missis Bunny Fincin herself who...

Apr 7, 2017

Community Calendar: Saturday brings two special concerts: The Eriador Philharmonic Orchestra on Landroval at 2pm and Ziggy Piecrust and the Badgers to the Stars on Laurelin at 2:30pm/7:30pm BST.  Exploring the Lord of the Rings–On Location travels to Arkenstone this week for the usual 9:30pm Tuesday session.  Also on Tuesday: Dwarves Night Out with the...

Mar 31, 2017

Community Calendar: We have a few special concerts coming up this week: Die Bunten Vögel comes to Sirannon on Saturday, Duidhrastir & Laaleth play elven duets Sunday on Crickhollow, and the Rolling Kegs play April OAKS on Tuesday.  Daylight saving time ends in Australia on Sunday, so No Whole Bard has moved their shows to 7am EDT/ST. Please note that...

Mar 24, 2017

Community Calendar: 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.  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...

Mar 17, 2017

Community Calendar: Happy Bullroarer Took Day to you all!  We celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a LOTRO spin this weekend.  Friday is a Green Bullroarer Took Friday on Laurelin, a special edition of the weekly Green Dragon Friday.  Saturday is Landroval’s A Day at the Greenfields, with genre-themed music from 11 bands from 11am to 10pm.  Sunday...

Mar 10, 2017

Community Calendar: We’ve now reached this event planner’s least favourite time of year: the US, Canada, and a few other places in North America will go on Daylight Saving Time on Sunday while most of Europe will go on DST on March 26th.  This means that some events on the European servers will generally take place at a different time than Americans...

Mar 7, 2017

Hello Musical and Non Musical LOTRO Players, After declaring I would update the sheet music for The Ninny Hammers way back in December 2016 I can finally confirm that it is complete. I took the decision to split the classical music from the other genres as well as checking each file in the current system. Now I may be blowing my trumpet far too soon. As the...

Mar 3, 2017

Community Calendar: Major special events are taking place on Sirannon, Laurelin, and Belegaer this weekend.  Please check below for more details about Grand Charivari, The Shire to Fornost: A hobbit historical field trip, and 2. Bree’er Schnulzenabend.  On Sunday, the Department of Harmony and Song will continue their server tour on Brandywine and trivia...

Feb 24, 2017

Community Calendar: This week Mardi Gras comes to Middle-earth with a couple of events on Landroval.  The night after Ales & Tales visits their kin house, the Mardi Gras Party Band present their weekly concert in front of the Prancing Pony Inn at 8pm EST on Fat Tuesday.  The Bounders of the Shire present Fat Hobbit Tuesday at 8:45pm EST/ST with music from...

Feb 17, 2017

Community Calendar: 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.  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...

Feb 11, 2017

Greetings Lotro Players, You are all invited to attend a classical concert today at 2pm est in the Lore Hall on Landroval. Liliditty Buggins leads a brave band of talented musicans to bring to life music from bygone days. Our sample is a trio composed by Balakirev, entitled “Nocturne”. All are welcome to join us and if there are other musicians out...

Feb 10, 2017

Community Calendar: 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.  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...

Feb 3, 2017

The future of this post: I’ve been so glad to publish this list of events every week for the past 15 months.  I’d like to continue sharing this list of events, but some changes may be necessary.  It takes hours every week to aggregate this list from a host of different sources, make sure everything is posted both here and on two different Google...

Jan 27, 2017

This week’s featured events: Unfortunately the wonderful Radagast’s Pipe will soon sail into the west, but there will be one last chance to enjoy their music at this Saturday’s January OAKS on Laurelin.  The band formed on the Russian server of Fornost in 2012, but moved to Landroval after those servers closed down.  Since then they have...

Jan 20, 2017

This week’s featured events: The Andune Ensemble of Landroval will be celebrating their 5th Anniversary this Sunday at their normal weekly time, 3pm on January 22nd at the Bree Stage.  Geoffroi is one of the best band leaders out there (and I don’t say that just because I was a member of the band in their earliest days).  Take a look back at their...