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...

Apr 30, 2016

Dear Friends, The Ninny’s went on an excursion last Thursday. We want to thank all those who Host Laurelin’s Yard Party. Miss Acorne and Miss Toadflax and all you other music loving Laurelin Hobbits and Free Folk: Thank You we felt very welcome and were honoured to play for everyone. Miss Toadflax sang a wonderfull set of songs with LOTRO-ified...

Apr 21, 2016

Dear Free Folks, I copy paste this notice from my blog: TheNinny.wordpress.com to reach as wide an audience as possible. I wish to thank all those people who have greeted my idea of a song contest in Minas Tirith with enthusiasm. To me, it seems like a great idea but not all members of the community are that keen on the pairing of music and competition. This I...

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...

Apr 11, 2016

Hendrix! Rocks 🙂 Fire written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix in 1967. A song about asking a Great Dane to share warmth 🙂 You may get to hear this live if you come along to a Ninny Hammers concert and ask for it to be played, (Saturday’s, Landroval, 2.00pm, Bree-Town Stage) if your experienced…  ...

Apr 8, 2016

Hello Musicians and Bands! The Ninny Hammers wish to invite you to celebrate arranging music for LOTRO by staging an event in a breath taking location. The Blue Theatre in Minas Tirith is a fantastic location for the performing arts, deserving not to stand empty but to be full and functional. I propose a Song Contest in The Blue Theater. Date and time: June 4th...

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...

Apr 7, 2016

Hullo! Lizzy and I took a little time to go exploring… We have been getting lost in the White City, which isn’t a very good idea at this particular time. What with there being a bit of a siege going on and all those Orcs outside the walls. However snuck in we did, glad to get a look-see at all the fine stone work and statues. I have been hoping that...

Apr 2, 2016

Greetings Everyone, While compiling a list of songs for The Little Wanders I stumbled accross this song. I had never heard it before so after arranging a four part version for myslef and the other wanderers. I was compelled to try to see how good it could sound if I arranged it without constrictions. I am quite pleased with the result. I was curious enough to...

Apr 1, 2016

Please note: The following post was an April Fool’s joke and is not real. Yes folks! It is true! I have recently been putting out polls on what people have on their wishlist for new additional instruments. Well, looks like a number of them are coming true! It has been quite some time since we acquired the new Lute of Ages and Misty Mountain Harp. Due to public...

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...

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...

Mar 24, 2016

Arranged for musical instruments in Lord of the Rings Online here is Oh Girl – Composed by Eugene Record. A 1972 hit for the Chi-Lites. A dropbox download of the MP3 for those who find soundcloud unreasonable… The Ninny Hammers performed this song on the Greenfields this past weekend. With a glowing response from our audience members.  ...

Mar 23, 2016

Last Saturday The Ninny Hammers opened the Day(s) on the Greenfields event with this number. I decided to risk public condemnation by adapting much loved lyrics to fit LOTRO and came up with Jajax the...

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...

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,...

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...

Feb 9, 2016

Dear Music Lovers, I present another song from The Ninny Hammer’s recent set at Winterstock III. This song never fails to pull on my heart strings, released in 1964 by Sam Cooke and covered by numerous artists since then. “A Change is Gonna Come” is synonymous with the American Civil Rights Movement. Many folks are more familiar with the 1965...

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...

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...