Jul 8, 2016

Hail and well met! It’s that time again, it’s Harnkegger Time! Well… almost, we need to pick our events first and that’s where YOU come in. What’s Harnkegger you say? My friend, where have you been these past four years? The Harnkegger Games are LotRO’s very own Olympics. Earn yourself massive amounts of gold (over 1275 gold...

This week’s featured events: The Weatherstock Concert Series continues this weekend on Landroval.  All concerts will take place at the Bree Festival Stage.  On Saturday the concerts run from 12pm-6pm with The Foxcleeve Inn, Polnolunie, The Rolling Kegs, Notenzauber, Skarn, and the White Flames.  Sunday’s concerts go from 12pm-4pm and feature Les...

Jul 8, 2016

Dear LOTRO Players, With a sad heart I have to pass on the news that LOTRO has lost another fine player. Tinki has left Middle-Earth, she sails over the western seas to the Undying Lands. I first met Tinki and cousin Pipsi in my early days as a member of The Lonely Mountain Band, we LOTRO’d as a group of role-players experiencing The Shire content while...

This week’s featured events: The Weatherstock Concert Series starts as all good things should–with P.I.E.  Hear them perform at the Bree Festival Grounds on Friday at 9pm EDT.  The Hope, The Fluffy Unicorns, and Die Bunten Voegel will perform for an hour each at the Bree Festival Grounds starting at 12pm on Saturday, with Runic Knights Orchestra...

LOTRO Players is giving away expansions thanks to supporters on Patreon. Prizes An Expansion Quad Pack & A Helm’s Deep Expansion An Expansion Quad Pack An Expansion Quad Pack Note: The expansion Quad Pack includes the Moria, Mirkwood, Isengard and Riders of Rohan expansions. Further details about all items are available in the LOTRO Market. How to...

Greetings! As we approach Winterstock the pre concert series begins on Landroval. This is an opportunity to listen to an extended concert from all the competing bands. Bree Festival Grounds is the location for many of the concerts but not all. Please refer to the information below for each individual performance. Friday July 1st: P.I.E. – 9:00 PM – Bree...

Jun 26, 2016

The HOBNANIGANS Chicken game is a pass time enjoyed greatly by players of The Lord of the Rings which comes around every first part of each month. Now Launching the Hobnanigans Chicken League, where teams of 3 and 6 compete for their place on the Ranking Ladder. Join the Ranking Ladder to become the best team out there! June Landroval Tournament Results 1st...

This week’s featured event: Shirefest starts today on Crickhollow.  Summons to the festival grounds at the pillar south of Scary will be available throughout the weekend.  Please visit our previous post to find out all the details or take a look at the Crickhollow Music website.  The full schedule is listed at both locations. All events are listed in...

Jun 22, 2016

The Shirefest music festival is returning to the Crickhollow server this weekend, June 24th-26th.  The third edition of Crickhollow’s biggest event moves out to the pillars south of Scary in the Shire.  Bands will set up under the pillar at approximately 28.3S 66.3W and the crowd will gather at the field in front.  Captains will be on hand throughout the...

Jun 21, 2016

“We don’t eat Elvish lembas in the mountains We don’t drink miruvor, and never tea We don’t live on mushrooms like those hobbits We like livin’ right, and bein’ free.” Yes, that’s us – THE ROLLING KEGS, Laurelin’s all-singing, all-dancing, all-Dwarven band, full of ale and ready to roll. Double...

This week’s featured event: The Knights of the White Lady celebrate their 9 year anniversary with music, fireworks, dancing, food, drink, and a pride parade through Bree-town for the 2016 Festival of the White Lady.  The after party at the KWL kinhouse (1 High Road, Highdore neighborhood, Bree homesteads) will feature the music of the Remediators and...

Jun 11, 2016

Coursera’s free “Online Games” course will be starting up again on Monday, June 13. This course explores what happens to stories, paintings, and films when they become the basis of massively multiplayer online games. The course focuses on how The Lord of the Rings trilogy is transformed as it is presented in the different media forms: Tolkien’s novels, the...

Featured events: The Gala Du Lierre Touffu takes place every Tuesday at 3pm EDT/21:00 CEST on the Sirannon server. Hobbiton’s Ivy Bush Inn fills with song, jokes, stories, and a bit of RP while the ale flows freely. All races are welcome, but the organizers request the all weapons and pets are left at the door. Coursera brings back “Online Games:...

  The first of the seasonal dyes has also arrived, and they are available only as pots of dye, despite the community asking for recipes to be made available.  As seen in the above screenshot, two colors are available for barter with festival tokens, while the other two are only available to purchase with mithril coins. The new steed, Steed of Ethuil, is...

Dear Fellow Musicians, My good friend Amenhir sent me a letter this past weekend hoping I would be able to help him find some musicians to play at his Kinship’s new book reading event. The Spirits of Gaderung are host a weekly reading of The Hobbit starting next saturday.  They would like a band to perform for about a half an hour from 7:30 to 8:00 pm...

This week’s featured event: Vanimor Summer starts on Landroval this Sunday at 8pm.  The Maidens of Vanimor and their special guests will play every other week for the rest of the season.  Their concerts will alternate with the regular Les Beaux Chapeax shows. All events are listed in Eastern Daylight Time (-4 GMT)/server time, but an additional time...

Jun 3, 2016

Greetings LOTRO Players, The Blue Theatre Song Contest – 2.00pm (edt) – Minas Tirith – 2016 Landroval Server. Please see earlier posts about this event for extra information. Announcing the Event Planning Update Voting Guidelines Random Draw for Order of Play Remember! All players, all levels past the intro & all account types can travel...

Greetings LOTRO Players and LOTRO Musicians, In this bumper episode Lizzy and I determine the order in which the contesting Bands will play upon the Stage of The Blue Theatre. We also answer viewers questions before continuing on to help Bingo in his weekly adventure. Toward the end of the adventure Lizzy reads a pair of Italian riddles, we answer...

This week’s featured event: The Little Wanderers present The Night of the Muses every Wednesday from 2:30pm-4:30pm EDT (7:30pm-9:30pm BST).  The group once held weekly musical gatherings on Eldar, but now that they have moved to Laurelin they honour their former server by playing in front of the Eldar Bounder’s Bounty Monument in Michel Delving....

May 26, 2016

Previously published on my LOTRO blog site TheNinny.wordpress.com here is my voting guidelines: I would like to write a small post to guide those band leaders, and possibly the members of the public who want to vote in the People’s Choice Poll after the event, which will be posted on this blog, right after we have finished the contest on June 4th. Everyone is...