Hopefully by now most of you have realized that many of today’s articles on LOTRO Players were jokes.  April Fools’ Day was always special on CSTM, rest in peace, and LOTRO Players has carried on the tradition.  We hope that you enjoy the articles and have a great April Fools’ Day. This year’s April Fools’ Day articles on LOTRO Players: Critters leaks – New...

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...

This week’s featured events: Crickhollow welcomes all brave enough to attempt the sixth annual Bullroarer Took Day Pub Crawl, starting on Sunday at 12pm EDT.  Elevenses in the Bird & Baby will wrap up early to allow for visits to every pub in the Shire, with time for ale, tunes, and contests at each stop.  The group will rush over to Hobbiton’s...

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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,...

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This week’s featured events: The Party in the Park returns to Crickhollow on February 27th!  Come to the park across from the Bree jail for music from Misty Mountain Hobbs, Travelling Bilberries, Dulcet Tones, and DisEnchanted.  The party starts at 3pm EST (server time) and each band gets one hour.  Find out more about this and other events on the server...

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...

This week’s featured events: The Landroval Veterans Council is hosting a welcome event on Saturday, February 13th at 6pm EST in the Bowing neighbourhood of the Bree-land homesteads.  There will be many events to welcome players new and old, including a chance to meet recruiting kins, fashion contests, lore contests, a fishing derby, a neighbourhood tour,...

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...

Tolkien Professor Corey Olsen (perhaps known better on LOTRO as Gryfflet the burglarious hobbit) will make a run for Minas Tirith as a chicken on Saturday, January 30.

This week’s featured event: Acorne Oakley started the monthly OAKS (Oldfurlong Amazin Koncert Series) on Laurelin back in 2014.  The series has featured many grand performers, and this month is no exception as they welcome the bearded dwarven lasses of Die Bärtigen Musen.  Head over to the town square of the Oldfurlong neighbourhood of the Shire...

Jan 21, 2016

Greetings LOTRO Players, Today I bring to your attention a very special video of our opening number at Winterstock. The finished product looks so easy but we were faced with many difficulties on the day of this performance. I post the video so all who missed out can enjoy my lyrics (video) as well as see the wonderful audience who joined us on the ice. I also...

This week’s featured event: Winterstock III has had several interruptions due to maintenance and login issues.  The schedule remains subject to change.  Follow Zedrock and Lhinnthel for updates. Please note that some bands will forego their regularly scheduled weekly concerts, but I only removed the listing for those who contacted us. All events are...

Hello Musicians, We are back from our holidays and looking forward to Winterstock 2016! The Ninny Hammers perform on the ice at 1.00pm (est) near Silver Deep Mine. From the 15th to the 18th there will be the very best of LOTRO musical entertainment in Ered Luin. This week we play The Jean Genie by David Bowie, RIP. A download of the MP3 is here. The...

This week’s featured events: Elevenses began on Crickhollow the day that the server opened, filling up Michel Delving’s Bird & Baby Inn with light hobbity RP and plenty of music.  More than five years later it is still being served twice a week, on Sundays at 11am and Mondays at 11pm (both EST/server time).  2012 saw the addition of a third...

  This week’s featured events: January 3rd is JRR Tolkien’s 124th birthday.  Raise a mug to the Professor at the Bird and Baby Inn on Laurelin 4pm EST/9pm GMT.  The Elders kinship will provide drinks, pipe-weed, and fireworks and everyone is welcome to join in for the traditional Tolkien society toast.  To the Professor! The PLOI Players...