This is a look around the city of Dol Amroth in Western Gondor. The focus of this video is the aesthetics and style of the city of Dol Amroth. There’s a vignette filter added to make the video more ‘cinematic’. I plan on doing videos like this for other areas of interest in Western Gondor as the beta continues. Let me know what you think! If...

Today Turbine released the first build of the Update 14 Beta.  Andang and Ethelros journeyed through the new zones, providing commentary on the zones. Belfalas Part 1 Belfalas Part 2 Inside Paths of the Dead The Sea Blackroot Vale...

This week’s video highlight is easily the most beautiful looking piece of cinematography for LOTRO I have seen. Each and every shot is nothing less than breathtaking and it is to the fantastic song “Still Alive” by Lisa Miskovsky.  This song created for use in Mirror’s Edge but seems to work perfectly with this video. “Lord of the...

Weatherstock is almost upon us and LOTRO Players is proud to announce that we will be live streaming all 5+ hours of Weatherstock VI. The stream will be hosted by the LOTRO Players News team. LOTRO Players will be having several guests throughout the concert including Harperella, one of the key organizers of past Weatherstocks. All the fun will start at 11:30...

I received a request to make an outfit based on the Noldor elves, Feanor and/or the Silmarils. At first when putting together the outfit on that theme I was trying to think of all the star-based cosmetics I could. Unfortunately most of the cosmetics with star motifs are squarely on the Man side of cosmetic styling because of their Dunedain ties. I wound up idly...

This week we fight a lot of trolls in Urugarth. Donations This week we did not receive any donations but we would love your support. To help support LOTRO Players simply go to the donation page where you can help support the podcasts on LOTRO Players and also help support the site.  We have $5 and $10 mentions where you can donate and get a mention on one or...

It has been a while since I’ve written anything here, the reason is beautiful summerweather, lots of music projects and many other distractions, but it does not mean that I’ve stopped playing Lotro. I am still around and try to be around on as many events as I can. Lotro for me has never really been a typical MMO game. This is the place where I...

This week is episode 50! We talk about the news, our favorite moments and give thanks to our fans who have helped make this show possible and will keep it going for many episodes to come.

This week’s video highlight sets up the Siege of Mirkwood expansion story.  “Siege of Mirkwood Launch Day Video” was released in 2009 on Turbine’s official YouTube channel. Do you know of a good LOTRO video and want it to be featured in this series? Send an email to lotroplayers.mymiddleearth@gmail.com with a link to the video and it...

I was planning to do a hobbit outfit for this week but I wasn’t sure what kind of outfit to make. Everything I seemed to try was too similar to the Mathom Society Record-keeper’s outfit I made. While trying to get some more ideas I was aimlessly looking through the outfits my hobbit already had in her character journal and found the jacket from this...

This week we try The Rift and you can imagine how that turns out but we have a lot of fun in the process. Donations This week we did not receive any donations but we would love your support. To help support LOTRO Players simply go to the donation page where you can help support the podcasts on LOTRO Players and also help support the site.  We have $5 and $10...

This week we are joined by Pash from An Unexpected Vidcast to talk about the news in LOTRO and Turbine’s future plans for LOTRO beyond Mordor.

This week’s highlight takes the live action Rohan trailer and actually makes it great by putting wonderful music to the scene.  “Riders of Rohan LOTRO tribute by Lonely Mountain Band” was released in 2012 on Lonely Mountain Band’s YouTube channel. Do you know of a good LOTRO video and want it to be featured in this series? Send an email...

This week’s outfit features a lot of “Ceremonial” cosmetic pieces. The introduction of these cosmetic versions of actual stat-filled armours from instances and raids has been amazing for those who are more inclined to lounge around Bree making cool looking outfits… like me! I’m trying to keep the outfit distribution amongst the...

This week we start the first part of the Carn Dûm instance. Donations A big thanks to Braag for a $10 or more donation to LOTRO Players! “Dear Lotro Players Crew, Long time listener here.  My donation to Lotro players this week serves a dual purpose. It is meant, first of all,  to offer support for the excellent work you have been doing. Many thanks for the...

This week there is finally some news about Update 14 after a month of no news at all. Also, we are joined by Bradford from Quest Gaming Network.

While looking at the Trait Trees on my various characters, I realized that directly in the descriptions of each specialization Turbine has used “MMO jargon” terms and acronyms without any explanation. For example in the Lore-master yellow line AoE and CC get used, but no definition given. For a new LOTRO player, especially someone who has never...

A few weeks ago I was asked to make a guide for dressing low level characters. With Weatherstock approaching fast, I figured that now would be a great time to release that guide since many will be rolling new characters on Landroval to experience the event. This is a very simple guide with not a whole lot of specifics, however I think it should give you enough...

This weeks highlight is one of my favorite LOTRO trailers.  The trailer sets up the story for Rohan through Wormtongue while showing his lies to the king. “Riders of Rohan Launch Trailer” was released in 2012 on the official LOTRO YouTube channel.  The trailer now has over 350,000 views on YouTube alone making it the most viewed video on the...

The 50th episode of LOTRO Players News will be hosted LIVE starting at 8:30 p.m. Eastern on June 7th and we need your help.  We are hoping to have audio files and emails about your favorite moments and other comments for us to read on the show. You can email and send in the files to podcast@lotroplayers.com. We hope episode 50 will be our biggest show yet but...