This week’s video highlight is 100% a LOTRO ad.  What I want to point out though is at the end the video there is text that says “Join millions of players.”  This is fairly surprising because the trailer came out three days before Free-to-play. Assuming LOTRO has gained many players since the change to the new pricing model, I wonder how big...

This week’s highlight is the good live action trailer to LOTRO that came out at the launch of Free-to-Play.  “The Lord of the Rings Online Free-to-Play Launch Video” was released in 2010. 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...

This week’s video highlight takes us back to E3 2011 when the Rise of Isengard expansion was made available for pre-order.  “The Lord of the Rings Online: Rise of Isengard E3 2011 Trailer” was released in 2011 on LOTRO’s Official 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 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...

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...

This week’s video highlight is a very well done ad for the kinship on Laurelin known as Durin’s Folk.  “Durin’s Folk: Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!” was released in 2013 on Lina Willowwood’s YouTube channel. Do you know of a good LOTRO video and want it to be featured in this series? Send an email...

Today Helm’s Deep was finally released after much trouble with the server hosts earlier this week.  With the release of every expansion to LOTRO there is always a launch trailer to give the last marketing push before the servers come up and players fill the new lands.  This year is no exception. While players never received a trailer that really shows off...

Communicating how Helm’s Deep feels is a hard task.  It is unlike anywhere players have been before in LOTRO.  That is why I created this video.  It is an attempt to show how amazing the structure feels. All the shots from the video were taken directly from my zone overview of Helm’s Deep.  I was surprised I didn’t need to shoot any additional...

Turbine released a video looking at some of the new areas coming with Helm’s Deep. In the video we see very iconic areas including the Glittering Caves, Edoras, Helm’s Deep and the Paths of the Dead. We are able to see a lot of the behind the scenes concept art and computer models. There were a lot of great screenshots and concept images in the...

After several months, several voices and several deaths; I have finally finished my Wildermore series!  To complete the series, it took 52 videos that each averaged out to twenty minutes which created over 17 hours of content.  I am still amazed by the amount of loss that takes place in Wildermore.  While there was plenty of loss, I had a lot of fun creating...

Today Turbine released another trailer for Helm’s Deep. In this trailer we see a few more glimpses at Big Battles including orcs coming onto the wall from ladders.  This is really the only new stuff to come from the trailer.  As a side note, Turbine is getting much better at creating exciting...

Today Turbine released the Official Teaser Trailer for Helm’s Deep.  This was coordinated with the pre-order announcement and the announcement that the expansion will be released on November 18th! First of all let me say that the music in this trailer is amazing.  I really hope Turbine adds this kind of song in the game.  There is great voice acting in...

This is a trailer about our site I created for Reclaiming the Blade day here on Middle-earth Network! I hope you all enjoy!...

This last week I was able to work with the amazing voice artist and actor and Middle-Earth Network Founder, Tyler Michael Jonsson.  I had already written the script to sound a certain way but thankfully Tyler took it in a slightly different direction and got really into it and that made it sound far better than I could have imagined.  It is a really rewording...