Dec 19, 2022

This week we discussed Update 34.1.1 and our week in gaming.

Dec 17, 2022

Welcome back to the world of Middle-earth! This guide will help you navigate the changes that have taken place since you were last here. We’ll show you how to find answers to common questions, like: What’s new since I’ve been away? How do I navigate all these new systems? Where am I and where can I go? Let’s get started! *The guide has...

Dec 15, 2022

Anew I curse my father’s oath That slew us brothers, causing both The Silmarils – our Silmarils! – Those jewels whose mere possession spills The blood of elven race uncounted! Yea, our Oath in fine amounted To kinslaying and exile From Valinor, the elven isle Of Elfinesse, of Elvenhome To wander far, while drifting roam Afar over all Middle Earth Where...

Dec 12, 2022

This week week we discussed Update 34.1 and our week in gaming.

Dec 5, 2022

This week we discussed Update 38.0.1, Update 38.0.2, and our week in gaming.

Nov 28, 2022

This week we discussed Winterfest, Black Friday Sales, and our week in gaming.

Nov 27, 2022

Welcome back to Pineleaf’s Pictorial Primer to Skirmishing. In this series, we will look at each of the skirmishes in The Lord of the Rings Online. In this installment, we will look at the first new skirmish to be released in years: Doom of Caras Gelebren This information in this guide is up-to-date as of Update 34. You can download the PDF here. Now...

Nov 24, 2022

For now Delving is meant for level 140 on normal servers and whatever level cap there is for Shadowfax and Treebeard at the time you read this guide. You can add extra difficulty to specifically Before the Shadow missions. As a reward you’ll get delving writs or a chest that can drop a host of armour, junk or very rarely some extra fancy LI or cosmetics...

Nov 21, 2022

This week we discussed the release of Update 34, Hengstacer Rock, and our week in gaming.

Nov 15, 2022

About the Song The song The Retreat of the Noldor is a parody of Everything but the Girl’s Missing. The Retreat of the Noldor describes Melkor’s armies overrunning Middle Earth as narrated in Tolkien’s Silmarillion.  Fëanor was a High King of the Noldor until his death in battle just post Dagor-nuin-Giliath (the...

Nov 14, 2022

This week we discussed Update 34 Beta 3 that was on Bullroarer and our week in gaming.

Nov 7, 2022

This week we discussed the change in the Before the Shadow release date and our week in gaming.

Oct 31, 2022

This week we discussed Update 34 Beta 2 on Bullroarer and our week in gaming.

Oct 24, 2022

This week we discussed the Bullroarer build for Update 34 Beta 1 and our week in gaming.

Oct 22, 2022

Before the Shadow will be released on November 8, 2022 (barring any unexpected delays). One of the features of this update will be a new skirmish: The Doom of Caras Gelebren. Unlike most skirmishes, which are set during or near the main LOTRO timeline, this new skirmish is set in the distant past during the fall of Eregion during the Second Age. This skirmish...

Oct 18, 2022

This week we discussed a small patch and our week in gaming.

Oct 15, 2022

About the Song The song The King of the Dead is a parody of Everything but the Girl’s Missing. The King of the Dead describes a character from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: the King of the Dead, ruler of the Paths of the Dead that lie beyond the Dark Door in the Dwimorberg.  Lyrics The King of the Dead V1: It is our...

Oct 10, 2022

This week we discussed a look at the Swanfleet, missions, and our week in gaming.

Oct 9, 2022

Unpublished part 5 of a beginners introduction to stats in lotro. Never figured out to present the follow-up and advanced parts and kinda stopped on them. As you’ll see in the level difference part. Skipping ahead a bit to the actual less than theory bit. We’ll come back to the science later, but for now we’ll go beyond the introduction...

Oct 6, 2022

With the upcoming Delving system introducing new missions and mostly more challenging missions. There was the question, what would be the easiest way to delve into these challenges. Further adventures chapter 1 and 7 don’t have any combat so would probably the best option, but would the delving system be enabled on these? If so, that would only be 2...