{"id":37910,"date":"2015-10-03T15:41:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T19:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/?p=37910"},"modified":"2015-10-03T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T21:05:25","slug":"where-on-middle-earth-is-wigend-an-event-with-corey-olsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/2015\/10\/03\/where-on-middle-earth-is-wigend-an-event-with-corey-olsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Where on Middle-earth Is Wigend? An Event with Corey Olsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/signumuniversity.org\/fund\/\" target=\"_blank\">annual fundraiser<\/a> of its parent institution, Signum University, the Mythgard Institute is holding a special LOTRO event on Tuesday, October 6th at 930 pm server time on the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitch.tv\/lotrostream\" target=\"_blank\">LOTRO Twitch channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Where on Middle-earth Is Wigend?<\/em> will be a lore-filled evening, as Tolkien Professor Corey Olsen, as Wigend the Guardian (Landroval) whooshes from place to place. Corey has selected some interesting spots to land, and he will talk about each in terms of Tolkien&#8217;s works as well as LOTRO&#8217;s adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>There will be prize drawings during the event: 1000 Turbine Point codes. You must be present to win!<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a special fundraising goal announced for the duration of the campaign. It involves Corey, chickens, and Rivendell&#8230;or Isengard&#8230;or Helm&#8217;s Deep. Let&#8217;s make this happen!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the event\u00a0on the lotrostream Twitch channel, viewers can post\u00a0comments and questions directly to Corey via the Mythgard Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/attendee.gotowebinar.com\/register\/6998385283141972225\" target=\"_blank\">Netmoot<\/a>. Corey will be monitoring the site throughout the event, so if you have a question you&#8217;ve always wanted to ask, this is your chance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This event will be fascinating for any Tolkien fan, whether they play LOTRO or not. So spread the word amongst your friends and acquaintances.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the annual fundraiser of its parent institution, Signum University, the Mythgard Institute is holding a special LOTRO event on Tuesday, October 6th at 930 pm server time on the LOTRO Twitch channel. Where on Middle-earth Is Wigend? will be a lore-filled evening, as Tolkien Professor Corey Olsen, as Wigend the Guardian (Landroval) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,5,7,629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-lore","category-lotro-lore","category-mythgard-in-middle-earth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37914,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37910\/revisions\/37914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotroplayers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}