A Casual Stroll to Mordor

Last week Eurogamer interviewd Turbine about mounted combat and LotRO’s Future. Here are the interesting things they found.

Kotaku has a great article up about artwork by Wes Burt of Massive Black showing artwork designs done for our favorite game, The Lord of the Rings Online.

While most people read the announcement of RoR (pronounced RAWR! by me) and thought that it was awesome, I was left with more questions than answers.

You may remember Beldrieth of Arkenstone from her excellent story “Mainly Concerning a Hobbit” which she was so nice to let us post here on CSTM.

Turbine has released a press release this morning announcing the next expansion coming this fall. Riders of Rohan!

As mentioned on episode 120, LOTRO Lore Nuggets, is a blog you probably want to add to your list for some great LOTRO information.

Celestrata has announced on the forums a special event that will be happening on December 25th (Christmas Day) in game.

MMO Sanctuary once again held their Gamers’ Choice Awards this year and coming in at number one in three categories is our favorite game, The Lord of the Rings Online.

Yule Festival is running this year from December 20th, 2011 – January 31, 2012. This guide is here to help you find all the events available.

This past Tuesday, Merric was able to have a nice chat with Aaron Campbell, Producer for LOTRO, and Adam Mersky, Director of Digital Communications, from Warner Bros. Games/Turbine.

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Merric will be sitting down with Aaron Campbell and Adam Mersky from Turbine on Tuesday, December 6th to discuss what is coming with Update 5: Armies of Isengard!

Last month Turbine hosted their annual Pumpkin Carving Contest and today the winners were announced! The LOTRO pumpkin winner is by Vror titled “The Flaming Eye”.

Today Turbine has announced that the ability to transfer your characters from the Codemasters service to Turbine is closing.

Last week Panthalassia of the Swords and Spirts kinship on Arkenstone wrote to us about a YouTube channel he had started containing in-game footage he had shot with himself and some friends.

Welcome to Forgotten Treasures, a series of articles about my quest to acquire some of the coolest, hard to find cosmetics in LOTRO. In this installment we’ll be taking a look at how I came to acquire the Bucket-head Mask from the Fall 2010 festival.

In an article today, MMORPG.com listed awards for the best that they saw at E3 this year. The Lord of the Rings Online, Rise of Isengard was chosen as their pick for best expansion.

PC Gamer’s Josh Augustine posted today about his first walkthrough of Turbine’s Rise of Isengard Expansion.

Announced today is the official launch date for the Rise of Isengard expansion, details of the expansion, and a pre-order offer! The Lord of the Rings Online™: Rise of Isengard™ will launch on September 27, 2011.

I thought it would be great fun to set up a group to share screenshots of our favorite game!
I can’t be the only one with thousands of screenshots in my folder. I love looking in on other people’s adventures and invite you to share your favorite screenshots!

I met Abarsai a week or two into Beta, one of our pastimes was attempting to get out of the designed game world. Of course we just wanted to explore and let them know about the bugs. I did bug them!

One of my favorite new blogs recently added to my feed reader has to be Cosmetic LOTRO. It would simply be greedy of me to keep this blog to myself!

Today saw the release of Aaron “Rowan” Campbell’s Producer Letter for April, 2011. In it he covers some of the major milestones that the game has seen and looks not only at the past, but the present and future as well.

Today Turbine has announced that it will expand its global operations and assume full control of The Lord of the Rings Online in Europe beginning June 1st, 2011.