A Casual Stroll to Mordor

We have a wonderful opportunity for you to win some Turbine Points! Thaladus has offered up a Turbine Points he’s purchased himself just for you to create a great LOTRO video.

Declassified report from the 17th Scout Unit, under the advisory command of Lord Elladan of the House of Elrond, yet authorized for independent ranging and errantry in the Untamed Lands.

Just had to share this. As seen on The Mary Sue, there is a 12-minute The Hobbit cartoon directed by Gene Deitch, whom old folks like me will associate with Tom and Jerry cartoons.

One of the few plugins that I miss from World of WarCraft is ArkInventory. And although due to Lua constrictions we don’t have a plugin that can match that utilities functions, Hugebag is definitely a step in the right direction.

Last week Turbine added some new emotes to the LOTRO Store. Rather than just announcing the new additions, I wanted to create a video of them so you can see them in action.

Rise of Isengard has officially launched and Turbine has shared a launch trailer and some new screenshots of new monsters.

Our Fellowship Walk for Child’s Play event is off to a terrific start! As of this morning we are currently 34% of the way towards our $5,000 goal.

A new Developer Diary video and screenshots have been released by Turbine today.

Preview from Rise of Isengard beta of the landscapes, towns and monsters in the new Dunland region.

**Updated for Germany and other locales with problems** Preview from Rise of Isengard beta of the landscapes, towns and monsters in the new Dunland region.

This week we take a look at Gambit Helper from Zanttux. This plugin is something that I have definitely been in need of for a while. Although I have covered Warden plugins before I found myself needing something a bit more extensive.

The Developer Diary video features members of the development team speaking about the new Gap of Rohan region.

A preview of Draigoch from the upcoming Rise of Isengard expansion for Lord of the Rings Online. This footage was taken at PAX Prime 2011.

The NDA has been lifted on the Rise of Isengard closed beta. We also recieved a new video dev diary and some screenshots from Turbine.

Tasks are not something that I had a lot of experience with before this plugin. Sure, I would occasionally find some trash items that I could turn in here or there, but it was always difficult to figure out what items needed to be saved if I ran out of inventory space, which ones were safe to sell, etc.

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.

A new video has been posted on YouTube that includes some Rise of Isengard play at Gamescom 2011.

A reality show groom hires an actor to play Gollum as his “ring bearer” for his wedding.

A couple of months ago we sent out a post on Facebook and Twitter asking people what plugins they found to be a must, and without doubt Mouse Cursor Highlighter Advanced was one of the most popular ones that was listed. And although I had personally never used it before this, I was aware of the plugin and decided to give it a try.

If you’re like me, you like to have your backpacks organized in-game. But one of the issues that I have is how long it can take after an hour or more of playing to reorganize my packs into something resembling “order”. Enter, the plugin SortPack which will sort your pack for you automatically!

This week’s lost text is from the champ Schezar of Mar Vanwa Tyalieva from Landroval server who is telling a story from the point of view of an herbalist soldier in the Icy Crevasse. My name? I am of the House of Finwë. My father’s father braved the icy crossing with the first High King, [...]

In this episode we take a look at Lyrical by Astleigh. This plugin allows you to write and store poems, lyrics, speeches, or whatever text you’d like and recite them back into the last chat channel you spoke in.

Today at 4pm Eastern (-4 GMT) starts the epic in-game music festival, Weatherstock!