Renkosi's Guide to the Siege of Mirkwood

Turbine released a new trailer and some screenshots for for Free-to-Play today. Starting September 10th, players can experience LOTRO’s award-winning epic story for free! In eddition, Turbine will be adding new content with Volume III, Book 2, including the brand new Enedwaith region. New assets include the promo video and new screens depicting the Lone Land Region and skirmishes. Lone Land Region Skirmishes

Merric & I were not able to make the trek out to Seattle this year for PAX Prime. Fortunately for us we have amazing listeners/readers. Michael contacted us willing to feed us his experiences so we can live vicariously through him! We really appreciated his offer and are super pleased to share some photos Michael sent to us from last night. See these photos in our Picasa Album. Michael writes: I had a chance to quickly walk the floor (8pm tonight before show opens). I thought you would like to see some of the booths (works in progress). They are expecting 75k attendees ... [click title to read more]

The new region is finally live and with it brand new furniture for your home! All the items you will find in the area are listed below. As you can see, we’re still looking for some pictures! You can send you screenshot at kiarane@casualstrolltomordor.com or the address where we can find the item in-game. Bull Banner Type: Small Yard Vendor: Mabon Faction: Algraig, Men of Enedwaith, Aquaintance ... [click title to read more]

Each week we ask you to share your successes in Middle Earth with the rest of the community. Post a comment letting us know what you’ve accomplished this past week. We will pick comments at random to read on the podcast giving you a chance for a little shout out for yourself! Our shout-outs are only as good as the information we get so remember: Don’t forget to add your character name, what server you play on and if you like, add your Kinship if you have one. Hard to give you a Shout-Out if you don’t include it! Please keep your posts ... [click title to read more]

Narrel writes today about how LUA scripting came about for LOTRO in the most recently released Dev Diary.  He was hired as a game systems engineer for LOTRO in late 2007 and eventually “…became the ‘go-to guy’ for UI on my team.”  Dissatisfied with the current UI he eventually started working with “ForsakenArcher” and “Agiclaw”, to of the internal tools engineers at Turbine, and they began discussing, planning and working on a prototype for the LUA system.  To paraphrase, after internal testing, meetings, and with help from “Frosty” they were given the approval and the opportunity to introduce it with ... [click title to read more]

Falathorn Day is a player event taking place in the Falothorn Homesteads across the servers of LOTRO. The idea was originally started by Whart and is springing into a LOTRO wide event! The idea is to bring people into the homesteads for a good time and hopefully draw some interest to using the homesteads as social gathering grounds. When: Sunday, September 19, round the clock Where: Any Falathlorn Homesteads neighborhood What: Celebrate the land of the pink blossoms with the block party to beat all block parties! Spend time in a Falathlorn neighborhood. Grab some friends and go on a walking tour. Gather ... [click title to read more]

Sapience posted today: Do you still have questions about Free to Play or Volume III, Book 2? Join us for a Developer Chat hosted by Warcry on Tuesday, September 7th at 1:00PM Eastern (-4 GMT). Visit Warcry.com for the full details! The following Turbine staff will be participating in the discussion: Kate “Nereid” Paiz – Executive Producer Leo “Ransroth” Zelevinsky – Engineering Team Jen “Jalessa” Gordy – Systems Team Joe “jwbarry” Barry – Content Team “Victorie” – Account Management Team “Sapience” – Community Team IRC Information: irc.chatspike.net 6667 in #warcouncil *General chat will be available in #warcry If you do not have an IRC client, you can utilize Warcry’s browser chat to ... [click title to read more]

Belegedan of Landroval asks: I’d like to play a melee class that uses a 2-handed weapon for leveling, but does not have pets.  My Guardian uses Sword + Shield; and my Burg and Hunter both dual-wield.  I’ve been told that Champions should dual-wield as well. Captain and lore-master are pet classes, which I really don’t want to play. (I’d consider Captain, but I’m heard on the roundtable that they should level with their Herald pet rather than banners.) Can I level my Guardian or my Champion with a 2-hander, or am I losing out?  Am I missing a class I should be considering? Alright, ... [click title to read more]

Sapience posted that the server names have been chosen and that they will be available starting September 8th! Current Subscribers and returning players will be able to access LOTRO Free-to-Play on the North American servers starting September 8th and Head Start players will be the first to play on our newest servers! The following worlds will be available starting September 8, 2010: Riddermark Crickhollow Dwarrowdelf Imladris To help players organize their friends and Kinmates, the official server forums for these worlds are now available. Remember, these servers will be for new characters only; no transfers are allowed to them for the time being. Thanks to Hobbitmeister for pointing ... [click title to read more]

When we first published the instance join list from part five of the instance dev diary we quickly had a comment from Chuck Steel saying it would be a great reference with a bit more information. I thought the idea of a printable reference sheet was a wonderful idea as I mentioned in Episode 51 and I started working on building it. I quickly realized with my lack of much raiding experience that this effort was a bit over my head so I called in our raid specialist, Elb, to help me! With Elb’s excellent input we’re pleased to present you ... [click title to read more]