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Warriors of the Westfold: The Treasure Hunt Event

Every now and then, the Treasure Hunt (or Buried Treasure) Event will pop up in LOTRO, and players can dig for buried treasure (usually tokens, but occasionally some neat items will drop!). The event popped […]

Shadow of Mordor: To be or not to be… Canon?

Our good friend and exceptional writer, Joseph Bradford, happens to be the News Director for Quest Gaming Network, a site dedicated to covering gaming news through webcasts and online articles. Recently, Joe attended E3, where he […]

LOTRO’s Update 14 Will Increase Level Cap and Lead Players into Gondor

LOTRO’s Update 14 is now live on the Bullroarer (beta) server, and preliminary release notes were posted on the official forums yesterday. Some of the highlights include: Level cap of 100 New Regions – free […]

Vanderbilt University Offers Free Course on Tolkien and LOTRO

Last fall, Vanderbilt University offered a course on video games as a means of telling or adapting a story – specifically, adapting the works of J.R.R. Tolkien into the popular MMO, The Lord of the […]

Warriors of the Westfold: Overcoming LOTRO Burnout

With any MMO, it’s possible to reach a point of burnout. LOTRO is no exception. With nine characters that I regularly play on Landroval, and many more alts that I’ve started on other servers, there […]

New Video Focuses on Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis System

An all new trailer for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor has been released today, this one focusing on “Nemesis System Power Struggles”. The Nemesis System makes each player’s experience a unique one; when an enemy defeats […]

Official Shadow of Mordor E3 Trailer Released

With E3 less than a week away, the official trailer for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, titled “Gravewalker”, has been posted on the PlayStation blog: “Truth be told, all of us here at Monolith Productions have […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth – June 4, 2014

Kittens dressed as Frodo and Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings. Your move, Internet. (spotted by Middle-earth News director Arwen) The Irish Examiner went in search of Ireland’s Top 100 Books, and discovered that […]

Warriors of the Westfold: the Spring Festival

ALICE This has been my first Spring Festival and I was pretty excited to participate. I loved the locations of the Festival, Celondim and Duillon, with their eternal Spring, were the perfect scenery to celebrate […]

LOTRO Player Meet and Greet – Niagara Falls, Canada

On Friday, June 20, Rick “Sapience” Heaton will be hosting a LOTRO player Meet and Greet at Boston Pizza in Niagara Falls, Canada. Interested players should RSVP to the official post in the LOTRO forums […]