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LOTRO’s Old Forest won’t let me go, ever, until I am dead! #lotro #fallout76 #palia
LOTRO’s Old Forest won’t let me go, ever, until I am dead!
My LOTRO Minstrel moved into Buckland last week, a strange little Shire offshoot that is quite its own thing. I really do love the big “mountain” of homes in the middle, kind of like an…
biobreak.wordpress.com
September 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
sypster.bsky.social
Absolutely *thrilled* about World of Warcraft Forever, but the wait will be agonizing. Also excited for LOTRO's fall expansion. This is going to be a fun season!
September 13, 2026 at 12:22 AM
sypster.bsky.social
Plunging back into LOTRO’s Old Forest #lotro #lotrofamily #jrpg
Plunging back into LOTRO’s Old Forest
Bree-land is such a unique zone in LOTRO, yet few people really talk about it. It’s basically three zones smooshed together in one. East Bree-land is the starting area for Man, West Bree-land…
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September 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM
mallyathena.gay
Throughout 20 years of MMO's the most people I've ever had in one instance *excluding Crystal Tower* is like... 8...

maybe 10, that would have been LOTRO's Angmar content, I've pretty much skipped every 4+ player content in it since like 2013

WoW I was always playing solo lol
September 3, 2026 at 2:52 PM
chasingdings.com
Blaugust is over but #DailyBlogroll still continues for awhile. Enjoy the latest from Wilhelm, Tipa, David, Andrew Plotkin, @wakupanbouquet.bsky.social, JJM, Magi, UltrViolet, Anarchae, Ghastly, Tobold, @sypster.bsky.social and more!

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#Blaugust #Blogging #MMORPG #TabletopGaming
Syp enjoys LOTRO’s bright Umbar palette, grabs an elk mount, and finds Octopath Traveler exactly the comfy JRPG mood he needed. Tipa says EverQuest’s real endgame is epic quests, faction juggling, and race unlocks—not just Plane of Sky best-in-slot farming. David’s Gunderholfen crew escapes Level 5 the hard way, fighting griffons and worgs just to limp back toward town. Wilhelm wraps up Blaugust with 35 posts, a brief event history, and a very funny spam invite to join the Illuminati. Tobold loves Star Wars Zero Company’s tactical combat and wildly flexible companion respecs, even if mission maps sound pretty fixed. Andrew Plotkin releases The Witness source and scans, while weighing its 1938 atmosphere against its shallower mystery and dated Orientalism. Anarchae posts a week 36 link roundup spanning anarchism, a Xerox bug, affordability, and Blaugust amid job-hunting exhaustion. Magi vents through day one of quitting nicotine, swapping smoking rituals for patches, a zero-nicotine vape, and hopefully more writing. JJM points to kernel.org’s AI crawler mess as a bleak internet arms race that burns CPU and makes hosting git repos feel pointless. UltrViolet finishes 31-for-31 in Blaugust, then wonders whether shorter posts and helper tools fit better than forced daily writing. Ghastly ends Blaugust on a high note, reflecting on 15 posts, community link-sharing, and a likely September blogging break. Wakupan says Blaugust proved consistency boosts visibility and habits, while picking a clear topic makes blogging a lot more fun.
September 1, 2026 at 11:23 AM
retpaladin.bsky.social
raenir's (and thalion's, but he belongs to someone else) design is ultimately a result of him existing simultaneously and equally in both world of warcraft's azeroth and lotro's middle earth but it does mean that subsequently every elf in the legendarium is gonna start looking like the quel'dorei
September 1, 2026 at 12:14 AM
massivelyop.bsky.social
LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back at LOTRO’s Shadows of Angmar
#LOTRO #MMORPG
LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back at LOTRO’s Shadows of Angmar
When Lord of the Rings Online came onto the scene in 2007, the community couldn't have been more primed for it. It was a perfect time for both MMORPGs -- which were riding high off of the success of…
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August 22, 2026 at 4:05 PM
druidsfire.bsky.social
Check out the new Patron's Coffer of the Promised Allies in @officiallotro.bsky.social! #lotrocreator #promisedallies www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIJ2...
NEW! LotRO's Patron's Coffer of the Promised Allies #LotROCreator #PromisedAllies
YouTube video by Druidsfire
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August 21, 2026 at 1:40 AM
chasingdings.com
Wednesday's #DailyBlogroll includes interesting stories from Tipa, Wilhelm, Cliffski, Jeff, Tim Bray, Ramen Junkie, Mike, Frostilyte, @sypster.bsky.social, Kimimi, Marc, Owls and more!

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#RetroGaming #Technology #MMORPG #Blogging
Syp is happily poking through LOTRO’s Yondershire, eyeing Wolves of Mordor, and maybe easing back into regular blogging without making it a whole thing. Cliffski is redesigning Ridiculous Space Battles’ challenge browser, chasing the sweet spot between clean UI and his beloved gloriously overstuffed data dashboard. Frostilyte’s low-tier Pokémon Silver run gets a huge boost from Headbutt and the elemental punches, with Vanessa suddenly turning into a menace. Kimimi digs into FromSoftware’s PSP Adventure Player, a spooky little platform for user-made adventure games that thankfully still makes sideloading delightfully easy. Marc spotlights MUSHA as a brilliantly named Aleste detour, where samurai-flavored mechs and ‘Edo metal’ give the shooter a killer identity. Wilhelm’s Planet Crafter crew hit full automation hell, where drones, auto crafters, trade rockets, and portals turn abundance into a storage-management comedy. Ramen Junkie rounds up Transformers Swapticons and finds the gimmick neat in theory, but the samey, kinda-ugly designs don’t exactly inspire completionism. Tim Bray makes the Wilcox prairie look anything but boring, with big Saskatchewan skies, harvest fields, and a photographer’s eye for cloud drama. Tipa checks in on The Guns of Navarone, enjoying the old-school WWII adventure while side-eyeing its square-jawed heroics and one suspiciously familiar Barry. Jeff gives Raspberry Pi’s CM5 Programming Jig a first pass, and it looks like a much saner way to provision piles of Compute Modules. Mike starts porting Tetris to the BBC Bridge Companion, using MAME and a lot of Z80 map-reading before real hardware enters the picture. Owls marks Whyday by remembering _why the lucky stiff and making the case for programming as play, not just EnterpriseFactoryBeanFactoryFactory drudgery.
August 19, 2026 at 11:57 AM
sypster.bsky.social
The very slow crawl through LOTRO’s Middle-earth #lotro #lotrofamily
The very slow crawl through LOTRO’s Middle-earth
In LOTRO, my completionist Minstrel finished a full run through The Shire, Ered Luin, and Swanfleet. Instead of jetting right over to Bree-land, I decided to take a detour into Yondershire and do t…
biobreak.wordpress.com
August 18, 2026 at 2:24 PM
shirozora.myatproto.social
i can smell the family dynamics if I take cues from LOTRO's decision with one of these unnamed sisters. it would be interesting in such a different way from my original plan for this scene.

fleshing out pre-war gondor is sUCH A FUCKING PAIN IN THE ASS.
August 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM
dreadwolfknot.bsky.social
man wtf the holding cells in lotro's dol guldur are like five times the size of my living space :/ they even got BEDS and TABLES ://///
August 16, 2026 at 12:26 AM
firstfish144.bsky.social
More than any other adaptation, LOTRO's gamespaces now populate my imagination when I reread the novels for the umpteenth time. And soon the game is returning to Mordor with new content. Exciting.
August 15, 2026 at 6:14 AM
mallyathena.gay
I started the install for LOTRO when FF14 was at around 30-40%

That's why LOTRO's my GOAT
August 14, 2026 at 9:09 PM
nesbot.bsky.social
Exclusive: LotRO's The Wolves of Mordor Expansion Brings Two Ambitious New Systems To Middle-earth This Fall
www.resetera.com/threads/15...
August 4, 2026 at 3:42 PM
chasingdings.com
Tuesday's #DailyBlogroll finds #Blaugust2026 continuing, with new posts from Wilhelm, Tipa, Wolfy, Wakupan, Syp, Sid, Scopique, Frostilyte, Roger, Warner, @inventoryfull.bsky.social, @friendlynecro.bsky.social and more!

westkarana.xyz

#Blogging #MMORPG #ArtificialIntelligence #IndieGames
Syp recaps a comfy month of LOTRO and Guild Wars 2, then eyes more completionist hobbiting while debating a GW2 break for FFXIV or Stars Reach. Scopique weighs Star Citizen instancing as a tradeoff between curated story control and the sandbox spirit, with hangar jank still looming. Wilhelm side-eyes LOTRO’s oddly unannounced Wolves of Mordor expansion and its new Mordor-only Survival Instincts talent tree, sounding more puzzled than impressed. The Friendly Necromancer gets won over by EverQuest Legends, especially its wild three-class multiclassing that turns Beastlord dreams into reality. Wolfy comes away mostly happy from FFXIV Berlin Fan Fest, especially about Evercold’s Bastion tank, airship zones, and the FFVII raids. Tipa tours Manchester’s Cruisin’ Main Street, mixing working-class car show vibes with fond, funny memories of Beetles, Miatas, and a fuel-hungry Supra. Warner finds Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey good but not great, praising the spectacle while feeling the intimate scenes and lead casting miss. Wakupan shares beloved treasures, from Taiwanese risograph art and glassware to a favorite mug, cat painting, and irresistibly cute glass flower. Sid argues DeepSeek V4 Flash and recent LLM price cuts are making AI coding help absurdly cheap, practical, and hard to ignore. Roger uses a Blaugust prompt to revisit his first blog, early film reviews, and the old lesson to write what you know. Frostilyte salutes Blaugust, reflects on encouraging feedback, and gushes over Titanium Court’s clever match-3-meets-strategy design. Bhagpuss uses Blaugust to mull blogging for yourself, reader expectations, and the tempting fantasy of turning the blog into a private club.
August 4, 2026 at 11:37 AM
lotrlore.bsky.social
Anyway, please go check out our article on @officiallotro.bsky.social’s upcoming The Wolves of Mordor, which features two HUGE new systems and a return to Sauron’s stomping grounds. www.mmorpg.com/interviews/e...
Exclusive: LotRO's The Wolves of Mordor Expansion Brings Two Ambitious New Systems To Middle-earth This Fall | MMORPG.com
In an exclusive interview with Standing Stone Games' Allan "Orion" Maki, we got a first taste of the ambitious new systems coming with LotRO's next expansion, The Wolves of Mordor.
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August 1, 2026 at 1:53 PM
officiallotro.bsky.social
MMORPG.com exclusive on The Wolves of Mordor: https://www.mmorpg.com/interviews/exclusive-lotros-the-wolves-of-mordor-expansion-brings-two-ambitious-new-systems-to-middle-earth-this-fall-2000138623

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Exclusive: LotRO's The Wolves of Mordor Expansion Brings Two Ambitious New Systems To Middle-earth This Fall | MMORPG.com
In an exclusive interview with Standing Stone Games' Allan "Orion" Maki, we got a first taste of the ambitious new systems coming with LotRO's next expansion, The Wolves of Mordor.
www.mmorpg.com
August 1, 2026 at 1:44 PM
sarriane.bsky.social
i'm miles away from level cap but apparently i'm gonna have to grind because LORD OF WOLVES SAURON CRUMBS??? ok thank u game devs 🙏
From MMORPG: Speaking with LotRO's Allan "Orion" Maki ahead of the reveal, he tells me that the team wanted to explore Mordor, having the region serve as a "gateway" towards other regions in the future, including Rhun and more. "There's still some unfinished business there," Maki says. The story explores what Sauron was before he became the Lord of the Rings; before that he was know as the Lord of Werewolves (or Lord of Wolves for short).
August 1, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Exclusive: LotRO's The Wolves of Mordor Expansion Brings Two Ambitious New Systems To Middle-earth This Fall www.mmorpg.com/interviews/e...
August 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
gantoran.bsky.social
Learn about #LOTRO's Legendary Item system!!!

Prepare your weapons for your adventures into Moria with this dedicated guide ⬇️
youtu.be/67TSQmghV88

#LOTROCreator @officiallotro.bsky.social #MMO
July 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
druidsfire.bsky.social
Check out my first look at the Angmarim Sorceress in
@officiallotro.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq1H... #PvMP #LotROCreator
LotRO's New PvMP Class, the Angmarim Sorceress, Has It All! #PvMP #LOTROCreator
YouTube video by Druidsfire
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July 23, 2026 at 3:49 AM
jazzelves.bsky.social
My heart can handle this version better than the hellcamping we used to have, but at the same time, I stare longingly at LOTRO's "as soon as the last house in all neighborhoods is purchased, at server reset, we spin up a new copy of each neighborhood" model which is so much kinder.
July 12, 2026 at 9:41 AM
dawnbatkmt.bsky.social
Thanks to LoTRO's Summer Sales, Sulvelion is now Lvl. 130 and on his way to Gundabad.

I also stopped by Felegoth to get him the Lasgalen Bow.
A High Elf from Lord of the Rings Online stands in a misty field with mountains behind him.
July 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
druidsfire.bsky.social
I did a video going over the new @officiallotro.bsky.social Letter to the Players, including a wild speculation at the end on where we might be going next. We'll find out for sure at GenCon, but it's still a fun theory! What do you think? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAYZ...
LotRO's July 2026 Letter to the Players - A Review and Discussion
YouTube video by Druidsfire
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July 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM