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A grand and merry yule to all

Here is the 2016 yule video from the Laurelin hobbits! Best wishes for the yuletide! I hope yer all have some relaxing days with friends and family, filled with Christmas cheer. To help yer get in the yuletide mood, here is this year's yule video …

Pictures by an intrepid, nosy hobbit adventurer: Part 3

The hobbit adventurer returns with more favourite screenshots and videos! This is the third adventurer entry, so by now this might actually be a series! Here are some more fun, exciting and/or quirky-looking pictures. At least some might find them so.…

North Ithilien maps - LOTRO Update 19

Maps and screenshots from the North Ithilien region and LOTRO update 19! I'm a bit late to the party this time, since the beta for LOTRO's update 19 has been on Bullroarer for a few weeks already. Still, got to add those new maps! And a few s…

Me videos 2016

A few videos this year too! I use PowerDirector 15 fer this work. It still covers me needs, although I might be checking out Adobe Premiere Pro for more advanced work. A grand and merry yule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpBuag3dV1Y The 2016 hobbit…

Grand Hobbit Adventure Song

A huge problem for adventurous hobbits is to escape the dangers of the Shire! About the song Best sung to the melody of Bruce Springsteen's "This Hard Land" (hear it below), this was a reasonably quick song to write once I decided which …

They're taking the hobbits to Fornost!

Time for another hobbit historical field trip. Where do we go this time? Fornost! The hobbit historical field trips The first event I ran in LOTRO was a hobbit historical field trip to Greenfields , back in December 2009. This was an attempt to bring …

Grand Lyshko Song

An old song for young lad Lyshko! About the song Written for a triple birthday party in Bramblebury Sunday July 6 2014, this is best sung to the melody of "Save The Last Dance For Me" by The Drifters. You can listen to the song below. During…

The Bounders Song

The bounders deserve a song. So here is one! Although, I am not sure they will like it... About the song One of the recurring in-jokes in the Laurelin hobbit community is that the bounders really are a lazy lot, only content when they can spend half t…

Down at the Dragon

Green Dragon Friday is 8 years old! Here is another Dragon song! About the song I figured I needed a new song for the 8th anniversary of Green Dragon Friday, the weekly hobbit roleplaying event on Laurelin. The event has been ticking along almost ever…

Time to address the LOTRO /say bug, Turbine

How do you play a multiplayer game when the primary chat channel doesn't work? Edit 2: This bug has now been fixed. Keeping the post as a reminder of dire times in the past! I think we can all agree that communication is halfway important in a mul…

Green Dragons, roleplaying and music-making

Playing music and roleplaying doesn't always match in LOTRO. Music is everywhere The LOTRO music system is one of the biggest draws of the game for many. This is how it was for me too back in the day, when I first took up the lute. Imagine, being …

I baked a cake today

Good things come from baking, cake is grand on grey days! About the song A song I wrote just before yule last year, mostly because I love the song it is based on ("I Saved the World Today" by The Eurythmics, from their pretty grand final alb…

Pictures by an intrepid, nosy hobbit adventurer: Part 2

More of my own favourite pictures, screenshots and videos from LOTRO! Well, I said it would be a series of posts , didn't I? About time to make it so! Here are some more fun, exciting and/or quirky-looking pictures. At least some might find them s…

The maps of Far Anórien - LOTRO Update 18

Some screenshots from the Far Anórien region and LOTRO update 18! Here we go, update 18 of Lord of the Rings Online was just released on the Bullroarer test server. It's time to go to Far Anórien, the area between Rohan and Minas Tirith/Old Anórie…

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