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Hobbity yule greetings to everyone

Here is the 2017 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 good cheer. To help yer get in the right mood, here is this year’s yule video from the hob…

Biscuits fer yule: A hobbity yule song

Biscuits are better in time fer yule. Over on the Grand Order forums, Pycella has worked hard to create a hobbity yule calendar, with plenty of surprises coming in them days before yule: Recipes, drawings, videos, music, etc. I figured I'd send in…

Pictures by an intrepid, nosy hobbit adventurer: Part 5

Because the fifth time is the charm! More fun, exciting and/or quirky-looking pictures by that hobbit adventurer! If you’d like, here is Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4 as well. A few mini-theme-series-specials too! Do read on! Every dog has he…

Grand Order anniversary song

Ten years and counting! About the song Best sung to the tune of Sia's "The Greatest", this song was written for the Grand Order 10th anniversary party on October 21 2017. Yer can see lots of screenshots from the party over on the Grand O…

Labelling RP as light, medium or heavy is futile

Would you like your roleplaying well done? Roleplay labelling Spend enough time near roleplayers in MMORPGs, and you'll soon come across attempts at labelling different roleplaying styles. Usually, this mean categorizing roleplaying as either ligh…

The Orc Twerk - A music video

Murder on the orc floor! So, this one time, I visited a fortress called Cirith Ungol, only to find that I was dressed up as a little yellow orc. That had to be good for something, surely. And I couldn't help but notice that some of the orcs in the…

Stranger things with LOTRO update 21.2

A lack-cluster instance cluster. The next update to Lord of the Rings Online, Update 21.2, is currently being beta tested on the Bullroarer preview server. The update brings some quality of life improvements (including one of the oddest functionalitie…

Me videos 2017

New year, new videos! I use PowerDirector fer this work. I have looked into both Avid and Adobe Premiere Pro, but it is hard to make the transition into a new editor.   The 2017 Laurelin hobbit yule video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIvHG-WJrjM W…

Mordor: The Honey Oat Biscuit Video

One does not simply get a permit to film in Mordor. With the launch of the Mordor Expansion pack, SSG released a launch trailer which met with mixed responses . So I got to thinking: How would things turn out if I made a Mordor video myself? I usually…

Why LOTRO music band uniforms make me chuckle

Every time. Every dang time. Weatherstock weekend is coming up, with 18 music bands battling it out over on the Landroval server Saturday July 22. Such a huge event can be somewhat unpredictable, with the possibility of delays, server wobbles and eve…

Mordor opens July 31

Mordor or Mordon't? Your one-stop info shop to the new expansion. Updated July 19! Standing Stone Games just released some details about the upcoming Mordor Expansion for Lord of the Rings Online. Here are the answers to (some of) your questions. …

Mordor tourism - LOTRO Update 21 preview

More postcards from Mordor than yer can shake a stick at! The beta of update 21 of Lord of the Rings Online was released on the Bullroarer test server last week, and it is live this weekend too. Finally we're entering Mordor! Below are the placeho…

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