Lina's Biscuity Burrow

The Brandy Badgers visited Winterstock again today, Saturday January 18. It was a grand time as usual. Old friends (and new), lovely music, and the music community in LOTRO was at its usual friendly best.

Not ever is a loss at the end of it all. As announced in SSG's recent letter to players , LOTRO will launch new 64-bit servers soon, sometime during the first quarter of 2025. During the weekly Lotrostream yesterday, we got the details .

Happy Yule everyone, and best wishes for the Yuletide! I hope yer all have some relaxing days, filled with as much good cheer as possible. To help yer get in the right mood, here is this year’s Yule video from the Shire hobbits on Laurelin.

Automatic for the people! Nimelia has been busy tinkering with an updated version of the plugin SongbookBB (under stern supervision from her auntie Tibba).

The 2023 Laurelin hobbit Yule video! Happy Yule everyone, and best wishes for the Yuletide! I hope yer all have some relaxing days, filled with as much good cheer as possible.

Good things come to those who wait! Nimelia has updated The Badger Chapter version of the Songbook plugin with lots of added functionality and bug fixes!

The 2022 Laurelin hobbit Yule video! Happy Yule everyone, and best wishes for the Yuletide! I hope yer all have some relaxing days, filled with as much good cheer as possible. To help yer get in the right mood, here is this year's Yule video from …

The 2021 Laurelin hobbit Yule video! Happy Yule everyone, and best wishes for the Yuletide! I hope yer all have some relaxing days with friends and family, filled with as much good cheer as possible. To help yer get in the right mood, here is the new …

Bring me bring me bring me berries! About the song The Rolling Kegs invited us to play at the Blue Theatre during their concert there last night , which was very nice of them. Since the theatre is all the way down in Minas Tirith, I figured we could u…

Horsing around! Two years since the last time, here are more fun, exciting and/or quirky-looking pictures by that hobbit adventurer! I have gathered a few more of me own favourite screenshots from LOTRO. This time, I have made a horse&pony special…

Slug smiles Yet another tale about Sammy the Slug, favourite hero in many hobbit children stories! At least the ones I remember. So, it might be a little less wholesome than yer regular goodnight tale for the little ones... There are more Sammy storie…

Here's the 2020 Yule video from the Laurelin hobbits! Merry Yule everyone, and best wishes for the Yuletide! I hope yer all have some relaxing days with friends and family, filled with as much good cheer as possible. To help yer get in the right m…

No, nay, never About the song Lotho Sackville-Baggins is a weasely menace and he deserves to hear it. Best sung to Jethro Tull's "A song for Jeffrey", this song was written for the "Say no to Lotho" protest rehearsal by the Br…

Shear poetry Last Saturday was the Summer Poetry Competition, hosted by Nannie. I wrote the poem below about an adventure. It is somewhat inspired by the Bolger lad you meet outside of Budgeford, who has paddled his boat from Frogmorton, run it agrou…

Tripping the ice fantastic! Lord of the Rings Online is a tremendously fun game for anyone who likes to explore a massive virtual world. The game world is HUGE. And littered around the lands, there are numerous grand sights, fun easter eggs, lovely r…

And yer can't help but sing along! Cover yer ears If yer visit The Shire on Laurelin these days, yer may hear the local hobbits talk a lot about earworms. How they infest the Shire this time of year. And that there is no escaping them. So, er, wha…

Laurelin hobbits have met Green Dragon almost every Friday since May 23 2008. Time to celebrate the 12th anniversary! What is Green Dragon Friday? Green Dragon Friday, or GDF, is a weekly, player-run event for hobbit roleplayers on the Laurelin server…

A tale for slug children everywhere! Growing up in Brockenborings, few children's tales were as popular as the ones about Sammy the Slug. Here is another one, about the time Sammy wanted something new for breakfast. I shared it at the Story Night …

Toss a berry to yer badger. About the song Do real badgers eat berries? Doesn't really matter, I suppose, because The Brandy Badgers surely do. The Badgers are a kinship music collective in the Grand Order of the Lost Mathom, a hobbit RP kinship o…

See the 2019 yule video from the Laurelin hobbits here! Merry yule everyone, and 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 the new y…