LOTRO Legendarium is a Lord of the Rings Online column by Justin Olivetti. [Follow this column’s RSS feed]
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LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s new Mariner class is the swashbuckler we needed
A new class added to any MMORPG is bound to raise excitement and anxiety among fans, especially when they try to feel out whether...
LOTRO Legendarium: Coping with Lord of the Rings Online’s Mount Everest of content
I vividly remember back when Lord of the Rings Online launched its first legendary server, Anor, in 2018. Like many of you, I got...
LOTRO Legendarium: Of River Hobbits and river homes in Lord of the Rings Online
After a short delay, Update 37: The Humble Homes of the Holbytlan is here for us to unwrap and enjoy. Rather than being a...
LOTRO Legendarium: Six ways to spice up your next LOTRO alt
While Lord of the Rings Online features a questing journey that can take you months if not years to go through the entirety of...
LOTRO Legendarium: Ranking LOTRO’s forests from maddening to awesome
J.R.R. Tolkien famously loved nature, and that passion seeps into his creation of Middle-earth. To him, the great outdoors was not something to be...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is LOTRO on the cusp of a crafting renaissance?
There are a lot of big and interesting projects in the works for Lord of the Rings Online's Updates 37 and 38 -- too...
LOTRO Legendarium: Hobbits (and River Hobbits) are the heart of Lord of the Rings
I don't care if you want me to be objective when it comes to Lord of the Rings Online's races, because in my book,...
LOTRO Legendarium: How to avoid burning out in LOTRO (and other MMOs)
When Lord of the Rings Online kicked off its head start in April 2007, little did I know that I was logging in for...
LOTRO Legendarium: What I want to see with LOTRO’s Umbar expansion
This past week, I wrapped up my adventures through King's Gondor in Lord of the Rings Online and found my appetite whetted for this...
LOTRO Legendarium: A breezy trip through King’s Gondor
It was only this past spring that I took my level 100 Minstrel through the lands of Gondor in Lord of the Rings Online....
LOTRO Legendarium: Is level boosting in LOTRO worth it?
While I make my way through the new King's Gondor zone in Lord of the Rings Online -- impressions coming next week, hopefully --...
LOTRO Legendarium: Amazon plays at making a Lord of the Rings MMO… again
Weren't we just here?
I mean, that's what everyone's thinking, am I right? It was just three years ago that I penned a column about...
LOTRO Legendarium: A look back at Lord of the Rings Online’s Fate of Gundabad
When Lord of the Rings Online released Mines of Moria in November 2008, the expansion became one of the most amusedly divisive in the...
LOTRO Legendarium: 10 more fun LOTRO tips and tricks
At this point, I have to ask: Am I weird for loving lists of tips and tricks for MMOs? It's almost always one of...
LOTRO Legendarium: On the occasion of Lord of the Rings Online’s sixteenth birthday
Sometimes the passage of time triggers disheartening moments when we feel things slipping away from us. The internet seems to nastily delight in prompting...
LOTRO Legendarium: Making sense of LOTRO’s virtue system
If you look at how your character gains power and progression in Lord of the Rings Online, you'll see four major categories. There are...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is the Burglar LOTRO’s least-loved class?
In most MMOs that I play, I confess a certain attraction -- if not affinity -- for seeking out the least-played and -loved class...
LOTRO Legendarium: Eight features I’d love to see added to LOTRO
Opinions, as they say, are like social media accounts: Everyone's got at least one and probably a dozen ready to ruin your life. This...
LOTRO Legendarium: 16 more fun places to visit in LOTRO’s Minas Tirith
Last week we began our thorough tour through Lord of the Rings Online's largest city, Minas Tirith, combing through the first three tiers in...
LOTRO Legendarium: 17 groovy places to visit in LOTRO’s Minas Tirith
Minas Tirith: The White City and the bane of server-side lag. The place of a thousand side quests and of a thousand-and-one times that...