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LOTRO Legendarium is a Lord of the Rings Online column by Justin Olivetti. [Follow this column’s RSS feed]

LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s new Mariner class is the swashbuckler we needed

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...
Now we're gundagood.

LOTRO Legendarium: Is LOTRO on the cusp of a crafting renaissance?

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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