lotro legendarium

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

LOTRO Legendarium: It’s long past time to delete legendary items from Lord of the Rings Online

28
Mines of Moria was easily the most ambitious expansion that Lord of the Rings Online created. Not only did it implement the largest underground...

LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s history in 2020 and hopes for 2021

21
Just as how Sam and Frodo experienced depths of despair and heights of hope in their journey to Mount Doom, Lord of the Rings...

LOTRO Legendarium: What Daybreak’s sale revealed about LOTRO

33
Just when I thought we were getting to a quieter point in the year where I could engage in a leisurely wrap-up of the...

LOTRO Legendarium: Getting a glimpse of LOTRO’s 2021 plans

10
For a good long while now -- years, really -- I've joined the chorus of voices that have been asking Standing Stone Games to...

LOTRO Legendarium: Was LOTRO’s lifetime sub the best deal ever?

22
When Lord of the Rings Online ramped up to its launch in early 2007, Turbine offered a tantalizing deal to potential players. If they...

LOTRO Legendarium: How to make Lord of the Rings Online Classic work

15
Twice now this year we have heard from Standing Stone Games' Jeff Libby that, no, a hypothetical LOTRO Classic isn't in the works, nor...

LOTRO Legendarium: Is LOTRO at war with Orcs – or with its playerbase?

38
Normally, I would be opening this column with my enthusiastic explorations of the brand-new content update for Lord of the Rings Online. After all,...

LOTRO Legendarium: Speculating on the Brawler class

9
You have to imagine that there's some frustration over at Standing Stone Games this past week. The studio wants us all to be focused...

LOTRO Legendarium: Is LOTRO getting greedy with its fall content update?

27
Boars. Beets. Battlestar Galactica. OK, let's talk about one of those things, at least in a roundabout way, because there's no escaping the fact...

LOTRO Legendarium: The quiet consistency of Lord of the Rings Online

29
I want to start this LOTRO Legendarium column today by talking about, well, by talking about World of Warcraft. Like probably many of you,...

LOTRO Legendarium: Ranking LOTRO’s expansions from worst to best

19
Every once in a while, it's a lot of fun to sit down and rank things in your favorite geeky franchises. A while back,...

LOTRO Legendarium: The pros and cons of Rohan housing

7
To my knowledge, this past week's Update 27.2 for Lord of the Rings Online may well be the biggest housing patch that's hit the...

LOTRO Legendarium: What we have here is a failure to communicate

56
If this year has taught us anything, it's that clear and boosted communication is vital to handling a crisis. Having information and a message...

LOTRO Legendarium: A very Middle-earth wedding

2
Dearly beloved players, we are gathered today to celebrate the release of Lord of the Rings Online's Update 27, and with it, a great...

LOTRO Legendarium: 6 tips for fun and profitable deed hunting

11
Just because you've hit the level cap or come to the end of available quests in Lord of the Rings Online doesn't mean you've...

LOTRO Legendarium: Are LOTRO’s new PvP servers a good idea?

13
If you haven't been tracking this, you should be aware that Lord of the Rings Online has been running the new "Tournament of the...

LOTRO Legendarium: What I want from Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO

43
While my primary interest and focus in this column continues to be Lord of the Rings Online, I'm not so stubborn as to refuse...

LOTRO Legendarium: Wells of Langflood, River-hobbits, and free questing

6
With major content updates only coming to Lord of the Rings Online two or three times a year now, it's a big deal when...

LOTRO Legendarium: Breaking down LOTRO’s 2020 producer letter

15
It may be a month or two overdue, but the producer's letter for Lord of the Rings Online finally arrived this week. While we...

LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s Hytbold experiment

6
The landscape of any long-running MMORPG is bound to be littered with various developer experiments that were tried and later abandoned. Lord of the...

ADVERTISEMENT

THE LATEST POSTS

TOP CONTENT