This week we discuss the Riders of Rohan delay, NDA being lifted, dev diaries for Rune-keepers and Wardens, Summer Festival and more!
The Dums have completed Dark Delving on hard mode! Up next is the Watcher in the Water! Other than that Goldenstar has played with the Summer Festival.
Merric has been playing his Captain in Mirkwood and has been avoiding the swampy area with the evil invisible cats.
Town Crier
Official News
- Riders of Rohan Delayed
- Riders of Rohan NDA Lifted
- Presentation with Aaron Campbell from GamesCom
- Dev Diary: Rune-keepers in Riders of Rohan
- Dev Diary: Wardens in Riders of Rohan
- Summer Festival is Live!
- Turbine is spotlighting player evens running from September 10-21st with theme “Olde World Adventure”
Store News
CSTM News
- LOTRO Summer Festival Guide 2012
- Those old First Age weapons you have laying around
- Walking with Frodo
- Fellowship Walk Call for Support
Community News
- LOTRO is nominated for the Golden Joystick Best MMO
- Windy Acres Ranch is hosting a Equestrian Fashion screenshot contest to win a Perlino Steed.
Riddles in the Dark
Riddles in the Dark is a bi-weekly podcast series by Dr. Corey Olsen (The Tolkien Professor) and David Kale. Discussion will focus on the themes, characters, and events of Middle-earth and lay the groundwork for intelligent speculation about how the book may be translated to film. Each episode will culminate in the hosts making a specific prediction about the upcoming films, to be proven or disproven when the films are finally released.
More information on RITD can be found at http://www.mythgard.org/exclusives/riddles-in-the-dark/
Riddle #15: What role with the Eagles play in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey?
A. They will save the Company from the Wargs/Goblins and carry them to their eyrie before carrying them elsewhere (book answer!).
B. They will save the Company and carry them directly to Beorn’s territory (e.g., his Carrock or house).
C. They will save the Company and carry them directly to Radagast’s house.
D. The Eagles will help the Company in some way other than carrying them out of danger (e.g., killing all of the Wars and Goblins).
Winner of the Riders of Rohan Giveaway
Congratulations Mo W. for winning our Legendary Riders of Rohan giveaway! One more week of August means one final giveaway to celebrate CSTM’s 3rd anniversary!
Raise Your Glass
Jestro of Windfola
Hi Goldenstar and Merric!
I just wondered if you’d give a shoutout to my kinnies in the Defenders of the Right Kinship, Celestirrh and Canas as they are getting married in real life on Friday 31st August. Congratulations both to of you, our first kinnie wedding
All the best
Jestro of Windfola
Kazren
Hi,
I have yet another question, so I’m turning to you. I was a little bored and went to duckduckgo to just look up “lotro” and there were 2 sites listed that said “we sell Lotro Gold” – what the heck is that? I can’t imagine Turbine is okay with that. Can you explain?
Thank you,
Kazren
Limm of Gladden
Hi Merric & Goldenstar,
This is probably more of a question for Goldenstar, but I was wondering if you could give me a little more on how your “Dum” group works.
How do you guys decide what content to run together each week? The obvious thing to think of is instances, but those can be few and far between for some levels it seems.
I started a similar group and am trying to figure out the best way of running things. I try to give people a little bit of “homework” each week but I don’t want people to have to do too much stuff solo because I worry that with other alts and mains and real life and whatnot it just won’t be realistic for people to get a lot of things done.
Maybe you could do a special pod with the people in your group, sort of like how you guys did with the roundtables?
I know you’ve mentioned a lot about it over the course of many episodes but it would be great to have 1 episode or even a big blog post about how to run/do a group leveling together.
Anyway just a thought, I’d love to get more ideas for my group.
Keep up the good work, love you guys!
-Limm of Gladden
Pinchpenny
Turbine has not been able to unfubar my old account security and let me back into my old account. As such, I am starting a new toon and account. As I have been gone for so long, what expansions or other store items do you feel would be of greatest utility? I will likely be subscribing for a few months at least.
Thank you, Pinchpenny of Landroval, soon to be god knows who of Landroval, lol.
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Recorded August 26, 2012
August 26, 2012 at 11:15 pm
NOO!!
August 26, 2012 at 11:15 pm
I missed the Live Stream!
August 27, 2012 at 2:30 am
I have the RTM (final release) version of Windows 8 and have run LOTRO on it, without any problems.
I don’t think Turbine will officially support it until they test it in their Q&A labs, which they are probably doing at the moment.
Glamborn (Captain – Arkenstone – Member of The Academy Kinship)
August 27, 2012 at 4:50 pm
indeed. runs fine on win8
August 27, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Just started to listen to this week’s podcast and wanted folks to know that LOTRO works fine with Windows 8. I’m using the full Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation edition. Works fine
September 21, 2012 at 1:29 am
I’m still waiting barely patiently for Hoppydum’s write up on leveling groups!
September 21, 2012 at 6:04 am
He’s working on it! I’ve seen his outline and he’s getting input. It is coming!
October 25, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Just a note, do not ship UPS, they charge amounts automatically. I used to work for Canada Customs at the mail centre. So, you should ship USPS instead. They would not have to pay, we don’t even take in items worth less than $20.00 and gifts, which this would be, up to $60.00 don’t get processed at all, just moved on. However, UPS likes to charge a $20.00 brokerage fee, and collect Tax (5-15% depending on Province) when none would typically collected if you just shipped USPS.
So, there you go, you can still do T-Shirts, just don’t use Fedex, UPS or Purolator.