Casual Stroll to Mordor

The wonderful folks at Skype have given us three wireless headset/video packs to giveaway to the CSTM audience!

May 9th is the final day of the 5th Anniversary Festival! Make sure you turn in all your anniversary and gift box tokens and buy up all the goodies you were hoping for this weekend.

May 3rd through May 16th there will be a series of events collectively called the Galloping Gala you can take place in both in-game and out for fun and prizes! Here’s the run down of what you can find.

Casual Stroll to Mordor (CSTM) is joining the Newbie Blogger Initiative (NBI) for the month of May! This is a program set up to inspire players to create an MMO blog of their own.

Turbine sent out an email announcing that the Anniversary Festival has been extended.

We have a sudden influx of gaming sites with LOTRO giveaways celebrating the 5th anniversary. I’ll use this post to list all that we find!

As part of the 5-year Anniversary Celebrations, Turbine is giving us double experience post earned from monster kills starting today and lasting until the end of the festival, April 30th.

The Anniversary festival should be starting up today but tomorrow we should see the Anniversary Gifts arrive in our inventory.

Details on the new and improved anniversary festival have been posted! This year’s anniversary festival will run from April 16th – April 30th, 2012.

LOTRO will be celebrating their 5th year as an MMORPG and are giving presents away to players as a thank you.

Turbine has posted on their Facebook Page today a new video contest celebrating their 5th anniversary where the winner could win a trip to Boston and meet the Turbine team!

Today via Twitter, Turbine announced their new steed for PAX, the Prelino Steed.

TP. It’s something we all want and all use and it’s something we certainly don’t want to be found without. That’s why we pooled our resources today to bring you a great bonus to your TP stockpile!

Today is Merric’s birthday! Merric is a fantastic husband, father and podcast co-host and he deserves to know it.

Sapience dropped into the forums yesterday to share a tentative timeframe for the upcoming festivals this year.

This year Turbine plans to make some changes to the anniversary event. To make their fifth anniversary special the spring festival will be scheduled after the anniversary.

Boston is in Turbine’s backyard and just like last year, they’re planning on hosting another Pax East player party for their fans.

The Fashion Maven is out and about this weekend. The Fashion Maven is a GM that will randomly award players titles for their fashions

This weekend Turbine is increasing the drop rate of Steel-bound Lootboxes and Sturdy Steel Keys.