Casual Stroll to Mordor

It’s been a while since I have blogged about going to U-Con, although if you heard last Saturday’s episode you’ll know that I talked about it quite a bit.

Aethalwulf of Landroval sent us an email last week about these LOTR dioramas and thought they were totally worth sharing!

Old Withywindle is always enjoyed at the Golden Perch but since it is the finest ale in the Eastfarthing, many travelers like to take some with them on their journeys and this most likely has led to the addition of more and more hops to the ale.

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)!

It’s been a while since we’ve talked about how we podcast, but it’s still a question that we get now and again. So I thought that it would be a good thing to go ahead and write up another article about how we podcast now that we’ve grown a bit and we have become more accustomed to podcasting in general.

Too Long; Didn’t Listen is a podcast hosted by Syp of Bio Break / Massively (you’ve heard him on CSTM a couple times) and our very own Merric.

Our twitter friend @SunGryphon shared this picture with us and I thought this was a perfect Outside LOTRO given the season!

Very fitting with the launch of Rise of Isengard is this new LEGO model of Orthanc by a group of builders called OneLug.

A new feature for LOTRO bloggers has appeared on the MyMiddle-Earth.net web site. LOTRO Portal is a space for LOTRO Bloggers to share their pictures, thoughts, journeys or stories with other LOTRO players.

We received this email (oh my gosh nearly a month ago – I’m so behind!) from Lunna the Burg sharing her amazing “The Hobbit” themed nursery for her soon to arrive Baby Hobbit!

Boing Boing reported on a group called “Fellowship of the Strings” that are recording Lord of the Rings inspired songs that I thought our audience may be interested in.

This month, Middle-Earth Network home to Middle-Earth Network Radio, Mythgard Institute as well as the great My Middle-Earth social site is hoping to reach 4 million fantasy fans to join their vision.

There is a wonderful article on Tolkien Library about Benjamin Harff, a German student at the Academy of Arts, who reproduced an absolutely stunning version of the Silmarillion for his exam.

Enter LOTRO Elendir by Andrea Brandi who has created an app that has the ability to find and store characters from My.LOTRO and news from LOTRO feeds such as from the Launcher.

Ninjas… and um wizards.. NINJA WIZARDS and maybe some bears too. Bears that shoot lasers out of their eyes. Oh man that would be frickin’ awesome!

A reality show groom hires an actor to play Gollum as his “ring bearer” for his wedding.

This clip from the Colbert Report attempting to explaining the debt crisis with Lord of the Rings characters is simply too good to pass up. Enjoy!

Many LOTRO players have shown a great interest in the large and growing body of serious scholarship on J.R.R. Tolkien. The Mythopoeic Society is one of the oldest organizations dedicated to the study of the writings of Tolkien and the other members of the Inklings, such as C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams.

Big things are happening with our friends over at Middle-earth Network! They’ve recently announced a new offering, Mythgard Institute.