Casual Stroll to Mordor

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.

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.

There currently is a huge undertaking in Minecraft to re-create Middle-earth in this giant sandbox of a game.

“A brew to slake the grandest of thirsts.” Lawmi’s Research: This lager is the pride and joy of Thorin’s Hall. I first came upon this brew when I visited Thorin’s Hall after being driven from the Grey Mountains by the dragons. Many a night and day for that matter was spent partaking of this strong [...]

In Episode 72 we were asked by Krysfaerun of Elendilmir if there was a way for him to download our episode through the use of an RSS feed and a Podcatcher in order to download the podcasts directly to his iPod instead of synching with iTunes. It took me several months, but I have a definite answer for him!

Mashable is reporting that World of WarCraft is now going to have a free to play option, that is until you reach level 20 (sound familiar?).

This phenomenal lego replica of Sauron’s tower, Barad-dûr, was created by Kevin Walter.

Starting this October, Lord of the Ring lovers on the west coast can see live in concert The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Some of you may remember Tom aka “Veneration” from the articles he wrote for us, but since then Tom has been busy on some other projects including one that officially launched on June 1, 2011: The Halfling Clothing Company.

The PBS program Nova has a new interactive application on their site that allows you to see your name written in the runes of the Viking alphabet.

This outside LOTRO was sent into us by Prighild of Firefoot. It is a link to a diagram of the path of the Fellowship based on Peter Jackson’s movies. The chart is definitely very pretty to look at and was created by JT Fridsma of University of Florida.

This edition of Outside LOTRO comes courtesy of a link from Draculetta of Meneldor who sent us this link to the NY Times talking about baseball.