Casual Stroll to Mordor

Sapience has come to the forums today bearing news of Update 9, Against the Shadow, as well as news on the Rohan Instance Cluster.

It is once again time for the next episode of Update Talks. This time we are reviewing Rohan with what we like and don’t like about the expansion.

This week we have plenty of store news, update 8.1 and changes to grouping contribution in Rohan, the Steed of the Captain color issues and more!

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The release notes for today’s update has been released! Lots of fun stuff happening with this update.

The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Wednesday, November 14th from 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) for an update to the game.

This week is rather light on Turbine news but that is ok because we have our special guest podcast host, Sorphia from Gilrain!!

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Join the Share Your LOTRO Screenshots Flickr group and submit your screenshots. Each week we will pick out a screenshot to share with the community!

LEAD travels through the East Wall, taking in the gigantic statues of the Argonath and the sweeping view from atop Amon Hen

Today we had an update to the game and the release notes are available. They are rather short so I’ll copy and paste them here.

Cosmetics have long been one of my favorite aspects of playing LOTRO. Upgrades to my wardrobe and outfit slots were purchased almost as soon as they became available. I figured dressing up my horses would be no different.

Experience the breaking of the Fellowship in the first Book in Riders of Rohan

This week we discuss Riders of Rohan release, naked dwarves, hot fixes, the Fellowship Walk and more!

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This week’s poll is asking about the brand new expansion, Riders of Rohan.

While you can enter The Wold (and the rest of Eastern Rohan) by going south from the Great River, taking the Epic Quest route sends you directly to the East Wall (at the southern end of the region).

The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Wednesday, October 17th from 7:00 – 11:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) for a hotfix.