Mathom Appraisal Tea, Sunday February 16
Good friends, tea, pie and dusty old objects. That’s all yer need fer a relaxing, lovely Sunday afternoon. Welcome to a new mathom tea in Songburrow! Date: Sunday February 16th Time: 7:30PM UK (2:30PM...
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Strum the lute, toot the flute! More hobbit bands play on Laurelin! Hooray! Music is important for hobbits. Songs help keep old tales from the Shire alive, make the working day easier and liven up any...
View ArticleSouthfarthing gate concert, March 9th
It is time ter open the Southfarting gate! Too long have we been deprived of easy access to Old Toby and Old Vineyards! Date: Sunday March 9th Time: 7:00PM UK time (3:00 PM servertime, because the US...
View ArticleRevival
In year 36 by Shire reckoning, almost 1400 years ago, the Great Plague spread across Middle Earth. While little is written about the effects of the plague in the Shire, rumours and tales of old say...
View ArticleOpen the Southfarthing gate!
Here is our message ter Will Whitfoot. Open the gate to Southfarthing! To raise awareness about the sad fact that the Southfarthing gate has been closed for ever so long, Simbo is planning a concert...
View ArticleLocked Mathom archives reopened
The shrews have been chased away, and the Mathom archives in Songburrow are open once more. Hooray! Earlier this week, shrews were making a mess in the Grand Order halls, so we had to lock the room...
View ArticleThe maps of Eastern Gondor
Update 16 of Lord Of The Rings Online just went beta on the Bullroarer test server. With this update, LOTRO players will head to Eastern Gondor, and here are the maps to the new areas. Plus a few...
View ArticleGreen Dragon Friday is seven years old
Oh, how them years fly by. It is now seven years since the Laurelin hobbits started meeting at the Green Dragon every Friday night, for musings, music, mead and merriment. Come celebrate the...
View ArticlePoetical updated to v1.1.1
Simbo has updated his Poetical plugin to version 1.1.1, with a few bug fixes! See below for changes! Changes May 8th 2015 Bug fixes in v1.1.1: Fixed: When the main “Play” button was dragged, the result...
View ArticleGreen Dragon Friday: The 7th anniversary video
We came, we saw, we partied for days on end during the 7th anniversary of Green Dragon Friday! And here is the video to prove it! After three parties, one server downtime, three competitions, one...
View ArticleBeware the little sheepdog
Dark times ahead. A menace roams through the village. The sheepdog is after yer food! About the song Best sung to the traditional folk song “Farewell to Nova Scotia”, this was another one of me “write...
View ArticleThe Chicken Flying Song
Chucks dream of flying too. Yer just know it to be true, right? So here is a song about flying chucks! About the song Best sung to Paul McCartney’s “My Brave Face”, this was crash-written before the...
View ArticleThe Lute of Ages gets a makeover
There is a new lute in town! Come see what the Lute of Ages looks like now! The Lute of Ages was added to LOTRO with update 16.1 earlier this spring. This basically plays the sounds of the original...
View ArticleThe Bounder’s Bounty Memorial Park
Big things happening in Michel Delving in the beta for update 16.2. The area around the bounder’s statue has been turned into a park, with small memorials for each of the current LOTRO servers. Here...
View ArticleDeath by a thousand paper cuts
LOTRO Update 16.2 brings a new cosmetic weapons system. Sounds like fun, but there are some strangeness currently. Here is a video! It sounds like a grand thing, really. Finally, you are able to...
View ArticleBabble – a new LOTRO plugin to combat emote spam
Simbo has been busy lately, working on a new plugin designed to reduce the amount of emote messages that fill up your chat window at large events. Get it here! So, have you ever struggled during busy...
View ArticleThe Grand Journey Home – The Shire to Enedwaith
They say there are hobbits living outside of The Shire. Outside of The Breelands too. Far away to the south-east, in a land called Everwait! Imagine all they can tell us about hobbit history? We just...
View ArticleThe quick, unofficial guide to start roleplaying in LOTRO
Given the upcoming LOTRO server closures, many players who have little experience with roleplaying might end up on a roleplaying (RP) server. A warm welcome to you! I hope you find a good new home. If...
View ArticleThe Shire Home Song
I wrote another song about the Shire. I should make a career of it, or somet! About the song Best sung to “Devils and Dust” by Bruce Springsteen (see below), this was another 30-minute challenge where...
View ArticleThe maps of Minas Tirith – LOTRO Update 17 beta
Update 17 of Lord Of The Rings Online just went beta on the Bullroarer test server. With this update, LOTRO players will head to Minas Tirith, and here are the maps to the new areas. Plus a few...
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