The menu of the Green Dragon Friday 10th anniversary meal
A meal of ten courses, of course! How does it work? Friday May 11 we celebrate 10 years of Green Dragon Friday, the weekly roleplaying event for hobbits on Laurelin. Every year, we draw up a grand meal...
View ArticleDragons: A GDF lecture
More dragons than the green! The Green Dragon Friday lecture series continues, this time with a talk about dragons! Miss Pycella held this one Friday May 18 2018. Please let me know if you’d like to...
View ArticleThe Brandywine river cruise
Carry on up the Baranduin! A video of a swim up the Brandywine! Four score and seven years years and three months ago Four years ago, I did one of me crazier video projects: A “boat journey” down the...
View ArticleMagical moments of LOTRO player music
Where words fail, music speaks. The ABC music system is one of the novelties of Lord of the Rings Online. Musicians can perform songs in-game that other players can listen and dance to, from solo songs...
View ArticleFar over Iron Hills and mountains grey: LOTRO U23 preview
Lots of screenshots from the new areas! Update 21/8: Added new maps for Eriador + The Iron Hills, plus new hobbit avatar update pictures (now with new hair models). The beta of update 23 of Lord of the...
View ArticleRonald Dwale: A lecture
So close to J.R.R. you can smell the pipeweed! This is a lecture about Ronald Dwale, given by Pycella Woodberry during the annual Bards Day celebration on September 2nd this year. Ronald Dwale is...
View ArticleOf Love and Trickery
Pipe down, poem incoming. Last night saw the Harnkegger Games poetry and story competition on Laurelin. I had toyed with writing an entry, but time has been a bit of an issue lately. I had a look in my...
View ArticleHow the Knights who say “Ni!” ruined The Shire
The age of digital vandalism is upon us. Edit 13. October: SSG has now announced that changes to the Shire are incoming. Yes, we are indeed looking to address many of your concerns in a patch next...
View ArticleCelebrate yule with us Laurelin hobbits
Open the yule calendar, help make the video, join the parties! It never fails. In the hobbit community on the LOTRO Laurelin server, November is always quiet. Not much is happening, besides the usual...
View ArticleLOTRO players, we want your yule trees!
Or pictures of them… Pycella is currently organizing the hobbity yule calendar over on the Grand Order noticeboard. There are lots of grand entries already, but there is one thing we’d love to add...
View ArticleA merry hobbity yule to all!
See the 2018 yule video from the Laurelin hobbits here! Merry yule all, and best wishes for the yuletide! I hope yer all have some relaxing days with friends and family, filled with good cheer. To help...
View ArticleHappy new year
Adventures await! It’s a magical world, hobbits… let’s go exploring! After tea… Inspired by (or, shamelessly ripped off from?) the last-ever Calvin and Hobbes comic from 1995, this pretty much...
View ArticleMy biscuits
A cruncher of a song! About the song Best sung to the tune of Muse’s brilliantly bonkers “Pressure” (see even more brilliantly bonkers video below), this was one of me 30-minute challenges: Try wrap up...
View ArticleRacing the Hollin ridge
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap Lord of the Rings Online is a tremendously fun game for anyone who likes to explore a massive virtual world. The game world is HUGE. And littered around the lands, there are...
View ArticleOf Thains and treasured biscuits
Revenge is sweet. This is a tale I prepared for the Songburrow Story Club last weekend. That night, we told stories from our childhood, and I dug out this one. A bittersweet tale, with the “sweet” part...
View ArticlePictures by an intrepid, nosy hobbit adventurer: Part 7
Me ma says hobbits should stay away from such newfangled things as screenshots… as if! More fun, exciting and/or quirky-looking pictures by that hobbit adventurer! I have gathered a few more of me own...
View ArticleCarrock ‘n roll: LOTRO U24 preview – The Vales of Anduin
The Anduin is sure big if it fits whales. LOTRO’s Update 24 was released on the beta test server Bullroarer yesterday. Here we visit the Vales of Anduin, a fertile area between the Misty Mountains and...
View ArticleTroublesome tweetings
Me suspicious, Twitter? Some of you may have noticed that I recently created a new account on Twitter. I have used my old one without problems since autumn 2010, when I first signed up with the...
View ArticleIn the Dragon times are grand
This one goes to elevenses. Edit May 27th: Galifer made a video from the GDF anniversary using the song, I have added it below. About the song Every Green Dragon Friday anniversary, The Brandy Badgers...
View ArticleFence Running
Poetry in motion! Summer is here, and the Summer Poetry Competition has returned. So what better than to send in an entry about spring? Um. Don’t ask. Technically, my entry was about “balance”, one of...
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