Ninimiel’s gossip – LOTRO news from
the Falathlorn’s Town Crier #001
Ninimiel* is one of LOTRO’s
Town Criers, helpfully not being that helpful from the Falathlorn Homesteads.
In an occasional series of updates, he’ll bring you the latest news about
LOTRO.
Upcoming Official events
Information for any upcoming in-game
events.
LOTRO Anniversary Celebration
Event type: festival
Date: 21 APR – 12 MAY
(4/21/21@10am to 5/12/21@3am)
LOTRO was released on 24 April 2007.
Each year the game celebrates – in 2021 it will be the 14th anniversary.
LOTRO wiki information:
https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/LOTRO_Anniversary_Celebration
“Further Adventures”
The first of these, focused on
Bilbo Baggins, is expected with U29.5 (week of 18 April 2021). The best
information we have about this new mission-based quest arc comes from the ExecutiveProducer Letter from February 2021:
“A short time after the Wildwood update, we are planning to release the first of our 'Further Adventures,' quest arcs that make use of the Mission system to explore new stories involving major and minor characters in Middle-earth. The first of these involves one of the most famous of all the Hobbits: Bilbo Baggins. If you enjoy it, we're open to doing more 'Further Adventures' later in the year. Suggestions for characters you'd like to see in these narrative mission sets are welcome!”
Player events on Laurelin
Saturday 10 April 2021 @ 7pm BST
(2pm /servertime)
Rock-band Polnolunie will be
playing “Eternal Youth” - ajazz-blues-rock concert on the stage near The
Prancing Pony, Bree Town.
SSG Community Manager Jerry “Cordovan”
Snook live streams playing LOTRO and updates players on the latest news from
SSG.
From the Friday 9 April 2021 live stream:
- U29.5 - Legendary Server update – Wastes (March of the King)
- U29.5 - Further Adventures – not next week but the week
after (week of 18 April)
- Next week’s +Cord of the Rings show will be a Severlin (SSG Executive Producer Rob Ciccolini) Q&A – Friday 9 April 2021
- Curator will be available from 10am EST
on Monday 19 April to Sunday 2 May (expected shutoff at 3am EST 3 May 2021)
- River Hobbits have always been a rumour, not
a SSG idea – came from a player query to Sev on a Q&A
- Festival encores – have not been happening
recently, but possibly a couple of encores this year
- Festival horses: Midsummer steeds (and
associated warsteed appearances) – Blackroot/Lamedon/Lebennin/Lossarnach – available
for either Midsummer tokens or MC. All other festivals - The newest two annual steeds
(including warsteed appearances) will be available for festival tokens or MC,
all other annual ones will be MC only.
- Personal boats – no actual work done, cool idea if possible to do or have time for.
- Log files issues with customer services is not fixed
- Wildwood Retribution of Trees issue – Cord will check where fix is up to
- Hobnanigans – every other month on schedule
- No expected marathon stream for LOTRO anniversary. Possibly something shorter.
+Cord of the Rings Chat with Sev from 19 February 2021
SSG Executive Producer Severlin
(Rob Ciccolini) and SSG Community Manager Cordovan (Jerry Snook) chat and do a
Q&A with players. The video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIxI9U_XiyA
A casual stroll through…
SSG Senior World Designer Scenario
(Matt Elliott) takes us on a continuing tour of the various areas of LOTRO and gives
insights into LOTRO landscapes and the world building process. The upcoming
tour will be voted on by players in the near future via a thread on the official
forums.
A casual stroll through
Forochel
A casual stroll through Angmar
A casual stroll through Wildwood
(U29 preview)
The LOTRO Beacon is a weekly newsletter from Cordovan bring you player news and highlights as well as any official SSG news and also information about the weekly sales and promotions.
The latest issue of official
LOTRO news was published by SSG on Thursday 8 April 2021:
#199: https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articles/lotro-beacon-issue-199
Cord provides a forum post
giving a list of the current expected events for 2021. Details here:
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?646193-LOTRO-Events-Schedule
Here on my blog, I’ve formatted
to a more UK/EU friendly format:
https://greenbookofthewhitedowns.blogspot.com/2021/01/ranatuors-lore-official-lotro-events.html
Useful LOTRO links
A selection of helpful general links.
Wildwood
https://lotro.com/en/wildwood
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F676ubO8LuQ
LOTRO Wiki: https://lotro-wiki.com/index.php/The_Wildwood
D&Co du Milieu Wildwood
housing items: https://en.dcodumilieu.fr/reputation/wildwood/
Executive Producer Letter from
February 2021
https://lotro.com/en/game/articles/letter-executive-producer-rob-ciccolini-0
Mythgard in Middle-earth with
Corey Olsen aka “The Tolkien Professor”
The Tolkien Professor Corey
Olsen lives streams
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/972740919
You can find more about Mythgard
here:
https://mythgard.org/lotro/
https://tolkienprofessor.com/
* Footnote: There are actually two NPCs called “Ninimiel” in LOTRO – the Male Elf Falathlorn Homesteads TownCrier and the Female Elf Light Armoursmith at Thorenhad in the Trollshaws.
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