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LOTROStream Q&A with Severlin and Cordovan – Friday 19 February 2021 - notes
On Friday 19 February 2021 SSG Executive Producer Severlin (Rob Ciccolini) and Community Manager Cordovan (Jerry Snook) held a Q&A with the LOTRO community on Twitch.tv via the LOTROstream.
Like with the recent world building chat Scenario (Matt Elliot) did, I’ve taken some notes (less extensive this
time) and you can read them below.
As usual, any errors are my own, apologies in advance.
Issue 001 | 15 February 2021
Welcome to the first of a series of newsletters looking at the Tolkien-related news from the previous week and what is coming up in the week(s) ahead.
Ten years ago, the fantastic One Ring RPG by Cubicle 7 was released to critical acclaim. Just over one year ago Cubicle 7 dropped the One Ring RPG license. Today has been a great day for fans waiting news of the new One Ring RPG coming from Free League. Early this morning Francesco Nepitello posted the following hint at what was coming:
As we move forward into 2021, gaming in the world of Tolkien’s Middle-earth is still in a great place. There is a varied choice of games with new products being released. There has been company changes (most dramatically in the One Ring’s case from Cubicle 7 to Fri Ligan) and potentially some lines being completed, but there is also several new unreleased games on the horizon.
Below is a round up of what is still being produced, I’ll look into each in more detail in future blogs. This lists paper & pen RPG, board games and computer/console games.
Please note, my main focus is
on games with the licence from JRR Tolkien’s books, and not the Peter Jackson
films.
Tolkien-related book releases –
2021 and beyond
The following is a list of
expected Tolkien-related book releases for 2021 (so far).
Thank you to Steve Hopkins for
helping collect the information.
I’ll do my best to regularly update
the blog here over the year. I also post this information over on the Tolkien
Society Facebook page, here.
Official LOTRO Events Schedule (2021)
On the LOTRO Official forums SSG Community Manager, Cordovan, keeps a forum thread updated regarding official LOTRO events in-game. It's currently updated to the end of 2021 for the main festivals and bonuses. Below I have collated that information into an easy-to-read format.
Please note Midsummer was the
new annual festival added in 2020 (linked with the Great Wedding in Minas
Tirith) which led to the Summer and Farmers Faire merging as one festival.
Tokens for that combined festival are Farmers Faire.
I have provided links for each of main events to the indispensable LOTRO Wiki, which has a page for the special events here.
For a list of my own social/RP-lite events for 2021, please check here.
