#lotre online

[athelascross]

[sillylotrpolls]

Bonus: if you see this poll within about 24 hours of it being posted and find yourself with an inescapable desire for LotR bears, there's a sale (link contains no tracking) happening at "The Bear Cave," Build-A-Bear's "adult" shop. (Shop is still G-rated, mind you. Maaaaybe PG if you consider alcohol references and underwear that covers more than a swimsuit PG.)

[brethilach]

you know the Shire gossip problem has gotten out of control when cutting through fields filled with ravenous wolves and boars to deliver someone's mail is less risky than taking the main road because of the nosy hobbits prowling the streets

[everything--under--the--stars]

Lord of the Rings Online is objectively a kind of shitty game bc it's almost 20 years old and free, but the way they handles races is actually so funny because it's just like

Human: Kill 5 prison guards to get to lvl 2 then chill with Aragorn in a fortified town :)

Beorning: Kill a few flies on a quiet farm to level up and gently say goodbye to your family as you head off to save Middle Earth <3

Dwarf: Walk with Gandalf and assist in a prison break. That should take you to lvl 2 like all the others so you're free to go chill with your buddies up north.

And then there's the High Elf:

Oh you want to play HIGH ELF??? You pretentious fucker. You poor, poor bastard. Start with thousands of hit points. Start at in the middle of a battle. You like reading monologues? I hope so because there's a 10 minute debate between lore accurate simlarilion characters. There are no farms or cities here. No respite from destruction, only war. Endless soldiers spawning to the east. Did you know you can take passive fire damage? Well you will when you fall into the fire pits.

Flies? Prison guards? No, go save the fucking prince what else are you here for Jesus fucking christ. Once you survive that, go fight Sauron himself. Oh you failed? Really? The high elf FAILED? You pass out in agony. When you wake, it's been thousands of years. Your king is dead. The world has moved on without you. You are weak: reduced to just a few of your once numerous hit points.

Elrond orders you to sail west from Middle earth and get proper rest. Right now you are nothing. Helpless. But in time... you just might regain enough strength to fight valiantly once again.

Congratulations: You have now reached level 2!

[merilles]

@tolkienocweek Day 3: Alternate Universes | LotRO

Tauriel is banished from the Woodland Realm after defying the Elvenking’s orders, but she gets her wish of seeing the world. She joins forces with Grimbeorn’s daughter Medwed and the Rangers of the North to defeat the growing Shadow in Angmar. Together, they play a key role as great warriors during the War of the Ring. The Fellowship would name them friends, honoured for their help and mighty deeds.

[bobombun]

So I started playing Lotr Online, the MMO game of Lord of the Rings, and it's been fun so far. Started off as an elf, and was popped into the middle of a dramatic fight I had zero context for. Bad guy stabs me with an evil sword, and screen goes black. I wake up, and my buddies are happy to see me awake. Sorry everyone, didn't mean to scare you. Hey btw, Elrond, how long was I conked out for?

Years? I was in pained coma for years?? I guess that's elves for you, huh

Oh damn, the era changed while I was asleep? What a timing, haha

Year three thousand and- wait. The era changed while I was asleep. And it is now the year three thousand and eighteen of this era.

...

I was in a coma for at least three thousand and then some years??

Elves, man.

Elves.

[silhouette-cosplay]

It’s been a hot minute since I posted my LOTRO OC! The game has so many beautiful cosmetics and it was super fun to combine them into a real-life look!

Photo by @sennedjem

[feykrorovaan]

Haha, fell in love with another fictional guy. It was an elf. I'm not sorry. It will happen again.

[elfroot-and-laurels]

Dúventoliel of Imladris, after Arthur Hacker's 'Portrait of a Girl,' 1896.

[lesbiansforboromir]

Canonically queer characters within - Lord of the Rings Online

[galadriel-blue]

Can we talk about how the Silmarillion/some version of the lore suggests that Galadriel and Gil Galad are, or were in one draft, related? (Also if I am wrong about this please don't come after me, it's my first time reading Silm so I am very new to the lore and I know Tolkien changed his stories/characters 80 billion times so be gentle with me-)

Anyways if we consider the idea that Gil Galad really is the son of Orodreth (One of Galadriel's brothers), then that makes Galadriel his aunt I suppose, which makes The Rings of Power incredibly hilarious.

Imagine being sent away by your nephew because you were causing too many problems

I think it's funny lol

[a-morningstar-120]

If ANYONE is making fun of you for something you love. That is seriously the grossest behavior.

[inanearlieround]

been playing a lot of lord of the rings online as of late and had to deliver some pipeweed to merry & pip

[olessan]

It's a bit wild that the War of the Rohirrim design leads thought that this sort of blatant plagiarism was a normal thing to do. 🤔

On the left (and the boots on the right) you have Helm (and Hera's) clothes from one of the newer pieces of art released from WotR. The other images are screenshots from LotRO.

Specifically, the breastplate is the Armour of the Eastemnet and the Armour of the Elite Rider. The boots are Westemnet Boots of x (multiple kinds). Helm's vambraces and faulds, and Haleth's tunic (in the group shot) also look very familiar.

They claim to be following the designs from the trilogy but oh boy did they just google "Rohan armour" and lift whatever they found.

[archiesoniconline]

Sonictober2023 Day 8! Theme: Lake.

Sonic and Sally are in for a wet weekend now. Can they encircle whoever stole their golden circles, or will this be a ring out for the Freedom Fighters?

That should be enough puns to please the Archie editing team in 1993.

Art by Sea-Salt