#lotro game

[lotrolulz]

Two times now in Gundabad that this has happened.. 

This is 10000% LOTRO’s version of this:

Change my mind.

[daddyklingon]

This is Lothbard Woodberry.

He is roughly fifty-five years old, lives in the wilderness usually camping out and such.

Loves to study ancient cultures, explore the woods, forage for berries, nuts and mushrooms.

Is good friend to many beasts and is writing a book on mushrooms.

[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!

[chark80]

This game is gorgeous an internet's age later

[a-lonely-dunedain]

for every reblog this receives I will draw one (1) more bird on Ethedis

I think I'm going to regret this. but also I wanted to draw more birbs

[lonicera-edulis]

An updated post since I deleted DeviantArt account.

You can download my full arts for personal use (to print for yourself, put on background/avatar) here: Google Disk

I will upload the rest in time (and if some art is of a too low resolution for printing, you can use waifu2x)

If you want to give something in return for my art, you can donate to Ukrainian orgs here (any of these organizations listed are legit): https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

People from Russia can send donations to мурумурy on Twitter.

And I can also draw a little sketch for you if you donate to any of these! Just contact me with screenshotted transfer.

[merilles]

Some Narmeleth fashion dolls~

[saephrond]

The Angle of Mitheithel — Where the rivers meet and the land, wrapped in the colours of Autumn, rests quietly.

[loremastering]

Sigileth won a poll I made recently, and I was excited to get an excuse to draw one of my favs at last.

[lotrolulz]

It always really creeped me the hell out the way the Corrupted Soldiers in Udûn walk and behave. It is a really unsettling but accurate way of portraying how Sauron corrupts things - they are physically twisted and lame in their posture, and have the twitchiness in their heads and hands reminiscent of someone/something severely damaged and completely bereft of their previous selves. 

This instance was as sad as it was unnerving. :( 

[daddyklingon]

Brodahr is one of my oldest LOTRO characters. He started as a simple blond mohawked Dwarf boy. But now he's a grizzled old grey man looking for ancient lore and to defend Middle-Earth from evil. I love Old Man Brodahr.

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

[rohirric-hunter]

Was anybody going to tell me that the elves in the gazebo in the Falathlorn Homesteads get up and start dancing if you walk up to them or was I supposed to just walk up to them and see it myself

[ohhcinnybuns]

Nerdy video gamers 18!SKK stumble upon each other in a fantasy game and immediately have beef.

Chuuya, a new player, creates a grizzly dwarf champion and stumbles upon an elf loremaster sitting on a rocking chair in Hobbiton, smoking his weed pipe with zero care. He figures the Lore-master is too high into his roleplay to care about questing, which gives him the advantage of finishing the area rather quickly.

Chuuya looks around the farmland to see various NPCs with quest rings and no one else. He thinks it's a perfect place to grind XP as they are repeatable quests, and he goes to accept them.

At the same time, Dazai, as the elf loremaster, decides he is now ready to participate and complete achievements in the area, unknowingly accepting the same quests as Chuuya.

He didn’t recognize the area, which often happened because he never understood his map and explored solo, so he decided to sit down and smoke his pipe in the lovely, peaceful little hobbit village.

As they soon learn, the quest items can only be picked up by one person before waiting for the respawn timer, and that wouldn’t have been an issue… Chuuya could have shared the area and the quest items, had the loremaster not decided to stun him and take away his item like a thief right under his nose.

CorruptionDestroyer says, “That was MINE”.

BigBrainLoreMaster says, “You snooze, you lose, short stuff.”

CorruptionDestroyer says, “…I’m not short. I’m still drinking my milk every night.”

BigBrainLoreMaster says, “And what is that, a cup a night? You need a whole gallon to be as tall as me, Chibi.”

Chuuya does the only thing he can think of at the moment to show his irritation with the elf and uses his /fish slap emote on the annoying loremaster.

BigBrainLoreMaster says, “…”

Dazai returns the /fish slap emote, and their characters stare at each other unmovingly. Chuuya thinks about running off, but instead, he's upset at this stand-offish LM with audacity and goes to emote the fish slap again until he accidentally hits the groan button, and it comes out as a drawn-out moan. Chuuya’s cheeks redden.

Now, both characters are staring at each other awkwardly, and Chuuya wants to bang his head on his desk in embarrassment because he looks like he enjoys the rough treatment. Ugh, that was not what he wanted to do! He glances at his screen to find a new private message from the lore master in his chat box.

BigBrainLoreMaster: If I had known you liked it rough, I would have done it harder.

CorruptionDestroyer: THAT’S NOT WHAT I MEANT TO DO.

BigBrainLoreMaster: Ah, your screams of embarrassment are music to my ears. It’s like I can hear you from a thousand miles away. It makes me want to dance.

CorruptionDestroyer: Please, don’t.

BigBrainLoreMaster: …

BigBrainLoreMaster: Hey, accept the trade, yeah?

CorruptionDestroyer: No, why?! You’re probably going to take my loot.

BigBrainLoreMaster: That’s not how it works.

Chuuya hesitantly accepts the trade and finds all the quest items he needs to turn in his quests. He flutters his eyes at his inventory and raises an eyebrow in confusion, only to find a new message waiting for him and the loremaster gone.

BigBrainLoreMaster: Apparently, I had already completed these quests once before and didn’t need to do them again. :’) I guess that’s what I get for not knowing how to read the map.

CorruptionDestroyer:… but you’re level 80.

BigBrainLoreMaster: It sure does look that way, huh? Well, hurry up. Catch up if you can, Chibi… or do you need motivation? ;)

CorruptionDestroyer: SHUT UP!

Chuuya spends the next month grinding levels and storming through the game, much to Dazai’s shock and curiosity. They stumble upon each other often and are soon playing end-game raids together and talking mechanics.

They talk for hours and horse around doing silly things half the time, playing hide-and-seek or doing parkour over the Bree rooftops. Sometimes, they explore the valleys of Rivendale or ride through the meadows of Rohan when questing becomes too much of a chore.

But as soon as one entered a PVP match, the other had to join too, and they quickly became the deadliest duo in fantasy gaming with Chuuya’s physical double axe prowess and Dazai’s crowd control skills and healing/support. They always had each other's backs through the thick of it.

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Note: So, only a few people (IRL) know that I met my husband playing video games (everyone else assumes we met on Tinder when I use the word "online"), but we met playing Lord of the Rings Online back in 2012-2013'ish.

When we first met, one of my favorite inside jokes was using the fish slap emote to greet each other. Then it escalated to using the groaning dwarf emote, and it had me laughing so hard that I had tears in my eyes 💀. These are the best memories!

[a-lonely-dunedain]

If you want, I think it would be neat to see Boingus as a pony!

your honor he is just a little guy

hobbit ponies are great. they're like "what if pony, but even smaller and floofier"