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LotRO's Smeagol is sneakin' in the Lorebook

by Samuel Axon May 25th 2008 at 9:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Lore

The Lord of the Rings Online's Book 11 introduced Gollum as a character with whom players could interact. His cameo appearance was a fun addition, albeit a minor one. Turbine hasn't forgotten him, though; he's the subject of the Lorebook entry most recently featured at the official LotRO website.

The entry tells the "sad and perilous" tale of an innocent little fellow who was consumed by his "precious" -- the One Ring which at first seemed pretty and innocent, but which drove him to murder. We all know the ring is neither pretty nor innocent. As Gandalf said: "it wants to be found," and the one who's looking for it is none too pleasant.

Gollum is one of the classic characters in English language literature. And if you're a fan of the movies as well as the books, then you'll surely agree that Gollum is the greatest CGI character in film history. Don't even get us started with that Jar Jar guy.

Tags: cgi, gollum, jar-jar, lord-of-the-rings-online, lore, lorebook, lotro, one-ring, turbine

LotRO, A Look Back: Books 10 & 11

by Lindsey Phillips Apr 24th 2008 at 1:30PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Galleries, Screenshots, Lord of the Rings Online, Patches, Player Housing

On August 21, 2007, Book 10: The City of Kings was released and opened up the city of Ann ú minas was for players to experience. Unfortunately, the city had been invaded by the forces of Angmar, and players had to fight to keep certain points of the city friendly to them. If they failed, the entire area will fall under the Witch-king's control.

Hunters and Captains both received class reviews, and a new mechanic was introduced called Critter Play. Different than PvMP, Critter Play allowed players to take on new forms in a PvE setting. The first form introduced was that of a chicken. Not to be outdone, Trolls, and Rangers were introduced into PvMP as well as a very large polish pass on PvMP as a whole.

Other new features brought to the game were factions with the major races (with rewards for increasing said faction) and the bartering system which allowed players to turn in certain monster drops for armor rewards. And of course, no Book is complete without a raft of new quests introduced for high level players to grind through.

Continue reading LotRO, A Look Back: Books 10 & 11

Tags: angmar, annuminas, blarog, book-10, book-11, captain, chicken-play, city-of-kings, critter-play, defenders-of-eriador, gollum, high-pass, hunter, lore-master, lotro, lotro-book-10, minstrel, pvmp, the-rift, trollshaws, turbine

One Shots: A (slightly creepy) fan favorite!

by Krystalle Voecks Apr 15th 2008 at 2:15PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Lord of the Rings Online, One Shots

Today we bring you what Lockwood of The Shadows kinship from the Laurelin server has called a "fan favorite" -- Gollum! He tells us that this screen was taken in the South Trollshaws in Lord of the Rings Online, and before he bumped his graphic settings up. Even with lower graphic settings, it's creepy to think of the idea of Gollum playing peeping-tom at anyone's window.

Do you have some interesting screen of a lore-figure from your game? (They need not be creepy!) If so, bundle that screen up, toss in a few words about what we're looking at, and send it to us at oneshots AT massively DOT com! Yours could be here next.

Gallery: One Shots

Tags: creepy, gollum, lord-of-the-rings-online, lotro, peeping-tom, trollshaws, turbine

Gollum wisshes you a merry Christmases

by Louis McLaughlin Dec 22nd 2007 at 10:00AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Events, in-game, Wallpapers

Lord of the Rings Online and Turbine are nearly done for the holidays, but not before a Christmas-themed wallpaper featuring none other than Gollum ... or is it Sméagol? No prizes for guessing what he wants for Christmas. Not that there was Christmas in Middle-earth, it was more Yule-tide, but ... oh, you know what I mean.

Follow the link to download the full image at either 1600 x 1200 or 1024 x 768 resolution, or if you're the kind of LotRO fan to prefer something in-game, check out Dan O'Halloran's excellent Yule-tide quest guide.

Tags: gollum, holidaze, lotro, middle-earth, seasonal-event, smeagol, turbine, yule-tide, yule-tide-quest-guide

LotRO downtime today for Book 11 Patch 1

by Dan O'Halloran Nov 14th 2007 at 11:02AM

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Bugs, Patches, Server downtime

Book 11 provided a huge chunk of content for Lord of the Rings Online players. Player housing, Balrog raids, the Harvest Festival, revamps to the Lore-master and Burglar classes, the introduction of Gollum, the list goes on. And with every fat patch comes a swarm of bugs that make it to the Live servers.

Today, Turbine is stomping on a number of those bug with Book 11 Patch 1. Servers are down from 7am - 1p EST while the new patch is implemented on the Live servers. Along with usual pathing problems, stability adjustments and mob AI tweaks, fixes include DirextX 10 support coming out of beta, fixes to the Hooks in housing used to place decorations and nerfing some Conjunctions used in Player vs Monster Player combat.

For a complete list of patch notes, check out LotRO's Lorebook wiki.

Tags: balrog-raid, book-11-patch-1, conjunctions, directx-10, gollum, harvest-festival, lord-of-the-rings, lorebook, lotro, player-housing, player-vs-player-monster, pvmp, the-rift, turbine

LotRO Vault maps Goblin Town, where Gollum be sneakin'

by Samuel Axon Nov 5th 2007 at 9:02PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Expansions, PvE, Maps

Turbine's Book 11 update for The Lord of the Rings Online included an impressive amount of content. It had player housing, a new instance called The Rift of Nûrz Ghâshu, and class updates for the Minstrel and Lore-master classes. It also introduced Goblin Town , the place where Bilbo was captured in The Hobbit, into the game-world.

LOTRO Vault has posted a map of Goblin Town. From the Slave Pens to Gollum's Cave, they've got it all covered. If this is all new to you, you might want to also check out LOTRO Vault's directory of Book 11 screenshots of High Pass and Goblin Town too. Gorgeous.

The Book updates keep chipping away farther and farther into the eastern parts of Eriador. Could Moria be next? We hope so. We wants it!

Tags: book-11, eriador, goblin-town, gollum, high-pass, housing, lord-of-the-rings-online, lotro, lotro-vault, map, misty-mountains, the-hobbit, turbine

Jeffrey Steefel on all things Book 11

by Louis McLaughlin Nov 1st 2007 at 10:35PM

Filed under: Lord of the Rings Online, Interviews, Patches

Tentonhammer have got a great interview up on their site with the executive producer of Lord of the Rings Online, Jeffrey Steefel, discussing all things Book 11. (LotRO Books are roughly equivalent to major content patches in other MMOs)

A lot of the new content in the update is discussed, ranging from the three-piece, 12-man Balrog raids, to... usable cowbell & bagpipe musical instruments. Blue Öyster Cult would be proud. It also features player characters first encounter with the wonderfully crazy Gollum, with promises that he'll play a major role in the LotRO storyline -- although what kind of role is still being kept under wraps, it's probably not a wild guess to assume he'll be causing a lot of trouble. Nassty hobbitses!

Player housing (covered just a few days ago by us) is discussed too. It's a strange -- risky? -- move incorporating player housing into a patch, rather than an expansion pack or, as in certain popular other MMOs, not at all -- yet Jeff comes across as enthusiastic about the subject, and Turbine appear to have thought it through carefully. He also does everything except say "there will be an expansion!" without ... actually saying it. But we all know it's coming, amiright?

Book 11 also included some love for the Loremaster & Minstrel classes, the latter of which sorely needed some outside of healing.

The interview is three pages long, and definitely worth a read if you're a LotRO fan.

Tags: balrog, balrog-raids, book-11, executive-producer, gollum, interview, jeffrey-steefel, loremaster, LotRO, minstrel, player-housing, turbine

LotRO introduces Player and Guild Housing

by Dan O'Halloran Oct 23rd 2007 at 3:27PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Guilds, Patches, Previews, Player Housing

The Book 11 content update for Lord of the Rings Online introduces more than Gollum's first appearance, a Balrog to slay and class revamps for Minstrels and Lore-masters. It also introduces player and guild housing in a unique way.

There are four different racially-styled homesteads. The architecture, neighborhood and decorations are unique to each. But players are not restricted to only buying property sold by their own race. Elves can move into the Dwarven cave-like housing and Men can squeeze into Hobbit holes.

There are many kinds of housing available, including 16 different styles of personal housing, 10 more styles for the deluxe housing and 4 different styles for guild housing. Each neighborhood has a mix of two dozen or so housing types. Every time all the houses are purchased, a new instance is created with all nebw housing for sale.

Continue reading LotRO introduces Player and Guild Housing

Tags: balrog, book-11, gollum, guild-housing, housing-decorations, housing-homesteads, housing-neighborhoods, lore-master, minstrel, player-housing

LotRO Book 11 notes and early download available

by Dan O'Halloran Oct 22nd 2007 at 8:10PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Patches

Book 11: Defenders of Eriador , the third free content update for Lord of the Rings Online, is arriving Wednesday morning. In advance of the patch going live, Turbine has released the patch notes two days early on the LotRO Lorebook, their official Wiki site.

There are no surprises since we saw these patch notes on the Preview server earlier this month. Still on track are all the major changes:

The introduction of player and guild housing in the Man, Elf, Hobbit and Dwarf cities
Four new level 40+ outdoor zones in and around The Misty Mountains to smooth out high level questing
The Rift, the game's second raid zone, a 12-man level 50 instance that pits your group against a Balrog and introduces new class armor sets
Class revamps for Lore-masters (new Lynx pet, new high level skills) and Minstrels (Warspeech, a new dps stance for faster soloing, new high level skills.)

Also, the introduction of Gollum to the game through a flashback instance. And the epic quest series that allows the players to help the Fellowship in its journey to Mordor has a new 13-quest arc. We're not sure yet how the new Epic Quest series plays out yet, but the title of patch could mean all the playable lands are in jeopardy.

The patch is currently available by Torrent and direct download. It will also be available through the patcher on Wednesday, October 22, 2007.

Tags: balrog, book-11, defenders-of-eriador, dps-stance, gollum, guild-housing, lore-master, lotro-lorebook, lynx-pet, minstrel, player-housing, the-rift, torrent, warspeech

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