Cari and Layanor had a slow week in LOTRO. It kind of matched the news that came out. Be prepared for a really quick show.

 
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What We Did in Game
Layanor -

Out of town

Cari Mac -

I went to the beach

 
News
The Tolkien Professor is joining the LOTRO Stream Team

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7367269#post7367269

Tolkien Professor Corey Olsen has been fighting the good fight in Middle-earth for some months now. Along the way, he has been gathering the material he needs for the free LOTRO lore course he will be teaching through the Mythgard Institute this fall.

Phase 1 of his course preparation has included Mythgard Mondays, a get-together at the Bird and Baby pub on Landroval every Monday where Wigend (Corey’s guardian) gave a short lore talk before leading the group into a variety of adventures around Eriador, including skirmishing led by Pineleaf Needles on alternate weeks.

Corey is now moving in to Phase 2 of his preparation. On Friday May 15th at 12:30 pm, he joins the LOTRO Stream Team.

“I’ve prepared for this new venture and am very excited to get started,” he said. “I will create a new character in the first session, and then primarily follow the epic quest line with a few detours here and there. Along the way, I will look at how Tolkien’s story has been adapted and expanded upon.”

All are invited to attend the stream, ask questions, and offer input to Corey’s sessions. If you are unable to make the live sessions, no worries: They will be recorded and made available on the LOTRO Stream channel and on the Mythgard Youtube channel.

Mythgard Monday will continue on Landroval in tandem with Corey’s steaming activity, only it has now become “Mythgard Monday on Tuesday or Friday” and is now biweekly.

For information about either of Corey’s activities, contact Glordriel Arrowmaven, Mythgard kin leader.

 

Monday Maintenance Was Really Long

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7369923#post7369923

 

Spring Festival Postponed

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7370586#post7370586

As you may have noticed, the Spring Festival went live and there were no new rewards this year. This was not intentional. We actually have some new rewards for you, they however decided that they were not going to show up.

In light of this, we are turning off the festival for now and will reschedule it to go live a little closer to summer, on June 9th. This will be around the time of Update 16.1 and will fit in with what we already have as a scheduled downtime for the update.

We appreciate everyone’s understanding and we do hope you will enjoy the new rewards once we have turned back on the Spring Festival and everything is working as intended.

 

Event Dates (Tentative)

June

1-10 Hobnanigans
12-18 Lootbox week
19-21 25% XP Boost
26-28 25% Crafting boost

Discussion Topic
How much do you roleplay in groups?

 
Community
LUNCH Runs

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?565222-L-UN-C-H-Leading-an-UNimportant-Chicken-to-the-Hornburg

 

Weatherstock VII

July 25th

Band Sign up is Open

 

RockFest on Landroval

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?566708-landroval-rockfest-2015!

 
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