By Cordovan

Community Spotlights

Lina is working on her next annual Yuletide video and needs your Hobbit help on Laurelin! If you have a hobbit and can show up on Saturday to help make the video, click here to learn more about it!

Bludborn is kicking off 25 days of XPACS! He's celebrating a decade of LOTRO and years of streaming on Twitch with giveaways and more! Click here to find his channel and join him every Monday through Thursday and Saturdays in December!

The Bounders of the Shire will attempt a chicken run to Mordor on December 3rd! Click here to find out more.

Galenhir of the Lonely Mountain Band has created a machinima set to J.R.R. Tolkien's reading of "At The Tobacconist's"! Click here to watch it.

Fellowship of Guardians recently celebrated their 9th anniversary! Click here for a video of the event.

Winterfest approaches! Click here for more information about this large concert event on Crickhollow starting December 15th.

Merry Meetings at Mar Vanwa Tyalieva is an informal role-playing gathering that takes place every Friday on Landroval. Click here to learn more about it!

The Hope bring a small tribute to AC/DC on Saturday to remember Malcolm Young. Click here for more information about this event on Landroval.

December Oaks bring the Yule Lanterns! The group brings Snowy Tales and music to Laurelin on December 9th. Click here for more info.

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Kin Hall

Legends of Valar is once again recruiting for their end-game PvP/PvE team! This friendly kin is mainly French-speaking, but are growing internationally. Click here to find out more about them!

Email contact@standingstonegames.com with the subject line "KIN HALL" to get your Kin featured

What are you most looking forward to in the upcoming Yuletide Festival?

Fansite News

LOTRO Players News gets sleepy in Episode 230! Click here to get it.

Light the Beacons heads to Udun! Click here for their newest show.

Eadyth looks at the silhouette in a new cosmetic blog! Click here for the latest Middle-earth Mode.

Archosaur is making LOTRO maps! Click here to check it out.

Coiley's Adventures continue! Click here for Episode 136.

Oculos Nerd meets Gandalf! Click here to see how it went.

TheGreyWardens stream regularly on Twitch and LOTROstream! Click here for a recent show.

Feclez begins a stream from level 1 to 115! Click here for the first part.

Stine Plays a burglar for the first time! Click here to see it.

Renaissance Gaming heads to Eregion! Click here for the episode.

Geraldc717 continues his Hunter's charge! Click here to watch it.

Accomp never lets you down with a new song. Click here to check it out.

Let's Talk Shop!

Harvestmath Festival for an encore! Now through December 10th! We are bringing back thefor an encore! Now through December 10th! Click here for our full Event Schedule.

Severlin has outlined our plans for the future in a new Producer's Letter! Click here to read it. has outlined our plans for the future in a new Producer's Letter!to read it.

Made of Lions explores the themes told in Mordor's Allegiance system in a new dev diary! explores the themes told in Mordor's Allegiance system in a new dev diary! Click here to read it.

Screenshot of the Week!

TesalionLortus likes the way screenshots in LOTRO can look like dramatic paintings, and shares an example. Thank you for your kind words! Click here to follow TesalionLortus on Twitter.

In the News!