This is finally the news that the Lord of the Rings Online community has been waiting for since Turbine first announced that server consolidation was going to happen, revealed in today’s announcement while the game was being updated. Without further ado, these are the ten servers that will remain open after the end of this year:

NA:

Brandywine

Landroval

Gladden

Crickhollow

Arkenstone

EU:

Belegaer (DE-RP)

Sirannon (FR)

Gwaihir (DE)

Laurelin (EN-RP)

Evernight

Starting today, once the servers come back up, players will be able to test the transfer process by hitting the Transfer button now located on the character login screen. The initial phase of this technology will only permit players to transfer to the test server Bullroarer to ensure no unforeseen craziness happens.

After that, here is the schedule that Turbine has laid out for which servers will go first based on population. They have previously stated that much like professional sports drafts, the worst-performing servers get to go first. They’ve also said that the plan is to open up a couple of servers to move away from approximately every couple of weeks, but that schedule is flexible by necessity. They could delay future openings if things are going poorly or accelerate the process if things are going well, so do keep an eye out on the official dev tracker to keep up to date on the calendar.

The order of the servers to open to outgoing transfers are:

NA

Elendilmir

Riddermark

Firefoot

Nimrodel

Windfola

Imladris

Dwarrowdelf

Silverlode

Vilya

Meneldor

EU

Estel

Gilrain

Eldar

Anduin

Morthond

Maiar

Vanyar

Withywindle

Snowbourn

It is very likely that NA and EU servers will be opened up at the same time. As the blog posted by Andy ‘Frelorn’ Cataldo states, they’ll be done ‘a few at a time’.

Did your server make the cut? Mine didn’t, but my backup server did, so I’ll be a happy camper, but how about you?