By Cordovan

Community Spotlights

Shirefest begins on Friday and runs through the weekend! Click here for more information about this annual concert event on Crickhollow.

Galenhir Swordsong from the Lonely Mountain Band has created a real-world song and spear inspired by a quest in LOTRO! Click here to see this amazing thing!

Playfulgames has been uploading LOTRO gameplay to his YouTube channel in recent weeks, and plans to journey across the entire game world. Click here to check out a recent video!

The band The Hope are hosting a concert on June 21st to perform songs from the group KINO. Click here for more information.

Tirn En Taur are hosting the Elvish festival of Tarnin Austa in Duillond on June 21st! This event begins at 8:00pm Eastern on Landroval.

Summer Rush celebrates the music of the band Rush on Crickhollow on June 21st! Click here for event details.

Mairad Wildbeere and friends run a gourmet restaurant on Belegaer, and are organizing a large scavenger hunt through the Shire on June 25th! Click here for more information (in German).

To nominate something for a Community Spotlight, email contact@standingstonegames.com

with the subject line "COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT"

Kin Hall

Seekers of the Seven Stars is a rapidly-growing kinship on Arkenstone that offers members the ability to group at all levels. This mature and friendly kin holds recurring events as well. Click here to check out their web site!

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

Which town would you want to live in in-game?

Fansite News

LOTRO Players News reviews Update 20! Click here for their latest show.

Andang continues his let's play through the Epic Story. Click here to get it!

Dizzarian has created a Skirmish tutorial. Click here for tips and more!

AndrewAllStars reviews LOTRO. Click here for his thoughts.

Bearded Bard saves the town of Archet. Click here to watch it!

The Bearded Minstrel travels to lake Evendim. Click here for his thoughts!

Gameoliodan travels to a spider cave. Click here to find out why!

Heavy Metal Gamer continues his trek through LOTRO. Click here to see it!

Zogog protects and fails. Click here for it!

Arathaert offers tips for earning LOTRO Points in-game. Click here to get them!

Syp likes turtles. Click here to find out why!

Let's Talk Shop!

Update 16 and 20 Wallpapers are now available for your mobile device and desktop! Click here to get them! are now available for your mobile device and desktop!to get them!

Cordovan quests and answers your questions in the latest +Cord of the Rings. Click here to watch it! quests and answers your questions in the latest +Cord of the Rings.to watch it!

LOTROstream has a streamer-maintained stream calendar here! Keep up with our updated stream schedule on Twitch.tv/LOTROstream. has a streamer-maintained stream calendarKeep up with our updated stream schedule on Twitch.tv/LOTROstream.

Screenshot of the Week!

4 Very Small Mangos writes on Twitter that he likes to edit screenshots sometimes, and we like this one. Click here for his Twitter feed!

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