The Hall of Fire

Besides the stunning graphics, the most fun was finding the members of the Fellowship, plus Elrond. It was like an Easter Egg hunt, and you would hear people in our group say "I found Boromir!" or "I found Gandalf." I'm proud to be the one who found Frodo, Aragorn, and Legolas fi...

My Kinship on Windfola made the dangerous run to Rivendell last night (only one part is really dangerous, climbing out of the Bruinen Fords towards the final pass into Imladris Vale, where there are beasts that can kill you with one hit). It was amazing. Looking towards the falls, and the Last Homel...

I'm at level 14 with my Elf Minstrel, based in Celondim, now (I also have a Human Guardian in the Bree-land). Yesterday, I took the elf to the Shire, and spent a couple hours doing odd-jobs for hobbits. For some reason, the one thing that got me choked up was not Bag End (which is very well done), b...

I've played about six hours now, and my character's up to Level 7. I joined a Kinship (like a Guild, in other games) yesterday, of like minded older players, none of whom seems to know the Quenta especially well--I had to bite my tongue a couple times to keep from correcting pronunciation--but all o...

That's something that I think we tend to lose sight of in our generation: how amazingly far we've come. Truly there is much left to do to achieve real equality for all, everywhere, but modernity, in its good and bad aspects, has made deep, deep inroads on the error of the past, which we IMHO too oft...

I'm now at Level 6 (so obviously it can't be that bad! :D), still doing the baby quests in the little valley that comprises both the Elvish and the Dwarven starting areas. I'm going to stick with it through the Beta, and after that my question is going to be whether to go month-by-month or to spring...

I ended up making my character on the Windfola server. So if anyone feels like looking me up, I'm Elrandir of Rivendell, an Elf Minstrel, currently at level 2. I'm undecided, I have to say. The cut scenes are heavily influenced by the films, in what I have to say is a bad way. I was greeted "Ma...

I'll be playing tonight, I hope! I'll report in tomorrow, if I can drag myself out of bed. I've started a scholarly project half-aimed at raising people's awareness of the artistic potential of video-games, half-aimed at trying to found a school of real video-game criticism based on my belief that t...

You can pre-order on Amazon, then cancel if you don't like it. That's what I did, and it's apparently above-board.

Has anyone picked a server yet? I'm thinking Silverlode, for its associations. . .

Oops! I didn't think to look there! Sorry!

I really hesitate to bring this up, especially as my second post, and although I think this is the right forum for it (the word "play" being my excuse), obviously games are not explicitly mentioned in the description. At any rate, there's a new online role-playing game that claims to be ba...

Thanks for the welcome, Voronwë! I can't believe I've never been here before. It feels like home. Hello to many old friends! I've missed you all.