LORECast #7: Gondor

posted this on March 25th, 2010.
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Alberos wraps up his 3 part series on the Kingdom of Men. In this episode the focus is on Gondor.

What would you like to hear in the next LORECast segment? Leave a reply to the show notes with your suggestion.

Alberos

PAX East 2010 Special Pricing!

posted this on March 25th, 2010.
Categorized as expansion, LotRO News, Mirkwood, turbine.

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photo In special celebration of PAX East, Turbine is offering Siege of Mirkwood for only $9.99.  This includes all of the original Shadows of Angmar as well as both the Mines of Moria and Siege of Mirkwood expansions.  The offer lasts until March 28th!  So, if you’ve been thinking about upgrading, now is probably a good time to do it!


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Spring Festival Horse Vendor

posted this on March 25th, 2010.
Categorized as event, Events, festival, issues, LotRO News, mounts, spring, turbine.

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I’m sure many have already realized that there was an issue with Will Peartree that resulted in this festival vendor to be pulled from the game for a fix. This is the vendor that sells the Document of Mount Ownership required to buy a festival horse as well as barters your tokens to purchase the horse itself.

It appears this fix is going to take longer than expected as Sapience posted today a general timeframe for when we can expect this vendor to re-appear.

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Spring Horse NPC not to return until late April

posted this on March 25th, 2010.
Categorized as Events, Events: Seasonal, lord of the rings online, lotro, MMO, News, Spring Festival, Spring Festival Mount, turbine, Updates.
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That’s right, Sapience (a community manager of the ) posted a reply to this thread regarding the NPC that sells the documents for the Spring Festival Horse. When the festival launched the Naughty NPC was selling the documents at cut throat prices, apparently in an attempt to bankrupt his boss. Instead of selling them for 1.6 gold (for folks who already have purchased a mount in the past) or 4 gold (for folks who are buying their first mount) he was selling them for 3 silver / 7 silver (respectively).

Turbine jumped in pretty quick and disabled this naughty vendor, and people have been wondering when he will make a return – Sapience stated that it would require a client side patch due to the nature of the bug, and that the patch would happen closer to the Anniversary date (April 24th). He did say, however, that the festival would be extended or re-enabled [whichever necessary] in order for folks to turn in their tokens and get the documents for their horses.

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Happy Tolkien Reading Day!

posted this on March 25th, 2010.
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onering Although we have not reached this point of the story in LOTRO yet, March 25th, 3019 of the Third Age is the day that the One Ring was destroyed in the fires of Mt. Doom. With it’s destruction the Free People of Middle Earth released from the threat of Sauron and his forces. This seems like a reason to celebrate!

The Tolkien Society chose March 25th as “Tolkien Reading Day” because of this special significance. A day devoted to reading Professor Tolkien’s works. I hope you pick up a book and read even just for a bit!

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LORECast #7 Gondor

posted this on March 25th, 2010.
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Alberos gives a brief history of the Kingdom of Gondor