Housing Ambient Music Guide

posted this on November 22nd, 2010.
Categorized as ambient music, Decoration Guide, decorations, Furniture Guide, housing, music, Player Housing.

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Housing in LOTRO allows you not only to decorate your walls and place furniture but allows you to add atmosphere with ambient music. Below are selections of all the ambient music currently available and how to obtain it to allow you to browse and find the song perfect for your home or kinship hall.

Note: Due to copyright issues, the videos presented below are only extracts of the original themes not the full songs (which are quite lengthy).

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Home is Where the Pixels Are

posted this on September 11th, 2010.
Categorized as General, homes, housing, lotro, lotro reporter, Player Housing.

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Housing in LotRO is one of the more fun parts of the game. It’s a little place to call “home” in Middle-earth and a place to show off your personal taste and your character’s trophies. During the free to play transition, housing was a hot topic for some players. Suggested changes, price drops and other issues have been brought up on the beta forums and the General LotRO forums.

Kiarane from Casual Stroll to Mordor is a housing diva in LotRO. She has an article on the site where she discusses decorating homes. There is also a very in-depth document Kiarane created with every cosmetic housing item you can think of. I couldn’t think of anyone else to interview. Kiarane was happy to interview with me and happy to decorate my player home on Landroval. I must say, she did a beautiful job!

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Choosing a House and Homestead

posted this on July 12th, 2010.
Categorized as Guide, homestead, housing, Player Housing, video.

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So you’re looking for a house eh? First know that two type of houses are available to individual player, the standard and the deluxe format. Here’s the breakdown of the differences between the two.

Standard Deluxe
Purchase Price: From 950s to 1g150s From 6g650s to 8g50s
Upkeep Price: Approximately 50s Approximately 150s
Chests: 1 2
Hooks: No Ceiling
No Special
2 Small Floor
No Large Floor
3 Small Furniture
2 Large Furniture
3 Small Wall
4 Large Wall
3 Thin Furniture
3 Small yard
1 Large Yard
1 Doormat
1 Ceiling
1 Special
2 Small Floor
1 Large Floor
5 Small Furniture
4 Large Furniture
8 Small Wall
10 Large Wall
6 Thin Furniture
4 Small yard
2 Large Yard
1 Doormat
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