I am very excited to share the announcement that Sapience made yesterday.  The fan site and kinship web community has been waiting for over 2 years for tools to include on our own web sites that would allow us to display and link to official data on the lorebook.  Well the wait is over!
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Book 7 has come out.  And the QQing has begun in force.  Normally I try to let it all go, I do, no really, someone tell my wife to stop laughing at that statement.  But after reading several things like this on the official forums and in game:

Turbine sucks
If the programmers where not so [...]

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People seem to generally be “less addicted” to LotRO than to WoW. But as they switch anyway, they end up playing less. Is LotRO a kind of methadone for WoW addicts?
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While browsing through the Postcards from Middle-earth forum, I came across a topic titled “My new wallpaper” by Dexith. In his post, Dexith posted a link to his new wallpaper which is that of his character inside the Great Barrow.
When asked which fonts he used for the wallpaper, he posted links for the Ringbearer [...]

You will find many resources and links to walkthroughs, strats, and other helpful information here.
Strat Guides
The Great Barrows - By Nayla

Group makeup: MUST have a full group and all players should be over level 20. A guardian and minstrel are essential, the other spots can be filled by anything. If you’re going for the final boss, your group should be closer to level 25. Our group makeup was: Guardian, Minstrel, Captain, Loremaster, and 2 [...]

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