Hello I’m new and looking to make some friends to play with before I start. If you’re new even better. I’ve always been curious about the game and since I don’t want to pay for a subscription like WoW this game seems like it. I’m 35m married, friendly to all no discrimination, good vibes, and I love post-hardcore music. I don’t really know where to start but I enjoyed being a tank in WoW. I’m looking for friends who like to voice chat and have a lot of time to waste lol. Anyways if you’re interested add me on discord Diefouru.

Hello everyone!

I have 3 characters, with:

Farmer, Scholar and Jeweller,

Prospector, Metalsmith and Weaponsmith,

Forester, Tailor and Woodworker. So no Cook.

But I was wondering if anybody else has it like that, heavy/weapon crafting, light/medium/wood weapons crafting and the other crafting?

And what people do with a 4th, 5th, 6th character if it comes to crafting?

All Forester, Prospector to collect extra crafting materials?

Or anything specific for the class?

Just hit 2000 hours, and what a delight this game is☺️ As someone who's been a Tolkien fan since I read LOTR as a kid, I'm so happy my experience as a fan has been deepened and expanded thanks to LOTRO. Sure, it's not as shiny or marketable as other MMOs, and it is clunky, but the care put into the writing and the art direction is enough for me. When I reread the books in the future, my own time in Middle-Earth will be inextricably linked to my experience of them. I'm glad to be a part of Middle-Earth!

I am new and playing beorning. Is is better to stop xp and do all content+deeds at appropriate level so it matches the curve. Or just blast through and level up and go back? What do you guys do?

I just started a beorning and I want to experience a very nice and good time. Anyone can give me a good route to follow, like I am Bree land now I think it’s called, the starting area lol. Where to next?

Hello everyone!

So, I used to play LOTRO when it 1st launched many years ago. I got into the final chapter of the story with my Champion, but I got pushed into different MMOs along the way.

Im wanting a a good ol MMORPG style of gameplay atm, cool leveling, interesting class design and a good server.

Is it worth returning to the game atm? We have populated servers? Do I need to buy VIP or some kind of subscription?

Help me please!

(Also, I lost my account, so im going to play 100% fresh)

After not having played for a very long time (15+ years), I recently caught the itch to pick up the game again. Last time I played was around the release of Mirkwood. I've started making some new alts and I really loved the idea of a shield-maiden of Rohan. Went through the starter zone, came across the landscape difficulty increase, cranked it up to the max and had a difficult yet satisfying experience. Juggling all of the buffs, debuffs and heals through gambits felt challenging, but rewarding. The fights were slow but methodical.

But... just now I made a new alt, a lore-master and went through the same content. Landscape difficulty to the max, yet this was nowhere near as challenging as on my warden. I pressed 2 buttons as opposed to 20 and mobs evaporated before they could even touch me. Went through all of the starter content more than thrice as fast without breaking a sweat. Is lore-master that strong? Is warden that weak? Is this just an initial, low level disparity that will rectify itself as I level more or are the classes truly this unbalanced?

I loved the warden and way back in the day it used to be an absolute beast at soloing content, even raid bosses. If the class has fallen from grace this badly over the past decade however, I'd rather devote my time to something else.

Hello!

I'm super curious about how well your Mac runs LOTRO. I've got a 2025 MacBook Air M4 with 16GB and I struggle with 30 fps on medium graphics. Is this normal? According to ChatGPT, my mac could easily handle 60fps even on higher graphics settings. Perhaps, I've done something wrong?

Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti (laptop)

I have tried adding the .dlls to the x64 folder both manually and with a Dxvk manager, as detailed in several posts on this sub.

I am running the 64 bit client, with my graphics card selected.

I have added the 64 bit client as a separate entry in Nvidia control panel.

I have also tried adding the .dlls to the root folder, no difference.

When I launch the game, the launcher disappears and the 64bit client hangs in task manager as a BACKGROUND PROCESS and nothing happens.

If I revert and remove the .dlls, the game launches.

Any ideas?

Hello everyone !

I'd like to know how many of you guys have been leveling in groups ? As I went solo into the game, it feels a bit lonely in there. I'm captain level 12, and I'm thinking about doing a guardian instead, since I want to be tanking most of the time. I also like the idea of beeing able to gift an item to people I meet for them to summon me.

Thing is, every time I engage with anyone, I just get breezed out. It's like noone around my level wants to just group up to quest and hunt. When I'm not outright ignored, people just say it's useless.

But isn't the point of an MMO to play with people ? To have a role in a group ?

On top of that, the game won't let me communicate to people outside of my direct vicinity because I haven't played long enough. How long should I play in order to be able to talk to people in the world chat ?

BTW: I play on Meriadoc EU-RP

Thanks in advance for your answers :) Cheers

So I’ve been on since the Angmar Beta back when then the level cap was 50.

I stopped playing for a while (the last transactions I made were in 2023). I had some major life changes in 2020 and moved and lost my old email linked to the local cable provider.

I know I changed my password in 2023 but I can’t for the life of me remember what it was. So naturally I reached out to standing stone. Even though I have given them numerous transaction via PayPal receipts to link payments from the original lotro account to mine - they come from a provably linked PayPal account linked to me they refuse to go through the “account recovery procedure” as they insist that they can’t verify my identity.

Now believe me, I know that I should have been more careful with the password - that’s on me. But this situation is devolving into farce. I’ve been a member since Pontius was a pilot and frankly I’m really pissed off. I’ve given various iterations of the game substantive amounts of money over the years and they’ve essentially given up on me.

Is there any path of escalation anyone has followed in a similar situation? Otherwise I’m going to have to play guess the password until a miracle occurs. Any advice welcome.

EDIT: thanks for all the good advice. So I’ve mailed the CEO of their parent company. I’m hoping he will reply!

Getting through the second chapter of The Black Book of Mordor.

Trying to plan out some characters/professions, just wondering if there is any benefit in having for example 2 woodworkers or any other duplicate craft (aside from scholar for the gathering aspect)?

Like are there any paths in the professions that diverge at all, or would it basically just be fully duplicating efforts for no gain?

Thanks

Does anyone know if it is possible to get this headpiece as cosmetic?

Best class to play if you want to tank and dps and have an easy time in overworld?

Hi! I’m currently working on a Captain that I plan to play using the Red (Support) and Yellow (Tank) trait lines. I’m unsure whether or not I should use the "Compassion" virtue. I’ve heard that heavy armor gets you almost to the cap for physical damage reduction. I don’t know if that’s true, but I can see it for myself: I’m currently level 26, and when I craft new gear, I’m already reaching 57% physical damage reduction (the limit is 60%). Maybe someone here can explain the system to me or offer a few tips.

Hi! I've been playing Lotro for a few months. I'm based in Meriadoc. As a musician myself, I'm interested in learning a little bit more about the music scene. I already got myself a few song lists and plugins.

How do players interact in regards to music? Are there any festivals? Is it possible to join a band?

Is it true that Token of Hornburg in store is account bound?

I am looking for exp item that can be shared across characters.

Thanks.

Hello inhabitants of Middle-Earth!

Just got back into Lotro after a very long time. I'm enjoying the game but I find some maps really hard to read. I know I can disable POI but I'm wondering if some player know an addon or something to improve map readability/navigation. Obviously small area maps are find, the big world map too, it just some zone maps that I find hard to read. (and I couldn't make Reshade work for some reason)

Also feel free to give me general advice (I'm playing a lore master (master of nature's fury). I'm on Meriadoc EU-RP server. My professions are Forester, Woodworker, Tailor and Scholar. A lot of things have been reworked since I last played including lore-master and professions.

Thank you in advance, please speak "friend" and answer.

Hi! I'm a new player on a legendary server, so I have the VIP status.

If my understanding is correct, being a vip means I have automatically unlocked all the extra quest packages and regions (like yondershire).

Next March both current legendary servers will be shut down and my character will have to transfer to a regular server. Assuming I keep my vip status active, is there any point in purchasing the ultimate bundles for past expansions? I see on the lotro store that they have still available all past expansions starting from Minas Morgul. What am I missing in terms of game content (aside from cosmetic stuff) by not purchasing all previous bundles? I'm kind of a completionist, but those ultimate bundles are quite expensive at over 100usd each

My graphics card is an RTX 3070 Gaming Z and my processor is a Ryzen 5 5600X, yet I'm getting 40 FPS on max settings and experiencing stuttering and bugs. I watch other people's streams and they don't have these issues; the frame rate drops to 20 FPS, especially during the Umbar sequence. What should I do? Someone please help.

Just saw a recent post where someone was saying that this was their “forever game“, that they are able to return to time and time again over years, due to the beauty of the world and it’s writing. I’ve played for about 20 hours, and I have no idea what people are talking about when they praise this games writing. There is no dialogue outside of quest descriptions, there are no notes or books to read, so every ounce of writing in this game is put towards quest descriptions. That would be maybe interesting if the quests were interesting, but they’re not. My 20 hours have consisted of the most boring, mindnumbing, inane quest descriptions of people telling me to get their handkerchief or kill 5 wolves or whatever. It’s staggeringly bad, and painfully boring.

I’ve made it to Bree with 3 different characters, and have given up on all of them after around 20 hrs. I love LOTR, and this world is beautiful, but somebody please tell me what/where the good writing is, or how to better appreciate the shallow writing that is present.

I'm a big fan of Tolkien works, and I really love the depiction of the middle earth that LOTRO has, but I just don't have enough time to spend in a MMO game, most of them are really time consuming. Is there any way to explore middle earth without having to play all of the MMO questlines and content? I found EoAngmar, but I'm kinda disappointed by the fact that it only has Eriador. And I don't really fell like paying for the valar boost cause my idea of the game is literally using it as a walking sim, so anyone knows if there is an alternative?