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Over the past 15 years, Lord of the Rings Online’s rendition of Middle-Earth has grown steadily with the addition of new zones. One player, named Dolmande, puts just how much the virtual world has grown from 2007 to 2022 into perspective with a gif that shows when the zones were added and how they eventually came together to form the [...]

The Lord of the Rings Online developers continue to work on attaining the perfect balance for Before the Shadow’s new Delving System in the latest update for the long-running Lord of the Rings MMORPG. Update 34.1.1 went live earlier this week with various adjustments to the new mission difficulty system, which included tweaks for several debuffs, updated icons, and a [...]

Standing Stone Games is spreading holiday cheer in Lord of the Rings Online as it brings the Yule Festival back for its yearly run in Middle-Earth. While this year’s wintry activities will be the same as previous years, including the return of Winter-Home, players can look forward to a whole host of new rewards as revealed by Community Manager Cordovan [...]

The latest update for Lord of the Rings Online, titled Before the Shadow, is officially live today. We've covered this expansion in previous posts but here's a quick rundown of what's new: Questing from levels 1 to 32 in addition to four new Books for new characters Two new regions: Swanfleet and Cardolan A new Six-person Instance A new Skirmish [...]

Lord of the Rings Online’s Before the Shadow update was supposed to launch earlier this week but has been pushed back to November 15th to make sure that everything is working as it should. To make that happen, Standing Stone Games will be spending the final week before launch putting the expansion through its paces and polishing it up for [...]

Standing Stone Games has started public testing of the next Lord of the Rings Online expansion, Before the Shadow, on the Bullroarer server. The expansion will open up two new low-level zones – Cardolan and Swanfleet – along with a whole host of new features and improvements that were kept as a surprise right up until the start of testing. [...]

Standing Stone Games follows up its earlier preview of Before the Shadow’s new Cardolan region with new lore snippets and screenshots of the upcoming zone. “Known as the Land of Red Hills due to the ruddy hue of its rocky moors, Cardolan has also been reddened by much bloodshed over the centuries. War and death emptied this land, once a [...]

Autumn has officially arrived in Middle-Earth which means that its once again time to celebrate the end of harvest season alongside Halloween with the return of Harvestmath in Lord of the Rings Online. “Fall is considered by many to be the greatest of seasons, with the weather fair and the foliage shifting from green to a vast array of Autumn [...]

Standing Stone Games is taking Lord of the Rings Online players and fans on a guided tour of the new Cardolan zone, one of the two new zones that will be opening when Before the Shadow officially launches. Cardolan is a lush, grassy region located to the south of Lone-Lands and Bree-Land, near the southern edge of Eriador. The centerpiece [...]

With the Minstrel class revamp now live in Lord of the Rings Online, Standing Stone Games might be eyeing the Guardian for its next class shakeup. Lead Systems Designer Orion, posted his musings on the matter on the official forums this weekend which included possible changes to the tank class, including the replacement of the Guardian’s initial skills and a [...]