If you play special mini-games known as Unlock the Mines of Moria, this guide will help you to answer most of the questions. We would like to thank tr0tsky for this great guide.

Unlock The Mines of Moria FAQ

Dear Lotro Fans, We at LotroLife.com have decided to make a new section - Fan Submissions (you can find it as a part of our left menu).  If you feel creative and want to share with us your screenshots, guides, comics, adventures or anything...Click here to read full

Dear Lotro Fans,
We at LotroLife.com have decided to make a new section - Fan Submissions (you can find it as a part of our left menu).  If you feel creative and want to share with us your screenshots, guides, comics, adventures or anything else you have found interesting, feel free to contact us, and we will be proud to publish your work.

Our first Fans' Contributions are beautiful Screenshots from Middle Earth. Click here and enjoy.

Epic Story Somewhere within the frozen northlands of Eriador lies the remaining piece of a puzzle that both the Free Peoples and the servants of the Witch-king seek to claim as their own... The Content team for The Lord of the Rings Online has been...Click here to read full

Epic Story

Somewhere within the frozen northlands of Eriador lies the remaining piece of a puzzle that both the Free Peoples and the servants of the Witch-king seek to claim as their own...

The Content team for The Lord of the Rings Online has been working day and night to bring you our latest free content update; Book 13: Doom of the Last-king! Due to the solo nature of the Bay of Forochel the majority of Book 13 will be soloable as well, but players should expect to have to team up for at least one chapter against the denizens of this icy region.

Doom of the Last-king was a very fun part of the Epic storyline to write; bringing in the Lossoth against one of their ancient enemies, Angmar. We wanted our players to see and visit a number of important locations and people in Book 13, including the ancient Dwarf-mines, the ill-fated elf ship, and maybe even get a glimpse of an ancient spirit whose deeds remained unfulfilled. Hopefully the Book 13 epic will provide a few twists and turns that you won't see coming!

 

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Reputation

 In Book 13, the Content team was finally able to do something we had been waiting a long time to do: implement a new region with its own reputation. Players will start off viewed as "Unfriendly" with the Lossoth but will progress quickly through the lower tiers of reputation by completing quests, collecting item drops, and completing a series of new daily reputation quests for the Lossoth. This is the first region where reputation was built in alongside the creation of the region, and we think that Forochel will be a showcase for how great our reputation system can really be.

Daily reputation quests are a new variety of quests that will allow players an alternate method of obtaining reputation (without collecting reputation item drops) after they have completed all of the non-repeatable quests that give out reputation. These quests can only be acquired after players have reclaimed one or more locations for the Lossoth, fighting back the invading Gauredain, an event that occurs periodically throughout the day.

Lossoth reputation rewards include unique armor sets, weapons, a new mount, housing decorations, and even a few class specific items! The Content team worked very closely with the Game Systems and World teams to ensure that players will be rewarded with a variety of different rewards at each reputation tier.

The Lossoth Culture

One of the biggest challenges in the development of Forochel was creating an entire culture out of a six paragraph reference in the appendix of The Lord of the Rings as well as other unique source material.*

Working with artists, world builders, and our own in-house lore-masters, we believe we have created a true-to-the-books take on the Snow-men of Forochel. Players will encounter NPCs that can run on the ice with bones on their feet (be nice to these guys; pushing them around isn't appropriate or funny), and sleds without wheels.

 

The Creatures of Forochel

What would a new region be without new creatures? A few months ago, members of the Content, World, and Systems team locked ourselves in a room and fought to the death over what monsters we would be making for Forochel.

After a few trips to the hospital, a visit from Human Resources, and the hire of a few replacement employees, we came up with a fairly comprehensive list of new monsters and skills for Forochel.

Forochel introduces six new monster types and a host of new monster skills. What are some of these new creatures? Players will encounter moose, winter-worms, and Gauredain war-mammoths, just to name a few. Stay tuned for more information on our other new monster types as we get closer to launching Book 13.

 

An eye for Soloability

With the release of Book 9, Evendim attempted to fill the solo gap for players in their mid-thirties. Noticing the same need in our higher level content, Forochel will provide a mostly solo experience for players from level 44 through 50. With over one hundred new quests and an area similar in size to the North Downs, players willing to dare the cold will have hours of adventures ahead of them in Book 13: Doom of the Last-king.

 

 

* The Very Secret Diary of Arvedui Last-king

With love to Cassandra Claire

Day One

Unhappy. Witch-king came over uninvited; didn't want to play board games. Decided to leave, should have brought more snacks.

Day Ten

Cold. Should have brought long underwear. Only company is whining Dúnadan. Maybe Dwarf-mines have cable?

Day Fourteen

Very bored. Palantíri couldn't get signal in Dwarf-mines. Snack supply drastically thin. Might go watch the ice skating championships these Northerners keep raving about.

Day Thirty

New Years Day; Disenfranchised. Círdan hasn't come to visit me yet even though I keep writing. Ice skating not as boring as I first thought. Ice beds colder than I thought.

Day Ninety

Haven't heard from Círdan in months. He couldn't even bother to come find me himself? Palantíri ominously silent; northern lights must be muddling their signal, tin foil antenna woefully ineffective.

Day Ninety One

Ship finally arrived. Ice Skaters think I should stay with them; very worried. Maybe Palantíri will get a better signal on the ship?

As mentioned here we are doing something funky with our headers. To see the latest change make sure you "full refresh" Lotro Life's home page. The header sequence is closing to an end and we're working on a bit of a different look for the...Click here to read full

As mentioned here we are doing something funky with our headers. To see the latest change make sure you "full refresh" Lotro Life's home page. The header sequence is closing to an end and we're working on a bit of a different look for the site.

Dear visitors we have released new LOTRO Transportation guide made by Arolf.  After talking to him he allowed us to publish this interesting guide on our site. We hope you will find it useful and funny as we did. Transportation Guide Click here to read full

Dear visitors we have released new LOTRO Transportation guide made by Arolf.  After talking to him he allowed us to publish this interesting guide on our site. We hope you will find it useful and funny as we did.

Transportation Guide

Check out the latest Dev Chat Transcript * Book13 notes mentioned new horse(s). Are these just another reskin or a completely new model? * Any plans for the future, that we are getting bigger bags for our inventory? * Could we have more kinship...Click here to read full

Check out the latest Dev Chat Transcript

* Book13 notes mentioned new horse(s). Are these just another reskin or a completely new model?
* Any plans for the future, that we are getting bigger bags for our inventory?
* Could we have more kinship functionalities? It could be: Custom titles, event calendar with signups eg. raids, kinship bank vaults, profession lists, kinship shop etc.
* Will there be new 40man raids?
* The Month of the Pack Space?
* When is a firm date for book 13

And much more...

For this weeks topic on Community forum the main discussion was the upcoming new region for Book 13, Forochel. Here are some new info: Players will be able to fish in the bay area in Forochel Most of book 13 takes place in Forochel; we...Click here to read full

For this weeks topic on Community forum the main discussion was the upcoming new region for Book 13, Forochel. Here are some new info:

• Players will be able to fish in the bay area in Forochel
• Most of book 13 takes place in Forochel; we have also added a public level 50 hunting dungeon, deeds and monster camps for level 50 players.
• The devs cannot say when we will be seeing Book 13 yet
• Forochel is mostly a solo area for levels 44-50
• Player manned boats are not being added in Book 13.
• There will not be a new raid in Book 13, though the Lossoth reputation does have three unique armor sets.
• We will encounter a famous lore character in Forochel.
• There will be lots to do from the low 40s on up.
• There will be a new mount variant in Forochel, you will have to wait and see what color it is
• For a region as big as Forochel, it was important that we have a full travel network in place. Travel in Forochel consists of normal "slow" travel routes and Reputation-gated Swift Travel Routes. Want to get into or across Forochel fast? You have to be in good standing with the Lossoth.
• There are also several new swift travel routes being added to existing Stable-masters, most of which also have a Reputation-gate to them.
• As for Crafting, it is very tied into the Lossoth Reputation Line and focused mostly on Metal smithing and Leather working. And the available facilities (two different superior facilities) will require a certain standing to use as well. Resources are similar to those you find in Eastern Angmar.
• Questing will get you a decent way into the Lossoth reputation tiers, I think you will be pleasantly surprised with how far questing will bring you. Keep an eye out for more information on this in the future.
• Reputation rewards will be given out at all tiers
• The Lossoth do not have a crafting reputation associated with them.
• The only connection to Forochel will be through Evendim.
• A few high level zones will connect to Forochel
• You will be able to see the sea. We have a way of limiting how far into it you will be able to travel.
• I don't believe any new traits are in the works; but I do know that more ranks in existing virtues will be available.
• Players will not get wearable snow-shoes
• Players will be getting cold weather armor sets as has been previously stated.
• No new pets, but a new lore-master pet variant will be available through the Lossoth reputation rewards.
• will it give some quests for the story about the ship which drop down in icebay of Forochel ? YES
• The Lossoth capitol village is a little bit bigger than Aughaire. There are a number of smaller Lossoth villages scattered across the entirety of Forochel but their main village is the one with the most interesting look and best set of town services.
• There are quests that will send you into it, but its intent isn't the same as Sarnur, Haudh Iarchith or Goblin-town. So - no rares, no unique deeds - just some simple dungeon crawling.
• Sarnur and Haudh Iarchith were experiments with dynamic spawning and creating a public dungeon space that could support multiple fellowships. This dungeon for Book 13 is not intended to fill the same kind of roe that the Rep dungeons do.
• players will be vectored into Forochel from other content areas around level 44.
• You will be able to AFK without being killed by the cold; just watch out for whatever lives in it!
• Forochel will have its own unique music
• How many Chapters for Book 13? Eleven, but some chapters have multiple parts. The epic quest line has sixteen quests in it.
• Currently players do not leave tracks in the snow.
• The men that inhabit Forochel are called the Lossoth, and they are a bit like hillmen, but dressed a bit warmer
• The Mustering Horn is a new component to the various Campsites found on landscape. Anywhere with a bindable campfire will have a Mustering Horn as well. It isn't a player inventory item.
• the weather and creatures of Forochel are capable of doing long-lasting bad things to you and you will be able to counter those bad things by huddling up to the various scattered sources of warmth in the region.
• Forochel will have a large number of solo quests for players levels 44-50, but it is also a very large region, close to the size of the North Downs. Both questers and explorers should be very happy with Forochel!
• Turbine will not be adding any underwater gameplay in Forochel and doesn't have any plans to for the foreseeable future.
• Lossoth NPcs will be able to skate and push sleds along, but players will not.
• Turbine FX team has created a very cool new blizzard effect for use in Forochel (and other wintry locations).
• YES We will see quests related to those who helped/fought Arvedui in Forochel

When the Great Angmar Revamp came out in Book 12, a number of armour sets were added to quests in the region. As sometimes happens, though, we were a little overzealous with the plan for new armour sets, and they ended up on many quests that were...Click here to read full

When the Great Angmar Revamp came out in Book 12, a number of armour sets were added to quests in the region. As sometimes happens, though, we were a little overzealous with the plan for new armour sets, and they ended up on many quests that were already in-game in some form prior to Book 12.

This meant that it was possible to complete these quests before Book 12 came out, and if you did, you would never be able to finish some of these new armour sets. Few things can frustrate so well as uncompleteable armour sets, judging from my PM inbox (love ya, everybody!), so we started looking for a solution.

The one we've settled on, and which will be coming in Book 13, are a number of vendors who will carry each of the pieces of these armour sets. You'll be able to purchase individual pieces of these sets, and if you've completed the quest that rewarded them, you'll be able to equip them as usual. These won't be cheap, as in many cases these would be a double-dip on quest rewards, but if you've been carrying two pieces out of a three piece set, this should let you complete your collection with a minimum of hassle.

Vendors for these armour sets will be in the Buth Sankhas and Buth Luikh in Aughaire, and in Gabilshathur.

Made Of Lions
The Lord of the Rings Online Team
Turbine, Inc.

Dear Lotro Adventurers, here is a new secret place, that we have to explore in a "HOBBIT AND SQUIRRELS" sort of way :) We have really enjoyed our last adventure, so if you are ready for a new one, here it is: A screenshot is taken in...Click here to read full

Dear Lotro Adventurers, here is a new secret place, that we have to explore in a "HOBBIT AND SQUIRRELS" sort of way :) We have really enjoyed our last adventure, so if you are ready for a new one, here it is:

A screenshot is taken in Ered Luin, lower west corner of the map, and from the map it likely is not an area you would normally be able to get to.
It's somewere south under the words "to grey havens".

So the question is: Can we get there?


Source

If you are planning to buy a Kinship house just for yourself  here is the main idea:  Make your own kinship Fill it with alts so it stays open Wait until you get to rank 7 But you need to have at least 6...Click here to read full

If you are planning to buy a Kinship house just for yourself  here is the main idea: 

• Make your own kinship
  
• Fill it with alts so it stays open
  
• Wait until you get to rank 7

But you need to have at least 6 active players to form a Kinship in order to buy a Kin House. So with your 5 alts you would still be at least 1short.
You also have to be rich enough to pay upkeep.

The other way is to buy this Kin house

For Sale Kinship House. (Eldar Server)

Due to falling numbers of players we wish to sell are Kinship inclusive of House with 3 chests. This is a level 7 kinship. It is sited in the Bree Homesteads in Napgrove neighbourhood. Open to reasonable offers. Please note it would take around 20gp for purchase of house and chests.

Leave reply here.

You can't sell houses to other players, but you can hand over kin leadership to another player so then they become owner/leader and have full access rights to the Kin as long as the 6 chrs can be kept within the kin!