New player here. I am here because I had this game for some time but never played it. Been a bit stressed lately and I saw the movies again not so long ago.

I just want to play as a hobbit and live in the shire, chill, have a house, and occationally travel about. I dont have any interest in any subscription. Is that possible in this game? Any quests I should do to help me achieve this or to unlock anything that might help me play like this?

I just wanna escape to the Shire :). Thank you.

Well just only Divide and Conquer as varags of khanid and some empire total war mod then well soon Vic 3 dlc , phantom blade zero and Hoi4 the 2nd sun mod.

I really want brawler but strapped for cash atm - sick child 😅

Anyway, is there a fast and/or cheap way to get those 1k lotro points? I really want this class haha. Hopefully there is a “trick” or so 😅

Just curious what others think about biome diversity within a zone. Which zone has the most? I feel like Enedwaith or The Great River both have a variety of settings in a single zone due to the fact that they were released as stand alone zones long, long ago. Most of the games big biomes are broken up into zones, particularly if included in an expansion.

I’ve just started playing LOTRO and have created a few characters. My highest-level character is currently an Elf Hunter, but I’ve also created a High Elf Champion. I’m curious about how much race actually matters in terms of performance. I started playing LOTRO because I’m taking a break from ESO and because I love The Lord of the Rings (who doesn’t?). I’ve read that Men are generally the best race for certain classes, but how noticeable is the difference in practice? Are we talking about a significant DPS increase, or is it more in the range of 2%?

Any tips for a beginner are also very welcome! I’ve been playing ESO for 11 years, so I’m no stranger to MMOs, but I’d love to hear about any LOTRO-specific mechanics, things worth prioritizing early on, or common mistakes to avoid when starting fresh.

But my plan is to just take it easy thru the Epic and pretend I’m a traveling storyteller of sorts following the Fellowship on its journey. I do have my main which is a Dwarf Guardian and it’s lvl 49 atm so I don’t plan on going past what my guardian is on currently.

However, I’m being informed that the Minstrel guide on lotrohq isn’t the best for the Red line and was given other alternatives. But if anyone has any recommendations on what to go for main stat, sub stats, virtues, etc please lemme know 😁

hi me and my friends just got into the beautiful game and we are a fellowship of four (captain, champion, and burglar). i’m trying to choose a class and warden calls to me but seems so intimidating and i don’t wanna waste time learning its complex mechanics if it’s not a viable tank cuzz i want that option. i’m open to guardian, and am also interested in hunter (i have a level 14 hunter rn) and mariner if i don’t go the tank route. any advice would be sooo welcome thank u!

Hello all, I got myself a razer tartarus pro as my right hand has tendon issues (yay for me).

Any advice setting it up?

Hey all, been playing on the Steam Deck for a couple months now (clunky but doable) and I was wondering if there was a way to move the UI for the location pop ups that show up when you enter a new area (ie Now Entering Archet)

I’ve tried changing the UI with the various UI tool, but can’t seem to find that particular option if it exists. Thanks in advance!

I dont know if i should buy a bundle or do the free-to-play. I know there has to be some downside to ftp; there always is. If i want to play the 64 bit do I have to pay for that? I have no idea where to start. Any words of wisdom are appreciated

Hey, I just logged into the game and saved that town from some uruks. Now I'm wondering if there is a way to scale the ui up bc everything is kinda small

Hello! I started playing LOTRO a few days ago and still trying to manage with the UI and system. Maybe it's too soon to ask because I'm still level 10 or so but I'm very curious since the videos that popped on YouTube mostly showing people do raids.

In FF14, there's Duty Finder, where you went to a dungeon instance as four-people party but most of the dungeons or trials are guided through the main story quest. It also becomes the main way to level up a job/class. Does LOTRO also have instances where you party up with random people? How does the levelling system works?

Also where is the main area for players to hang out? I'm guessing I'm still way off level from reaching the main hub.

I am currently thinking about downloading The Lord Of The Rings Online.
I am a Diehard Lotr fan and Ive always wanted to play Games set in Tolkien’s world but only now that I have the chance to do so.
Would you recommend getting on LOTRO as a person who has never played an MMO before ? ( not sure if it’s an MMO or not lol ) and if yes, i could use some tips and tricks for my first… playthrough ?

Project Questa is an experimental text-to-speech utility designed to bring spoken dialogue to MMORPGs, initially focusing on The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO).

The software uses DXcam screen capture, OpenCV and Tesseract OCR to recognise dialogue displayed in the game. Rather than relying on OCR to transcribe every word accurately, it searches a locally indexed database of text extracted from the current LOTRO client. Once a reliable match is found, the complete original dialogue is retrieved and passed to the Kokoro AI speech synthesis engine for narration.

If no reliable match is found, Questa falls back to conventional OCR transcription. The aim is to provide accurate, natural-sounding spoken dialogue with minimal delay, without modifying the game or requiring an in-game plugin.

At present the current build is using a generic voice and focusing on refining the production pipeline and reducing latency. All elements used in Project Questa are open source.

The long term aspiration is to have a simple, functional GUI to set up custom voices based on player preference and to be able to download from GitHub a revised dialogue text file each time LOTRO is updated.

NB This is a very early build so there are obviously bugs to be addressed. The priority at present is to get the dialogue narrated promptly. Once the overall process has been fine tuned, then I'll focus on a voice library via Voicebox.

Hello,

My focus will be endgame group content. I have a Mariner and Warden. There's aspects to both servers that I like and I can't make up my mind. I've spent a little time on each server and they both have pros and cons.

Glamdring: LFF seems active. More people. More lag (bad for Warden / shouldn't hurt Mariner).
Peregrin: LFF seems a little less active. Quiet. Less lag (good for Warden).

I'm leaning towards Peregrin but I don't want to get there and struggle to find a party.

I hear about joining a kinship, but I also don't see many kinships recruiting on either server.

Would greatly appreciate your thoughts since I'll be spending a lot of time on the server I choose.

I'm curious about that. Is it your tank, because he decides where to place stuff and which mob group to attack ? Is it your healer, who decides when everyone is good yo go, is it your captain because he has the lore rank ?or someone else entirely ?

Just curious

Hey all! Just thought I’d showcase my mead hall. Think I made final upgrades to the design and layout of it!
Hope you enjoy!!

Hello,

What can I do with my lvl 105 LM, beside questing please? I forgot over the years.

Thanks for any tips !

Hi all! I've just started playing LOTRO and I've never played an MMO before. I chose a High Elf Rune-keeper. Do you have any tips for a beginner?

Edit: Thank you all so much for all the responses! I wasn’t expecting any of that! I’m gonna listen to y’all and enjoy the ride as it goes! See you in there!

I like playing multiple role role classes and want to tank at end game. But beoring form switching gets on my nerves and the same time time captain low dps with leveling is bothering me too. I know guard is there with tank/dps roles. Any ideas or suggestions would be helpful, I play on Sting. Thank you.