My Complete Lord of the Rings Online Story

Hearing the news that Dwarrowdelf is being shut down is deeply saddening to me. I literally grew up on this server… It has been everything to me. Across three computers, I have accumulated over twelve thousand personal screenshots of my gameplay. I will miss each and every one of you – you all have a special place in my heart.
I will be quitting Lord of the Rings Online come the middle of August. This game has been a piece of my life that I will never forget; I will carry it with me throughout my ‘real life’ adventures. Furthermore, I regret many of the choices I’ve made while playing this game. I have lied to many of my friends about things to which I am still troubled by to this very day. I am deeply sorry if I have indirectly caused harm to anyone.

Here is my story that I have been adding to for several years now.

The Neomoth Era

Neomoth was born very early in 2011 on the Dwarrowdelf server. He was just a small level 1 Elf Guardian when he set out on his travels throughout Middle Earth. Neomoth slayed many foes, helped allies, and had a blast discovering new areas of the game with his gang of friends!
Neomoth attained level 65 in the early summer of 2011. Having spent all night leveling to the cap with his best friend Killock, and he felt beyond amazing when he dinged 65 at the crack of dawn. He felt like he could actually contend with level 65 ‘Ainur’ vets he saw in the Twenty-First Hall like Viduo, Fuzion, Borken, Zidia, Jacbo, Doomsie, Atador, Banoon Caspur, Ohpra, Nvi, Tarithuil, Toa, and Floydan, to name just a few. Neomoth looked up to these guys as true heroes.
On his travels he met many kind people and joined many wonderful kins (and chat channels… RIP GLFF.) such as Blades of Serenity, Lords of the Mearas, Shadow, Reforged, and Hope is Kindled. While in these kinships, he started making lasting bonds with many of his kinsmen. In addition, Neomoth received ample praise from his fellow guardians and level 65’s alike (though, most were probably just trolling him, unbeknownst to him at the time ?)
However, Neomoth soon decided it was time to put away his Guardian for a while and unleash his inner Dwarf! Because, well… Neomoth knew he kind of stunk at Guardian.

The Zepphyr Era

Zepphyr was born in the summer of 2011, in the vast Grey Mountains of Middle Earth, a meek and humble level 1 Dwarf Rune-keeper. Little did he know that in only a matter of time, he would soon become one of the most significant dwarven Rune-keepers of his time. Zepphyr worked hard to climb to the top. Inspired mostly by Viduo, Zepphyr followed in his footsteps and learned closely from Viduo’s teachings. He was very kind, helping Zepphyr refine his Rune-keeper skills. Zepphyr visited the Ettenmoors with his good friend Niben when he finally reached level 75, and together they crashed and burned, killed and rejoiced, laughed out loud, and had a the most awesome time together (bromantic, huh?). Niben and Zepphyr became the best of friends, and to this day, still talk on a regular basis. They joined BALROG RIDERS together around the same time, and shared in many lasting experiences.
While in BALROG RIDERS (BR), Zepphyr befriended many new people. He became very close friends with Skytzogloin, Homesar, Aellor, Traur, Jak, Letiredor, Eruan, Oriadoc, Glumstangin, Celabain, and Belvelgar (once again, just briefly naming a few.) Yet, he still kept in touch with his older friends like Eomen, Emogan, Galleott, Rainlegacy, Frenzy, Ohsnap, Cardal, He, and Threndinir. From the folks in BALROG RIDERS, Zepphyr was able to hone his skills even more, and learned a lot about his class from Skytzogloin and Belvelgar. He also received his first taste of raiding with a full group of 12 and 24 people (Raids such as Ost Dunhoth, Draigoch, Barad Guldur, etc.)! With this, he learned leadership, patience, honesty, and compassion towards his fellows.

Z ‘n’ Z

In 2012, Zepphyr’s life was changed when one day in the Ettenmoors, he was talking to a fellow kinmate, Zeva. He received an alarming call from a friend who got tragically hit by a car and needed someone to help him get to a hospital. Feeling much sympathy for her new friend, Zeva mailed Zepphyr a letter expressing her condolences.
Quite soon, the pair became the best of friends. They did everything together, from leveling alts and partying at the current festival, to going to the Ettenmoors and participating in raids (as an aside: I think at one time the two of us both had practically every class in the game at level cap…). The two knew they were instantly in love. Zeva and Zepphyr formed the ultimate group, known as “Z ‘n’ Z” by many a Dwarrowdelfian. Together, Zepphyr and Zeva joined up with all of their friends in Death’s Bane (formed shortly after some internal disputes in BALROG RIDERS by Karoc, Dulli, and Chickendorf) and embarked on many new adventures together! While in Death’s Bane, they also met some new faces: Welthrop, Chux, Jonp, Lom, Mimboril, Lamstannelm, and many others. They also played their fearsome wargs together (Ironic and Iorynn) but most of all, they shared a rather beautiful love for quite some time. Zepphyr was nothing without Zeva, the two were inseparable.

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A year passed since the two first became friends, and Iorynn had begun to slowly grow tired of the game. She preoccupied herself with many activities outside of LotRO. I slowed down my gameplay somewhat, though I was convinced by Iriella to begin playing on a new server… a server called ‘Brandywine…’

My First Taste of Brandywine

I wanted to try something new. So, in the summer of 2013, I was introduced to a completely new server with practically double the number of active people on Dwarrowdelf! So many opportunities! I decided to make an Elf Rune-keeper (of course I named him Zepphyr), modeled after the race of my first toon, Neo, and my favorite class, the Rune-keeper. Taking my knowledge of the game and the Rune-keeper class with me, I befriended many really cool people on this new server, many of which were members of my new kinship, Defiant, including Tarpelion, Ashiiru, Brannir, Elweenn, Guthblade, Kunidana, Chily, Morso, Arfy, Dagorroth and Legendas, to name just a handful (some of which, I still chat with outside of the game on a regular basis!).
I had a lot of fun on this new server named Brandywine. The unexplored territory soon became my home-away-from-home, so-to-speak. I learned a lot about the Ettenmoors, my class, and how to effectively interact with people of all different abilities, backgrounds, and personalities. I ‘ranked-up’ my new Rune-keeper here, enjoyed many great times with my new comrades, but I began to feel a little homesick after several months on Brandywine. Something just did not feel right.
Over the course of the next couple months during late 2013, Iorynn and I parted ways, and I took my leave of LotRO for several months.

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The Airen Era

(or should I say, “Aira”… haha..hah…ha..lol)
I came back to the game early January of 2014. For some reason, of which I cannot put my finger on, I had this burning urge to play my burglar, Airen.
At this time, the new level cap was 95. I had a lot on my plate trying to level up all my characters to the cap. Motivated by my long-time friends Anessen and Malinuil, I decided to focus much of my time and energy on the game to perfecting my Burglar. I never really had a good grip on the class, so I hadn’t previously played my Burglar all too seriously until then. Malinuil and I worked together, tweaking our rotations and fine-tuning our skills as we explored the class.

I joined Knights of the White Cross, in which, I met many kind souls and thoroughly enjoyed my time, tagging along with my kinsmen on their various adventures.
A couple months went by and I stumbled upon some familiar names: Belvelgar and Jak from BR; Ohpra from Ainur; Vahnya from Explorers of Middle-Earth; and Aglaeka, Chux, and Hamond from Death’s Bane. These fabulously foreign fellows were good friends of mine that I had been acquainted with over the course of my journey in Middle-Earth. It felt great to be reunited with my old companions at last. I joined their kinship, Asylum, and together we raided, PvPed, and had the greatest of fun, competitively sharing in our similar play-styles and helping each other out tremendously. Though most members of Asylum had known reputations on Dwarrowdelf, the server honestly wouldn’t have been the same without ‘em. Admit it.

Present/What’s Next for Me?

As of December 2014, Airen has since transferred over to Brandywine for yet another adventure on the game’s largest server. Having to rename his character to ‘Aenise’, he has reacquainted himself with many of his past friendships he had, while making tons of new ones as well. He has been trying hard to make a name for himself on Brandywine, and has been channeling his efforts to become one of the best Burglars the server has seen in recent years. He has helped found a kinship called Enthalpy (yes, a play-on-words of ‘Entropy’) through which he has met a variety of new players with a gamut of vivid personalities: Exclusiive, Lorrenef, Cottonbottom, Helleh, Evarred, Meta, Burger, Digglez, Afluk, Damyou, Gandolfien, Luknarnakh, and others. Aenise has also leveled a Champion on Brandywine, and has been having a lot of fun testing the many capabilities of the class.

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"The end of the beginning, because after all, our journey has just begun."

Thank you so much for all the fun times on this amazing game. You are all such amazing people, and you will ALL be missed, even if I did not include your name in my story.
Live life to the fullest! Seize the day! Cherish the present! BE the person you are truly made to be, and prove it through your actions. I hope I have been able to contribute to a positive gameplay experience during my years on this game, and that everyone whom I have come in contact with will have fond memories of our time together. :)

LONG LIVE DWARROWDELF, YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. YOUR MEMORIES WILL LIVE ON IN THE HEART OF EVERY DWARROWDELFIAN.

Feel free to post your own personal story below, or comment about mine. Share your own thoughts and feelings on this thread, so we all can revel in the past with our own nostalgic anecdotes. Also, I encourage you to post some screenshots you've accumulated over the years of happy times or your personal accomplishments!

With the most sincere love,
Neomoth, the Dwarrowdelfian.

So many feels! The history runs deep for many of us. DD will live on in our hearts!

- Sappy Bunny

It certainly is a strange feeling having our home server finally close.
Having lived similarly through the SoM Era up till U16 as well (with a rather large vacation during RoR) I can say it truly was an honour to fight with you in the moors, side by side or even against one another (though naturally I had to impose a self nerf on my godly wl dps whenever I was solo as not to scare all the freeps away). You certainly excelled in every class I saw you play and had the chance to fight against.

As for Torth's Story
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I was born an oversized green reaver and as I grew stronger I knew that I was destined to be the best doughnut deals-man the Ettenmoors ever did see. I set shops up for creeps throughout different Ettenmoors venues: TA, TR, Lugz, LC, DG, and even CM. But wherever I went the nasty freepsies disturbed my sales. Then I decided I must become the greatest guitar orc of all the land, little did I know air guitars didn't actually make noise, so I couldn't draw in a crowd. So I reevaluated my purpose and it finally dawned on me: what I saw in my vision wasn't a doughnut it was the end of a dollar-store bubble making wand! I was truly destined to be the oversized-green-reaver-fairy-princess crooblet! From that day on I went about blowing magical fairy bubbles for all of the Ettenmoors (strangely enough the freepsies seemed rather upset when I would, but I couldn't let them crush my dreams, much less pop my bubbles!!) After the great success of my bubble blowing parties I finally was able to open up a meals-on-wheels doughnut shop to help keep creeps around the Ettenmoors at full morale. Furthermore, I was even capable of attracting the whole of the Ettenmoors with my fabulous fairy princess tiara, aromatic donuts, air guitar playing jams, and of course my irresistible dancing orc booty.
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In all seriousness though I played from early Siege of Mirkwood up to the Rise of Isengard expansion on a Black Arrow known as Ishootufoo. During that time I was basically mute: I never really talked in any chat though I played with and against many big names throughout that time period. Personally I played with BAMF a lot of the time and though I received a formal invitation I never actually joined (I was too inconsistent in when I'd log; admittedly that didn't change much over the years). I recall duoing a lot with 'croobs' of that era which consequently later went on to become server bests. Naturally, being mute, mediocre, and inconsistent my BA wasn't remembered. Around the time RoI rolled around so did unlocking creep classes with TP, once I had enough TP I unlocked a R0 WL slot, instead of my r5 or r6 BA slot. Why you ask? I'm not entirely certain though I think at the time it was because it shared similarities to my freep captain and main: Aldereon. During RoI I became fairly well known because I was one of the few moors healers that played somewhat often (there were certainly fantastic healers but they logged on less often), but more than that I healed you regardless if you were grouped with me or not (that's probably a good thing because admittedly I was solo for 70% of my game time in the moors, mind you I didn't solo wander often but following stealthed wargs isn't always ideal for an obese stealthless creep). Around the release of RoR I disappeared from LOTRO and went to GW2 where I joined Ainur on the same side of the battle field for quite some time before coming back to LOTRO for pvmp (this time even less consistent than before! Yes it's possible.) and more so for my kin which I lead on freepside. On freepside I originally was part of a kin known as Defenders of Middle Earth (or DO-ME as one Slothypxl pointed out to me), after a short while DOME became inactive and me and my friend (the one who started me on LOTRO) co-founded a very small close-knit kin, the Civitas Acies (My terrible Latin...). As my old kin, the Civitas Acies, died off (having lasted from February 2011 to November 2014, nearly 4 years) I became increasingly inactive in LOTRO and only occasionally came out to the moors. At the present I achieved R8 in my BA who I played only for a few months and R9 in my WL (which happened before this 'free' heals infamy nonsense. Actually healing infamy doesn't seem like a bad I idea, I'm only messing around). I've seen red maps, I've seen blue maps, I've seen the map get big makeovers, and I've seen massive chunks of the community come and leave.
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Whatever the case DD has always been my LOTRO home which I always came back to.
Back in the day (*old man Torth waving his cane here*) you'd get quitting forums all of the time (still do actually) and I'd always respond the same way: "One does not simply leave DD"<Insert Boromir meme here>. It has come to my attention recently that, perhaps, I was saying this phrase the wrong way all together. Instead what I meant to be saying was, "DD does not simply leave you." <insert soviet Russia joke here?>. Jests aside, I've had fantastic experiences on this server and with its community both freepside and creep. If over my years of play I have offended any of you I assure you those weren't my intentions (well except for when I was trolling... but I consider that more along the lines of friendly banter...) and I apologise. While we may have been labeled the 'troll' server I honestly found this server to be the best of any I've played on despite all the other servers claiming to be the 'friendliest' or the 'best'.

Naturally I could list off all the ladies and gents I've had the great opportunity to play with as it's always nice to see people list your name as a good memory on the forums, however I'm afraid I'd forget a fair few that truly deserve to be on that list even if they were a complete croob and/or froob. Not wanting to leave anyone's contribution to Dwarrowdelf out I offer this forum's toast. -Here's to you DD!- ./salute.

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Torth's giant orc heart is QQing for the end of DD, however
on the brightside, I think that this is official proof that creeps have won the Ettenmoors and have finally reclaimed Moria (Dwarrowdelf) from those small bearded fellows.

It's been swell fellas, I probably won't play consistently, but I imagine i'll play LOTRO to it's end. I'm looking forward to seeing where you all head off to as I still want to pvmp with some old names after this merging nonsense haha. Cheers!

-Torthrak HealznKillz / Aldereon Solusest

Awesome story, Torth. Was truly a pleasure playing with you these many years. You were a fantastic War-leader, BA, and air guitarist! You will be missed!

Keep the stories coming! Long live DD!

Fun trip down memory lane. You shall be remembered Zepph!

Ahhh I wish we became friends much earlier than we did :( Ur a pretty cool guy sometimes and thats nice. Keep in touch ;o




P.S Your brandy burgs name, A nus, is terrifying

I remember being in a kin with you and another guard named redsox. I can't even remember how long ago this was.

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Ahhh I wish we became friends much earlier than we did :( Ur a pretty cool guy sometimes and thats nice. Keep in touch ;o




P.S Your brandy burgs name, A nus, is terrifying

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Hamond, ps me with you guys vent, I forgot the info.


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My story:

In 2007 a little dwarf started his journey but stopped playing because of school and college. Then, at 2010, I bought my first stuff in lotro making me a premium user and then a VIP. At 60-65, I was part of the crimson brotherhood, a small kin with very friendly and good players. Once I hit the level cap, I used to raid with Dennis, V, Ohsnap and company. By the end of 65 I was a respected guardian that even though had no raiding kin used to raid and run raids with raiding kins when they're were missing tanks. During the last months of 65, I became friends with agtug, the boss dwarf and my guard mentor and the crimson brotherhood had received some new additions that are part of Dwarrow's history: Marvi and Gamarin.

75 was my favorite level because of how much content and how much fun I had. Came to know a lot more people at that level cap and I was a pain in the ### for most of them because I love raiding and sometimes to a fault. Wasn't living a very good phase at the time so I had huge mood swings too. Still, the gammamakemeasammich pug was the most fun I had with any group. Some of the names in this group: Agtug, Aktis, Gamarin, Eomen(Xellor), Marvi, Lythea, Dennis, Sno, Guido, Zulubeast, Pat, Zub, Norfrid, Thren's burg, hamond, Galla, Easiel, Katon, Jonp, Stocky, etc(too many people for me to remember them all, sorry). So many great players, we were basically a raiding kin but without the name and we were all from different kins. We accomplished much and had our nice share of drama and QQ, which for the best or the worse, is part of any mmorpg.

By the middle of 75, I decided to try pvp for the first time, first with my guard and then with my rune-keeper. Guard dps was bloody boring and my movement was very bad duo to pveing only, so I just stopped. My RK though, was so much fun at 75. I used pve gear because of the bonuses and xardas always had a hard time keeping my squishy dwarf alive but I had some memorable kils with my fire RK and back then, the only fire rks were me and Marvi. I used to 1 vs 1 with fire all the time and most of the time lose. But I didn't care, I was determined to become one of the best fire rks. My true love though was healing with rks. Powerful healing with great animations and it helped me a lot the fact that I had a tank in a way to become a good healer. I also had help from veteran healers like Shaera's rk(best player overall I've ever seen in lotro) or Lythea. Soon after hitting my lvl cap I was also a respect rk dwarf, hated by many creeps that couldn't kill me when healing since I was so squishy in dps mode. At the end of 75, I also started to get along with belve, bo(on his rk) and so on.

Sadly, at the end of 75, some of these great players left and I decided to create my own raiding kin. Ceaseless was its name. Most of the players that used to group in gammamakemeassamich joined my kin while a couple joined reforged. 85 wasn't that great but still had some raids. At this level cap, I met one of the best players and brightest minds strategically and by far the best burg I've ever known, Ophra. Whatever game you're playing man, you're a blast to group up with. You prioritize tactics over zergs, discipline over carelessness and I loved it. You and Presdas helped me a lot mantaining ceaseless alive for most of 85. During 85 I decided to raise a LM since I had a tank, a dps/healer and needed a cc class. Of course, I bloody loved the class and started using it as much and even more than my other 2, raiding aside.

At the end of 85, Ceaseless disbanded and a few of us joined other great players like Aglaeka, jak, bo, belve and others. Some of those people might have a bad rep but they're all cool guys with deep knowledge about their classes and the game mechanics. We cleared BFE t2c before everyone on our server, and I think we were the only group to heal it with 2 rks only and no mini, and a solo tank. (Me and belve healing, agtug tanking).

95 came and pve died. I raged at the started but eventually understood that it was time to dedicate myself only to pvp cuz pve was garbage. Had a lot of fun with Asylum during these times. At the end, our server was truly dead and I decided to join Brandy. But before that, I had a lot of fun with my crazy no ####s given reaver, kraumattack, that since r1 would go against a raid just to get a kill and die trying. Jasiak, weltrop's reaver, belve's reaver and many more reavers were beast too. Aglaeka's WL is the best WL I've ever seen too.

My first months on brandy were kind of bad. Too many zerg babies, joined a kin with more than 100 people that never grouped for anything, was mostly a solo player against tons of zergs and raids. I transfered my LM and reaver only, as tanks and healers weren't needed at the time(a lot I mean) and I didn't like the tree trait changes on them. After that, I decided to quit the game for half a year and when I came back I joined achilee's heel, a very small but really good kin. Oromay, you're/were(don't know if he's playing lotro on E or just ESO) a great player and pvp leader. You remind me a lot of Ophra in everything. Our kinmembers were great, had aktis there too and we used to roll 20 creeps with groups of 5-6 of us, at dg, at the oc rocks, etc. Using the terrain and playing strategies and timing our cc/dps at the right time, exactly like in Asylum.


Sadly most of them left the game or are in other server and I stayed on Brandy. I'm now part of a kin named Illuminati and for the first time it's a kin where 90% of the players are europeans. All my previous kins used to be mostly US people and Aussie, with some europeans like me, agtug and aktis. It's a fun kin with good players but right now, I feel nothing towards this game. The new instances are easily farmable, although DoS t2c is actually a cool run, the pvp right now is complete and utter garbage thanks to the new map that invites zergling over anything and moors is almost always empty. My computer is dying as hell and I don't think it will survive till the end of the year.



Regardless, I tried many times to quit this game and never could. I don't do that mistake anymore. I might take breaks, even big ones, but truly moving on, I don't think I can.


DD had an awesome story and if I forgot people forgive me as there's too many of you. I will still play till the pc dies for good, and I would like to play with all of you again.

PS: pc is actually dying faster than I thought. Don't think i'll be playing anytime soon. Oh well.

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Still, the gammamakemeasammich pug was the most fun I had with any group. Some of the names in this group: Agtug, Aktis, Gamarin, Eomen(Xellor), Marvi, Lythea, Dennis, Sno, Guido, Zulubeast, Pat, Zub, Norfrid, Thren's burg, hamond, Galla, Easiel, Katon, Jonp, Stocky, etc(too many people for me to remember them all, sorry). So many great players, we were basically a raiding kin but without the name and we were all from different kins. We accomplished much and had our nice share of drama and QQ, which for the best or the worse, is part of any mmorpg.

Sadly, at the end of 75, some of these great players left and I decided to create my own raiding kin. Ceaseless was its name. Most of the players that used to group in gammamakemeassamich joined my kin while a couple joined reforged.

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Gammamakemeasmmich pug was the funniest and best raids I ever did. Ceasless was also my favorite kin to be with, so many amazing memories.

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Gammamakemeasmmich pug was the funniest and best raids I ever did. Ceasless was also my favorite kin to be with, so many amazing memories.

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I wanna hear the Jonp story! I'll miss you, man! Best of luck in all your future endeavors.

& Awesome story Kraum! The 75 days were simply the best of times, I agree. A lot of old names from back then certainly have gone down in DD history.

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Fun trip down memory lane. You shall be remembered Zepph!

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Though I did not play with your RK all that much, our captain + RK duos will forever stick in my memory as one of my most exciting LotRO experiences. Long live Eomen! The renown certainly flowed quite freely for us!

My memory is fairly hazey, but I will try to give the Eomen story:
(P.S. this developed into far longer than I had first thought but I'll put it here if anyone is bored)

I first started lotro at the beginning of f2p. As just a young kid, with no experience at all in online games, I can honestly say that I was truly terrible. My earliest remembrance of my noobish moments was at the early levels (18ish), where I tried to do the Great Barrow quest. I had no understanding of what a 'dungeon' or 'instance' was, and I just kept trying it until I could figure it out. First solo, then with any random people I could find. I literally sat outside the entrance to GB and any person I saw I would send in invite to so that I could do the instance. I remember trying that over and over again, through which I learned things like "Whats a tank?" and "Whats threat"?

After doing GB successfully (yet painfully), I decided that it was probably in my best interest to try and keep leveling up. The only problem was that I was f2p, and a kid with no credit card and no way to buy anything. As I hit Lone Lands (back before it became free), I realized that I needed more TP to progress, so I decided to get as much TP as possible. I did deeds, made toons on other servers, pretty much everything I did revolved around trying to make TP to progress. I eventually saved up enough for lone lands, and then trollshaws as well. From there I think I hit another wall, but luckily Angmar came up on sale and I was able to snatch that up with some TP too. By then I was still basically playing all on my own, but I had joined a random kin named "Royal Guards of Middle Earth". It was fun as it was full of nice people, and it was really my first look at how other people could shape the way to game played for me.

So I grinded through Angmar (which I absolutely loved), while also saving up TP for Moria. At some point in my journey, the Royal Guards kin basically died out, and I joined a kin called "Exodus". Ahhhh, the memories of Exodus! Long live the ranting of the Trolling-King "Nairbwulf", who brought endless laughs to many of us in the kin. Despite Nairb's reputation as a %#^&*@, Exodus was full of some truly nice people. I remember people like Gilthad (the leader), Magnoliaswift, Ald, Bellaswing, El...something (its been a while) all of whom helped me immensely whenever I needed a hand. Also in the kin I met several people who would prove to be great friends in the years to come, like Lunchbox, Mirvofin, and Danksterrific (where are you Dank?). Sadly though, towards the end of moria I began to grow tired of the game. The Foundations of Stone began to both bore me and frustrate me, as I tried to do all the group quests rather than focus on easy leveling.

I took a break from the game, eventually coming back as Rise of Isengard just began pre-purchase. I got my parents to buy me the one pack which included the quest packs which would lead me to 65 (Lothlorien+Mirkwood were included I think). It was the only expansion I truly "bought", but it was well worth it as it opened my eyes to new aspects of the game. Eventually leaving moria, the game opened up in lothlorien, with levels coming much easier to me than before. Before long, I quested my way to 65, still having a free-to-play character with I think 2 class traits (ouch), and 1 legendary trait? I had no concept of how crippling that was to me, and I tried to all kinds of dungeons, particularly the Mirkwood ones like swordhalls (which I failed miserably at). I realized that I needed just one month of VIP, and then I would be in much better shape. With a sub still out of the question, I decided that the Shadow of Angmar base game on amazon was the cheapest way to go. I did random surveys and #### on some website day after day until I eventually was rewarded with like two $5 amazon gift cards, which was totally not worth it, but exactly what I needed. So I bought the box online, unlocking everything I needed to become a better player. What really got me hooked though, and got me to truly learn more about the game, was the fact that the one month of VIP from the box allowed me to enter the moors.

My early days of the moors were filled endless noobish moments. My very first moors experience was on a Reaver, on which without knowing how the map worked, I ran straight towards a blue TA. On my way I got ganked by a rank 9 burg (currently the top rank) named Casper, leading what I now presume was an Ainur group. That part pretty much sucked, but the more I played the moors, the more I learned to love it. I loved the way the way freeps and creeps would push back and forth over the TA bridge, in these seemingly "massive" fights. I decided that the creep side wasn't what I wanted to do though, so I went with my cappy instead. Despite being a noob, I was still warmly welcomed by many players (and not so warmly welcomed by others, but hey I later found Ainur to be a great community, and I'm still with them today :D ). I will attribute my earliest successes in the moors to Threndinir, who most definitely was the one to really show me the ropes and the get me on my feet in the moors. People like him, Neo, Danieldan, Nimgold etc. really helped me to enjoy the moors as we would group on a daily basis.

From there I saved money in real life to help buy a sub, which allowed me to PvP as much as possible. At this point Exodus had a falling out, and there was an "Exodus" from Exodus. Nairb also grew bored and was permabanned in what will be remembered as the 2nd largest tragedy on 9/11. As the 75 cap rolled in, I helped transition the few that were left in Exodus (Mirv, lunch, etc. ) into the kin Awakened. We quickly found Awakened to be a great kin, openning us up to the raiding scene in our first true raid runs (Isengard). After establishing myself a little more in the moors, and continuing to get better and more familiar with raids, I received a tell from someone wanting to me to do T2 Orthanc.

I had tried T2 orthanc before in Awakened, but we failed miserably at it. We just weren't the right kin for it. At first I declined the offer, still wanting to save my raid locks for kin runs instead. But eventually as I wanted more, I decided to give it a go. The group was led by a guy named "Gamarin", and it become apparent that someone in the group (not sure who) had seen me in the moors become and figured they could try and invite me to the pug group. The gammasammich PuG as it was called quickly become a staple of my time in Lotro, and is quite frankly still my fondest memories of any game to date. The dynamic of the group was simply amazing, and I quickly established myself as a regular.

We spent hours and hours in ToO, day after day trying to clear whatever we could. Some trash pulls took days, even weeks to get past. There was a constant strategy going on, with us continuously discussing things like "Well what if we daze the troll first, then root the uruk?", or "what if we kite the wargs, and burn down the orcs?". Huge +rep to Kraum and Ag btw, who were most definitely the best tanking duo I have seen to date. Not only were they sharp in gameplay and skill, but they also played amazingly well together, and any runs we tried without both of them there were just not the same.

Anyways, the group went on as Kraum said, and eventually fizzled out sadly. That definitely marked the peak of my time in Lotro. I later created the RK that we all know and love :D, and eventually joined Anessen's kin Knights of the White Cross, which is full of the nicest people I have met on the server. The rest is pretty much history, lots of just moorsing, and eventually my interest in the game died out. I still peak my head in every once and a while like this, but it's still nothing like it was back in those "glory days" :D

P.S. There were also lots and lots of people who I met along the way who made the game great for me, but I cant possible list them all so I will just say: Thank You Dwarrowdelf :)

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I wanna hear the Jonp story! I'll miss you, man! Best of luck in all your future endeavors.

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Oh don't worry I'll be putting my story up within the next few days. Just been really busy the past few days haha

Damn you all, making me read stories instead of do the work I'm supposed to be doing. Seriously though, I enjoyed reading about how the experience developed for each of you. I'm glad to have made your acquaintances at one time or another in your journeys. I suppose since it's story time I have to give my account of events. Here we go, the story nobody asked for...


Hobbitually Jumping: The Jacbo Story

LOTRO went Free-to-Play on September 10, 2010 after several years of being a paid game. It had been a while since I'd played MMOs like EQ and DAoC casually, but the appeal of a Tolkien themed game hooked me in; at the time I didn't consider myself "an MMO player". Dwarrowdelf launched as a new server along with the F2P release along with three others (Crickhollow, Riddermark, Imladris), and Turbine decided to usher new players onto these servers. DD happened to be the server that was "recommended" by the client when I first logged in, a completely random event, so that's where I ended up.

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

My first adventures in LOTRO were on an Elf Loremaster named Menoic. The class seemed interesting which is why I chose it, I hadn't developed the "tank class" mindset yet which would motivate my class choices in future games. Menoic's adventures took him as far as Rivendell, encountering a couple companions along the way but no lasting ones or a kinship. Around this time my sister, an avid WoW player, decided to start playing the game, so I decided to level a new character alongside her. She always plays healers and wanted to try Minstrel, so I figured I should play a tank and opted for the Warden.

We knew we both needed to be Hobbits, because Hobbit master race. The name Jacbo was created when we decided to go with the cheeky pairing Jacbo Uphill and Jilbo Uphill as a play on the Jack and Jill rhyme. We decided to form a kinship, entitled "Back in Time for Elevenses", to be a home for Hobbits in the same vein as Sons of the Seven Fathers would be for Dwarves. My original recruitment post is still up on the forums, though the Lorebook link is now dead (funny note: I listed PvMP as 1/5 stars focus). Jilbo quit the game before our journey took us to Moria, and the kinship didn't last very long after, but I carried on with the new character because I really enjoyed the Warden class.

Some time and many dead evildoers later I reached level cap and joined up with the guild Keeper's Vow. The main members at level cap at the time were Draggrim, Rollam, Beaukane, and myself, though the majority of the guild was still leveling as it was early on (including one Fulksayyan, an uppity low level who'd go on to found Massive Dynamics and create the kinship directory). My first group instance experience was running the Carn Dum cluster 4-man in the high 50s. At one point in the dungeon the other three died and I solo'd down Helchgam, my first taste of the power of the Warden class for soloing. Later on, soloing that cluster for the boss drops needed for class unlocks would be my main form of income when it was difficult for other classes/players to do so or to find groups.

That guild focused primarily on PvE but never really had the numbers or experience to do much besides dungeons. Meanwhile I had dipped my feet in PvMP and really enjoyed it, so I was spending all my time out in the Moors with the veteran players who'd transferred from other servers and capped early on and other new players, such as Focault, Ithilihion, Emmett, Rigator, Chaco, and Sno (against creeps like Rayzr, Arakaz, Prestige). TORMENT was the largest PvE focused kinship and I'd received offers to join them. When drama transpired in Keeper's Vow though I instead talked to Card and ended up joining Ainur, at the time a small but experienced group of PvMP focused players. I became an Officer in the guild not long after, when Sno transferred leadership to Card (trivia: the original founder of the guild was a guy named Root, original recruitment thread).

The next little while was spent focused primarily on PvMP. Organized kinships from other servers named Treason (inc. Smokeq, Lugalal) and Pariah (inc. Biological, Gaeroof, Diremaw, Oldgreg) created creeps on DD and began terrorizing the moors. Freeps were still leveling, undergeared, and unorganized at the time, whereas veterans looking to make creeps on the server could just quickly make a L65. The group of moors regulars consisted of a variety of people from different kinships, a nice time capsule of the rankings in Jan 2011 can be seen in this post; or the best-in-class from April 2011. Arakaz tried to organize the unguilded freeps while I tried to organize the freeps and finally some good fights resulted (though with a Hobbit in charge there are certain complications).

Some of Card's acquaintances from Windfola came over and created "The Agency" on creepside, a group of six spiders and a defiler which included soon-to-be-freeps Jakespeed, Fuzion, Zidia, and Obewon. Once they flipped to freepside and joined Ainur our policy shifted again to a raiding and PvP focused kinship ("We PvE to get gear to PvP"), and with the added numbers and the experience of some who'd ran it on other servers we became the first kinship to clear The Vile Maw and Dar Narbugud on Dwarrowdelf, underleveled raids at the time which were still necessary for gear (trivia: Barad Guldur gear wasn't better for most classes than Dar Narbugud gear so it was never run).

Our success at raiding and PvP led others, such as TORMENT Leader Chaco Takoh, to move a few of their better players over to Ainur. Some other new names that contributed to our first DN kill included Erlilda, Fingoldor, Navgul, Presdas, Guido, and Trius. I even made a cheeky post with regards to our snatching up server talent. But with that success came conflict internally. Our moors raids were so potent that there was no possibility of creepside resistance due to their lack of organization, even though our "raids" were often less than a fellowship in size fighting twice that many (commonly Ilthel, Zidia, Chaco, Sno, and myself). Card felt the need to be the arbiter of moors balance, a noble ideal but a futile one since MMOs are organic. To that end he, Jakespeed, and Fuzion focused on their creeps and fought against the rest of us in the kin on the battlefield. Which would have been fine, were it not for the flipping back freepside to create drama in kin chat and other such things.

This all led to an Officer meeting where we confronted Card and suggested he step down. The end result was Card/Jake/Fuzion leaving the kinship whilst Zidia/Obewon/Elth stayed from that group and I was appointed the new leader around March 2011. What happened happened but it was water under the bridge fairly quickly afterwards and there's no bad blood. Under my leadership we continued our moors dominance (sample week, but any week Jan-Nov 2011 will do). However we also needed to change the perception of Ainur as a PvMP only kin if we wanted to participate in raid progression for Ost Dunhoth. We picked up more core members around this time including Trevil, Staissi, Meldreth, Moonfang, Dairren, Doomsie, Psilopsyb, Gemelion, Banoon, Nvious, Eaisiel, and several others which enabled us to hit the numbers needed to raid. We also declined quite a few applications, some probably wrongly, perhaps even some of you reading, but running a guild is a learning process so forgive my mistakes.

Ost Dunhoth was regarded by many as the high point of LOTRO raids when it came out in March 2011. During the initial progression race the Big Three raiding kins on Dwarrowdelf were Ainur, Reforged, and BALROG RIDERS. Of the three, we made the most progress and had the least internal drama during the first few months after release, but all three were putting Dwarrow on the map. By June we'd completed Wound, Disease, and Poison wing T2 Challenges. BR and Reforged finished Wound/Disease in July. Atador and Anaxthes joined up and in August we added Ivar T2 Challenge to the list. It was a fun and competitive time both in PvE and PvP, all game modes were catered to reasonably well.

In August 2011 Reforged underwent some drama which, coupled with stagnating raid progression, resulted in merger discussions between Viduo and myself. Not everyone was on board with the move initially, there was a lot of misplaced dislike between members of each kinship who'd never even played with each other. The merger did happen and the core of Reforged joined us, which included key members like Viduo, Borken, Edlorthar, Ianwulf, Merthin, Pritella, Alphyums, Jasalyn, Gallanhael, and Idras. There was some initial drama surrounding changing the name Ainur, but eventually we settled on keeping it and several months later they were all repping it proudly (proof that I'm never wrong, except when I am, which is a lot of the time).

With the older and newer core members we punched through Fear T2 Challenge and were on the cusp of Gortheron when the level cap increased and made the attempts no longer progression. When cap was raised I grinded it out overnight and was the second on the server to hit level 75. With the cap came the Draigoch raid, a lair raid with mixed reviews. We completed it numerous times as a guild including the server first, but my favorite run of it was when I lead a successful PUG through it. The worst run was when it bugged after about an hour in the instance, and when Trevil contacted a GM about it he received a response to the effect of "deal with it or don't raid". Needless to say that was not what we wanted to hear.

Around the same time Isengard launched was the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic. As a kinship created in LOTRO and not based in any previous games and my first foray into leading a guild it was a rough decision point. Half our players were committed to moving to SWTOR, the other half wanted to remain in LOTRO. I couldn't decide what to do and it wasn't my place to dictate one or the other, so for the next several months between December 2011 and April 2012 I was raiding four nights a week with both the SWTOR and LOTRO groups and trying to manage both guilds. This was incredibly taxing but it was all I could think to do to maintain what we had built in the face of such a stark division.

Around April 2012 is when the Ainur guild in LOTRO was finally disbanded. With that, I left some advice for guild leaders based on my year of leading Ainur and all the ups and downs that went along with it. There were diverse reactions ranging from cheering our downfall to lamenting the lack of our presence, but regardless of what anyone else thought we all knew we'd had one special year and a half of gaming. It'd take too long to belabor all the details so I focused on the key events, though forum archives would show more detail.

I made a ton of friends and acquaintances during that time, many of whom I still game with or talk to from time to time, and all of whom are welcome to contact me if that isn't the case (add me on steam!). I listed a lot of people in this post but it'd be impossible to list them all (though shoutout to Toa, warden bros for life and one of the few who resisted my recruitment attempts in LOTRO). Jacbo the Warden may have sailed off to the undying lands, but I use the name for almost everything now so I haven't forgotten my roots.

As for the guild, we carried on in SWTOR for a year making a name for ourselves there and adding more to our community as Pestilence -> Deception -> Erebus (we had an identity crisis shhh). Then we had a couple more good years as Valor in Guild Wars 2 and Wildstar. Right now we're playing weekly Europa Universalis 4 multiplayer games, some Skyforge, some World of Tanks, and some League of Legends while we wait for the next great MMO to flock to en masse. Five years strong Ainur/Valor is still going and all because of the great community that began on Dwarrowdelf. Many of the people in this post still associate with our community, so if you ever decide you've had your fill in LOTRO or the game simply shutters up and you want to join up with us for gaming goodness, such as Camelot Unchained for those PvMP fans, check out our website or hit me up on steam.

"The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow, if I can."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien

story of rayodog

I made a warden named Rayoden around SoM. He failed really hard so I made a warg named Rayodog. For the first week I failed. Then I started to get really good and I farmed everyone. 3 years later, rayodog is the best warg to ever play this game.

the end

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story of rayodog

I made a warden named Rayoden around SoM. He failed really hard so I made a warg named Rayodog. For the first week I failed. Then I started to get really good and I farmed everyone. 3 years later, rayodog is the best warg to ever play this game.

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8/10 story
11/10 with rice

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8/10 story
11/10 with rice

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says the one who made a wall of text that nobody read.

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says the one who made a wall of text that nobody read.

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Not sure how you construed a post made in jest about a story clearly written in jest as... what, disparaging? I meme'd your post in appreciation of its cheeky candor, but hey you do you.

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Not sure how you construed a post made in jest about a story clearly written in jest as... what, disparaging? I meme'd your post in appreciation of its cheeky candor, but hey you do you.

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english plz

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english plz

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http://www.merriam-webster.com/

@Jacbo: Tears man, tears. Hobbit is masterrace for sure! We have to dance one more time on Dwarrowdelf soil. It just has to happen!

- Determined Bunny

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@Jacbo: Tears man, tears. Hobbit is masterrace for sure! We have to dance one more time on Dwarrowdelf soil. It just has to happen!

- Determined Bunny

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Hey Rayzr! Glad to see my favorite creep still mucking about. May our dance battles be sung by minstrels into the Seventh Age even when our names and our moves pass into legend and myth.

I like the picture suggestion someone made. That specific event looks like it's planned for Thorin's Hall which is fine since maybe folks who've transferred off can make low level dwarves with something close to their old names.

But maybe we can also arrange something in the moors on Candy Mountain? Is it still an agreed upon place to congregate without massive fights breaking out unintentionally? It'd be great to have the creeps on their actual creeps rather than just freep alts. A dance party should clearly be part of the agenda and maybe one giant brawl when everything is said and done.

At any rate I'll download the game and plan to be online Sunday for the afternoon, and I'll spread the word in our circle to try and get some of the other old stalwarts back for a last hurrah. No guarantees how many will show since they're all busy people.

Gonna repost this in that other thread to see what we can coordinate, but if you won't be on on Sunday then we can work out some other time to have a dance-off.

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Damn you all, making me read stories instead of do the work I'm supposed to be doing. Seriously though, I enjoyed reading about how the experience developed for each of you. I'm glad to have made your acquaintances at one time or another in your journeys. I suppose since it's story time I have to give my account of events. Here we go, the story nobody asked for...


Hobbitually Jumping: The Jacbo Story ...

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Great story, Jacbo. I read it over a couple times now... so many feels. The entire Ainur community certainly made a tremendous impact on Dwarrowdelf.

Honestly, I hated you guys for the first couple months I played endgame on LOTRO. I was a noob, and you guys knew it. But, looking back on my experience, and who I am today, I would have called myself a failure noob as well. I just didn't know it at the time. However, I can say that my knowledge of the game wouldn't nearly be as sharp as it is today without the people from your kinship. You led a fantastic group of devoted and determined players, and you guys were extremely successful at everything you did/accomplished. Your kin made a huge contribution to my "LOTRO story," and I was never even a part of you guys. Pretty much every grand memory I have of this game involved one or more of the players from Ainur. You guys were simply just so badass and great at what you did, be it PvP or PvMP.

Thank you Jacbo for this final story. I am really glad to have read about your humble LOTRO beginnings and the accomplishments to which you and your gang completely deserve.

Sincerely,
Neomoth/Zepphyr (of Lords of the Mearas, BALROG RIDERS, Death's Bane, etc. etc.)

edit: I am also a part of the Valor Gaming website and would love to hop into TeamSpeak with you one of these days and chat!

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Great story, Jacbo. I read it over a couple times now... so many feels. The entire Ainur community certainly made a tremendous impact on Dwarrowdelf.

Honestly, I hated you guys for the first couple months I played endgame on LOTRO. I was a noob, and you guys knew it. But, looking back on my experience, and who I am today, I would have called myself a failure noob as well. I just didn't know it at the time. However, I can say that my knowledge of the game wouldn't nearly be as sharp as it is today without the people from your kinship. You led a fantastic group of devoted and determined players, and you guys were extremely successful at everything you did/accomplished. Your kin made a huge contribution to my "LOTRO story," and I was never even a part of you guys. Pretty much every grand memory I have of this game involved one or more of the players from Ainur. You guys were simply just so badass and great at what you did, be it PvP or PvMP.

Thank you Jacbo for this final story. I am really glad to have read about your humble LOTRO beginnings and the accomplishments to which you and your gang completely deserve.

Sincerely,
Neomoth/Zepphyr (of Lords of the Mearas, BALROG RIDERS, Death's Bane, etc. etc.)

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Hey Neo, thanks for the kind words, more credit than we deserve to be sure but appreciated nonetheless! You were never a "failure noob", don't be so hard on your previous self haha, the only failure in a game or in life is being unwilling to accept that there's still so much to learn and improve on, and as you attest you've learned and improved a ton over the years. Glad to see you've found a good kinship to carry on your LOTRO journeys with going forward, I'm sure you'll be a good companion and a valuable asset to them.

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Sure man, always happy to chat, I'm on fairly frequently PST evenings. Couldn't find your website account to check the group permissions on it, probably named something unrelated to your LOTRO names, but if you need forum access just post in whichever one you can see, there should be a thread for it. The TS does allow guest accounts though, so you can hop on even if you don't have a permission linked one, we're pretty liberal about that now in general.

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Hey Rayzr! Glad to see my favorite creep still mucking about. May our dance battles be sung by minstrels into the Seventh Age even when our names and our moves pass into legend and myth.

I like the picture suggestion someone made. That specific event looks like it's planned for Thorin's Hall which is fine since maybe folks who've transferred off can make low level dwarves with something close to their old names.

But maybe we can also arrange something in the moors on Candy Mountain? Is it still an agreed upon place to congregate without massive fights breaking out unintentionally? It'd be great to have the creeps on their actual creeps rather than just freep alts. A dance party should clearly be part of the agenda and maybe one giant brawl when everything is said and done.

At any rate I'll download the game and plan to be online Sunday for the afternoon, and I'll spread the word in our circle to try and get some of the other old stalwarts back for a last hurrah. No guarantees how many will show since they're all busy people.

Gonna repost this in that other thread to see what we can coordinate, but if you won't be on on Sunday then we can work out some other time to have a dance-off.

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Sunday it is then! I can pull Scalpel & Silvermoon on too. >xD}{

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Sunday it is then! I can pull Scalpel & Silvermoon on too. >xD}{

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Can't wait to see King Bunny for a final time! :) Miss ya, man.

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But maybe we can also arrange something in the moors on Candy Mountain? Is it still an agreed upon place to congregate without massive fights breaking out unintentionally? It'd be great to have the creeps on their actual creeps rather than just freep alts. A dance party should clearly be part of the agenda and maybe one giant brawl when everything is said and done.

At any rate I'll download the game and plan to be online Sunday for the afternoon, and I'll spread the word in our circle to try and get some of the other old stalwarts back for a last hurrah. No guarantees how many will show since they're all busy people.

Gonna repost this in that other thread to see what we can coordinate, but if you won't be on on Sunday then we can work out some other time to have a dance-off.

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I won't be able to do Sunday afternoon :/ I'm on the other side of the world right now and about 14 hours ahead of central time in the US. If you guys can work around that awesome, but if everyone wants to do that time, can't really compete with that :P

Also I was about halfway through my LOTRO story last night when my computer decided to stop responding resulting in me shutting it down. So it'll be a little bit longer for my story :P

Oh man, the memories..

Well, I started off around the end of 65; RoI wasn't due to launch for another few months so I used that time to hit cap.
First person I met that stayed around was Berodain. I remember selling him tier 1 scholar mats for 1.5g a stack which was alot of money for me back then. He was also my first kin leader until I joined Massive Dynamics at around level 45.



Most of my early days was with MD. I met Zulubeast, Stanle, Divaranth, Megamager, Bethollind, Fulk, Ellatoestabber, Jasthelion, Fantos (with the Warlords Merger), Cordshanker (Warlords merge) and alot more. It was fun trying to help people get geared and raid ready despite most of the kin being underleveled.
When I finally got to 75, I didn't know anyone. Getting a group was a huge pain; I had terrible gear and Marvi would turn me down for their Orthanc runs. I eventually met Lythiea, Snap, Dennis, Kraum, Agtug, Gamarin and a few others when they carried me to my very first successful raid..Draigoch T2C along with many more successful runs through Gamapug. I got my first symbol and made my first (of many to come) real LI. I was proud of that damn thing even though it was absolutely terrible. Gallanhael trolled me mercilessly because I had 2 majors on it.
I remembered spending an entire day trying to beat Lightning T1 with a pug group when it came out. I tried to do that raid religiously every Thursday, eventuallly getting them down after months of getting farmed. Met Xardas,Alohire, Heman and Alletain from pugging ToO weekly. I loved that instance even though I was broke from the repair bills. I remember leveling a burg with Gamarin and zulu to help drop Acid T2c. Gamarin, you quit your champ and because awesome at burg. Zulu, I still have you added on steam..but damn I miss the days when we would discuss builds and rotations and rocked identical stats/builds. Rover 2, Rover 1 out.

75 Moors was terrible for me when I first started..I got destroyed by warg packs day after day outside EC. I would group with Zulu and we used to jump on the pillars @ WTAB and just tag kills. It was always entertaining to watch Anessen, Oprah, Sycarius and Xuneng assasinate creeps. Guido and Gall always in TA front lawn, Toa tanking an entire raid until Ainur decides to send everyone to the rez or pull an entire keep because donvlad was inside..
Would always see Sarharien by TR.
Crygin/Shap, thank you for all the times you helped creeps advance their hunter deeds by pulling EC.

As I raided more and more, I eventually left MD after Atador convinced me to apply for Ainur. I was honestly surprised I got in.. It was fun raiding with you guys in the short time I was there. Doomsie, I still have the bacon flapjacks that you made. It was fun testing your patience in Roots of Fangorn by not dispelling poison.

With the disbanding of Ainur, I was mostly grouping with the Gama pug until that collapsed from internal complications and people going diff. directions. I was going to transfer my hunter out to find regular raiding groups after Reforged declined my application :[
Then I got invited into this brand new kin called Ceaseless. It was basically Gama2.0. It was fun having a regular group again that can read their skill tooltips. While it lasted. I laughed hard that one time you guys got to under 10% on BFE T2C and failed.
After Ceaseless, there was Asylum. Joining this pretty much confirmed that Aglaeka is an ezmoder and Belv is a fotm. Hamond made a warden and was actually good at it..I remember pugging his burg for Acid T2c..he was only used for his riddle and reveal weakness.



Shout outs

To those who helped me so much with my class:

Atador- Helping me get into Ainur, providing tons of scholar mats and just general hunter/RS talk. Also, I'd like to pk on that account again :D I nevercatch you on TS
Firahn- Helping me redo my LIs so Gallanhael would stop laughing at me
Meldreth- I used to always bug you for gear because i would get inspired from inspecting you
Dankster- You were the first guy to give mentor we through most of 75. Thanks
Shaera- Was always fun talking about rotations with you as well.
Katon- You helped me so much with EVERYTHING. Showing me how to trait for moors how to gear.
Zulubeast- It was great being a noob together and turning our stupid builds and rotations to max potential


Everyone else: (since I don't know who is staying)

Sno- I didn't know you for a long timebut Im glad I got to just chat with you guys over Vent. You were always cool to run with despite me wondering what the hell you were doing at times.
Frogzie- You helped me quite abit with my burg; I wanted to gear my burg after watching you do one hell of a job in Shadow wing.
Gamarin- Making the raid laugh at all the stupid things you've said. I will never forget that mic.. WOOKIE!!
Toa- Pull.TA.Now.
Gentlemen/Hallior/Ibelin- Was always fun parsing againts you guys. I used to make bank from Ibelin buying my scrolls..
Jas- I'll still talk to you outside of game even if you quit or if we end up on diff. servers. Still hate you for winning [Gweluechor] before me. Got you good with all the ####ty LIs I made for your champ.
Travisthechimp/Therunic- It nice to have you guys help for the weekly ToO. Officially placing those 3 mans on farm mode.
Rafa- Is there a class you don't know how to play?
Fancee/Dagwood- That awesome tank/heal package deal was so convenient..
Stocky- always quiet..but dependable.
Delamore- You seem to be calm AF even if you are yelling at someone..###?R1 to R6..R1 out.
Belselk- I always appreciated your sense of humour.
Megamager- You came a long way from when we were in MD together; I dont think I've ever heard you speak..
[b]Presdas- presplz. Stop knowing how to play my class better than me.
Lythiea- Sorry but not sorry for line of sighting you. Yes, I HAVE to kite that boss away from you and Kraum/Tuggles. I would get that unpottable fear IRL when you would just say "Pat" with that tone you do when you are about to get very very angry. Fiorgiggity.
Crispin- Zulu2.0 when it came to talking about builds/rotations.
Homesar- Inspecting you made me want to put up with minstrels who don't know what a ballad is being my main healer for Orthanc.
Agtug/Kraum- I learned how to play guardian from you guys. I didn't even have a guard..pulling aggro from you guys was pretty hard..but it was always fun to have you guys get mad at us for when we do. Breaking engage and making you sweat bullets for even thinking of using guardians ward :D Also enrage. It was always funny. It was always me. and Zulu. Kraum, Im glad you did not get robbed that one time you made us wait a good 15 minutes in the middle of draig. Agtug sounds like Morgan Freeman; Kraum sounds hilarious when he gets resisted. "Ohhmaigawwwdddd.f-ing rehhsisted.What is this?FFS Turbine"Tuggles making guard dps look good before guards HAD dps.
Drak- You made quite a name for yourself. Hope you had a spy loaded for when creeps were chasing you.
Katrin- Im sorry for dragging you into all those failed Saruman runs..flight school with Saruman.
Evogrin- That lag was unreal. [Plummed Hat]
He- Leroy method confirmed to work with pugs. Except the first time we tried it.
Tanar- The female dorf who never hurt to creeps but someone made it to a high rank by constantly being out there.
Malinuil- I was there when you got over 55k in a single day by no lifing moors with welth; teaching me how to yellow.
Viduo- I was there when you one shotted a creep for just a little over 15k. GG.
Mirillin- Double earrings. ohmaigawd. I think i reported you once for it.
Halviela- Can I still be your blade bro?
Kitnitti- If you are reading this..guurrlll you need to reply to messages.
Hamond- What is Mairi's number?
Xardas- The amount of TP I wasted for all the failed hits in peak with you..bubbling your pet in OD and getting wrecked by gnawers..
Chux- Nice boots bro, where did you get them?
Vahnya- Yes, I am still bitter about soloing Peak for you and Xardas and you loot the dagger when you aren't even at your computer. You certainly make ts more tolerable at times instead if hearing belv and snags argue and jak just sitting in the background yelling LOHHHLLLL and xardas telling jak to #### m8.
Zub- It was always fun grouping with you. I'm honestly not sure if you are being sarcastic or serious at times..but damn..listening to you yell at people over voice is absolutely entertaining. ELLO PAHHHTTTYYY
Guido- Going blue on burg for draig; lawl. Falling off your desk; lawl. Calling me Patrick every.single.time.you.log.vent . Thats how I got the name for my burg.
Snap- I looked up to your hunter when you first carried me through my first draig. 13k morale..dayyyuum
Diggory- You were just helpful in general, always nice to me too. Hope to see you around
Doomsie- I remember when you no lifed to R11 and zerging to kindred for GR. You would say goodnight and come back 45 minutes later haha.
Veenom- You actually took me to TA so you could gank.
Alohire- Dragged you into so many failed Orthanc runs..no regrets.
Crygin- Chasing me up and down grams is not nice.
Marvi- You traited fire before fire was the fotm.
Norfrid- I don't think I've ever heard you raise your voice..even after everyone else in the raid is yelling and blaming each other.
Aktis- You are such a bser. I KNOW YOU HAVE A MIC; I LISTENED TO YOU EAT CHIPS. Also you are a GTA ganker. Like Chocla.
Chocla- F-ing GTA ganker. Nothing like coming back from AFK dead, or chat spammed with bible verses. Pot your #### Patriotpea! *stands next to you* *stunned*. Sorry, didn't see you post it 17 times in chat
VivianIhavesomanyalts- You are a hoarder. Nuff said.
Mimboril- I still can't believe you healed that Saruman with a level 45 hat. That tragic accident involving M&Ms..
Belv- I knew your burg first. See below. You slack ja-
Aglaeka- thanks for spoiling me when it comes to heals. 7/10 -IGN,. still need to work on that block build. Also screw you guys for passing up an entire raid just to kill me afked at the CG.
Boharn- See above regarding the moors.
Jak- ROFLCHIPS. hearing you rage over stupid things is quite funny.
Gifred- I don't think I understood what you've said in the time that I've known you..maybe half..which is you cussing out belv or jak in TS.
Eomen- What was your miss chance for cappy?
Strikerin- Your hunter was good; but your flying skills in BF3 was way better. Its raining ace squad ribbons.
Nelgor- I never got the confirmation on this..is he actually black? That was always brought up in TS. That time you DCed in Saruman..and held aggro until you got back from relogging..
Skiddish- I used to die so much because I'm too busy replying to you instead of making sure that the boss' frontal is not aimed at my face.
Firemind- omg the meowing. You remember that time you and someone else duoed almost 2 raids of creeps farming boxes inside OR? I died from laughing.
Avulgarity- You keep sending me free food all these years..I've been feeling bad about it for years..
Ayleth- You raided like hell; How much dkp did you earn??
Airen/Zepphyr- Your rk was good, but your burg was def. wayyy better. Was always gun parsing againts you, belv and jak.
The MD crew- I still have most of you added on steam; hope to game with you all again someday.
Banoon- Took you long enough to post a picture of yourself..My theory is that you always afked after pasting the link and never clicking "Submit Reply"
Haveblue- Man, I've known you for along time now, I used to feel bad asking you to tank raids if its a terrible group.
Chickendorf- I remember having spars with you using frying pans in Galtrev.
Liamthecool- I lost count on the ongoing tally for our spars..
Halall- That time our ###### raid managed to get 11 people killed during P2 of Draigoch..and you managed to save the raid after being the only one left alive.
Slydewhoosh- Made alot of raids more fun; certainly made me stay long after I would have ragequitted.
Oprah- The mischief maker..Patrickstar will never catch up. Asylum was awesome; you are all crazy.
Linyara- the food. omg the food..prob the nicest people I've met ingame.
Laylith- See above
Xuneng- Unlocked Passive: Skill level Asian
Vulcwen- I always thought you were low key af considering you are one of the more active endgamers and forum poster from DD. Always fun discussing stuff with you.
Dulli- Randomly picking me up for your late night raids. Kept moors active when you went out with the kin.
Ssuper- Lol IIRC, your RK had terrible gear! Was in MD with you for quite some time. Those times we spent sitting on the fence @ Old OC hugging the flag and farming the creeps who escaped the rez camp and made it to camp.
Jonp- Wargs had real time satellite tracking on you for the longest time. Think I started talking to you when we first hit the blue ranks
Welthrop- One does not simply gank Welthrop. First noticed this noob when I inspected him and he had the golden necklace before I did. Always plays for real the second time around. The quickshot kite was real.
Shap- Watching you pretend to jump off of STAB and causing an entire group of freeps to ACTUALLY jump off the bridge was just too much.
Tuk- Making bank off of me for as long as I can remember..
Grim- You be Moria and I be Gandalf? Also, No arm me in edgeville noob.
Saenathra- Before there was Doomvirus; your guard was pretty legit, sad how your brand new tank was better than those who play it full time as a main. The BFE farm was real.
Jenraen- Learned hunter crazy fast; parsing pretty high considering you easily had half our /played. And then some. Watching you and Mal camo gank Trilogi that one time..420% rekt.
Minie- Preventing creeps from advancing their hunter deeds! Unless it was me trying to advance my hunter deeds..
Globalwarming- The P2W was so real! I feel honored :D ..DM me in edgeville nerd! I wont use Soulsplit
Shrekinator- You may now be known as Shrekinator, Monopoly Master, Finder of Farms, Merchant of Dwarrowdelf, Opener of Lootboxes, Collector of Keys, Hoarder of all that is gold, Farmer of Sambrog, Lever master of Helegrod and troller of Noobs.
Divaranth- Wherever you are, I will never forget that Pink pirate outfit and the borderline bannable jewelry names that would force me and zulu to go anon.
Klagg- The dude who eats more rice than me.
Aellor- Heallor! Thursday resets with BR @ Galtrev like clockwork :D
Machelp- Even after someone missed a pot for the 4th time and causing a wipe during Saruman T2 runs, you somehow manage to stay calm even when everybody else had perma bloodrage and Shaera typing all caps and threatening to start kicking people.Oh, and squirrels.
Jacbo- Still surprised you guys accepted my application at the time. I'll be watching Valor updates. Hope to game with you guys again someday.
Ianwulf- I feel like you never left the moors. Like ever.
Athron- There was alot of frost and alot of fire.
Ihealzyou- Running people through their first forge runs...then dragging you to mind numbing Saru attempts with a pug. Those spars we had...damn stuns.
Crispin- One of the few people I could always discuss my class with; and actually knew what I was talking about.
Blitzx- See above. The dps parsing WAS real.
Lef- I remember when you and Delamore were still in Defenders of Drunhale. You guys would constantly pug me and I would always ninja all the symbols from the skraids. YoumadR6?
Saeko- IIRC, you shared a kin with Firahn for the longest time.
Neoswede- Had our differences for sure but we've also grouped countless times. Still have that Orc bracelet from RoF 1st boss? QQ
Gus- Flipper of the Delving. Creeps sure did hate you. The eternal delving flip fight between Gus and Kraum.
Bee- How many alts do you have?Seriously...
Damianthegreat- Wish you still played this game..we had way too much fun leveling together.

Some other...
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All those who was in Reforged,Deaths Bane, Balrog Riders, Ainur, The Kindred, Defenders of Drunhale,Knights of the White Cross,Delinquents, Nazgul Flight School, Massive Dynamics,Lords of the Mearas, Saurons Minions,Hope is Kindled,Shadow, Sons of the Seven Fathers, The last Company and Defiance.







To Capto, wish you had the chance to transfer with us. Cheers.

I have little history in LOTRO compared to all these pros, so I'll let my history be summed up by the great Pat's quote:

"Some random RoR kid."

~Patriotpea

Nonetheless, Dwarrow is my home, and I'm sure many of you will subconsciously thank me for the thousands upon thousands of renown I gave you.

Once upon a time, fifteen year old me decided to google some Lord of the Rings video games, hoping to find something fun. Now, I never played a MMO before, but when I saw Lotro, I decided to give it a try. I picked an elf female, hoping to become something like Legolas, a hunter. The name I spent hours on, looking for something elvish. Authiel is what I chosen after scouring the internet for what felt like days. It means battle maiden. Fitting for an adventurer. Anyway, when I started I couldn’t quite understand how the game worked. I got stuck on the intro. Yes, the intro. I quit for a year after that.
I returned and got passed the intro finally. I remember getting nommed on by a bear at level seven. I was pretty sad, but went on anyway. I did pretty well, getting up to level 20 and then found out Lone Lands had to be purchased. I had no money. I quit again.
I returned once more a few months after and a few areas were open for free. I gained enough TP to buy quite a few zones to get me going.
Along my journey, I met Edwar, a guardian. We decided to quest together since we were on the same content. We followed the epics and then moved on to Moria. Shortly after, we both left our inactive kinships and created what was known as Allegiance of the Four.

Moria for me was a great time. I met Shrekinator, Machelp, Xik (before he even was known as that!) and Saintclairj. We did Grand Stair daily and once we got out of Moria months later, we briefly parted ways to do our own questing.
Finally hit level 75, and I was beyond excited. End game. Isengard! Lagtrev.
I met some new, wonderful people during this time. Gus, one of the best guards was always so optimistic, staying up late tanking Tower, sometimes drunk. A lot of late night hours passed during Saruman. Never completed it though until the level cap rise. I also met Laylith, one of the sweetest and nicest people I have ever met. She’s a one of a kind and a great healer! I also met Wulfbeam and Tusker, and we would do skirms trying to get crystals. Linyara and Silentwhisper started inviting me to instances and I enjoyed their company as well, and being such friendly people, it was easy to get along. I met Capto during a Pug Tower, and we became friends as well. I miss the guy.

One of the best times I can remember during Isengard was when we were doing the cliff glitch during Saruman and someone didn’t pot the fear so everyone ended up turning around and jumping off the tower at the same time.

A friend of mine named Setha helped me become a hunter, but I was still a noob and far from good. I envied Welthrop, Atador, Zulu and Patriotpea. Great hunters that I wanted to be like.
Rohan was exciting. I didn’t care for the war steeds too much, though. I miss squeezing into the Snowbourne tavern and seeing people spar in the tiny space, or people throwing around consumables and setting off fireworks. A lot more crowded than Galtrev, yet not as laggy.

I started raiding more often and even gave PvP a try, but couldn’t quite get into it. Didn’t like being farmed by wargs. Hunter is after all the best creep food.
BG was a raid we ran often. One time, Patriotpea came in and somehow got punted by the door wardens and died mid air, and went through the door and ended up dead in Snowbourne. To this day we now know to always close the door.
Another memory is Shrekinator going link dead on his war steed and ran into a war band then fell off a cliff and died. Talk about some bad luck!

I made a warg after Xik convinced me to give PvP another try, this time on creep. I really enjoyed the class, but was hard being so squishy and getting the maps. I named my warg after my late dog, Roly. So he’s always with me, and farming people at the same time.

I then started my own raid call channel, and it was just Shrek, Pat and I for a while. We started inviting more and meeting new friends along the way as well as having a lot of late night, early morning chats.

I gave PvP another try on freep during 95 and joined a raid Machelp invited me to. I ended up meeting Damondeth (Larveril) and Socrathia. We went out often, and became friends after killing many creeps. I met most of their kinship, Lost Legion at the time, and we started to do some instances together. Soon after level 100 was introduced and we decided on making a new kinship together that focused on harder content and PvP. For the first time in four years I left my kinship and helped create a new one. Defiance. Started out small, but slowly growing and full of great people. The banter never stops.

I want to give a shout out to some people I miss and love playing with. Without you guys, I probably wouldn’t be playing right now.

Patriotpea<3, Shrekinator, Edwar, Larveril, Socrathia, Hathcael, Lentosh, Arknow, Jonp, Rii, Saeko, Badol, Solo, Ringo, Xik, Machelp, Saint, Roga, Laylith, Travis, Vicious, Eldana, Andjil, Eli, Banyan, Gus, Linyara, Silentwshiper, Wulfbeam, Zepp, Silky, Skuldrok, Alegra, Setha, Cande, Welthrop, Capto, Evo, Cam,Glaer, Koora, Lanclas, Tagrus, and Athron.

If I forget anyone I’m sorry. I met a lot of people during the way and have a hard time remembering EVERYONE.
I hope to see and play with you all again where ever we go so more memories can be made! Cheers.

http://i.imgur.com/yg7Gveu.jpg

Here is my post with some of my favorite screen shots!

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...Thru-The-Years

Why not right? My mind is kind of jumbled around so some of the story sequence might seem wonky...school starts again in like 15-17 days though so no worries!

I started playing this game around 3 years ago 1 day when I decided I was annoyed af by my cousin(Crucible)/2nd cousin(the infamous Ornallost). At the time I was (as the thug brom would say) an Xbox tryhard and was not interested in silly MMO's, but my cousin and his son kept bugging me to try it out and so reflecting on the tryhardness I made Blitzx. Btw, I was a CoD king....I could be making money off gaming ): THROWBACK TO WHAT WAS CONSIDERED THE SHT 3-4 YEARS AGO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7-0MCWwd20

I leveled my hunter to around the 30-40s and instead went with an RK which I ended up giving a stripper name, Candii. This was actually my first toon to cap (75) but I didn't bother doing much at the time because RoR was coming out in a month or so, so I just finished leveling my hunter.

Awakened was my first kin because my cousin was leader of it and the people in it would help me to get through the game comfortably knowing they'd be punished if they didn't do so ;). jkjk When 85 came out and everyone was done grinding BG for 2nd agers, Henbeyn and Myrlin would take me on an adventure to the moors. Henbeyn ended up being some psychopath but I'm still glad I met him haha. Eventually Candii became nothing but my "pretend female player that gets free scholar mats from random dudes" :D, and my hunter became my main.

When my hunter became my main, Myrlin became my first ever moors duo and English friend o: #willneverforget. I moors'd for a while as a casual and met with some farmer drama, aka Sno. Sno ended up being a cool friend of mine and helped me decide my 2nd kin which i'll talk about in a second. As a hunter, Welthrop became my idol being by far the best hunter and reaver at the time. I was such a noob but the first time I solo'd welth's reaver as he came out of the norbog fields by ta I cried happiness. This was the day I started wanting to be good at the game rather than just some casual getting farmed by warg packs all day. Awakened was a great kin that I wish was still as big as it once was, but at the time I was playing it was not the kin for completing end game t2c raids. So with my desire to be more, I left and saw this champ parsing on training dummies in Snowbourn with Reforged under his name. Being one of the kins Sno mentioned to me in our chats, I thought it should be pretty good (because Sno was a good lm despite being a farmer). This champ parsing was known as Gentlemen. I sent him a tell saying, "invite me to kin please" rofl. After a little chatting I got accepted, no idea why, but I did.

The kin was great. We did raids, pvp'd, were very social, and had a great time overall. This kin helped me get better at my hunter and this would eventually lead me to get much much better at pvp. Because I was getting better at pvp, I did it a lot more. Songrider being one my best friends (still) from Awakened, was my first ever pocket healer out there o:. We killed many many creeps and met many many new freeps. Freeps like Galadraen and Somenoob who became awesome friends. Galadraen would soon introduce us to Snap as one of her good friends which would end up being 1 of my best friends. We all had this channel called betterglff I think? then we made the infamous BlitznFriends after the first channel was compromised. This was where my main peeps at the time were, but I met many others that I really enjoyed the company of like Samss(Samms?), Niirodil, Megamager, Morgolfin, Saenanthra, Tud, Pat, Ohp etcetc idr all of them atm. I went through most of RoR with these people and then close to HD release this kin named Asylum was made. I was invited shortly after it's creation by Ophra (is that how it was spelled?). Ophra was a really cool guy and people like Welth, Pat, and Songrider all joined as well so I went with. With this I got through RoR, then HD came out...D:

With HD, I retired my hunter for the most part, quit my rk, and quit my lm. I despised many of the changes but I still liked the game so I went on with my champ. Good friends such as Myrlin, Bowchant, Somenoob, Galadraen, etc would end up quitting for the most part or transferring to brandy and never seen again QQ. Eventually the veterans of Asylum were also quitting like Ohp and Pres. I ended up leaving around the time Pat and Welth. Then Classy Babes was made with Songrider, Snap, and I which ended up being my kin for all of 95 and a lot of lvl 100 cap. I also started maining on creepside during this time because I didn't really enjoy the freep changes. I had a warg from RoR that I use to fk around with all the time, but then I made it my serious toon. I would haunt the moors rez circles for ages and people knew not to ever come out alone (unless you were a yellow line welthrop or malinuil :<). I would reach r12 in a miraculously short amount of time with Hypnoticaaaaaa aka Snap. HD was rough for me in terms of the social aspect of the game :3. During this time I went through a phase of utter boredom with the actual gaming and fkd with people instead. I am sort of sorry for anyone that had to deal with me, but not really lol. Later in the year I met a group of players that would provide me with another good period of time in the game. At the time this group would be known as The Lost Legion.

The time period I met LL was the same time ToL (Tree of Life) was around and pvping while I called them fails 24/7 (because they were). The LL people were coming out with them but they seemed to be at least somewhat talented so I made a comment about their kin and having standards (which I'm sure is saved somewhere :<) as a tool to insult ToL. Sokrat(one of the main leaders of LL) would chit chat with me a bit and I think he was the one who invited me to come into their RC. I would be in there quite often for a time period and we had many laughs (about other players' abilities and ancient aliens \o/). Although I enjoyed this time, my membership was taken because they asked me to stop saying this one word but being myself ofc I said it against just because they said not to lol. This was around the time I would start playing on Landy. Landy life is pretty bland so I won't talk about it much... LL, now known as Defiance had some toons there as well so I was still around them, but not on good terms not long after they arrived. They would talk trash about KOOOOOORAAAAAH in OOC, I would defend her (as she was a friend), and I believe this is where the sour attitudes between myself and the kin started. We trashed each other for a while but as I keep playing this game, I care less and less.

The one interesting that happened for me on Landy was BAE o:. The great quote that I am periodically reminded of from her when she asked me if she was good or not..."You are Bae" would unexpectedly create this pro bond \o/. Bae being part of Defiance, was someone I was already a little acquainted to, but not quite friends with yet. She, along with a few others, would help me continue playing this game no matter how bored I get with it sometimes....I'll leave her name out of this though in case someone who dislikes me and doesn't know who she is wants to grief her about it.

After a bit of Landy, I came back to Dwarrowdelf (because bae yah kno) and tried to get started making it my main server again. Coincidentally, Niirodil came back to the game at the same time I came back to the server. Although I didn't last too long back on Dwarrow, she kept me playing on Dwarrow for much longer than I would have been. Because I was here there was drama drama drama haha. We became much better friends than we were in the past and would move on to Landy together. Niir is THE BADDEST BTCH EVER and she would end up quitting the game again but we still talk by other means. LIKE OMG WE'RE TALKING WHILE I MAKE THIS POST!

I would continue to log on Dwarrow pretty much everyday for at least 5 minutes just to check things out and talk to some peeps. I have discontinued my negative attitude toward randoms on DD, randoms on Landy, and Defiance. Bae wanted me to make friends with Defiance again because they're her friends and I'm...well...bae!, so I tried but I think they still don't forgive me :(. Maybe some day we can make up like 2 teenage girls would after a big drama fest over a boy ;D

There's so much more to the story and I know I missed a lot of what I wanted to include, but I just can't keep going back and adding more and more as I remember the past haha

This pretty much brings us to the present and the people that made the game what it is to me (all the kool kids are doing it)
These would be the people that impacted me most and would meet up with irl in a heartbeat if I ever got the chance.

Cousin/2nd Cousin- for getting me into this game no matter how stubborn I was and well....you know...family is family
Myrlin- my first english friend o:
Bowchant- my first english friend's dad who got me started on the path of hunter
Songrider- first and best pocket healer, and such a good friend that I will see you someday haha
Galadraen- being 1 of the nicest people i've ever met and introducing me to snaaaaaaaap
Sam- we were just really really good friends back when you still played
Bae- for being bae
Hathcael- for being my dood bae lul
Arknow- my only sort of active landy kin member left that looks up to me greatly <3
Snap- my longest active good friend that is so hard to convince to do anything D:, YOURE ALSO AN ORIGINAL CLASSY AND HOT BABE \o/
Niirodil- BADDEST BTCH EVER, at least to me....lol
Ochad- my white kid basketball STAAAARRRR
Gallanhael- my gawd you were funny as fk, even when you were completely bashing me for how fail I was it was too funny...BTW I named my warg on landy after you woooo

Others I'd like to mention that really made me enjoy the game:

First off, everyone that was in Awakened and Reforged- for being true kinships and great support/reason to play
Welth- my friggen hunter idol
Pat- we had many chats about hunter and the dps competition was real
Authiel- some of those late nights gurrrrl <3 no worries pat it was nothing like that ;)
Malinuil- awesome friend and you got me on the path to gearing my hunter right....
Ohp- always such a chill guy...the voice...
Kraum- much leading, so determined, NEVER QUIT LOTRO
Sno- awesome guy, introduced me to exploiting and wanting to find out more and more ways to do so >.<
Belv- the 1 person that I feel will hound me as long as I play this game, he will always be my reason to respond
Jak- asylum----------nuff said
Aglaeka- asylum-----nuff said
Boharn- funniest fk ever, come back to meeeeeeee
Xardas- "IM GONNA SUCK YOUR D***", best comeback ever lmao
Vahnya- blitzypoooooooo
Guido- DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA, GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS, DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA
Hamond- DID YOU SEE MY PICTURE YET?
Zeph- the stories...haha
Jonp- so annoying in voice, but we all need that 1 friend \o/ ARE YOU DRUNK JON?
Sokrat- introducing me to the kin and giving me that period of good times
Damon/Larv- being that main guy who doesn't wanna look like a pssy <3
Gifred- honestly you felt like a little brother when you played haha
Minie- the pocket heals at 85 were real, and the late night chats when you were drunk....
Globalwarming- never knew anyone as chill as you, and the p2w was so.....amazing in a weird way haha
Dwadler and crew- for being my food during 95 cap
Saenanthra- best spider throughout all my time on DD, if I ever wanted a spider as challenge you were there
Capto- the glff entertainer
Lunchboxe- the guy in DB who always loved me even when DB disapproved
Bromton- always that kid who thinks he's a gangster
Hejazia- always the fool with no allegiance....glad I can finally trust you a little now
Aktis- you and your funny ### quote "MADA FAKA" over mic lmao, and calling me a pssy cuz I'm gonna join the USAF ):
Halviel- my DD sugar daddy whenever I keep coming back to DD....
Donvlad- "NO, I FARM YOU, YOU HAVE NEVER SOLOD ME"
Glowstickdush- "I CAN DO 3k DPS", *shows me CA log of 3k dmg with about 300 dps* hahahahaha
Nibble- she always said hi to me on her freep named Blubarri or something like that but would never respond again when i said HAI back D:
Akbalak/Mordem- some of the most entertaining OOC chats were spawned because you were there...
Danlz- ROP DEFENDER ALWAYS and MVP NO MATTER HOW DIRE THE SITUATION
Somenoob- you've outranked my hunter now ): always remember those warg pack days
Ayleth- dat cappy test you made for entry into Reforged....


and many more, cba to remember so many names but you know who you are
I keep remembering more and more ppl from other ppls' posts and from memory so I will be continuously editing probably....

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Didn't think I'd take part in this seeing as I don't play anymore and my main is on Landy, but that doesn't take away from the 2 years that I did play on Dwarrow and the amount of memories I have!

My turbine account says I started playing during the summer of 2012, and at that time I had originally rolled a elf hunter named Helraen who I kind of enjoyed playing... but when I kept getting farmed in Garth Agarwen, I bailed on lotro for about a year or so then came back and made my RK, Niirodil. :rolleyes: The only thing that really sold this class to me were the green sparkles at the feet of war-steeds, however I really grew to enjoy playing RK, especially the diversity of healing and dps. Something at the back of my mind tells me that Covoguard (I might be totally wrong with this name), helped me level in Trollshaws and from there I met Nymerias in Sarnúr and her kin. We had such a laugh together in that one fellow (despite her being level capped and me only 40) that when I bumped into her again at level cap, we were like how stupid girls are after they haven't seen each other in a while. I later joined The Lollipop Guild who properly introduced me to PvE -- raiding especially. Believe it or not, I was still very quiet at this time, and didn't even know glff existed, so apologies for that stint about a year and a half ago where I was constantly hammering on. :rolleyes: Following The Lollipop Guild's split, I then went sans kin for a little while, yet the friends I made from there opened up a lot more avenues! Shoutout to Nymerias, Shrekinator, Bellarus, Host, Gus and many other whose names escape me at this moment... I don't have the best memory. :confused:

Fast forward to when I first stepped into the moors (everything between Lollipop Guild and moors is a blur) and was pretty terrified to say the least because I still had no idea how to play RK really... I just remember there being a 1v1 circle going on and Xellor egging me on to take part. He was giving me guidance on how to 1v1 and I actually came out as the winner. From there, he was my RK idol. That fight is one of my most vivid memories along with Welthrop's reaver chasing me across the map a lot...

Another vivid memory took part a few weeks later and also in the moors; when Samss called me a "r2 raid baby," which I agreed with, I still had no idea really what was going on. Funny thing is he was saying it to actually start beef with me. :rolleyes: God knows how we started speaking to each other properly -- I think it was mostly Chocla's doing, and I think he takes responsibility for it, especially the infamous "samss likes niirodil." From here, Sam introduced me to Blitz, Snap and Songrider in their Raidcall channel, and I reckon I was in it the best part of everyday for a good couple of months after getting over the initial 'too scared to talk because no one will understand me' phase. It wasn't until quite a bit later into the year that I would become good friends with Blitz and Song after both Sam and Snap took a break.

Around November-December time, just after Helms Deep got released, I feel like the social aspect of lotro, for me, was at its best. Even though people were a little bummed about the class revamps, it brought back a lot of people and it seemed that PvE picked up. Also around this period was when Floydan insisted on running Ost Dunhoth pretty much every single day, and although it was like an OD on OD (lawl), it was still nice to see the same people come together. Floydan, Capto, Mirillin, Authiel, Halviel, Bellarus, Vulcwen, Aellor, Klagg. Again, I know there were plenty of others, but I can't remember everyone's name, oops. I remember one run there was a very vocal mini in the raid, Amoxicillin, raging at people's rotations or for what line people were traited, who I then found out to be the infamous Jak. Before Asylum was established, the few times that I found myself in the fellows/raids with the people who generally had a bad rep, - and I admit, I wasn't so keen at first - I don't think I have ever laughed so much in this game. Not only that but they clearly knew what they were doing. Aglaeka, Belv, Bo, Ohpra, Jak, Xardas, Chocla and Zub and of course, Vahnya, thank you for providing hilarity in usually very monotonous runs. :p

About 7 months after initially speaking, Sam and I met in real life on 13th February and I can remember being absolutely petrified in case he was some big neckbeard or something... Shoutout to Firemind-1 for keeping me calm(?) and to Griminsboroth and Tukiltivi for making me laugh so much while I was sitting in the arrivals part at the airport. Even though Sam and I called it quits about a year later, we still keep in contact, and if anything, I have made a very good friend. After this, I didn't properly play again for a year and 2 months, though I occasionally popped on to see old faces. Funnily enough, as Blitz mentioned in his post, I bumped into him on my first day back just as he had come back to Dwarrow from Landy and ended up PvPing and PvEing with him daily. Old old faces had come back: Guido and He, for example, who I had never spoken to before, but ultimately influenced my short time back on Dwarrow greatly. I moved to Landy with Blitz after being a bit disappointed with how dead DD was, but the community there really is nothing like it is on Dwarrow, and hopefully still will be post merge. A big big shoutout to Blitz, Hejazia and Inthael: both on Dwarrow and Landy you three were very special in making my lotro time enjoyable in the past 6 months or so. To say that lotro hasn't been a significant part of my life these past few years would be a lie, despite how sad that sounds. I have met some amazing people and would like to extend a big thank you to everyone who has made my time on lotro the way it has been. I couldn't imagine a better community.

Blitzx, Samss, Ohhsnap, Songrider, Hejazia, Floydan, Authiel, Halviel, Mirillin, Xellor, Tukiltivi, Griminsboroth, Beeyoutiful, Bruzo, Capto, Patriotpea, Chocla, Klagg, Guido, He, Inthael, Gallenhael, Bromton, Nymerias, Shrekinator, Welthrop, Jasthelion, Zepphyr, Lentosh, Gifred, Firemind, Glorg, Hathcael, Spruno, Siphereth, Aktis, Tectonic, Host, Lunchboxe, Bellarus, Boharn, Jak, Aglaeka, Belvegar, Ohpra, Xardas, Zub, Vahnya.

These are the names of people who I think have made my time on DD what it was, and I apologise if I have forgotten any names!!

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...my main is on Landy...

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Landy?! Nooooooooooooo </3

In all seriousness though, great post. Glad to see a made a difference for someone :D

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Landy?! Nooooooooooooo </3

In all seriousness though, great post. Glad to see a made a difference for someone :D

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:rolleyes: <3

I knooooowwww. When the transfers open up, she's getting moved to Ark or Gladden. :o

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Mirillin- Double earrings. ohmaigawd. I think i reported you once for it.

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LOL.

Well I guess I know who to blame if I ever get banned for hax.

Also.

*inserts screen-shot of them still sitting in my vault*

XD

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Damon/Larv

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I still don't remember :/

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I still don't remember :/

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Wouldn't matter even if you did. The past has passed ;)

Gamasammich <3 One of our many raid nights.
Lyth: "Huh?" Pretty much sums up our group 8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9vIoAhzv8

Met some pretty great people in my 4 1/2 years on DD.

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Jonp- so annoying in voice, but we all need that 1 friend \o/ ARE YOU DRUNK JON?

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Love you too bro... btw I don't think I was ever drunk in TS

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Love you too bro... btw I don't think I was ever drunk in TS

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No, but you were drunk quite often in Raidcall. (Sometimes drunk meant about half a sip) And even when you weren't drunk, you were always btching about something in-game so it had the same feeling. The alcohol just induced louder girly screams and yelling.

But nothing compares... to when Sokrat is drunk and on voice. That guy is hilarious.

Awesome stories, all! I loved reading each and every one of them... loved the detail of yours, Blitz. Had a truly fun time playing with you these past couple years.

Loved the concise sincerity as I read yours, Authiel. You will be missed. :( (p.s. I think I still have your # lolol text me sometime haha)

Pat, your shoutouts are genius, my friend. I wish I had a memory like yours!

Niirodil - you will certainly be missed very much. I had some spectacular times on the game with you.

Same goes for Ohsnap! One of my very first LotRO friends. Do you think I can beat you in a spar yet? Meet you @ south Bree skirmish camp. ;)

So this a story about my lotro life,

It started out bam I entered the moors at lvl 57 was told by Sno Ithel Jacbo and Card man you got a mic just get that leveled, I made that promise came back when I was leveled and BAM next thing you know I am in Ainur. Sno a man of few words was and always had been a good dude who else did I get to talk strats with and all that other good stuff? All the hardcore raiding and pvping yall made me the player I am today Elitist and all. Yet through all the drama and bs we always had fun in vent/in game/destroying whatever was in our paths.

That lvl 65 punk Ainur Zerging Smack Talking Troll Youngguido but hey nothing but love for ya'll all my peeps from 65 cap wherever you may have gone ./shoutout. Well see Youngguido noticed there was no filers on DD so he made one Healree/Toxotica/Guidolicious.
Back in the day he ranked it to 7 first r7 filer on DD yeah that used to be a big deal, ran that BAMF creep tribe with Lavsnack and Luggy the only defense to Ainur. sadly thought Youngguido had to break away from lotro because he had a Real Life mission, as the months passed and the level capped changed no one thought he would return.

BAM 3 months into 75 cap Younguido returned this time he grew into Legacyguido, though on his return many of his Ainur kin mates had left the game and he had decided that maybe Ainur wasn't him anymore ( lol all the drunken trolling ) anyways he moved on as he continued to pvp and raid in a group named Gammamakemeasammich. On his pvp travels he ran into someone that would change his lotro career/life forever. That person would be Ohsnap/Hypnotica, Ohhsnap and Legacyguido Duo'd the DD moors destroying anything that came into contact with them ( if you don't believe me look at her minnis war-tab ) Legacyguido didn't make Ohhsnap, Ohhsnap made Legacyguido through their adventures they completed most t2c and amongst other things, along these travels I met many people man/dwarf/elf/hobbit that made the game play awesome but with in good intentions they decided maybe they would hike to a land far away.

Crickhollow is where they decided to ride to, on crick hollow they awoke their creeps Toxotica and Hypnotica creating a Creep Tribe named BAMF and through the year Legacyguido and Ohhsnap had been retired their creeps rose above leaving nothing but dead freeps in their path. Due again to real life situations Guido had to leave the game again this time for 2 years.

The return, as the months passed ones would ask themselves " where oh where is that jerk Legacyguido? " oh where oh where is that punk Guidolicious? " He-Man himself would ask Ohsnap " is he gone? is he ever coming back? " well he made his return and the Ezmoding Freeps ran for the hills, but he soon came to realize nothing was left his home had been destroyed the community had died off. He decided it was time to pack his bags for good ./waving goodbye to what remained of the server.

The main factor is the story will continue until the end of lotro a game you can always come back to, a game where you can meet new people or run into old friends I am forever greatful for all the people I have met through the years of the game a lot of different characters and personalities.

I could of made a better story but I am lazy af at work right now :) you all get the point.


I made a thread a few weeks back mentioning all the important people to me, and I deff missed a lot of names but just know I <3 most of you ;p.

Awesome stories guys,i just admire the details you all were able to include,lots of memories coming back:P

My story is kinda difficult to explain with mere words.I started out near pre-RoI with a guard whom i would solo traited blue since i knew almost nothin about the class,gawd it was a real pain lv'ing him up and since i wasnt a fun of doin side quests i ended up doin of all frickin moria on foot(yes dat noob lv+9999) till i finally reached lv 65.Then i got introduced to monster play which was vip at that time.When i saw the spider class i almost knew that i would main that and freepside would have to come later.Starting out as a spider i didnt even knew about questing i just wanted to go spit some poison on the freeps i would find though that would turn out to be a painful experience:P Then RoI hit which brought the best instance cluster in the game but since i enjoyed creepside more i didnt had the honour of joining those ToO pugs.I managed to hit r3 which was a big accomplishment for me and soon i met the best raid leader i ever came across,Shap. I remember the time i asked him if i was strong enough to kill freeps on my own now but he told me i needed to develop my spider much further and that line alone pushed me forward into learning my class and the extent of its capabilities...

I joined groups and raids to get the feeling of group play,those might have been my best times.I also met my spider idols,Turtles,Veenom and Misterbubbles.I kept watchin them fight and came to know their playstyles and their strategems which would help me create my own playstyle and rotation,i promised to myself that i would become as experienced as them someday...

While my spidy was growing and growing i felt the urge to actually play freepside and develop my guard as best as i could.It was then at ROR when i got invited into one of the best raidin kins i ever knew,Ceaseless.I met lots of peeps(if only i remembered them all) but still i didnt trust myself with guard tanking to actually join groups.Fortunately my kin leader Kraum and Agtug(prolly the best guards in the server) helped me out on learning how to tank efficiently although i would still find a way to screw up somehow:P Eventually Ceaseless died out so i decided to devote myself to creepside because i couldnt afford all the new content with each update.

And so i found myself in the thick of battle once again in the moors as the updates went on and on(and lag became an annoying issue).Though i had little to no communication with freepside ,creepside became my haven not just because i was havin a blast playing my spider but thanks to many peeps i met and had alot of fun with them(if i were to name them all it would take me like all day).Honestly pvp was never for lotro and i knew there would always be somethin OP and broken(spider too with u13) but i didnt really care since i had fun most of the time.I now know what i didnt knew back then,that i didnt like lotro for its pvp but i did like it for its community and people,after all those are what makes the game fun for me.And that folks,is a piece of my story:P

I will miss you dwarrow...
Wherever the road takes my spidy, i will always web froobs in your memory:P
/peace out (Saenanthra/Doomvirus)

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. Old old faces had come back: Guido and He, for example, who I had never spoken to before, but ultimately influenced my short time back on Dwarrow greatly

These are the names of people who I think have made my time on DD what it was, and I apologise if I have forgotten any names!!

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Ahh yes the short time you had been on DD had been some fun :) thanks for power leveling me and being a good friend :) good luck in Japan and maybe we will meet again.

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Guido- DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA, GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS, DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA

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Damn straight sonny <3

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Hamond, ps me with you guys vent, I forgot the info.


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My story:

In 2007 a little dwarf started his journey but stopped playing because of school and college. Then, at 2010, I bought my first stuff in lotro making me a premium user and then a VIP. At 60-65, I was part of the crimson brotherhood, a small kin with very friendly and good players. Once I hit the level cap, I used to raid with Dennis, V, Ohsnap and company. By the end of 65 I was a respected guardian that even though had no raiding kin used to raid and run raids with raiding kins when they're were missing tanks. During the last months of 65, I became friends with agtug, the boss dwarf and my guard mentor and the crimson brotherhood had received some new additions that are part of Dwarrow's history: Marvi and Gamarin.

75 was my favorite level because of how much content and how much fun I had. Came to know a lot more people at that level cap and I was a pain in the ### for most of them because I love raiding and sometimes to a fault. Wasn't living a very good phase at the time so I had huge mood swings too. Still, the gammamakemeasammich pug was the most fun I had with any group. Some of the names in this group: Agtug, Aktis, Gamarin, Eomen(Xellor), Marvi, Lythea, Dennis, Sno, Guido, Zulubeast, Pat, Zub, Norfrid, Thren's burg, hamond, Galla, Easiel, Katon, Jonp, Stocky, etc(too many people for me to remember them all, sorry). So many great players, we were basically a raiding kin but without the name and we were all from different kins. We accomplished much and had our nice share of drama and QQ, which for the best or the worse, is part of any mmorpg.

By the middle of 75, I decided to try pvp for the first time, first with my guard and then with my rune-keeper. Guard dps was bloody boring and my movement was very bad duo to pveing only, so I just stopped. My RK though, was so much fun at 75. I used pve gear because of the bonuses and xardas always had a hard time keeping my squishy dwarf alive but I had some memorable kils with my fire RK and back then, the only fire rks were me and Marvi. I used to 1 vs 1 with fire all the time and most of the time lose. But I didn't care, I was determined to become one of the best fire rks. My true love though was healing with rks. Powerful healing with great animations and it helped me a lot the fact that I had a tank in a way to become a good healer. I also had help from veteran healers like Shaera's rk(best player overall I've ever seen in lotro) or Lythea. Soon after hitting my lvl cap I was also a respect rk dwarf, hated by many creeps that couldn't kill me when healing since I was so squishy in dps mode. At the end of 75, I also started to get along with belve, bo(on his rk) and so on.

Sadly, at the end of 75, some of these great players left and I decided to create my own raiding kin. Ceaseless was its name. Most of the players that used to group in gammamakemeassamich joined my kin while a couple joined reforged. 85 wasn't that great but still had some raids. At this level cap, I met one of the best players and brightest minds strategically and by far the best burg I've ever known, Ophra. Whatever game you're playing man, you're a blast to group up with. You prioritize tactics over zergs, discipline over carelessness and I loved it. You and Presdas helped me a lot mantaining ceaseless alive for most of 85. During 85 I decided to raise a LM since I had a tank, a dps/healer and needed a cc class. Of course, I bloody loved the class and started using it as much and even more than my other 2, raiding aside.

At the end of 85, Ceaseless disbanded and a few of us joined other great players like Aglaeka, jak, bo, belve and others. Some of those people might have a bad rep but they're all cool guys with deep knowledge about their classes and the game mechanics. We cleared BFE t2c before everyone on our server, and I think we were the only group to heal it with 2 rks only and no mini, and a solo tank. (Me and belve healing, agtug tanking).

95 came and pve died. I raged at the started but eventually understood that it was time to dedicate myself only to pvp cuz pve was garbage. Had a lot of fun with Asylum during these times. At the end, our server was truly dead and I decided to join Brandy. But before that, I had a lot of fun with my crazy no ####s given reaver, kraumattack, that since r1 would go against a raid just to get a kill and die trying. Jasiak, weltrop's reaver, belve's reaver and many more reavers were beast too. Aglaeka's WL is the best WL I've ever seen too.

My first months on brandy were kind of bad. Too many zerg babies, joined a kin with more than 100 people that never grouped for anything, was mostly a solo player against tons of zergs and raids. I transfered my LM and reaver only, as tanks and healers weren't needed at the time(a lot I mean) and I didn't like the tree trait changes on them. After that, I decided to quit the game for half a year and when I came back I joined achilee's heel, a very small but really good kin. Oromay, you're/were(don't know if he's playing lotro on E or just ESO) a great player and pvp leader. You remind me a lot of Ophra in everything. Our kinmembers were great, had aktis there too and we used to roll 20 creeps with groups of 5-6 of us, at dg, at the oc rocks, etc. Using the terrain and playing strategies and timing our cc/dps at the right time, exactly like in Asylum.


Sadly most of them left the game or are in other server and I stayed on Brandy. I'm now part of a kin named Illuminati and for the first time it's a kin where 90% of the players are europeans. All my previous kins used to be mostly US people and Aussie, with some europeans like me, agtug and aktis. It's a fun kin with good players but right now, I feel nothing towards this game. The new instances are easily farmable, although DoS t2c is actually a cool run, the pvp right now is complete and utter garbage thanks to the new map that invites zergling over anything and moors is almost always empty. My computer is dying as hell and I don't think it will survive till the end of the year.



Regardless, I tried many times to quit this game and never could. I don't do that mistake anymore. I might take breaks, even big ones, but truly moving on, I don't think I can.


DD had an awesome story and if I forgot people forgive me as there's too many of you. I will still play till the pc dies for good, and I would like to play with all of you again.

PS: pc is actually dying faster than I thought. Don't think i'll be playing anytime soon. Oh well.

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Good times with ya brotha

I won't bore you with too many details of my story. I am, after all, a casual at heart, probably the only non-elite here and a Pat-confessed "some RoR kid".

For kin reasons, I'm going to be transferring to Crickhollow unless there are some problems on that front, so I'll truly miss the whole bloody lot of you. :(

Buuuuuuuuut my time on Dwarrow has seriously been some of the most fun I've ever had. For every freep since RoR, I'm responsible for at least one of their ranks. From my times as a true noob to my evolution as Suicidal Reaver #2, I died to many and killed but few.

I'd like to thank a lot of folk, people often on the very fringes of Dwarrow - good people who otherwise might not even get a look in, in this thread.

Freepside

I'd like to thank Earn, for inviting me to The Order of Light, my kin since February 2013 (3 months after I joined) and the kin I now lead, 2.5 years later. A small kin, it's where I also met the best LOTRO friends: Aramea (the Freddie Mercury of Dwarrow), Graembo (forever Leader of the Grae Company) and above all, Shorcia. Shorcia was the nicest person you could imagine, and also a worse player than me, hence she was the one person I could actually laugh at. Those four were the centre of the kin, the four main officers, but it wasn't just them; also Badari, who came in later as my only other active officer during these times. And of course, everybody who was a part of The Order of Light, which I soon intend to retire into a token kin, to fold into a bigger where some of my other friends ended up when we (hopefully) move to Crickhollow.

Everyone I've ever run with, who I've ever killed with, who has ever helped me with anything: thank you. You prove how Dwarrowdelf is the best community in LOTRO, not just a troll-infested place as some would have you believe. Particular thanks must go to Glorgnorbor for being a dependable glue to hold the server together, above all else. Also, to Dwadler. yes, really. He helped me and my kin a lot through tough times. Maybe not the Bestgaurdever, but he wasn't bad. ;)

Creepside

This is the hardest lot. I'll just do it in chronological order.

Dritorlz, or something like that, remember him? He called me noob, he yelled at me, he was a rude awakening to the harsh reality of creepside. And above all, he prepared me, right as I was starting, for the most turbulent game experience ever: being a noob on LOTRO creepside. Thanks, Drit, whoever you are and wherever you are, for that. It helped a lot!

Big thanks to everyone in Chaos, what a lot they were. Probably my only ever "elitist" kin and boy did I not belong there. But thanks for making me feel like I belonged anyway! Particular thanks to Jasiak, the LEGEND, for being my reaver inspiration. Thanks also to Shapcidrat, for being the Torment of Dwarrowdelf, the most efficient and experienced raid leader I've ever had the pleasure of working for. And special thanks to Saen (because #BringBackSaenanthra2015) for being the one who truly took me under his wing... legs, whatever. He's a beast, quite literally, and he truly taught me how to creep efficiently, no matter how much I must have annoyed him.

After Chaos came Disturbed. Disturbed was a breakaway from the inactive Chaos, formed by Rafiky the Filer (props to that great guy) and led by himself and me, with other amazing folk such as Amitolah, Stoniakah (Katrindal) and all the other guys. Those were the times. Also from Disturbed came a trio that, with occasional additions (particularly from my freepside kin), led me to fall in love with the camaraderie of small groups; myself, Pewie and Narzhagat. We were nothing special - a r11/12, with a r8/9 and r8. But we worked - we were so efficient, well led, with a brilliant sense of teamwork. If anything, that's the true success story of Dwarrowdelf. Small groups like that. That's what we should all be proud of.

Finally, a mention to Szaranor. Szaranor and his many alts really took me under his paw and looked after me. He's the most decent guy in LOTRO. He taught me how to creep with honour, how to make ends meet freepside, and above all how to really play the game. I learned so much from him. Also thanks to the guys we rolled with towards the end of Dwarrow when I kinda returned creepside; Motherofdemons, Thinlegs (Bogo) and Grimfoot, all those guys. You've all been amazing.


I've missed so many, it's a shame. But seriously, even if I never mentioned you, thank you for being a part of Dwarrowdelf.

Thanks, Dwarrowdelf. Thanks for the memories. I'll never forget.

I don't even remember most of mine...

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Gamasammich <3 One of our many raid nights.
Lyth: "Huh?" Pretty much sums up our group 8)

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lolololololol, love that video. Feels exactly like something we would do in that group.

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No, but you were drunk quite often in Raidcall. (Sometimes drunk meant about half a sip) And even when you weren't drunk, you were always btching about something in-game so it had the same feeling. The alcohol just induced louder girly screams and yelling.

But nothing compares... to when Sokrat is drunk and on voice. That guy is hilarious.

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I wasn't talking about RC was I? also I know I could out drink you any day so try me. loud girly screams and yelling? sure man, whatever you wanna believe. Dunno why you're randomly deciding to be a complete dick to me, we've always been friends

ok legit dis time


This is the story of the best warg on the server.

I first play LOTRO in late SOM. I remember making a warden named Rayoden and joining the kinship Massive Dynamics. This was back when massive dynamics spammed the chat for people to join them lol. I remember talking to people in the kinship about pvp. I was interested in how it works. So I end up buying vip to make a creep. I wanted to pick a stealth class so I went with warg. I named the warg Rayodog to resemble the name of my warden. I remember my first time in ettenmoors, I went out of grams and got killed in 2 seconds by some random burglar. This burglar was Caspur, I think he was rank 10 or 11 at the time, but he is the first people to have ever killed me on this game. I remember people talking about Ainur raids in OOC chat and how notorious they were. The freeps I can remember that were in Ainur at the time were. The people I remember most from this time was Atador, Karoc, Jacbo, Zidia, Viduo, and maybe a few others, it's been a while. I also remember a lot of the creeps during this time. Most rememberable for me were Luggy, Bbatburz, Roudy, Shapcidrat, and Rayzr. During this time I was god awful at playing warg.

Then ROI came out. This was when F2P players could play creep reavers. I remember the massive armies of freavers farming slugs. During this time period, I was very anxious to rank up to 6 to join B A M F. B A M F was the hottest tribe back in the day. Even when I got rank 6 they wouldn't let me in lol. But I remember the day shadow came out for wargs. When this happened all wargs became op and everbody bought warg. This was the first time I could ever solo freeps. I actually could only solo hunters ocasionally, like the time I 1v1ed Zulubeast and won. But the thing I remember most from this ere was the tribe called Prowlers. It was a warg only tribe and I remember when Thunderboltz invite me in, and went he kicked me out..... But the people I remember most from that tribe were Zanoz, Nelami, Iorynn, and ofc thunderboltz. I also remember when they finally let me into Chaos for like a week, it was fun for a while.

Then ROR came out. This was when new players enter in and thought they were tough ####. (BLITZ) I was mostly a solo warg during this time. Nobody liked me so I never really joined tribes. I do think I ended up joining Chosen Tyrants for a while before they merged with chaos? i think. I did had a few friends during this time. Like Fy which idk where he went. But this was when I finally got a Razer Keyboard and a razer mouse. I learned a lot of tricks with wargs especially the animation cutter exploits. From what I know, I was the first person to legit macro on warg. yes i admit i macroed HAH. I never made it too obvious, I only macroed eye rake and howl. This period is what I think my favorite time for this server. I also think this was when Iorynn and Ironic butt buddied to like rank 12.

THEN HELMS DEEP CAME OUT. I wasn't there when HD came out, I took like a 6 month break before getting on there. This was after all the big macro scandals came out. and zubzub rq game cuzmad. But the first people I met during this time that became good friends with me, were Ninjashadow, dagurn, and all his friends pretty much. Which is people like dwadler and socrat who have changed so much from then. How could a friendly british guy turn into a wannabe asylum british guy. I still like socrat tho. This was also when No QQ and aslyum first started. I remember Jak being a cool guy from reforged, an ooh how he changed. oh well, jak is still a handsom man. I remember me and muzin being friends... before he got caught farming and transferred due to shame. But I do remember being in his tribe R O G U E. It was a very fun tribe, i mean gartharg was in it cmon. I then remember moving to the tribe led by razzgash, before he quit and gave leadership to crazzyass mordem. But the thing I remember most of all when I noticed another warg named Sanduskyy. I asked a friend who he was, and was like "ooh he best warg server and macro and is op omg". And I was like "yo, so you think dis warg can take my spot". I analyzed sanduskyy and concluded that he didnt macro and was a keyturning noob. But a lot of people who hated blitzx, say I'm the best warg because I dont macro/exploit. Which is ironic because I did use macros and he didn't lol.

Ok the ultimate troll. When I turned rank 10 I decided to pull a belv and rename my warg. My whole idea was to see how far I can go in fooling people. I changed my warg's name to Warglar and said I was from landroval. This was very funny because everyone thought I was some beast warg from landy. The funny thing was when blitzx invited me to his warg tribe because he thought I was the real ####. But people ended up fighting my true identity and it all died out. I stayed as warglar for a few weeks longer than I made the decision to transfer to brandywine. This was when I met chachii and macro noobs and stay at GG doing 1v1s all day.

Then level 100 the fall of dd. I took a long break again and found out how dead the server was, but it still had some action. I remember how it was really fun during u12 but when u13 came out, creeps got stupid op and freeps simply just stopped going to the moors. it was a very depressing time. dd was really dead and there were occasions when asylum would come out but it wasn't very often. My warg was still on brandywine not doing much but 1v1ing some freeps. So I decided to go to the server where a lot of people from dwarrowdelf went which was Landroval. I came there expecting to troll blitzx again by changing my wargs name to Beaney. but... ochad ruined it for me. So I just played there for a while and actually had a lot of fun. I'm still there right now.

TLDR: best warg server

Less Than Four <4

~thunder boltzjk - not me


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Well here goes my LOTRO story

I downloaded LOTRO in August of 2011, and thus Jonp was created. A Race of Man hunter that I thought of after thinking of a mix between Aragorn and Faramir. I actually didn't really play at all for the first month or so after I created Jonp since I had a girlfriend at the time and spent a lot of my time with her.

Around level 15 I was in the Old Forest in Bree when I got my first kin invite. I saw a level 41 Champ named Breggel going around kiling stuff and he invited me to a fellow and a few minutes later to the kin. I was automatically appointed officer since I was one of the first people in his kin, Heros of the Fourth Age. At level 35, I was appointed to successor since I had recruited a lot of people and well liked amongest the most of the kin. Unfortunately by the time I was level 39 or so the kin started to become inactive. I actually remember sitting in the skirm camp in Rivendell for several days trying to win a skirmish (don't remember which one) and I just couldn't due to my ###### gear and I didn't know anyone yet who could craft me stuff.

Around level 41 I was still in HotFA and I started questing in Angmar. While there I saw a level 45 Warden named Fallenwarrior. He invited me to a fellow and we became friends within a few minutes. He ended up asking me about my kin and I told him that it was kinda inactive ( although there were people online at that time), and so he offered to merge kins with his own, The Walking Dead. I thought about it and decided merging would be the best decision, unifying under The Walking Dead. I asked my online kinmates about it and sent a mail to the leader telling him about the situation. I joined TWD and was appointed officer to invite all my friends from HotFA, and several of them joined.

I ended up keeping officer due to most of the kin liking me. It was around mid November by now and RoI was already out. A few weeks after I joined TWD, my girlfriend and I broke up and I kind of got addicted to the game to give me something to focus on, since I was 17 at the time and didn't have a job or anything better to do :P Around the same time I became good friends with a hunter in the kin named Hallaborn (he was 10 levels above me). Around late December 2011 I was level 70 or so.

A little bit prior to this was the first time I ever went out to the moors. I was level 59 and didn't really have an idea of what the moors was. I asked for help over Regional or some channel and got an IM from a Burg named Johnney (whom I later found out was Toa) telling me about how the red flags at TA meant that it was controlled by the monster players. Needless to say a few seconds later I got mauled by some wargs like Cataphract, Lavsnack and Iorynn. A few deaths later I noticed a lot of people from a kin called Ainur, riding in a group. After a few more deaths I sent a tell to one of them asking if I could join their raid. At this time I was only wanting to get Rank 1 since again I was level 59. So they ended up inviting me, and I was their warg bait :P I got Rank 1 about 10 or so minutes later and said goodbye and told them I'd be back out once I hit level cap.

So level 70, I was still in TWD and it was still very active. Hallaborn and I at that time decided to leave the kin. He joined Hope is Kindled while I joined Saurons Minions. I ended up hitting level 75 in that kin but shortly after joined TWD again. After that I joined HiK with Hallaborn and left and joined several other kins until coming back to TWD again. Unfortunately a few months after this he ended up quitting and I never knew what happened to him :/

A little time passed and I was working on levevling a new toon, a captain named Malebor. Around this same time I ended up meeting a level 34 hunter in the kin named Evasaele. I quickly became friends with her and ended up adopting her as my daughter which still stands today. Another few weeks passed and this would be the last time I left TWD on hunter. By this time I had already been out in the moors several times so I guess some people were starting to know me (whether for good or bad haha). Even though I was a complete noob, even worse I was still a keyboard turner. Anywho I had sent in online applications to several of the raiding kins and was waiting for a reply. I got declied by a few (no surprise), but one day I noticed I had gotten accepted in this kin called Awakened. The next day I asked over GLFF ( RIP that channel, funniest convos ever) if anyone from that kin was online. I immediately got an invite and was greeted by all the kin. I stayed in the kin for about a month before I realized I had gotten an email notifying me that I had gotten accepted in a kin called BALROG RIDERS. So I reluctantly said goodbye to Awakened and joined BALROG RIDERS in hopes that I could progress myself more as a hunter and a raider.

Being in BALROG RIDERS was some of the best times I've had in LOTRO, and tremendously helped me progress as a hunter. Also being in this kin made me fall in love with this moors. It would end up being my favorite part of the game for the next few years. In that kin I met some amazing people like Zepphyr, whom I would eventually become great friends with, as well as Zeva, Aellor, Hamond, and Klagg. I also met people like Anarthos, Letiredor (for a short time), Justighteous, Brycht and his wife (can't remember her name), and many others. Also one person I ended up meeting in BR when he joined was Welthrop, a Rank 6 Hunter at the time. And we all know the rest as far as that goes haha.

Also while in TWD I met a champion named Arlindul whom would also became a great friend of mine. He also came to BR with me and ended up leaving BR with me (if you see this Alrindul hit me up man I miss you). After I left BR I joined Explorers of Middle earth for a little bit, before leaving due to it being inactive.

I was kinless for a few months before one time in the moors I noticed Kraumur in a kin called Ceaseless, as opposed to The Crimson Brotherhood that he had always been a part of. I asked him about it and was admitted into the kin a few minutes later. In
Ceaseless I met Bromton, Malinuil, Slydewoosh (where'd you go man?), Presdas, Ohpra, Atador and his brother (I'm sorry bro I don't remember your name), and several others. Ceaseless were probably my best times in LOTRO, besides the Gammasammich pug. In that pug I met Gamarin (of course), Lythiea, Kraumur, Agtug, Eomen, Aktis, Frogzie, Katon, Zulubeast, Patriotpea, Xardas, Dennis, and so many others. I would end up becoming good friends with most of them. I also remember the one time in the middle of Draig t2 when we stopped the entire raid because Kraum thought he was getting robbed haha (glad you didn't).

Even the best times come to and end though. Ceasless disbanded in early-mid 2013 and I went kinless for a little bit. In July of 2013 I ended up joining the Navy and went MIA for a long time due to that and didn't start playing until about February of 2014. And even then I only played my Reaver Garaluk, whom was at the time Rank 7. At that time my hunter joined Asylum with some old friends and some new ones like Aglaeka, Jak, Belvelgar, and several others. I ended up leaving though since I was mostly inactive on my hunter.

For a little while I made a trio kin with Welthrop and Patriotpea called Three Hunters, and although it didn't last long, even those times were great.

The last part of my story is Defiance. I joined Defiance in Nov 2014 after being persuaded by Pat and Diggory, and I'm very glad I did. Defiance has added to the list my favorite times in this game, meeting people like Socrathiel, Damondeth, Glaer, Nae, Saeko, Lentosh, Hathcael, Elishah and several others. While reuniting with old friends like Patriotpea, Authiel, Riialyze, Eoldir, Arknow, and later Welthrop.

Creepside was also a big part of my LOTRO adventures. First creating my warg Groudy back in 75, even though I was awful on him especially being a keyboard turner haha. However I would learn to love my BA Jonnyp, my Defiler Drousy, and my Reaver Garaluk. I would be a part of tribes like Prowlers with Thunderboltz, Iorynn, Smellycat (I think), Nelami, Zanoz, and several others. As well as CHAOS with Roudy, Shapcidrat, Kamikaze, Welthpop (later known as Trilogi), Veenom, Saenanthra (later known as Doomvirus), Burgzerg, and many others. Then Animals of the Hithlad Wood, with Gallanharrow, Starscreem/Notbromton, Nazmoth, Kraumattack and others as well. Some of the best creeps I ever had the pleasure of playing with were Crygin, Bbatburz, Orcbooty, Iliketurtles, Kamikaze, Nerdpowerheadshoot, Donnyv (despite all the mad #### we talk to each other you're a pleasure to fight with/against), and so many others.

The vent times in BR and Ceaseless and TS with Aslyum often had me in tears laughing. Whenever we were in the moors and Iorynn was out Kraum's rage was real...funny xD And listening to Jak was the funniest s**t ever, no matter what we were talking about. RC with Defiance is great banter, especially when one of us is drunk.

To end this novel I'll give all my shout outs that I missed above:
Viduo, Lunchboxe, Dairren, Hiriath, Xuneng, Doomsie, Galvarth, Meldereth, Eomen, Zeva, Berodain, and Keorl

And my individual shout outs:
Tanar: only rk beside xellor that I saw run into a craid just to get a single kill
Atador: along with Pat and Zulu probably my biggest inspiration on hunter, you're a freakin beast man
Zulubeast: I could never get over the fact you went from r9 to r10 in about three or so days, amazing hunter
Evo: I don't remember whether I first met you on hunter or warg but both were amazing times. I remember us both trying to get to Rank 11 together, I finally caught up haha
Katon: the dwarf hunter who used strength stance before it was cool
Threndinir: best darn guard i've ever seen out in the moors, and a pleasure to group with. Also darn good on burg.
Authiel: I still remember trying to convince you and Edwar to merge with TWD and every time you guys would refuse. Do you remember that my mini used to be an officer in AotF? xD All funniness aside one of the best hunters around nowadays and a great friend.
Socrathiel: From the moment I joined Defiance you've been nothing but nice to me and I love how our friendship has grown. Not gonna lie though thought you were a girl before I heard you in RC xD
Damondeth: U wot m8? Haha always great banter with you in RC, I'm also happy with how our friendship has grown. And I'm finally Rank 11 so you can't give me #### anymore :P
Glaer: You're a great leader, whether it's PvE or PvP and your warden is awesome bro, hope to see you online more when I get back
Nae: You're an amazing burg, and RC is always a blast when you're on. Idk where you went but I hope everything is okay with RL bro
Riialyze: Great pesron and amazing healer even though you love DPSing :P
Zub: The only decent skill clicker I knew in the moors, and heck of an LM, even for an Aussie :P
Drakkarmyst: Even though you P2Wed about $20 worth of perks a day haha, you were still a great champ and a great group leader
Jak: Being in TS with you always has me laughing my butt off. Hearing you mash your keyboard and rage about the funniest things. You are one hell of a warden my friend
Aglaeka: Besides Ohpra you're probably one of the best tacticians in the game. Doing PvE and PvP is always a blast with you. And listening to you, Belv, and Jak over TS are always the best times.
Klagg: You are one weird motherf***er but you are funny as heck and still a great person
Vahnya: You're one heck of a hunter and also a great person to chat with in vent, especially when you're with the aussies :P
Patriotpea: You were one of my idols when I was a noob hunter in TWD, and I'm so glad at how good friends we've become. All the posts you make on the kin FB group when you're bored xD
Welthrop: Who woulda known you were gonna grow into the bada** you are? I remember being Rank 8 when you were Rank 5, and then you surpassed me at Rank 9. One heck of a hunter and a guy, and one of my best friends in the game
Bromton: Justin man. Even when your voice was as high as Justin Bieber you were still a great cappy, and a good friend. I think you surprised everyone when your voice dropped haha
Aellor: You were my kin leader in BR, and later my kinmate is Ceaseless. You're an amazing healer, and I have nothing but respect for you. I'm glad we're friends on FB
Zepphyr: I met you in BR and it just kept getting better from there. Even after BR I grouped with you many times for PvE and moors and you'll always be one of my closest friends in game, no matter if you're on BW or not :P
Aktis: I was very shocked and impressed to find out how many different classes you could play well. With that being said, your champ was by far your best and you're a beast at it.
Kraumur: I met you in the Gammasammich pug and later you were my kin leader in Ceaseless and now you're my kinmate. You're an amazing raid leader, 2nd best rk healer and tank I've ever known (behind Lyth and Agtug respectively), and just an all around great guy. And no matter how many times you say you're quitting you always come back <3
Malinuil: Man our conversations in vent and TS were always great man. Being in TS with you, Ata, his brother, Welth, Pat, and Justin was always a good time and many laughs. Also one of the best darn hunters and burgs in the game. Hmu on facebook if you read this bro.
Thunderboltz: As I've said many times on the forums, you're forever the best all time warg on DD, even if you're not active. You're also an amazing person, hmu if you want my FB info.
Kamikaze/Karoc: Whether you were on your Champ or Reaver, you were still exemplary on either toon, also a great guy to group with and a great pesron.
Saenanthra: You were pretty much the only creep I knew when I came back at 95, and you've turned into one hell of a spider. I hope I see you on the next server.
Veenom: You're amongst the top spiders to ever play on DD. Where'd you go bro? I miss you man

There's so many people I know I forgot at least a few. And I know my timeline is all jumbled around, but meh :P If I remember anything else or other names I'll edit em in. These past 4 years on Dwarrowdelf have been the best and I'll always remember the people I met and places I went along the way. I hope to see a lot of you on whichever server I end up going to. It's been one heck of a ride my friends.

Jonp Dunidan, in the moors forever known as Warg Bait

I took the liberty of correcting your oversight, Pat...

Klagg- The *white* dude who eats more rice than me.

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Oh man, the memories..

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Aww, you remembered me! /rawr

Admit the truth, though: you hate Floyd for making you heal him when he solo tanked BFE with a butter knife.

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Didn't think I'd take part in this seeing as I don't play anymore and my main is on Landy, but that doesn't take away from the 2 years that I did play on Dwarrow and the amount of memories I have!

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Aww, you remembered me! /rawr

Admit the truth, though: you hate Floyd for making you heal him when he solo tanked BFE with a butter knife.

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Of course I remembered you! Tbh I think that run was the turning point in my RK life when I ended up despising healing :rolleyes:

Well, it's sad to hear about what happened to DD.
From Shadows of Angmar to February of this year, i was around.
I'll not play as much as i want, but i'll always return, besides my several names and such.

Indeed it was quite experience, and a joyable run full of friends.
By the time a next expansion shows up i'll look for Zub and asks directions to play this again.
Until then, i'll keep ./flip in the shortcut.

My story is as long as the old carn dum runs.
Long story short, y'all tripping balls.

Regards,
Tacco Chacco.

I would want to write a wall of text too but just too lazy. I would want to post photos, but thats in my old HDD somewhere..

Anyways, i play quite a few online games, but my time with lotro, specifically when i was with Ainur, that was the best, if i could turn back the clock i would.
There are many people i came across in this game that made it fun but special shoutout to Jacbo, thanks for being such a great leader & thanks for placing your faith in an unproven Lore-master (was it you or ilthel? lololol) and recruited me in.

I may not be around often but when you need an LM, as Gandalf said "Look to my coming, at first light, on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the East."

RIP Dwarrowdelf

Banoon

(Still playing, sometimes, but not sure which server to go to)

Right back atcha, nubcake. <3

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Well here goes my LOTRO story


Klagg: You are one weird motherf***er but you are funny as heck and still a great person


Jonp Dunidan, in the moors forever known as Warg Bait

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By the time a next expansion shows up i'll look for Zub and asks directions to play this again.

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should we tell him?

Once upon a time, at the beginning of 2nd year at Uni, my best friend introduced me to LOTRO. I sat down with him and went through the character creation page, and not thinking that I would play this game seriously, I decided to go for the most ridiculous combination I could think of. This would be the very first of many delightful days spent levelling, eating pizza and drinking beer.
I picked a hobbit minstrel. I called him Lentosh, a mixture of an old nickname and my old laptop’s brand. Because I only thought I was playing to troll, I made him especially rotund and made sure all his outfits were ridiculous, effeminate and bordering on the insane. This would be a tradition that would only grow with time, resulting in Lentosh being the sauciest and most sexually ambiguous alt on the server.
To begin with, I was exceptionally terrible. I’d never played any game like this before and had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I thought you had to complete every single quest in every single area, so after the Shire I went to Combe...then Ered Luin *sighh*...I remember asking for help from my friend with the spider cave in Archet because I kept dying; I didn't even get the Level 5 undefeated "the Wary" title..
One day in Chetwood, I came across a champ called Gythil- and being an absolute casual from the get-go, I followed him around and wouldn’t stop jumping like a nub until he jumped too. We came across each other questing several times in Middle Earth where a jumping fest was the only natural reaction to seeing each other. Gythil is now level 97 and has not played in a long time, but he still remembers me and his memory lives on in my heart.
Around this time, I realised my friends (Kaelyx the champion and Macalanwen the hunter) were progressing faster with levelling and I spent a lot of time trying to frantically catch them up, so that we could level together.
This never happened. I chased them to level 90, whereupon they both stopped playing and I found myself near the 95 cap. I then found myself alone in the kin they had invited me to: Heros of Middle Earth.
Tis sad to admit that at this level I still had very little idea what I was doing. Having done no group play, I didn’t know how to heal outside myself…and could only do enough damage to squeeze myself through the questing. I wasn’t aware of where magical trait points came from, hadn’t paid much attention to which virtues were best for my class and hadn’t spent time ranking them up. Gear was pretty atrocious, it was bleak.
Nevertheless this did not stop me from entering the moors when I hit cap. Coming out almost always solo, I was repeatedly and shamefully farmed again and again and again by a warg duo any time I left GV. Eventually the repetitive dying prompted me to want my own warg. I called him Lenburz.

Lenburz was ninja-invited by Grimfoot to Unleashed, where my own personal brand of inappropriacy, innuendo and idiocy won me favour and semi-lesbian-relations with the lovely Sweetpeaches. After much mostly-fail moors adventuring, Peaches learned that I had a mini- and suddenly I had been invited to leave my kin on freepside and join Lost Legion.
Here I had many awkward, very informative chats with Larveril and Socrathiel about gearing and virtues and LIs and was on the warpath to learning how to mini properly.
I was invited to their raidcall and that summer I spent every moment I wasn’t working with Soc, Larv, Hathcael, Authiel, Arknow, Cande and Sweetpeaches/Koora. Around this time, occasionally a profanity-full person called Vrax came into raidcall. Eventually I learned that this was the same person as Sanduskyy- the very warg that had been tormenting my poor squishy Lentosh with his puppy friend Hypnotiq. Enraged that I had allowed myself to become friends with this person without being aware that they were responsible for so many of my pathetic deaths- I sent a joke-angry message proclaiming my disbelief and rage. Vrax became a good friend fairly quickly, until he was expelled from raidcall for excessive swearing :P

Time went on, and eventually my two good creepside friends, Sweetpeaches and Gharnash, started playing on Landroval. Since I was barely playing my warg on Dwarrowdelf at that point, I transferred him there to play with them and changed my puppy name to Lenz. Within my first 5 minutes on the server, I ran into Sanduskyy again.
We did a lot of warg duoing and it was super fun, and despite the fact that I eventually grew bored of Landy moors zerg behaviour and transferred back to Dwarrow, I still have him to thank for any puppy prowess on my part. The final and current warg name –Lennyy- came about part due to a transfer naming glitch and part with the double –yy as a tribute to Bae. I’m looking forward to server transfers in order to get that puppy duo back.
History became legend, legend became myth, Lost Legion became Defiance and added new friends- Glaer, Patriotpea, Jonp, Rii, Saeko, Randoff..
Two years on, I’ve enjoyed all of my time on Lotro. I have various people to thank specially- I hope we’ll all end up on the same server, but even so:

Kaelyx and Macalanwen- I miss you both on Dwarrowdelf. Without you two I would never have started playing.
Robtosh/Frasermelm- if only you could have kept on playing. Perhaps in a year or two.
Lentosh’s Brockenborings bf <3 whai u no talk back
Authiel- for all your outfits, helping Lentosh to be the snazziest little camp hobbit that ever was.
Arknow- THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!
Socrathiel and Larveril- for all your direction to help me not be a terrible nub forever, and for letting me into the kin even though I am a massive casual.
Sweetpeaches- creeping with you was so much fun, and if you hadn’t forced me into Lost Legion I would’ve become bored and stopped playing last year. Miss your sexy rainbow unicorn self.
Glaer- >:/ it’s only been a short time, and at first I thought my jokes were making you awkward- but now I know you can play too xD you know the phrase I’m thinking of.
Bae- you taught me how to warg, and we had lots of fun in Saucytalk. Baes forever. Miss playing. You stay classy San Duskyy.
Hathcael- on my first day in Lost Legion, Soc had said I should look forward to meeting you, after he found out what my degree subject was and knowing yours. But our simpaticability transcended this. You kept me playing when I nearly quit, keep me patient when I can’t wait around. Casuals forever plz

Thanks Dwarrowdelf!

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Well I'm not going to go into a long story here, but I've been on this server since the month it opened almost 5 years ago. Though I'm not actively playing these days, it's sad to see it close after all that time so I thought I would post. I've had a lot of fun and met some cool people, though I tend to stick to myself. I played freep casually up to 65 and then I realized I could play creep without having to grind quests/deeds/gear and have been mostly PvPing since those days. To those of you who kept the Moors fun and fair and to my long time kinnies in Hope is Kindled, thanks for some good times. I may see you at some point on a new server but finding time can be difficult these days. Good luck to everyone in Middle Earth and in life!

-Feandir/Bludo
-Burgzerg/Boou/Dargazagazag/Gilgalad/Dextrul/Hunztard

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

Oh man, I wish I knew about this earlier; now I'm late. Those of you who remember Borken will do so without fond memories. I was an officer in Reforged, responsible for tearing the kin in half after Viduo and Jacbo started to discuss a merger in summer of 2011. I spent a solid month in the moors nonstop, burning everything to ground. I quit cold turkey and continued to brag about how good I was for at least another year. Later, as an officer and eventual leader of Ainur, it was my humble pleasure to click the disband button after half the kin had moved to SWTOR and the other half got bored and quit the game. I was rude, I was arrogant, and if you knew me in game, I likely called you some variation of fail, noob, or scrub. I have phenomenal memories of all of this. Why?

Because I was playing with friends. Real friends, that I made in game and have kept long after quitting. I dated Jasalyn (huge mistake), I spent an amazing 4 day weekend in a hotel room with Doomsie (huge success), and I met my eventual wife through a friend of a friend on another server (even huger success). The true value of an MMO is in the people you meet. I hope all of you have managed to find a kin/guild/gaming community to stay with even after the great Turbine in the sky crashes the moon into Dwarrowdelf, because if you're playing the game without friends, you're doing it wrong. You can trust me on that, because no one is better at telling you failures that you're doing it wrong.

Love,

Borken

P.S. I still have yet to find another game with a worse, more toxic PvP environment than Dwarrow of 4 years ago. We were so impressively bad.

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Oh man, I wish I knew about this earlier; now I'm late. Those of you who remember Borken will do so without fond memories. I was an officer in Reforged, responsible for tearing the kin in half after Viduo and Jacbo started to discuss a merger in summer of 2011. I spent a solid month in the moors nonstop, burning everything to ground. I quit cold turkey and continued to brag about how good I was for at least another year. Later, as an officer and eventual leader of Ainur, it was my humble pleasure to click the disband button after half the kin had moved to SWTOR and the other half got bored and quit the game. I was rude, I was arrogant, and if you knew me in game, I likely called you some variation of fail, noob, or scrub. I have phenomenal memories of all of this. Why?

Because I was playing with friends. Real friends, that I made in game and have kept long after quitting. I dated Jasalyn (huge mistake), I spent an amazing 4 day weekend in a hotel room with Doomsie (huge success), and I met my eventual wife through a friend of a friend on another server (even huger success). The true value of an MMO is in the people you meet. I hope all of you have managed to find a kin/guild/gaming community to stay with even after the great Turbine in the sky crashes the moon into Dwarrowdelf, because if you're playing the game without friends, you're doing it wrong. You can trust me on that, because no one is better at telling you failures that you're doing it wrong.

Love,

Borken

P.S. I still have yet to find another game with a worse, more toxic PvP environment than Dwarrow of 4 years ago. We were so impressively bad.

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Borken <3

I miss you.

-Ed

Hello All,

Sorry to hear that DD is going the way of the dinosaur.

I would like to thank all of you for playing and fighting and laughing and dieing..well pixel death at anyrate.

My story is a short one..I came..I zapped..I provided infamy for all the creeps on DD.

To those who knew me in the moors and fought side by side knowing how insane my toon was I thank you.

Toa - Wish you had stayed longer.
Crygin - Always fun to get killed by a truly good WL.
Lavsnack - You nommnomm'd me starting at 55 ;)
Atador - I hope you are enjoying life as a dad.
Evogrin - Thanks for always charging in with me.
Zeph - The 3 dwarf RKs will prob never be in the same SS again.
Iorynn - Was always fun to see you out there
Kyoku - I know you don't have an acct anymore but man could you keep me alive.
Xellor - You charge in where few dared to.
Brandic - Some day a game will have need of a Tank of your tankiness
Delques/Xan - I always enjoyed playing with you...and your skills were unbelivable
Lunchboxe - Come heal me so we can kill some creeps ;)
PatriotPea - My fav female hunter, I have some symbols to sell you ;)
All of the last company - Was fun to the end!
All of DB - was fun while it lasted ;0)
All of Knights of the White Cross - You guys were the best!
All of Ainur - quit camping the map points ;) Oh..also quit with actually wanting to pvp while you are at it ;)
All of DD - You will be missed!

There are so many more people that I can not even come close to giving a shout out to all of them.

I hope that I run across you all in the future!

~Tanar

hi there ####tards


ok gonna keep it simple

1. started around soa, cus that i remembered my champ had a shield but it all started when i joined Massive Dynamics . Story here is long. From unknown chump i became kinship favourite (ella alwways had told me that). With all those good people, like Pat, Beth, Kit, Geraltoc and others... It was fun. I Remember when pat got into sammagammishpug, he made me into it too. After couple tryes with kraum and others i started to like the RoI content, even tryed to lead by myself in MD. From all i remember we managed to clear 3/4 of ToO in a week thats was blast

75 times were best for me. Best and most fun grind in the game. I really started to love my champ. Even could chunk it with chain-pulling. So much fun!
I remember PUGS in ToO with NEWBIKENOBISCHOLAR AKA CAPTOBVIOUS - 10hours drunken pugs in t1 wings. while im from europe, it always cost me a whole night to play. BUt it was still amazing to wipe around 6am and just go to sleep.


2. 85times
after roi has ended i felt like there is nothin much to do. So i started to creep(well i started it a little before 85 came) - best damn good choice in lotro.
Moors was just different. I could zerg all those ######## i played in pve world - i remember pat 1shooted me with swift bow hahah (but yea it was 75)
firstly i was with AAA - saenanananannathra and narzhagat and cervinsky! yea i remember that. after getting like r7 i went into chaos iwwth all those good people - shap, burgz, peeper veenom and all...was amazing time in moors back in 75-85. so i grinded my way to r13 in ror? or in 95? idr.
all i know is that in moors i could almost zerg everyone. and it was fun. was laughin when ppl insulted me of macroing or cheating - guyz i just was that good so get over it xD

trolling in moors best thing hhahah

3- 95 when i dont really remember us i started to played less and less...same as 100.


so

i would really thank to all of MD, all of Ceaselles, Barlog Riders (#### welthrop when i got u into BR u got that ####ing Clasp on saruman fuuuuuuuuu). Even DB - i remember back when i had 50lvl i asked karoc if i can join them - they said no . ASYLUM - CRAZY MO####ERS FROM AUSSSSTRALIA - got damn ur all just too freaky freacks.
REFAILGED - thanks for so much infamy! SYCARIUS&OLAFAILZ - WHERE ARE YOU

ok lest start to shout you
i cant remember all of you - but i gonna try it
norfy - wwas so fun when u raged about 85times and gold itemz - hahah it was so funb - but so true. when idiot players could get golden thingz, while the good ones didnt had that much luck!
patriot - i think ur here since i started, sincce i remember md - u were always helpful for me - and i NINJAID UR ####IN GWEULEHOR HUHEUHEUEHUEHUE! i remember that rage!!!!!!!!!
beth/ellatoestabber/geraltor/kit - the family from MD - always fun to play with, to cheer up with, thanks for so much time there
kraumattackakakraumbroakakraum erakaIWILLQUITbutTHENICOMEBACK - dude u had so much influence on this server u cant imagine - either on freepside/creepside - i remember the patioence u had for raids...and sacrifice. one of best ppl in game here. i really looking forward to play with u one time
agtug - jesli to czytasz to wwiedz ze beka byla. bylo fajnie. grubasie :P
eomen/xellor - wtb cj one more time plz
donvlad - masterofdisaster fu u got r14 faster but i bet u farmed. fail
jonp - #### U JASSSSSSSSSSSSS. DONT U CJ MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE hahahah
welthrop - im proud of u my son. really proud.
airen/zepphyr - thank u man, u were really chilledf out all the time!
ohpra - u have really annoyign accent, but u were really cool to me!
megamager - crazy german boi wher are you!
shap - thank u for leading in moors, i think 1/2 infamy came by you!
SLYDE - HOW FAR YA BEEN MATE!
KLAG - wuzuuuuuuuup klags fit ya liek
JEN - come back from japan plz
zub - i really liked to troll you. i always felt like u were just gettin hot like a kittle xD
katherine - u littledevil!
vahnya - i will be always ur drunken polish boi!
xardas - amg are u really from mehico?
zukubeast - where are u man!
galla - really loved u man. dd lacks of some good old fashioned trolling
sno - i remmember i hated u so much for farming. but then...who cares its a game


REALLY REALLY BIG THANKS ONE MORE TIME FOR 75 PPL I RAIDED WITH - BEST TIME FOR ME TO PLAY THEN. GAMMASAMMICH PUG GAMARIN U #### I REMEMBER FIRST TIME I BEAT LIGHTt2 U ASKED IF IM HAPPY - IT WAS LIKE 7AM SO YES I WAS HAPPY TO GO TO SLEEP xD

all those ppl from that raids - thank u so much. lyth - I KNOW WE CANT HEAL STUPID!





ALL OF GOOD PEOPLE I PLAY WITH IT, LAUGH WITH IT, CRY WITH IT - THANK YOU SO MUCH. I NEVER THOUGHT I WILL PLAY ANY MMO, BUT IM REALLY THANKFUL I AM PLAYING THIS ONE AND WITH YOU GUYS - EVEN IF MOST OF U DONT PLAY/WONT PLAY - I LOVE U ALL. ALL THE GIRSL AND BOYS - IM REALLY THANKFULL FOR U PATIENCE FOR ME.
http://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...rman/trolo.jpg
bck when 2kdp in 75 ws something!
http://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...pse7e4a01f.jpgOMGOMGOGMOGMOGMOG NORFY JONP AND SLYDE

http://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...ps51349f6b.jpg
just after welth got his r11...youngkiddoooooo

http://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6pexmihn.jpg
thats nice pic...most of family there. ray kraum me welht pat vahnay!

well i dont have much memory for this game. but i always remember tht ppl are best from this serv. either i trolled them or they trolled me.

#### you pay me

https://www.youtube.com/embed/MGnYD9JoWuw

and mostly thanks to those people
green - good ones
red- baddies(ie fails)
http://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...psiwdyhqkr.jpg
see u in ark

I will never forgive you for that [Gweluechor]. I will zerg you till the end of days. Get ready to be 360 Inward heel KBed back to Grams.



That kill list though..

fit like all.

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thats nice pic...most of family there. ray kraum me welht pat vahnay!

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Damn bro you didn't notice my filer there? :P

it actually surprised me to see people actually enjoyed having me on the server and made their experience on it as a whole, better. good to see everyone is still kickin around and enjoying the game (somewhat).
i would write a wall of text explaining my story with this game but seeing as how this wasnt my home server, it doesnt feel right. plus it would make me qq irl from all the memories and reminisce in the good old days.
i would like to let you all know that the infamous pro thug bromton is still present on dwarrowdelf and im going to transfer to arken so if u want to send me a tell in game or a mail and just say hi that would be cool.
i will only be on my warden or my reaver seeing as how the man, the myth, the legend, the infamous bromton is no longer of access to me.
i want to thank everyone on the server as a whole but i will put a list of name from my kins celestial dawns and ceaseless that made the most of my experience on the server as well as people outside those kins who made the game fun:

kraum
welth
jonp
damallon
dragenborn
blitzx
gallan
niir
patp
celistalo
guido
belv
jak
bo
snags
rayo for the free 500g and making fun of you (still heart you)
gartharg
lunch
tanar
tuk
whitedoggyy
nefandus
maylene
squidwood
RANDOFF AKA HAZTUS
fy
ochad
naz
socrat
authiel
hathcael

thats all i can think of for now, sorry if i forgot any names.
i just want to say thank you once again to EVERYONE that played on the server mostly during the time i played my captain, even though i was one of the biggest pains in the ### and liked to make fun of pretty much everyone, i still enjoyed everyone on the server even if i did chirp you off. game is no fun without me making fun of people

see you in arken

Awww, Jas, I think you meant "fit like all." <3

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hi there ####tards


KLAG - wuzuuuuuuuup klags fit ya liek

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RANDOFF

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YEAH RANDOFF!! That dude is so funny in world chat without even trying.

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Who of you are even part of Asylum / No QQ? Are they really that good or is Coldfellz just trolling me?

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Post this elsewhere. No need to ruin a nice thread about people from Dwarrowdelf sharing their stories over the years before we're forced to move off.

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Mi scusa. Weren't my intentions, but this was the first thread I saw.
Enjoy your game.


PS: Hi Warglar.

When I first started the game, I didn't think much about my "story" in Middle Earth. To be honest, I didn't think about it at all until the server closures were announced. I spent a while slowing piecing together my story in my head over time. I don't exactly have the greatest memory, as most of you know. But let's see if I've remembered enough to tell a tale of Glorgnorbor the Wandering Captain/Bard...

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Year 1: 2011

It all started in March of 2011. I was looking for some kind of Lord of The Rings games, but lego style. I was freaking addicted to legos when I was 13. As I searched, I didn't find any Lego Lord of the Rings game(Ironic, isn't it? They come out with like 50 once I've mostly abandoned lego video games!), but I did come across a very popular and similar topic. "The Lord of the Rings Online." Now, of course we all know what THAT is. When I saw the game, and saw the loading screen. I immediately knew I'd be hooked. Now, remember: I was 13 years old at the time. Before I even downloaded the game, I begged and pleaded to my mum to let me get a VIP subscription. We made a deal and I got VIP... I was psyched! When the game finished downloading, and I saw the first cutscene(Ya know, the movie ya watch when you first enter the game?) I was giddy as all H-E-double hockey sticks.

When I finally got into the game(I had a DX9-11 Comparability Issue at first), I started a champion. Within 5 minutes of joining I had already asked, "How do I equip armor?" After I got a few troll answers, I deleted that character and considered deleting the game(The last thing I wanted was a game full of trolls!). But, after about two minutes of debating, I figured I'd try again. I rolled a captain: Jamesthegreat. When I entered the game with this guy, I found that a much kinder group of people was on. They helped me learn the basics(I was lazy... I shoulda just read the tooltips) and get me on my way!

I don't remember much else about my first year... Just one big, big, BIG thing. I encountered the music system. I found a person in Bree playing music near the pony. I don't remember the name, but I know that she was a captain. Was it Aerilyn? I think it might have been. She taught me how to use the music system and get .abc files from The Fat Lute. Some of you old bards will remember that site much better than I. That was the start of my big music "hobby" that has highlighted my LoTRO experience ever since. But we'll get more into that later.

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Year 2: 2012

My second year playing was the most important year for me. It marked the beginnings of my awesome friendship with my epic buddy(He'll yell at me for this later!) Bruzo. Now, a lot of people on Dwarrowdelf as a Minstrel and a musician. When I first encountered Bruzo, it was in Bree, in front of the Prancing Pony, playing music. Now at this point, I guess I should mention that I did take a six month break towards the end of year 1 and start of year 2. When I started back up, I decided to make an alternative character that was a hunter. I don't remember his name... But it started with an "A." Now. I got this guy up to level 25, and was wandering about in Bree, when I ran across three short hobbits playing tunes. You can guess who they were, right? Bruzo, Lutera, and Honkybong.

Now, back then, I was a very immature person. I decided I'd poke fun at them and kinda ruin the show. So I did this for a few minutes before I got bored. People were upset with me for trolling, of course, and Bruzo was telling people to add me to their ignore lists. Right after this, I felt really bad(Guilty Lil Jamesthegreat!). So I logged onto my main character(I think he was like lvl 34 at the time, Jamesthegreat) and deeply apologized to Bruzo for trolling him. Did I mention I took a 6 month break? Well, during that break, I had forgotten how to play music. So I inquired and asked how he did it. He taught me how, and that was the start.

Originally we played a few loose shows, once every now and then when we were on, that is. But after I while, I started to wonder if it would be fun to start a band. Now remember, I had never let Dwarrowdelf so I knew NOTHING about the huge music scene on servers like Landroval. I approached Bruzo about this idea, and eventually he agreed. So we started a band that we called "Playing out Loud." Slowly over time we recruiting a third member; Frie. We started out playing on Mondays and Fridays... Usually for small crowds of 3-4 people. However, eventually we caught on to the larger music scene, and we evolved into a more streamlined band.

This was pretty much the highlight of my 2nd year playing LoTRO. I got up to level 75 a few days before Riders of Rohan launched. Oh and I raced to Isengard at level 34 on a dare from my kinnies! And a bit later I did start my own kinship that managed to get over 200 members: The Brotherhood of Middle Earth(I derived the name from The Brotherhood of Assassins... I was and still am a HUGE AC nerd. #Syndicate!)

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Year 3: 2013

Year 3 was the first year that the band really became "something" other than a muddy receipt stuck in the ground. We had evolved to include 4 "human" members: Bruzo, Frie, myself, and Gorann/Dogarr. A month into the year, I read about something called "Weatherstock." For those of you who don't know, Weatherstock is a multi-server musical competition on the Landroval server where the top 10 bands compete! We got lucky though. There were 12 applicants... and 10 slots. We were nobodies! There was no way we'd ever get in to that competition! But the organizers were kind to us, and let us in along with the other band: deciding to host 12 shows that year.

As Weatherstock inched closer, we were getting nervous. Our songs were ready. We had: "Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones," "Hit me baby one more time - Brittany Spears," and "Through the Fire and Flames[Polka] - Dragonforce." We got to the top and rocked it, but our results weren't friendly... We came out in 2nd to last place! This inspired us to really up our game and improve to (in my opinion) the musicial powerhouse we are today(Ego much, Glorg?). Oh yeah! I should mention that. This was the year that Turbine decided that "Jamesthegreat" was lore-breaking, and renamed me to Glorgnorbor! It was also the year that I disbanded my Kinship...

I was really upset when I had to disband my kinship, but I knew that I had to do it. There were people upset with the way that the co-leaders were asking for me to shared leadership on a weekly rotation, and I didn't want to. So, I broke down and disbanded it. Think I can't get more detailed? I was on top of the stables in that settlement in The Brownlands in Great River.... I still remember it. So after that happened, I joined Soldiers of The Ring, where I met Eldalleth, Syrolf, and Pendalant(All cool people if you don't already know that!).

This year was also big for the band(Backtracking!) because we grew. Like, really. We became massive. I believe it was this year that Melusinae, Aliawen, and Satior started playing with us. Gorann also transferred away to a German server this year, so we lost him as a permanent bandmate.

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Year 4: 2014

Year 4 was a great year for me. I finally settled down in a kinship, the band was going awesome, and I was as happy as could be. This was the year that our line-up and fans helped us win Weatherstock! We played our set as usual(Competing with 10 other bands): "Barliman's Best - Bruzo," "Some Song about Sauron that I don't remember - ?," and "A third song that I don't remember - ?." After we won, we really started to see exactly how big the Music scene was. We started playing at events large and small, eventually meeting our little Dwarfy friend; Skirfir(Great guy BTW!). But we also had a few bumps in the road...

Year 4 was also the year that I spent 4 months out of the band. Let's just say that myself and a bandmate had a bit of a fight(A big 'un!) and it led to my temporary "departure" for the band. This was a really depressing part of my LoTRO story. The band, as you can probably tell by the amount of time I've spent typing about it, was a BIG part of my life. It kinda kept me sane... But, everything came back together and I was welcomed back in as if it had never happened. Actually, I'm not even sure I'm supposed to tell you about this... Well, I'll get a lashing or two later or it! LOL!

This was also the year that I joined Deliquents of Middle Earth. I kinda followed Bruzo into it... Actually, after my Kinship disbanded, I kinda followed Bruzo where ever the heck he went. Lol. Was I a bit of a stalker? Yea. Did I care? No. But I figured that since were we pretty close friends now, it would be better if we were in the same kinship. This was also the year that Satior kinda drifted away. I'm sure you can assume why, considering what I've told you about previous events in the year *cough cough.*

The year ended awesomely, with the majority of what happened good.

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Year 5: 2015!

Welcome to 2015! The present day! Kinda... This year has been great so far. The band competed at Weatherstock again, where we came in 4th or 5th... I can't remember(A bit tired!) We played, "Vulgaris Magistralus - Hammerfall(I think?)" and two other songs that I'll edit into this tomorrow... After I sleep. The band is still holding together nicely, with the semi-return of our good friend Satior, and everything has pretty much been good for the band.

I've hit a few bumps in the road with school and such, but overall held my gaming life together.

Perhaps the biggest thing to get me this year was the server transfers. As most of you know, I decided to make an attempt to help hold the Dwarrowdelf server together. I organized a project, called the "Moses Project," to help us decide which server we'll go to as a majority. So far it's been going great and everything has been well. The band has acquired two new members, Carantir and Nessida, who come to our shows, dance, and have fun with us and the audience. While they don't actually play in the band, they are a very fun and lively part of the band that we often run instances with and have fun with in our TS/RC chatrooms.

The band is going to play at Archet Aid on the 17th of October, and probably a few more events before the year's end as well. We're working on a super secret musical event that I don't want to spill the beans on yet, but I will after the finer details are worked out with some other bands *hint hint.* We'll have to see what happens!

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What does the future entail? I'm not sure. Of course my hope is to transfer to a server where I can continue to play music and interact with the community: Both the Dwarrowdelfian and the (?????????)-ian. Whatever happens though, I'll always consider LoTRO to be one of the greatest adventures of my teenage years, and one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life.

You guys, as a community, have made these last 4 years a wonderful journey of epic proportions. Wherever we end up, we should not despair. Wherever our community goes, we should not fear. We will always be Dwarrowdelfians. We will always be together, in spirit, in mind, and in heart. No matter what happens, I love you all equally. We have shared in victories, and losses. In hope and dread. In moments of fun and despair. We are Dwarrowdelfians, and we will always be one.

Thanks for reading my boring, long, and repetitive story!

I'll see you all in game,
Glorg!

Airen, wow, as a creep I can say you honestly were my most hated burglar on the server. I hope I can once more get wrecked by you again.

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Still need this:

http://i.imgur.com/yBX0GR1.jpg?1

:D