Hidden Nuggets we see all the time...

[Sarsomar]

oh and also, im not sure if this was mentioned but in the hobbit in like one sentance it says dwalins beard gave a blueish arua if you go look at dwalin you will see that his beard looks sort of blue. not exactly hidden but i like how they added it

[djheydt]

oh and also, im not sure if this was mentioned but in the hobbit in like one sentance it says dwalins beard gave a blueish arua .

Really? Where does it say that?

[Sarsomar]

when dwalin comes into bilbos house

[djheydt]

You're right! "A dwarf with a blue beard tucked into a golden belt."

[Sarsomar]

i just am now reading the hobbit so its fresh in my mind lol

[djheydt]

I have now spent several hours hanging around north of the Refuge, standing at the appropriate coordinates, looking at the southern cliff from a northern or northwesterly direction, and I STILL can't see that face in the rocks, not nohow.

If anyone can ever get a screenshot, I'd love to see it.

[Sarsomar]

lol thorins head? its huge and next to thorns hall. even on the map

[Sarsomar]

berephon.... i hear you wrote a series i think and i would like to know from your or anyone else whats its called and about... sorry it doesnt go with title just figured this was an easy way to ask you lol

[djheydt]

lol thorins head? its huge and next to thorns hall. even on the map

No, not that one. It's supposedly out on the road north of the Refuge of Edhelion, on the way to Skorgrim's Tomb. The coords are said to be 14.0S 99.8W, and the face, a man's face in profile, is supposed to be visible on the southern cliff, when viewed from the north or N=northwest. But I can't find it.

(I did see the tree floating in the air, though, visible to the southwest. )

[Lohi]

That face is just an illusion, a way the textures line up just the right way; but you really need to be drinking and squinting to see it. No need to waste time trying to find it.

[Adder]

That face had me baffled as well (I'm the one who mentioned it way back when), but tonight with an alt, I could not see it at all. I swear I could see it every time I went there before - perhaps a half-dozen times (and I wasn't drunk, on drugs, nor squinting... I swear!). Perhaps it was nothing more than a fluke of the cliff textures, but it was quite obvious (before tonight anyway) and it reminded me of someone (but that someone eluded me).

I guess we'll never know for sure. I apologize for the false alarm if indeed that's what it is.

[Berephon]

You're right! "A dwarf with a blue beard tucked into a golden belt."

This refers to a steely-grey colour.

[Shilling]

berephon.... i hear you wrote a series i think and i would like to know from your or anyone else whats its called and about... sorry it doesnt go with title just figured this was an easy way to ask you lol

It's unlikely that he's allowed to promote his private ventures on a Turbine moderated board. Since I'm not bound by any such ethical dillemas however, the first book in the series is called Sharamitaro. Here it is on Amazon replete with plot summaries and links to other books in the series. I know nothing beyond that except that my copy is due to arrive later this week.

[djheydt]

That face is just an illusion, a way the textures line up just the right way; but you really need to be drinking and squinting to see it. No need to waste time trying to find it.

Oh. Well, I can squint as required, but I don't drink, so I guess I'll never see it.

[Dwarflord]

I walked into Bree Town Hall the other day and realized the Watchers on the second floor were telling me that Tol Ascarnon and the Isenkeep had fallen - I didn't log in to MP to check it, but I assumed that was real-time status of the Moors.

Yeah, they basically report what keeps are controlled by Angmar at the time. Funny thing is, when the Free Peoples control a keep, that NPC disappears instead of telling us that we control it...

[Sarsomar]

It's unlikely that he's allowed to promote his private ventures on a Turbine moderated board. Since I'm not bound by any such ethical dillemas however, the first book in the series is called Sharamitaro. Here it is on Amazon replete with plot summaries and links to other books in the series. I know nothing beyond that except that my copy is due to arrive later this week.

thanks

oh and i never even knew you can go north out of the refudge gona try it now lol

[djheydt]

oh and i never even knew you can go north out of the refudge gona try it now lol

Yes; go out the gate the snow-troll came in by. The road leads to the Tomb of Skorgrim, which you'll visit in one of the later Books (I disremember which one), and nowhere else at present, but there's a locked gate....

[Sarsomar]

it just occured to me that when i did the dwarf newb instance it was b4 the fall of the refudge but the hobbit started about 50-70 years later yet i remember some quest saying the fall of the refudge was 600 years ago lol... maybe im wrong its kinda fuzzy

[Dwarflord]

it just occured to me that when i did the dwarf newb instance it was b4 the fall of the refudge but the hobbit started about 50-70 years later yet i remember some quest saying the fall of the refudge was 600 years ago lol... maybe im wrong its kinda fuzzy

How was it before the fall of the refuge? You can't even see the refuge, and the ruins in the mines hint it being after.

[Cleitanious]

The ruins in the mines make it quite clear that it is after the fall of The Refuge.

[Sarsomar]

m i dont know in the cutscene after the silver mine thingy it shows the fall of it and says something. lol

[jarishs]

The dwarf starter area is before Gandalf goes to see Bilbo about being the Burglar in the Hobbit.

[Cleitanious]

The dwarf starter area is before Gandalf goes to see Bilbo about being the Burglar in the Hobbit.

Which is only 60 (est) years before the bulk of the game takes place, the destruction of the refuge is that amount times one hundred years before.

[Berephon]

The Fall of Edhelion is 600 years prior to LotR, The dwarf-starter is about 66 years prior to LotR, the Elf-dwarf newbie zone is 2 years prior to LotR.

[Cleitanious]

The Fall of Edhelion is 600 years prior to LotR, The dwarf-starter is about 66 years prior to LotR, the Elf-dwarf newbie zone is 2 years prior to LotR.

I sure was close!