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Exploring Middle-earth: The Midgewater Marshes

Just in time for the holidays, the official site for Lord of the Rings Online has gotten a makeover! You can see it for yourself when you check out this week's Exploring Middle-earth...

As the Great East Road leads out of Bree toward the Weather Hills in eastern Eriador, travelers will become aware of a gradual falling of the land, where rolling hills and pleasant grasslands give way to a formidable flat expanse of treacherous bogs opening away northward from the roadway. This region is known as the Midgewater Marshes, an area difficult to navigate even for the most seasoned adventurers familiar with this land. The ground here is damp and dangerous, in places giving way completely to deep pools of mud and stagnant water.

Creatures of Middle-earth: Dragon-kind

The official site for Lord of the Rings Online has been updated with another in the series, Creatures of Middle-earth.

In the depths of time, the great race of dragons was bred by Morgoth in his dark realm of Angband. These terrible beasts are capable of spewing gouts of flame and crushing stone and metal with little effort. Few survived the fall of Beleriand, and fewer still remain in the Third Age. Smaug the Golden was the greatest of those who fled to Middle-earth, and he was slain by Bard the Bowman, who became King of Dale.

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Stratics Dev Chat Scheduled

The official site for Lord of the Rings Online has a reminder posted today.

Don't miss the upcoming Stratics House of Commons chat on Monday, Dec. 11, at 8 PM Eastern! This is your chance to ask questions of the LOTRO Dev Team!

For more details head on over and check it out.

New Player Beta Journal

The official site for Lord of the Rings Online was updated yesterday with another in their weekly series of player beta journals.

Today's Beta Journal is an account of one of the Beta events that we regularly invite Beta participants to join. On this occasion, we asked players to create characters of the Burglar Class and come together for a frenzy of stealthing fun!

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