Turbine has teamed up with Xfire to offer players great prizes for playing The Lord of the Rings Online (Full Game or Free Trial) and joining the Official Xfire LOTRO Clan while signed into Xfire from January 28th to February 11th! 30 winners will be chosen.

Do you have to log 50 hours in LOTRO between now and the end of the contest to be eligible for the Grand Prize, or will past hours count?
You need to log the 50 hours between today and the end of the promotion. We contacted Xfire and got the guild problem straightened out. They do cap out at 300, at which time a new one will form. Now that they realize how quick you guys are, they've made some adjustments to handle the rate. So, if you tried to join earlier, please try again now. Even if you weren't able to join earlier, any hours you logged today still count, so no worries.

What is happening is Xfire has a 300 person limit per clan. We filled one clan in a matter of hours. They are blocking out new clans for us as each fills up. So everyone should be able to get in. One note, the Xfire people are only human. Their clan/guild system requires the clan/guild leader to manually approve all applicants. So it can sometimes take a couple of hours to get in. The Xfire staff have assured us that everyone's hours will count for the full term of the promotion as long as you've registered, applied for the official lotro guild, and logged in to Xfire and played LOTRO. Unfortunately your previous hours (before today) don't apply.

You can get the trial at www.lotro.com/trial.

When you launch the installer it has instructions on setting up an account and key.
As for restrictions a trial player cannot send a tell to anyone who has not added them to their friends list (so be sure to add your friends or they'll feel very lonely). They also cannot use the auction house and a few other restrictions to help prevent gold spammers from abusing the system.
Trial players can be invited to Kinships.

Since the new trial has been started does it include MoM content,  the rune keeper and warden?
Yes the trial includes all MoM content. Trial players will be able to play both the Rune-keeper and Warden classes.

Can lapsed account holders use the trial to play for a few days on their existing account?
No. You would have to start a new account with the trial.

Sapience

Players currently using Turbine Download Manager(TDM) will note that starting on 1/26/2009 that their TDM has begun downloading an additional
1.3+/- GB of files. This is part of a required hotfix to the client and cannot be bypassed. Please allow the downloading and updating to complete.

If any issues arise or you receive any error messages please contact Technical Support via Email here: http://turbine.fuzeqna.com/turbinesu...p?kbid=10&ao=t

Mirthgar
Turbine, Inc.

I did some testing on the various situations

Targeting a Monster
- With Target Fowarding turned on the monster's target must be in range of the Champion or you'll get an out of range message.
- Without Target Forwarding set the Ire skills will initiate the skill cooldown for no effect.

Using either Ire skill on a character not in your Fellowship will initiate skill cooldown for no effect.

Those last two situations are bugs and will be corrected. The fix for targeting a monster for no effect will be in book 7. Fixing the out of Fellowship issue is going to take some programming changes so I can't give an ETA, though it probably won't be in Book7.

Graalx2
The Lord of the Rings Online Team Turbine, Inc.

Each region has a stock set of unique chat channels. These channels are specific to the region and only operate within the bounds of the region.
Those channels are Looking For Fellowship (LFF), Regional, Trade, Advice, Out of Context (OOC) and Role Playing.
As an example, if you are in Breeland, you will have access to the Breeland versions of the above channels and you and anyone in Breeland can converse with them. When you enter another region (Lonelands, for example), you automatically leave your old chat channels and join the new region's set.

Players can also define their own custom global chat channels. Many servers have user-made Looking For Fellowship (GLFF) that you have to manually opt in to. Be sure to check your home server's message boards here to see if they have one running.

The names are self explanatory if you know what they stand for. Many are just for the region you are in. Such as BreeTown has it's own, BreeLand, The Shire, LoneLands. The only weird one is Moria. It seems to be one big region, and not separate channels for each area.

Regional is for regional. This is often used for RP (Role Playing). If you type /say, the text will appear above your character if you have turned the chat bubbles option to "on" in your options/ UI options. If you have not turned the chat bubbles option on, then things said on the "say" channel will only appear in the chat log. In any case, things said in the "say" channel and emotes will only show up in a much smaller, limited area- generally an area that you can see on your screen.
OOC = Out Of Character. This is where you should ask non-game information, and talk about whatever you want.
LFF = Looking For Fellowship. Here is where you look for people to group with. You will see many LF2 which is looking for 2 more or LFG looking for group, usually someone is not in a group but is looking for someone that already started one.
Trade is for trading. If you have something you Want To Buy (WTB) you are asking for something. Usually you will see WTS or Want to Sell.
Advice is a good place to ask questions.

Depending on your server, there are also GLFF - Global LFF, GOOC, GTrade.

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Players who have received a forum name change are experiencing issues when logging into my.lotro.com. As a result, we will be unable to change forum names until further notice. We are working on a resolution to the issue and will begin accepting requests again once everything is in place. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Sapience

From 2nd February until 9th February, 2009 we’re inviting all players to come back and play LOTRO. The doors will be open for former players to enter the world of Middle-earth for a week of FREE game play.

If you've got a friend who used to play LOTRO and hasn't logged in for a while then why not let them know about this great week too? Then everyone can take part!

All you have to do is download and patch up to the most recent version and log in starting 2nd February. Your account will already and will have been re-activated ready for you. If you do not wish to take part don’t worry, there's no need to do anything, we will automatically re-close all Welcome Back Week accounts at the end of the promotion.

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Zombie Columbus:  The Rune-keeper is gaining three new items in Book 7. As before, magnitudes are not being discussed, as they change often, and any of these may change as Book 7 draws closer.

Continue reading Book 7 updates for the Rune-keeper

We hope this guide will help you to find the best Moria stable routes. We would like to thank Reillan and Unique for all information and great map.
Continue reading Stable Routes in Moria

The LOTRO Game Servers and http://myaccount.turbine.com will be offline for maintenance on Monday, January 26 from 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT). The forums and wikis will remain up, but players may not be able to log in. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!