LOTRO Beneath Your Feet

Inns, taverns, alehouses, vineyards, and so on play an important role in all the tales of Middle-earth. So let's check them out! I am joined in this episode by Matt "Scenario" Elliott, chief world builder for the Lord of the Rings Online. He has a lot of great things to say!

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The Endless Stair spans a vertical space from the bottom of the earth all the way up to the top. Let's have a look, starting at the Foundations of Stone and ending at Zirak Zigil.

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We're on the road to Gundabad and the last stop is Elderslade. There we find dwarf ruins, drakes, orcs, and a whole lot of history.

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The Ettenmoors is a tricky place to write about. Let’s turn over a few stones, sniff out a couple troll footprints and see what turns up!

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It is, truly, an epic climb up the Cabed Rhimdath. You think you know the Misty Mountains, having been up and down them, north and south, east and west, at least a dozen times, but the old rock, erected in the long ago of the Years of the Trees, still keeps her secrets. These peaks were lifted out of the ground by Melkor, Morgoth, the original big bad, way back when as a hindrance to Orome, the Valar who went often abroad on his horse in search of the Firstborn. They’re shorter now but still menacing, still sheer and crafty, still a hindrance -- especially to us mortals!

What could there be on the other side of this foggy and wretched crag? Well, hobbits of course! It’s Lyndelby and you are listening to Beneath Your Feet.

The North Downs could have been an empty land, but the demands of game design made it a bustling and frightful place with many different factions. Does it work? Let's talk about it!

Rohan is the wide, green sea of grass...but in LOTRO it's full of folks! What do we make of this?

Pirates, a haunted mountain, the stone of Erech. What could go wrong?

Recorded from a live broadcast earlier today: Bilbo's Last Song and an excerpt from Riddles in the Dark.

Nan Curunír, the Wizard's Vale, is a place of terror. When the heroes of Rohan, with Gandalf and the remnants of the Fellowship arrive, they are greeted by a statue of the white hand, the emblem of Saruman, hideous even in its powerlessness.

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