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Announcements
- Reminder: This weekend is the final weekend of the Fall Festival. The last day of the Festival is Monday, November 7!
- Be sure to get your Pumpkin Carving Contest entries in! The contest ends at midnight Eastern Standard Time on November 5th, 2011. Click here for all the details.
- The White Hand contest continues with some great new entries! Check out the one below, and don't forget to submit your entries into the contest. We'd love to see them!
The Places of Middle-earth
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South of Rivendell and the Trollshaws, following the course of the river Bruinen south toward Hollin, lies a relatively uninhabited region known as Tâl Bruinen, where many small villages once stood. Time and troll-raids diminished them greatly, leaving the land mostly devoid of civilization save for a few fishermen and adventurous hunters. There was a time when Elves travelled frequently through Tâl Bruinen, but since the fall of Fornost in the West even their presence in the wilderness has become scarce. In recent days, evil has begun to creep into Tâl Bruinen. Bands of Orcs marching north out of Mordor and south from Mount Gundabad and Angmar harry travellers; foul worms inhabit the heights; and Gauredain in league with Angmar move against the Free Peoples. The name of Tâl Bruinen was created by the designers at Turbine to identify the land running south between the Trollshaws and Hollin. This area was formerly the northern reaches of Eregion, the Elf-realm where the Rings of Power were forged. In following the path of the Company of the Ring, players may come across some interesting encounters there.... |
The lands of Middle-earth are rich and vast. Visit the Places Codex to learn more about them!
If you would like to submit an article please email it to lotro@turbine.com with the subject The Free Peoples' Press--Guest Article Submission.
Community News
- Harvestmath is wrapping up but the Winter Festival is right around the corner. Begin your party planning early. Check out the tips in Massively's recent article The Road to Mordor: Party planning committee, assemble!
- Cooks are going to need supplies to make all of those excellent holiday goodies and farmers are going to be extra busy. Need tips on getting the most out of your crops? Stop by Neel Sweetleaf's Guide to Farming!
- You will most certainly need an outfit or two for all of these events. What is that you say, not the most fashion forward? Head on over to LOTRO Fashion and check out some of their latest styles!
Cooking With Clover
In today's edition of Cooking with Clover we bring you Nate's Custom Stuffing from community member nnichols1, enjoy!
I made this a few times in college and usually charged my eternally hungry room mates a couple of bucks for supplies in exchange for all-you-can-eat goodness. It was always a hit. Considering most things we ate came from the Union, fast food, or expensive grill meat, this was some popular home cookin.
Nate's Custom Stuffing:
- 1 large bag of dried out normal stuffing.
- 2 chicken breasts
- 1 12oz can of corn
- A couple of those little cube things that are for chicken broth
- Butter
- 1 16oz thing of Bob Evans Sausage (hot/spicy) You only want to use about 1/2 or :3/4 of it.
- 1 or 2 onions
- celery
Cook the sausage first. Remove from pan but keep grease. Cook chopped onion and celery in sausage grease until they are soft and not crunchy. Remove the veggies. Cut chicken breasts into strips and then cut them in the opposite way to form little chicken cubes. Cook in the same pan until (mostly) done.
Combine dried stuffing, sausage, cooked celery and onions, and chicken in a large bowl. Drain the corn and add that as well.
I rarely measure anything but this part is important, you can always add more but you cannot remove it. Take 4 or 5 cups of water, throw in 3 or 4 of those little chicken broth cube things and maybe a tablespoon of butter. Put in microwave and get it hot until everything is dissolved. Stir in this mixture into the dried stuffing, chicken, sausage, celery and onion, etc. Pour in a cup or two at a time then stir. Add more as needed. You want the stuffing to be wet but not soaked.
Cover with tinfoil and bake for 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees. Remove cover, stir contents, bake 10 minutes uncovered. Stir, bake for another 5-10 minutes.
Enjoy.
Don't forget to grease the pan before you bake.
If you have a recipe that you would like to share please send an email to lotro@turbine.com with the subject The Free Peoples' Press--Cooking With Clover or you can post it in this thread.
Community Events
Laurelin
- Archet Aid
- When: Monday, November 7, 2011: 20:00PM GMT
- Where: The marked square area of Archet.
- Information: This is an rp musical event in the marked square area of Archet (by the fountain). Archet is burned down (well, the most valuable part of it, aka the Inn) and we are holding a solidarity concert for the farmers of Archet. Please leave your weapons 'at home' and help us to make this happen in a friendly atmosphere. Click here for more information.
Silverlode
- Silverlode Spook-tacular!
- When: The festivities will be Saturday, November 5th, 6-9am GMT (1p-4p ET.)
- Where:The Old Cemetery outside of Bree-town
- Join Legion of Shadows and Clan of Dereth as they host a Bonfire Night party. There will be fireworks, food and drink, a costume contest and live entertainment.
- If you'd like to participate, just show up and enjoy some time with your fellow Silverlode players!
- Bands or musicians of any kind are invited to play. If you'd like to participate as band or musician, please contact either Hortensia or Taliesin for more details.
Recurring Events
Click here for a complete list of recurring events or click on your server below!
If you have an upcoming community event that you would like listed please send an email to lotro@turbine.com with the subject The Free Peoples' Press--Community Event
Postcards from Middle-earth
Sun on Snow
Today's postcard was submitted by Thonairuth - a level 66 champion from Windfola.
Here is what he has to say about his image: "The screenshot is from Sâri-surma , when you defeat the last boss i liked how the sun showed - it was beautiful."
About the photographer: "I am a student from Bulgaria and I love to swim and study all kinds of history , I can also play a piano :)"
Thonairuth thank you for sending in this beautiful image!
Send your postcards to lotro@turbine.com with this subject The Peoples' Press--Postcards from Middle-earth. Be sure to tell us something about your postcard and who you are!
