#river hobbit

[a-little-hobbit-hole]

Time to cry again!

[queen-scribbles]

Rhianlin Tanglebriar, in her natural habitat, drawn by the wonderful @captainderyn

(not pictured: Meneldir trying to look super Grim and Focused On Scouting so she won't think to give him her latest creation. He doesn't think he deserves it. She disagrees. Which is why he winds up wearing it. ^^)

[rhlotr]

TAKE THE PICTURE AGAIN I BLINKED

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[msbarrows]

Well, flubbed doing my thing of the day posts for, oh, almost the entire month of November. And there I'd been thinking I might actually make it a full year successfully (well, successful enough, there were a few times I missed it for several days and then had to catch up).

I missed it. Not so much doing of it, but being able to check back on things like when I last cooked particular meals for supper, or just how many days (or how few) the latest loaf of bread managed to survive, or when I'd last did different non-daily chores.

So, yeah, first day of December, first day of resuming my Thing of the Day posts. I'll also need to restart my count for managing to keep it up for at least a year straight.

December 1 - Picked up some ebooks on sale, including both of Robert Silverberg's Majipoor trilogies, which have been on my wishlist for years but were waaaay more expensive per volume than I wanted to spend on just replacing books I already own in dead tree form. But with four of the six dropped to the ~$2 range? You damn betcha I got the full set of both. I've mentally tagged that for a re-read some time later this month - it's been over a decade.

Ran about half of my monthly backups today, still need to dig out the drives from my emergency go bag to update them as well.

Also, finally dusted off LotRO and tried out the new Mariner class, in addition to popping for the new River Hobbit race, because they can be mariners and I didn't feel like rolling another man, high elf, or stout-axe dwarf when there was a shiny new racial option (well, new as of August just past).

She turned out very pretty. Named her Windolen (after the usual dozen or so attempts to find a name that wasn't already in use by someone else):

The new hobbits have a ton of facial adjustment sliders that prior races didn't have, plus a lot of new hair styles, including a whole pile of braided/cornrow/wavy ones, which is always nice to see. I'm kind of hoping they have the ability (and decide to) retrofit the existing player character models with the new adjustment sliders. And some new hairstyles. Which yeah would be a lot of work to put in on a game that was released 15+ years back (and was in development starting a fair few years prior to that) but it would be nice to have the option.

Made a very simple supper of oven fries and chicken fingers (rather than a pork roast I was originally planning on doing), as my brother is doing plumbing work and this afternoon asked me not to use the kitchen sink until after he replaces its drain pipe tomorrow. So, meal that didn't need water usage, nor generated much in the way of dishes to sit around until the sink is back in commission.

[gay-in-middle-earth]

How are the River Hobbit customization? I've been eyeing them to hopefully be able to get them this coming Friday along with Corsair's of Umbar if I can afford it!

[nerdybookahs]

Screenshot Saturday: River Hobbits

Screenshot Saturday: River Hobbits #LotRO

[all-things-hobbit]

All the hobbit fans. You know I’m right.

[as-kind-as-summer]

After learning how unhinged Mirkwood used to be do you think Legolas ever just drops the most wild childhood trauma on the Fellowship trying to be relatable and they just look at him like...no. No we did not all go through that.

[a-little-hobbit-hole]

Hi! I'm centii, bree, nen, lots of things really! I love drawing, got into digital with getting into dnd about a year ago (how else will I be able to draw my dolls and mash them into fun angst moments?), and I've been consistently playing lotro for the past 4 years now, and played ages ago when Moria/Rohan was new! It's my hyperfixation at this point 😅 I'm finally working thru the books, I've watched all the movies, and I can chatter your ear off about it if you let me

You'll find me on Pippin, and (mainly) on any of these characters ☺️

Nennith, Ginnifer, and Lavandil! You may also occasionally find me on Alimiel, Rosylia Ithilher!

Say hello if you see me, I'll emote back! (Or throw a snowball >:])

I also play: bg3, marvel rivals (let me know if you wanna play, Loki/Adam main ❤️), with others on my list to eventually get and play

[queen-scribbles]

A lovely and (over)confident Siltera from @a-lonely-dunedain!

[rhlotr]

short

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[msbarrows]

The 18th Anniversary festival started in Lord of the Rings Online today and I've been running a few characters around doing stuff for it. Including Thornapple, a river hobbit warden I created on the Peregrin roleplaying server while waiting for my character transfers from Arkenstone to Glamdring to go through when they introduced the new 64 bit servers last month.

She's only level 15, but I decided to see if I could run her through the Eriador Year 1 versions of the massive set of anniversary quests that were introduced some years back. Much to my surprise she managed all three of them, including one that involved killing a level 30 giant.

I'd run her out to his hut in the woods figuring that someone else would likely show up also needing the kill, and I could hopefully get a tag in on him for the credit, but no one else was there and I got a step too close so he aggro'd on me and, well... wardens are TOUGH little bastards. Might as well try meleeing him a bit, at worst I'd need to run away.

I spammed self-heals near-continuously, popped an occasional healing potion, and waved my pointy sticks at him, which he mostly deflected. BUT... wardens have a skill named Defiant Challenge, and one thing DC does is put a damage effect on you that scales with level, so every time he thumped or stomped me he basically got a papercut. And after about 10-15 minutes of that plus the few hits that were landing, Thornapple actually killed him solo. No experience for the kill since he was too far over her level, but damn did that feel good. And finished that particular 4-kill quest for her (yay another 3 anniversary tokens).

(Yes I'm amused that the quest text for the relevant kills says 'again' even if you've never killed them before.)

No, I am not going to attempt the Eriador Year 2 quests on her; she's highly unlikely to be able to survive the next set.

[melanchovy]

reblog if you also believe you'll never be able to find love unless it's on some inescapable fictional journey with an emotionally heavy goal (such taking back a homeland, demolishing corrupt society, retrieving a magical item, defeating evil, or all of the above) where you get to experience so many life-threatening happenings together and slowly realise your feelings for each other over the course of 5 seasons or 900 pages

[cantsayidont]

In an undated letter written in the late 1950s, reproduced in THE LETTERS OF JRR TOLKIEN, Tolkien alludes to the legal difficulties Sam faced after returning from the Grey Havens at the end of LORD OF THE RINGS:

When Master Samwise reported the ‘departure over Sea’ of Bilbo (and Frodo) in 1421, it was still held impossible to presume death; and when Master Samwise became Mayor in 1427, a rule was made that: ‘if any inhabitant of the Shire shall pass over Sea in the presence of a reliable witness, with the expressed intention not to return, or in circumstances plainly implying such an intention, he or she shall be deemed to have relinquished all titles rights or properties previously held or occupied, and the heir or heirs thereof shall forthwith enter into possession of these titles, rights, or properties, as is directed by established custom, or by the will and disposition of the departed, as the case may require.’

You can see how the residents of Hobbiton might have seen Sam's return as the premise of a kind of Agatha Christie mystery plot: favorite servant of eccentric middle-aged local resident departs on an unexpected journey with his master; returns home alone two weeks later; and then conveniently produces a copy of said eccentric local resident's new will, naming the servant the heir to all his property — and the only account the servant can offer of his master's whereabouts is a preposterous story about Elves. Suspicious! Very suspicious indeed!