The Dark Lego Sauron

Not sure what is going on in this Middle-Earth anymore. Might as well have some fun! 23, he/him. Chaotic-neutral. Chronically Confused. Currently Inhabited games/servers: LotRO~ Glamdring, WoW~ Destromath, SWTOR~ Starforge

[thedarklegosauron]

Serious LotRO Question:

Do I make a character on an RP server so I can join in events and stuff?

I keep seeing player-run events and it seems like the rest of the lotro community here is more on the rp servers, plus i kinda burnt myself out on everything really so now's as good a chance as any start fresh, even if my main characters stay on Glamdring... Plus it's a great chance to make a fresh warden for that landscape difficulty title.

But, all my stuff is on Glamdring. Carry-all crafting hoards, houses, vaults, storage dwarves, etc etc. It's part of the reason why I didn't stick with the Legendary servers when they started like 2 years ago.

I lack the brainpower to decide right now bc i've been stressed and it's hot enough to melt a specific ring outside so I'm bringing this to the lotro tumblr community to help.

Do I Create A Character For An RP Server?

YES! It'll be fun

No. Nobody likes you. You don't have any friends. *gollum!* *gollum!*

Voting ended onJul 11

If you vote please add in the comments which RP server you're on for lotro, so I know where to go if the fellowship talks me into it lol.

[rakghoulified]

fenley's latest mishap...

the final boss area for the dread palace looks like this. the bosses are each up on a big throne that is seperated from the rest of the area by the virtue of both being very tall and having a giant drop.

you are NOT supposed to be able to get up there.

the bosses jump up and down from them, but you can't get to them when they're up high... so my only assumption is: Force jump ability takes you to enemies. I must've done it a split second before raptus went back up to his chair (while he was still targetable for that) and somehow ended up there with him... lo and behold...

i guess fenley is the newest dreadguard

[thedarklegosauron]

I love it when I break something in the game and access somewhere I definitely shouldn't be. Like a couple months ago when I tanked KP for the first time with my guild and I got launched onto this arch at the trash packs before the Karagga fight:

My absolute favs are when I break something so completely that the game itself bugs out. Like in one EV run where I set a phasewalk onto the platforms in the Soa fight and promptly get sent to a new dimension because the I had clicked phasewalk again when the platforms were already broken. (don't have pictures sadly but the whole screen for me was bright blue and flashing, with only partial game models visible lol. Some serious physics breakage there)

To this day ops night in my guild isn't complete without a joke about me finding a new way to break something because I just do it so often.

I have headcannoned the 5rd dimension in swtor for my entire guild because I just break the game's reality so much.

[thedarklegosauron]

FINALLY!! I HAVE FOUND HIM!!

Minifigure Toa Tahu !!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥

As a lifelong BIONICLE fan, this was a must have. And a very difficult quest to find in my area as well.

But look at him he's so tinyyyyy!!!! And his little Toa Canister eeeeeeeee

I just had to match him up next to Tahu Mata proper.

Sorry my table is a total mess. But Tahu holding a mini version of himself is so cool! Like the Matoran villagers made a little statue of their Toa hero.

[ebitenpura]

swtor question of the day: if your non-force sensitive OC suddenly gained the Force, how would they use it? what abilities do you think would manifest in them? how powerful do you think they would be?

[blackberry-command-cap]

OOH. fascinating question

Every OC of mine is Force sensitive, except for Aela. Some have learned to use it, others haven't or don't even realize it's there... but I'm going down the list and yeesh. It's literally all of them. So we will just be answering for Aela here lol

Aela has zero force sensitivity. In the timeline where she gets possessed by Valkorian... suddenly she does, in fact, have the force. at the time she's pretty much just focused on reaching her goal at any cost so she isn't much thinking about it but there is. a lot of lightning

If she just got the Force randomly, not because of being possessed by an unimaginably evil being... hmm. I think it would be subtle. Increased strength, better reflexes in battle, faster. In fact, I'm not sure she would even realize it was the Force and in fact if anyone pointed it out she would vehemently deny it. Force users are the worst and can't be trusted therefore accepting that she IS one would require a huge reworking of her entire worldview that she doesn't care to do.

making this a tag game because I can. @frauleiiin @rakghoulified @understorysunflecks @forcemalarkey

[forcemalarkey]

My only two atm that aren't Force Sensitive are Nines and Kazi. (My smuggler Mal is Force Sensitive and flat up just pretends it is not a thing.)

My BH Kazi's abilities would probably be more physical. He would use it to augment his current fighting skills and treat it as just another part of his kit, another weapon or tool. He would probably be fairly strong - there are a handful of Force-sensitives in his family. He would agree to Sith training and then five minutes in immediately dip bc he'd realize everyone here is awful, actually. He's a Bounty Hunter first and foremost, and he's incredibly practical.

Nines... hoo boy I was avoiding this question (which is so good btw) bc i knew it would be a doozy to answer for him.

Nines hates the Force because people have only ever used it to hurt him so all of his abilities would manifest internally. He would be very powerful and much of his ability would center around his mind, telepathy, shields, ect. The extra control over his own mind would be a relief but he would HATE being telepathic. It would feel like an invasion of privacy and he would focus heavily on controlling it.

The one thing he might enjoy is invisibility or the ability to go unnoticed. It would depend on if he viewed it as mind manipulation or an effect centered on himself. Lana is always using the Force to find him when he doesn't want to be found, so he might feel like using it to hide from her is evening the score. He would mostly use it to avoid social interactions and hide from important meetings. He would also have too much fun popping up out of thin air to startle people - Theron would be his favorite victim and would be fed up within the first week.

I don't think @nemotoself or @elliedearest has answered this one yet if they want to.

[nemotoself]

My two non-forcies... I think they would both need an intervention.

Faro the agent (she’s all watching us and ben afflek smoking about this rn)

I just would find it so poetic and terrible if her speciality would be centring around mind control. Like she does her usual manipulation tactics on people and notices that they are so easy to get around, laughably so. Unnaturally so. And then she has to grab her own throat and chokes when she connects the dots.

It’s all subtle and so easy to slip into it. As if she has done this all her life. She is so very very persuasive. So irresistible. So terrifying. She finds out she can also do blatant. Hold out her hand and people around her clutch their heads and fall on their knees before her. Do whatever she compels them to. Lick the floor in front of her. She’s shaking, she’s choking on her own strangled, deranged laugh. She never repeats it, but that experience, that ‘test’, does something irreparable to her. Nobody should have this much power.

It's also so easy to make people think that she’s not standing where she's standing. So easy to make people think she is someone else actually, until it’s too late. (That’s what the ‘invisibility’ of the Force classes is to me: they are mind tricking others that they aren’t actually occupying the space that they are, they aren’t truly invisible. idk how that would work on droids or cameras though. Can you mind trick a droid? Maybe it requires something else, fuzz their processor or memory stick instead of compulsion.) Eh, I’m getting away from the point, but yes, Faro would be a natural at that. And she would hate it, hate herself, and would love it, in a terrible way.

“I literally would never do any of that,” Faro says from over there. Alright, Faro. Yes, Faro.

Tevuuk the smuggler

Hey, Tevvers would also like a try at the mind trick! (oh the hypocrite! I was just talking about how they hate this the other day). But they aren’t especially good at it. How their Force sensitivity manifests is in the precognition. Seconds ahead but also an indefinite amount, days, months, years. People used to call them lucky, but now it’s not luck anymore. The game is rigged now. They wouldn’t be able to truly guide it at first, it being more of impressions that pop up indiscriminately in their mind. After years of practice, they would be able to consciously look for things, get more specific impressions. They would abuse all of it so hard. They would also get a lot twitchier than they already are because of all the possibilities, the danger, the ruin. Honestly it would make them worse. But their chances at keeping up the crime lord thing for longer just tripled at least.

Anyways, thought experiments like this are fun :) But. They better not do this for real ingame tho. They better not. Sure, I do love my space wizards but I have very protective feelings towards the Non-Force sensitives. I do not want them to be able to feel the Force in any way shape or form and if that is shoehorned onto them I will!!!   idk. be sad.

The only. ONLY way I wouldn’t be perma mad is if they took away the Force sensitivity from the Force classes in turn. That would be hilarious. The Karma. (would never happen but I would dig it)

Hello to @fallen-knight and @zod-off if you feel like doing this

[fallen-knight]

ooooh man... the funny thing is, I'm just realizing I have two who are completely aloof on the whole Force business (both Mandalorians, at that) and two for whom it's much more personal (both the stealth classes). let's see who I can poke for an interesting result...

Major Bralor (Mandalorian mercenary trooper because I, being an edgelord, just couldn't get invested in the story from a basic Republic recruit pov) would be practical about it once the initial shock died down - appreciative of her new abilities, but very unwilling to end up like a Sith. She deserted from the Empire, left her clan and became dar'manda once she realized the Mandalorians' actions didn't align with the values she'd internalized - there was no honor in what they were doing to civilians and prisoners upon the orders of the Sith, and certainly no honor in the Sith themselves. Ironically enough, I can see her Force sensitivity manifesting in battle as lightning or explosive shockwaves, intensifying and feeding on her bloodlust, risking her allies' safety and her own moral code. She would most likely approach the Jedi for training - though this is 2000 years before Tarre Vizsla, and they'd probably reject her for being too old and too Mandalorian. Still, she'd try to keep a cool head and seek out a mentor willing to help her, with Yuun's guidance along the way.

Captain Scorze is already afflicted by the meddling of an eldritch higher power, She who rules over the dark between the stars... but it's just like having a powerful Force-sensitive friend on call, really. They're still a totally normal Nautolan (even if nobody else is able to look at them straight on without feeling a chill down their spine, seeing shadows around them and hearing whispers of impending doom...) If they start getting win after win at the pazaak table, flipping a credit and watching it float midair a second too long, disappearing mid-fight before they can reach for their stealth generator - well, that's just a sign of Her favor, and they'll drink to their patron and sacrifice a little more of their coffers and themself to the altar of the void. Pirate warlock time, hell yeah!

Agent Sa'vialis was once Force-sensitive... until she wasn't. She still gets the occasional weirdly insistent gut feeling that may or may not turn out to be anything; it's impossible to tell if it's her old powers, her experience and instincts, or her paranoia and generally fucked mental health that are issuing any sort of warning, and she always verifies her thoughts in reality before she's willing to act on them. She also has the kind of luck that would make a smuggler blush, though she attributes all of her charisma nat 20s to her own efforts, thank you very much. As it is, she's nowhere near the threshold of being noticeably open to the Force, far below the 90th percentile by galactic standards.

If her Force sensitivity were to return, in the precognition she used as a navigator and the persuasion she's made into an art... she'd be more elated than angsty, but would fuck off from the Empire real quick; she's seen what the Sith are like and doesn't care to become one. Their freedom isn't all it's cracked up to be, and she'd want to test her abilities in private before any faction got its claws on her - she'd never be able to return to Chiss space if word got out, either. Her relationship with Raina would get both more and less complicated; in canon, they're very much like sisters, but she is the tiniest bit jealous. At least it would bring them closer, for better or worse. Probably worse tbh, they'd be holy terrors once they started figuring out their abilities together...

(Totally agree about the game btw, oooh they better not. A temporary losing/gaining powers arc could be interesting, but it would have to be very carefully handled in the story, and not actually change one's combat style or anything. If they ever just went "hey everyone is Force-sensitive now, you're welcome," I would stop playing lol.)

[thedarklegosauron]

If I may join in the thought experiment:

Captain Valy Nhumor would be the most interesting of mine if she got Force powers. Being a gunslinger, it would be really handy to be able to stealth out of a tough situation, reposition or perhaps escape if needed. Maybe telepathically fling up a nearby object as an improvised shield when needed. But mind tricks and stealth would be so, so valuable in the smuggling part of being a smuggler. I kind of have it headcannoned that Valy is the (unknown) daughter of my main Sith Inquisitor, so pair that with some lingering essense of Valkorion and I could see some Force powers popping up. Granted it'd be a little too lightning-y for her taste but think of the crime opportunities! The shenanigans!

My mandalorian bounty hunter/sniper Valyria Levecoll would likely use Force powers to help track down targets, "help" them be less resistive to being captured and maybe find a way to strengthen her armor. She knows some force users can conjure telekenetic shields so there's probably a way to further bolster her beskar with that. Although it would be fun to swap back to powertech, turn on her flame thrower and use the Force to push a wall of fire at her foes at high speeds....

Major Nelsari Telspar is more the smashy type of trooper than anything else. Technically specced into mercenary, because explosives, it would get chaotic fast if he had Force powers. Utilizing the telekenetic shield or force push powers that Valyria would tap into, Nel could (in theory) fire off a whole magazine of incendiary/concussion/whatever missiles, conjure a shield in front him and hope that it's enough to save him and the rest of Havoc Squad from the blowback forces once the missiles explode. Missions that require Imps to be neutralized will certainly be easier...

[thedarklegosauron]

SWTOR Update 7.9 Is Finally Here!!!

(Spoilers Ahead)

The final story patch of Legacy of the Mandos Sith is here!

It's been 4 and a half years since Legacy of the Sith released... and i think we had a decent ending to it. Granted I think due to the unfortunate release schedule of story patches I've forgotten a lot of the story beats and some decisions my character has made (it didn't help that my main is the only one who's at the current stage of the storyline) didn't help things but I'm going to judge this patch mostly stand-alone.

Starting with my player character returning from the last story mission after losing Nul's MacGuffin-- er, Nul's Holocron to explain himself to a very pissed off Empress Acina. She basically wants to have me killed, I get to rant about how i have player character power and have saved them so many times it isnt funny, Lana looks very proud (ngl I think it's the closest Lana's ever been to smiling) and we put a pin in that to deal with Malgus/Jadus/Shae/Heta Kol's plans.

This patch we have a unique gameplay system where the story is told from the perspectives of the different characters in the story arch instead of the player character only. I found this refreshing and some of the sequences were definitely fun! Flying a Fury-class Interceptor as Darth Krovos to break through a blockade, even if it was just an on-the-rails space shooter kind of like regular space missions, was enjoyable, if a little slow. Piloting Basilisk droids as Rass and Jekiah Ordo was one of the highlights for me. The sequence where you're playing as Lana (my beloved) and T7-01 was fun too, though not a much as the others, sadly. Completely wrecking shit as Malgus near the end was super enjoyable.

I think we got a decent, if kind of sappy, conclusion to Shae's story. The Mando drama should finally be over with, and it kind of makes sense how they ended it as idk what else they could have done with Shae Viszla in the future.

The final sequence with the player character (in my case, Sith Inquisitor Darth Joeguarclaw) and Malgus trying to escape the visions in Nul's machine and foil Darth Jadus' plans was alright. The cutscenes with all the visions/ghosts of Malgus' past was cool for character progression. Him going slightly crazy thinking you're an old rival and attacking you, again, and you promptly beating his sith ass again and being able to impatiently mock him for having temper tantrums was fun and the kind of sass i love Inquisitor so much for.

The ending being a cliff hanger left me a little disappointed. You can either let Malgus use the machine to awaken Force Sensitivity across the galaxy or try to stop him. I, personally, went the route of letting him do it. The whole story arch of Inquisitor is about gaining power and freedom (more or less). Freedom from slavery, from masters, from force beings wanting to pilot you like a puppet, from Valkorion and his Eternal Empire. Given the opportunity to grant that freedom to any Force sensitives and stick it to the Jedi and Sith (both of which just want you dead at this point, at least in my case, even though I've done nothing but save the Empire countless times and only went against them a couple times recently) it seemed like my Inquisitor would let Malgus use Nul's machine.

Anyway, my variation of the story ended with the Empire bombarding the planet/Nul's machine to destroy it, I let Malgus use the machine and project his "break free!" monologue across the galaxy, then I got hit with a rock and knocked unconscious, Jadus escaped and end credits rolled. The only proper conclusion is that the Mandalorian drama should be done now that Heta Kol and Shae are dead, but I assume that the next expansion will begin roughly with Lana finding the unconscious player character right before we find out Malgus has escaped, the Empire wants me dead for screwing up twice in a row and Force sensitives are causing an uprising across the galaxy.

I also got this mail after finishing the mission:

A Galactic Emergency Alert of a security threat in all sectors of the galaxy. Yea, shit's gonna hit the fan. XD I always like the little world building or extra dialogue you get after doing certain missions via the in-game mail. I can just imagine the player character hearing the emergency broadcast alert tone and trying to act like they didn't just severely f*ck up the timeline.

I'm betting how this would have gone for a non-Force sensitive character would be You try to stop Malgus or let him use the machine (but without using the Force to block falling rocks above Malgus, ofc), and still getting knocked out. I think the story ends the same way no matter what, but whether you agree to let Malgus do his thing and whether your faction is royally pissed at you are the only variables.

Overall, I enjoyed this patch's story from a gameplay point of view, and it was ok story-wise. I'm just glad this story arch/expansion is over.

I gotta continue working on Captain Valy Nhumour's storyline so I know how republic/non-Force sides work for the story.

May the Force be with you all.

Let's hope 8.0 is more enjoyable (and finally free of the unfortunate issues that affected it's pacing)

[a-lonely-dunadan]

once again reminded that I did that annoying thing where I drew my character with a design element that can't be recreated in game. I am cursed.

Right now the one bugging me is Ethedis' staff (at least the one she uses for Vol 1 - 4, before it breaks in the Morannon) I never really knew its origin aside from the fact that it once belonged to her mother, but now that Ethuilas is getting more fleshed out I think it might be some relic of Numenor? The fact that it appears to be made of some kind of black stone (one of their staple materials) coupled with her friendship with the sons of Isildur, it kinda makes sense to me she might have ended up with something like that (similarly to how Ethedis eventually ends up with a staff made from a fallen branch of the White Tree thanks to her friendship with Aragorn. *gestures vaguely* parallels! or something)

ANYWAY! I'm annoyed that This Specific Item is not in the game because I need Ethuilas to have it.

and can't for the life of me figure out which of these staffs best matches the one I actually drew

the 1st, Replica of Ornadar has the perfect shape, in fact it might have been the staff I initially based the drawn one off of, the colors and material aren't even close though. the 2nd, Noris, has a... vaguely close shape if you squint at it? the gem is at least the right color, but the staff itself is not (although it does look pretty cool). Meanwhile the 3rd, Thrang's Staff has the PERFECT colors for it, and this really cool ember effect, but I'm not crazy about the eye motif it has going on (especially if we're going to say that it's an artifact of Numenor lmao, that would be... awkward.)

[thedarklegosauron]

This... this is a dilemma. I reviewed all the staff appearances listed in https://lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Category:Staff_Images and the first two you have listed are definitely the closest you're going to get until the devs add new ones.

The Replica of Ornadar is the closest in shape, while Noris retains the color palette of your base image.

How far back in your backstory for Ethedis/Ethuilas was the image you drew for? Perhaps if the OC's drawing takes place a long time before Ethedis' current lotro events, weathering over time and maybe having to replace the crystal after a tough fight might make the case for this staff looking closer to the color palette of Ornadar now...?

You also said Ethedis' staff breaks after Volume IV, and the "head" of the Noris staff looks like its made of metal. Perhaps after being reforged (if you're looking to use this staff design in the future) the protruding spikes of the staff in your drawing had to be used to strengthen it, resulting in a more crescent-shaped design?

[a-lonely-dunadan]

Wait I'm actually curious now

did you make a Doomed 2nd age OC for the Mordor Besieged questline?

yes!

maybe? (have ideas but nothing concrete)

nah they're just a placeholder <race> <class> to me

Voting ended onMay 11

if so I'd love to hear about them 👀

[a-lonely-dunadan]

oh I forgot to add the "haven't gotten there yet" button yet oops. here if you want to Push Button just click on this! -> 🔘

[thedarklegosauron]

Im not even mad lol

Thank you for motivating me further to get Valthyrth to Mordor Beseiged :P

[thedarklegosauron]

LotRO Week 2026 | Day VII | Free Day

It's the last day of Lotro week and there's no set topic, so have some shenanigans! When I'm not obsessed with the storylines, lore or my characters, I tend to get silly in games.

Enjoy my absurdity :)

Thank you all for another Lotro screenshot event! This was fun and I loved seeing everyone's OCs, houses and favorite things! I need to double down and make more progress on my main characters so I can do different things for next time :D

[thedarklegosauron]

LotRO Week 2026 | Day VI | Instances & Skirmishes

(Disclaimer: Due to the story-heavy nature of these instances, scroll down and read the dialogue in screenshots for the best reading experience. Zooming in may be helpful for some screenshots.)

The Giver of Gifts and the Doom of Caras Gelebren:

Instance: Giver of Gifts: The elf Bregoleth tells you of how Sauron, disguised as Antheron, tricks the elves of Eregion into crafting the Rings of Power....

"But they were, all of them, deceived."

"In the land of Mordor, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master ring. Into this ring, he poured all of his cruelty, malice and will to dominate all life..."

Skirmish: The Doom of Caras Gelebren: Sauron lays waste to the ring-forges of Caras Gelebren in the hopes of retrieving the last Rings of Power....

"The Valar have abandoned you. I am all that awaits you."

(Maximum Dread effect gets applied, remaining for a moment even after you leave the skirmish)

[thedarklegosauron]

LotRO Week 2026 | Day V | Scenery & Housing

Rivendell housing released, and even though it's not my favorite place in Middle Earth (mostly due to Trollshaws navigation trauma every few quests. Thank you, Elrond) but when I saw a house with this view I couldn't resist:

It may be outside the fence/property line but I need to find a way to make a platform where I can just gaze at this. I might make this my desktop background after my Argonath one tbh!

Here's the house, most of the giant yard and itty-bitty stable of the house too!:

There's a nice view of a couple waterfalls, one of the Misty Mountains' peaks and the always beautiful sky. (whoever designs the skyboxes needs a raise and more paint supplies i love it so much)

As for my other partially finished house, here's some views of Valthyrth's home in Kingstead, Rohan:

For other scenery, may I offer Minas Tirith before and after the battle of Pelennor?:

Same coordinates on the map, I'm surprised the terrain is this different! ...Apart from the wreckage and discarded oliphaunts, of course. (less flat, seems closer to the city, there are rocks here now.)

And last but not least! On the road up to Dunharrow and the Paths of the Dead, one of the creepy statues seems like it's gnawing on the rocks next to it:

"Mmm. Crunchy"

[thedarklegosauron]

LotRO Week 2026 | Day IV | Roleplay & Fellowships

I'm mostly a solo player in this game and I haven't been in a player fellowship in a while but I thought I'd take this opportunity to share my favorite "fellowship" in the game's story (besides of course, ya know :P )

For the later part of Volume III you (and your herald/archer if you're a captain) team up with the Corudan, Horn and Nona to track the main fellowship down the Anduin and through Rohan after they split up.

The Fellowship of Trackers (Fellowship of the Wold? Does this group have a name that's agreed upon?) taking camp along the Anduin river, sharing stories by the campfire:

Later in Feldham, during a session where we help train local guards, Horn and Nona get rather feisty in courting sparring each other.

The rest of us just stand around watching for a while, wishing we had popcorn.

"Our band of companions grows: a Dunlending girl, a Rohirrim man, and three Elves. It sounds like a joke, does it not?" ~Corudan, talking about the fellowship now consisting of Nona, Horn, himself, Valfindes and her archer companion Rosemariel.

[thedarklegosauron]

LotRO Week 2026 | Day III | Monster Play

I tried out monster play recently and it's... not that great. You're squishy as hell when you start. No wonder our PCs can slay hundreds of orcs and barely break a sweat XD Or maybe the "class" i chose is just bad.

Anyway here's my reaver named Valzoth, losing to a training dummy.

[thedarklegosauron]

LotRO Week 2026 | Day II | NPCs & Locations

Ok so I couldn't find this NPC in game because apparently he doesn't actually exist unless you're on his quests in the main story but here is Bandron, the unlucky merchant in the Gondor portion of the Epic Quests:

He gives the same vibes as the ATLA Cabbage Merchant to me. Things just keep getting worse for him. His cart moving stuff for his boss breaks down and when he sends his son Nethadan to buy a new axle, he uses ALL their savings on nails. NAILS! You encounter him a few more times as you progress through Gondor and he's in panic mode for all of it. Right up until you and everyone left is following Aragorn through Osgiliath and you overhear him overjoyed at his son's idea to sell the infernal nails to the people of Minas Tirith who now desperately need them to rebuild. (a happy ending for a character for once yay!!!) Apparently he reappears in King's Gondor later but i'm not that far in the story yet.

Also shoutout to Broin getting thrown around like a ragdoll in the Moria intro:

Onto some cool locations! I went on for ages in the last post's tags about Eaworth and it's impact on me for the story themes in Rohan so here's the town!:

The whole left left side up to the mead hall is burnt to a crisp, it's more impactful when you're standing in there, ash falling like snow and the music of the area being a very somber almost mournful chorus

Bonus location because it's Star Wars Day!:

Briefly traveling to SWTOR, here is the Jedi Temple on Tython:

May the Fourth be with you all and we'll be back in Middle Earth for tomorrow!!

[thedarklegosauron]

LotRO Week 2026: Day 1: Player Characters

Hi everyone! I haven't spent as much time progressing my characters in LotRO as I would have liked (WoW is indeed an addiction lol) but here is what my main characters are currently doing in their storylines!

Valthyrth Daedhelben, level 118 Human Warden:

Aiding the dwarves of the Iron Hills, Valthyrth escorts an Easterling refugee named Tuhâl to Járnfast in the hope of understanding why Easterlings continue to invade the region after the defeat of Sauron, as well as how this invasion may tie into the schemes of Ugrukhôr in her homeland of Dale, as well as the mysterious Black Book of Mordor...

Valfindes Valarion, level 81 High Elf Captain:

Continuing her quest to find Aragorn in Rohan, Valfindes has arrived at the home village of her traveling companion Horn, only to discover the destruction a recent Uruk attack has wrought on the town. Half the village has been burned, the ashes still falling like snow. Even though she has been aiding the Free Peoples against the Enemy since recovering from injuries sustained long ago during the last war against Sauron, Valfindes is still rattled by the devastation the conflict is causing in Rohan. This is now the second town to have been razed by the Enemy, and it likely won't be the last. The many losses of recent battles still weigh heavily on the Elf's soul, but Valfindes' resolve is hardened once again to protect those she can. War isn't just a distant threat to the realm anymore-- It is already here.

[thedarklegosauron]

I HAVE ASCENDED!!! ...Literally

ᴴᵉˡᵖ

Teleported to Snowbourn, Rohan and promptly floated up. At least I got some screenshots flying from there to Edoras before I got completely stuck midair.

[thedarklegosauron]

HAPPY 19TH LOTRO ANNIVERSARY!!!!

BEHOLD!!!!!!!!! The Orb!

Surely looking into this for extended periods of time won't give me visions of impending doom, right?

Plus it matches the Orb I have in my Rohan house :P

Surely, looking into both of these for extended periods of time can only lead to good things. Right?

[loremastering]

the hobbit of ominous red lighting

[thedarklegosauron]

Oooh! How did you pull that off?