~ Berrie's LotRO Links ~

Partner site: HdRO-Guide

Nadia's blog hdro-guide.de, to which I also contribute, is a treasure-trove of helpful information. The explorer and slayer deed guides provide maps with markers and can absolutely be used by non-German-speaking players!

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Many years ago, I started collecting useful links to all things LotRO, and by and by I also wrote some guides myself. Hope you find something useful here!

Links to this and other places

News

• Offizielle News-Seite
• The Weekly Coupon Code
  It’s always in the newest Sales Posting.
• The Patch News
• The Events Schedule
  If you live in Middle Earth Central Europe, add 6 hours to the American dates.
• Is Bullroarer open?
  This and other info on the test server can be found here in the forums.

Databases

• 'Der Widerstand' database (German)
  This site is discontinued but still offers loads of helpful information. I especially recommend the great quest guides. They rely mostly on pictures, so you should get the idea even if you don't speak German. You'd have to find out the German snames of the quests though, of course.
• lotro-wiki.com
  The Wiki needs you!

Playing Tipps and Guides

• Department of Strategery
  How did we ever live without it? A visually beautiful blog that focuses on specials (instances, roving threats, events). Very fragmentary, but has been tremendously helpful during the Scavenger Hunt.
• Beginners' Gudde by Thornelas

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Conjunctions

• Conjunction table
  by myself - a short explanation and table, with a printable variant.
• Conjunction Junction
  Beleg's fellowship maneuvers thread, still the best one there is in my opinion. If there's nothing new, it's because conjunctions haven't changed for a while.
• A Basic Combat Primer for Fellowships
  Beautiful guide by Surlek with discussion.

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Classes and Combat

Many class guides have vanished, but this is still going:
• Warden Gambits
  A lovely site for the warden. Especially a warden who, like me, has a tendency to pause playing for a while and forget their gambits. Has a circular gambit map and a gambit trainer!

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Dungeons

• Here too, I'm looking for replacements of vanished sites.

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Crafting

• lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Crafting
  Crafting in the LotRO Wiki. This one looks quite complete already.
• lotro-links.de/handwerk.html
  My crafting corner - only the cook has been completed so far. Or so it was until some more or less recent game patches.

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Maps! I love good maps.

• Arda Online's lovely map that could be switched to a Tolkien-drawn look seems to have gone. If anyone finds it, please drop me a note!
  
• Almost complete LOTRO Google map. Daniel Moravek has extracted the data from Garan's Terrain Map Plugin. Maps of individual regions are here.
• Arda Maps
  Work in progress. Explore timelines and travel routes of famous characters of the 1st and 3rd age. Zoom in for details
• Three similar maps...
  ... that display the changes of Middle Earth through the ages.
• Eye candy, yum.
• Map by Tolkien
  with annotations transcribed by Pauline Baynes.
• Arda as a disc before it was transformed into a sphere.
  Helps getting an idea how it may have looked, though there are some anachronisms (Númenor, Orthanc, Minas Tirith...)
• Dynamische Karten (ruslotro.com)
  Quick-loading individual parchment maps with search filter.
• Modified individual maps (thebrasse.com)
  Drawn by an ingenious dwarf, these maps are both lovley and useful. Some of them are far more informative than the ingame maps. No search function, but some paths are provided - very helpful for some quests.
• Goblin-town by TheBrasse
  I particularly love this one. It shows exactly how paths run above and below each other. Anyone who ever got lost in those filthy depths will appreciate this masterpiece.
• Goblin-town by Sonnenblume (Widerstand)
  Important spots have been marked.
• Goblin-town by Dalmir
  This is a map for the advanced adventurer. Mark your findings by yourself.

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Cosmetics

• Lotrostylist
  Devonna's exklusive collection of outfits for hobbits and less fortunate people (German).

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Housing and Decoration

• D&Co du Milieu
  Much love has gone into this site. It has the most beautiful screenshots of houses and decoration items. There are other little treasures too, like this event calendar. Visit at your own risk, you may not leave soon!

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Mounts

• Steeds of Middle Earth
  A noble riding stable, presenting the fine animals along with much information on riding.

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ABC files (music)

• Lotro-Abc
• Songbook of Laurelin
• http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/abc/abc1.html
• An ABC Library of Morris Tunes
• http://abcnotation.com/
• http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind
• http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/FCfiles.html

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Languages and Names

Rohirric (= Old English)

• http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/005771
  THE dictionary of Old English.
• koeblergerhard.de/germanistischewoerterbuecher/altenglischeswoerterbuch/nhd-ae.pdf
  Gerhard Köbler's short German-Old English dictionary (PDF).
• koeblergerhard.de/aewbhinw.html
  A more detailed etymological dictionary (based on Holthausen's) by the same author, with a short grammar (see "Vorwort").
• de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altenglische_Grammatik
  A very concise Old English grammar.

Elvish languages

• Hiswelókë's on-line Sindarin dictionaries
  English, French and German to Sindarin and vice versa. Has aphabetical, thematical and semantical ordering. (sindarin.de/index.html is based on Hiswelókës dictionaries).
• phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/
  Thorsten Renk's Site on Quenya, Sindarin and other languages. There is even a Sindarin course here!
• sindarin.de/grammatik.html
  Short Sindarin grammar (German).
• olk.uib.no/hnohf/sindarin.htm
  Sindarin - The Noble Tongue: Helge Fauskanger's short Sindarin grammar. There are many more things on Elves and Elvish on his colourful pages.
• sindarin.de/links.html
  Many more links on the Elvish languages.

Adûnaic (language of the Númenorians)

• realelvish.net/adunaic.php
  Adûnaic word list.
• realelvish.net/adunaicphrasebook.php
  Adûnaic phrases.

Westron (common language of men)

• realelvish.net/westron.php
  Westron word list.

Khuzdul (language of the dwarves)

• realelvish.net/khuzdul.php
  Khuzdul word list.

Various languages

• realelvish.net/wordlists.php
  Word lists of various languages.

Names and name generators

• http://www.elvish.org/elm/names
  Translations from modern names into Quenya.
• The following are all random name generators, which will more often than not come up with some nice-sounding nonsense. If you're looking for a more authentic name, browse the language links above!
• EBoN (The Everlasting Book of Names)
  Downloadable name generator. Supports Tolkien languages.
  You can check and save names you like to clipboard or a file.
• barrowdowns.com
  Name generator. Single suggestions, no overview.
• chriswetherell.com
  Name generator. Single suggestions for elfs and hobbits.
• rinkworks.com
  Name generator. Several options that can be mixed. Gives out many suggestions at a time. Freestyle fantasy names, no support for Middle earth names.
• larisweb.de
  Name generator. Several races to be chosen from, several suggestions at a time. Otherwise like the above.

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Tolkien's world

• ardapedia.com
  An open Tolkien encyclopedia (German).

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Community

• Die HdRO-Foren
  Turbine's community forums.
• hdro-sippen.de (Reiter von Rohan)
  A kinship database. You can enter your kinship with a description so people who are looking for one can find you.

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Interface

• LOTRO Interface
  Addons / mods to change your graphical UI (user interface).

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Please help with suggestions and typo/bug chasing, and feel free to link here and do what you like with my contents. It would be nice if you gave me credit though.

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