LOTRO Screenshot Contest Part 2: Reader’s Choice (Please Vote!)

Tony posted this on January 1st, 2010. It has No Comments »
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In addi­tion to the three win­ners cho­sen by MMeOw, two more will be cho­sen by our read­ers through a poll. View all four­teen shots and sub­mit a vote on what you like best. I encour­age peo­ple to let oth­ers know about this so we get a nice sam­pling! The two sub­mis­sions with the high­est amount of votes by 12PM CST on Jan­u­ary 8th will be awarded an Adventurer’s Pack. The poll closes auto­mat­i­cally at that time, so please be sure to vote before then.

Here are the four­teen you may choose between:

The poll is on the top of the side­bar for easy access on any page.

More good news: After the con­test ends, there will be a ran­dom draw­ing out of every­one who entered and didn’t win an Adventurer’s Pack. This per­son will be awarded a code for a LOTRO-related prize. This one isn’t an Adventurer’s Pack, but it’s still nice!

LOTRO Screenshot Contest Results: Part 1 (MMeOw’s Three Picks)

Tony posted this on January 1st, 2010. It has No Comments »
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Hi every­one. I hope you all had a great hol­i­day. I’ve kind of been out of com­mis­sion, but I’m finally start­ing to feel better.

Any­way, our LOTRO Screen­shot Con­test has offi­cially ended. I’ve reached out to some of the MMeOw staff for opin­ions and have nar­rowed down our two groups of winners.

By nature, con­tests like this never are as pop­u­lar as ones that require a com­ment or a friend­ship on a social net­work. Even so, I received a lot more screens than I was antic­i­pat­ing. I was happy to see that. Every shot we got was good, in my opin­ion. It was hard to nar­row things down, but we tried our best (not just based upon “beauty”, but dif­fi­culty, com­po­si­tion, etc.). Please don’t be offended if you’re not in one of our final groups!

Here are three win­ners as cho­sen by MMeOw:

Bob's shot of Weathertop at dusk. I tend to take a lot of shots of this landmark, but Bob did it at just the right time.

Bob’s shot of Weath­er­top at dusk. I’m sure we all take a lot of shots of this land­mark, but Bob did it at just the right time.




Chris's shot of a battle in progress. If you've tried to grab a shot of an enemy at a certain point in its animation sequence, you know how hard is to get it just right. Chris did a nice job here.

Chris’s shot of a bat­tle in progress. If you’ve tried to grab a shot of an enemy at a cer­tain point in its ani­ma­tion sequence, you know how hard is to get it just right. Chris did a nice job here.


Miriam's shot of Lothlorien. Lothlorien always looks pretty, but Mirmam's composition in this shot really enhances the effect.

Miriam’s shot of Lothlo­rien. Lothlo­rien always looks pretty, but Mirmam’s com­po­si­tion in this shot really enhances the effect.


Con­grats to all three of you. I’ll be e-mailing you shortly with your Adventurer’s Pack code. Just log into your Tur­bine account and apply the code!

In order to keep things a bit more “fair”, we also a group that every­one can vote on. Out of the dozens we received, these have been nar­rowed down to shots sub­mit­ted by four­teen sep­a­rate peo­ple. I will be post­ing some­thing sep­a­rate about this shortly, so stay tuned!

Adventures in Dolby and Technicolor

Hobbit and Redhead posted this on December 30th, 2009. It has 3 Comments »
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Shorthand Link: http://mmeow.net/tw2476

While grind­ing out the quests in S. Mirk­wood (how sim­i­lar in pat­tern they are to those in Ere­gion) I’ve taken a break to try out two new-for-me classes: Cap­tain and Rune-keeper. On the whole, I am enjoy­ing both classes and the con­trast they make to my main.

Hith­erto I’ve only played tank roles. Cap­tain’s sup­port and jack-of-all-trades role is reward­ing, and Rune-keeper’s instant death strikes are, well, more sat­is­fy­ing than I realized.

This post’s title refers to the huge change in sound and visu­als that come with Cap­tain and Rune-keeper. Man, can my man Calen­bor shout! And—BZZT-ZAP!—there is no spe­cial effect too campy for Fig­galin. Stones for everyone.

Adventurer’s Pack Contest Deadline Approaching

Tony posted this on December 29th, 2009. It has No Comments »
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Don’t for­get, our con­test for one of five Adventurer’s Packs ends on Decem­ber 31st at noon CST. Read all the details here: http://​mmeow​.net/​2​0​0​9​/​1​2​/​l​o​t​r​o​-​s​c​r​e​e​n​s​h​o​t​-​c​o​n​t​e​s​t​-​w​i​n-1 – 5-adventurers-packs/Conte or here: http://​mmeow​.net/​t​w​2​464. We’ve got­ten quite a few entries so far, but your chances to win are still very good!

I hope every­one is enjoy­ing the hol­i­day sea­son. Have a good New Year’s. We’ll be back with reg­u­lar post­ing once the hol­i­days (and more impor­tantly for me, the sick sea­son) slow down.

LOTROCast’s SoM Contest and Question Submissions for an Orion Interview

Tony posted this on December 18th, 2009. It has No Comments »
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Moor­mur sent over an e-mail with some details on a cou­ple of hap­pen­ings at LOTRO­Cast.

First of all, LOTRO­Cast is hav­ing a con­test of its own. From Moormur:

We’ve teamed up with Tur­bine to offer two win­ners a key each to Mirk­wood (if they haven’t upgrad­edyet) and a guest spot on a future LOTRO­Cast episode. The con­test is a screen­shot con­test with two cat­e­gories; one cat­e­gory is based on loca­tions and one is based on char­ac­ters. More info here: http://​lotro​cast​.blogspot​.com/​2​0​0​9​/​1​2​/​w​a​n​n​a​-​w​i​n​-​s​i​e​g​e​-​o​f​-​m​i​r​k​w​o​o​d​.​h​tml.

That’s a pretty nice com­ple­ment to ours, which is offer­ing the Adventurer’s Pack. Inter­est­ingly, both of ours are screen­shot con­tests too haha. Would be fun if you won both, huh?

Even cooler (in my opin­ion), is that LOTRO­Cast  will be inter­view­ing Turbine’s Orion next week and are wel­come to any ques­tions read­ers would like to try and have answered. You can read more details here: http://​lotro​cast​.blogspot​.com/​2​0​0​9​/​1​2​/​l​o​t​r​o​c​a​s​t​-​t​o​-​i​n​t​e​r​v​i​e​w​-​o​r​i​o​n​.​h​tml.

That’s pretty cool. Orion is a nice guy and has done a great job with some of the area revamps. I bet there will be some good ques­tions and responses.


We’ve teamed up with Tur­bine to offer two win­ners a key each to Mirk­wood (if they haven’t upgraded yet) and a guest spot on a future LOTRO­Cast episode. The con­test is a screen­shot con­test with two cat­e­gories; one cat­e­gory is based on loca­tions and one is based on char­ac­ters. More info here:

http://​lotro​cast​.blogspot​.com/​2​0​0​9​/​1​2​/​w​a​n​n​a​-​w​i​n​-​s​i​e​g​e​-​o​f​-​m​i​r​k​w​o​o​d​.​h​tml.