This week we cover some revealed game secrets. Game News Server Transfers Still Months Away Former Turbine Employee Reveals LOTRO Secrets Store Sales Free Sample of The Week March 6th – 12th Random Relic Pack x1 Use Coupon Code 77RRP 1/Account 25% Off Class: Beorning Rune-keeper Class Warden Class Character Slots Slayer Deed Accelerators Get Double The Bonus Points In The LOTRO Store! March 6th – 16th LOTRO Players News Poll: Have You Played PvMP? LOTRO Academy: 102 – The Offensive Stats Leading an UNimportant Chicken to the Hornburg LOTRO Video Highlights: The Lesson Sheet The Starlight Orchestra is recruiting new musicians The Family Line Part 34 New Player Question What is a fellowship maneuver and how do I know which thing to pick? Week In LOTRO Maven Started rebuilding Hytbold With Teriadwyn’s help, plugged the holes in my Hunter Taxi Service Watched Aratheart, Teriadwyn and company lead an unfortunate chicken to the Hornburg Teriadwyn Mythgard Monday! Completed Lone Lands Explorer deeds on my burglar. Level 50 group 4-manned Urugarth. Terifluffz reached Rank 4 and Audacity 12. Pineleaf Beorning at level 98. Stonedeans was completely blocked due to my preference to avoid killing bears. Finished Gondor and quested in Western Gondor. Ruingalad turned out to be easy in the tanking stance (with an herbalist), First meeting of the TSO for the year. Skirmish of the Week Topic: Which is the best depiction of the Fellowship departure from Rivendell? Donations This week we did not receive any Patreon mentions but we would love your support. To help support LOTRO Players, simply go to the donation page where you can support The Players Alliance on Patreon. There you will find rewards including a mention on the podcast of your choice, or even guest for an episode on LOTRO Players News. Reviews This week we did not receive any reviews on iTunes. Featured Comments Berenthalion left a comment on the Former Employee article: “It’s easy when seeing things such as this to focus on the rather poor development decisions the studio has made over the years, Another that sticks out was from the world building video turbine put out with Corey where the world builder explains how the exec producer demanded a love story was made with a balrog on his whim. But It’s all the invisible good decisions that we enjoy everyday when playing that its easy to forget that keep us coming back for more. There’s some truly awesome stories throughout the world, and some super cool encounters. Its impossible for any developer to get everything right all the time, so although all in all one has to accept that Turbine could have done significantly better, that doesn’t stop you from enjoying what they have got right, because there’s still plenty of that.” Emails Baldigar wrote in saying: “I’ve been listening to the podcast for over a year now, and I just wanted to key in to let you all know how much I enjoy it. While it is sad to see some of the long-time members leaving or taking breaks, it gives a good opportunity for the podcast to see new perspectives and make it feel fresh. I have really enjoyed all of the new hosts, as well as the segments; everything fits in very naturally. I, in particular, have found the Skirmish of the Week to be a great addition. Since in the past few weeks, there seems to have been a bigger focus on lore, it got me thinking about something, and I thought it might be a decent question to have discussed on the podcast. I am not a huge lore expert, and I don’t know if this has been answered by Tolkien somewhere, but I wanted to ask: Do you think that, if Gollum hadn’t died at Mount Doom, he would have been let into Valinor (to heal)? Would he have gone? Would his corruption have been too great to recover from? Would he have been too thinly spread to be able to live without the Ring existing? My personal opinion is that he should be granted access, because, while he did much bad, he was never what I would consider evil. He was used, but he never seemed to, at any time, want to be doing the bad things he did; it was all Sauron making him do it. Gollum was certainly essential to the mission of taking the Ring to Mordor, and I don’t think that that can be denied. I think that in and of itself, all of his attempted attacks on Frodo and Sam aside (which weren’t really him), would be a big enough act of redemption to let him in to Valinor. Yes, the Sauron side of him was probably what made him guide them to Mordor in the first place, but that doesn’t mean that he himself didn’t want the result to happen, at least not deep down. As for whether or not he would live after the Ring was destroyed, I really don’t know. There was still a part of him left, or else he would have been a wraith (as I understand it), but I don’t know if it was simply too little for him to be able to even breath without the focus of the Ring. I don’t think this part of the question could be answered as anything but speculation, unless it was officially said. And as for if he would have gone… again, I don’t know. If he were strong enough to live after all of the corruption had left him, as I imagine it would (it having been put there by Sauron), then I think he would want to. But, there may be the issue of the corruption and malice either scarring Gollum’s body, which would kill him, or it having festered off of just what was placed by Sauron, meaning there still may be much hatred in him, which may either kill him, or prevent him from entering Valinor. Some say that his hatred of Elves would make him not want to go, or his “allergy” to elvish-made things would make him unable to go; I don’t know if either would still affect him if the Ring were destroyed, and I hope that he would realize that it would be best for him to go and heal, and not for him to wander hopelessly as the Orcs do, until they are cut down or die. Any way though, I hope his soul wasn’t cast aside as Saruman’s was, because Gollum did far less damage and far less wrong giving the circumstances. Thanks for reading, sharing, and discussing, Baldigar Stumblefoot” Contact Us Email us! podcast@lotroplayers.com Follow us on Twitter! 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