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Lord of the Rings Online: Struttin' the Runway
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
Lord of the Rings Online developers have announced the commencement of the 2010 Yule Festival Fashion Contest where players have the opportunity to win great prizes including 1,000 Turbine Points and custom forum titles. The contest runs from now through January 10th and requires players to put on their best costumes, take and submit a screenshot on the LOTRO forums.
Greetings, festival fashionistas! Feeling the Yule spirit? Think your festive fashion sense (or lack of it) has what it takes to win the LOTRO Yule Festival Fashion Contest? Send us screenshots of your best or worst festive outfit in LOTRO, and you could win a custom forums title and 1,000 Turbine Points! Entries will be accepted in the following categories:
Most Festive Individual
Unfashionably Festive Individual
Most Festive Couple
Unfashionably Festive Couple
Most Festive Kinship
Get all the details here.
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Turning middle earth into a joke... Tolkien will be turning in his grave.
Just a humbug huh?
Neat idea Turbine, if only so many fashions weren't so much the same and you could dye more things, it would be alot better.
Just because the book was all about the war means there can't be festivals? I mean I hardly do them when I'm playing but there is nothing about turning middle earth into a "joke".
Only 1000 tp lol, I guess they learned a leason from the last kinship contest to where they had real issues giving out the prize to the best kinship.
I see nothing wrong with folks getting dressed up and celebrating.
It's a bit of harmless fun. This sounds like just the kind of thing Hobbits would like to do. It's not like it's explicitly contrary to the lore.
Slainte Mhath!
Have you read Tolkien's biography? Probably not. If you had, you would know that he enjoyed social demonstrations of creativity, something he thought the culture of his time was losing because of the wars of the era. There is nothing that indicates that he was a man so tightly wound up that he wouldn't appreciate something like this, quite the opposite. He was from a different time and era, but I think, that if his fellow Oxford staffers had made the attempt, back then, to dress up like characters from his fiction but in holiday colors, and then showed up at his Christmas party he would have been tickled, and humbled, by it. Particularly if C.S. Lewis has dressed up as a Christmas hobbit.....
Its a game, and this is the holidays, do yourself a favor and try to have some fun with it. Tolkien would have. Get his biography as a Christmas present to yourself while your at it.
Not to mention the costumes and clothing accessories are all in-line with the books, so there is nothing non-Tolkien about it. Heaven forbid that devs actually try to do in-game events to interact with the community. *gasp*
lol love how everyone jumps to defend games.
Can't that also be viewed as "love how everyone jumps to attack games"?
If you have an opinion that is based on preference it is reasonable that others will as well.
If they can, in this case, legitimately produce information that discredits what another has stated then isn't that part of the discussion?
Or should people allow anyone to state anything they want, and if they know it to be false just pat that poster on the back?
As a point of note, for my taste I don't like holiday events in games that don't fit into the fabric of the game world. But still, if the creators of these games have no problem adding levity to their games or in this case if Tolkien would have been the type to appreciate it, then in the end "it is what it is" and no dissenting opinion is really going to detract from the intent of the event.
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Seriously though.. would tolkien really ever write about an elf entering a fashion contest...? maybe joke about it in real life.. but not in the books themselves. never.
The Elf isn[object Window]t entering the fashion contest. The Elf[object Window]s player is. There[object Window]s a significant difference.
Bahhh. Firefox 4 does not like MMORPG.com apparently.
Well, of course he wouldn't. I think.
My opinion is that with these events players have to step outside the game and instead view the event like a "fun player thing' as opposed to something that really is woven into the game world.
Same with the LOTRO haunted house event, which was quite fun I must admit. I want more "lord of the rings" in my Lord of the Rings but I can step aside and enjoy a joke as much as the next person for the sake of levity.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
[edited} Dodgy post formating...
I guess you're right to be honest. I simply saying the first thing that came into my head after reading it. I never said i won't be enjoying the event myself.
still, I get your point, if one doesn't approach this with a healthy bit of "fun" it can seem cheap. It's somewhat like going to a theme party.
Oh sure, you might all be dressing up in ridiculous outfits but if everyone is then it seems fun.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Oooo, excellent reply.
So what. Seriously. This isn't an exact replica of the books and never claimed to be.
Worthless content like this is why I am losing my interest in the game hardcore after playing it since beta. This game has become a shade of anything truly resembling Middle Earth or the spirit of Tolkien's writings.