Style of Middle-earth

 Sometime ago, I made and posted an outfit titled Ranger of Smoke & Flame , and I now decided to make a follow up outfit, for the ranger who protects the colder areas of the world. This outfit features a base of grey and white, with subtle browns as highlights, which is good for blending in with snow, frozen ground, and wintry trees. I began with the helmet. Acquired from a Dunland epic quest, this helm features a cloth base, with a metal plated face-piece. The hauberk features grey, white, and browns, with stitching, chainmail, and belts. The shoulder guards features browns, with a bit of grey, and a very unique pattern. I finished off the outfit with simple chainmail gloves and a pair of platesteel boots. Head: Leather Helm of the Leaping Stag - Dunland Epic quest Shoulders: Shining Scale Shoulder Guards (grey dye) World drop Chest: Lesser Dextrous Chestguard of Fate (grey dye) World drop Gloves: Scale Gloves of Fleetness - world drop Feet: De...

No matter what part of Middle-earth I adventure into, there continues to be one place that is my favorite location: Edoras. Edoras happens to be the capitol city of my favorite region of Middle-earth, and it is my opinion that LoTRO did justice to the beauty of the Mark. The robe in this outfit is my absolute favorite robe I've ever come across in-game. The design of it is flawless, and there is nothing I can say other than that it is a simply gorgeous robe. After the robe, I decided to use gold and silver as my colors. I thus chose a lovely silver circlet (though it is not fully a circlet..) and then went on to choose one of the best pair of shoulder guards in game (in my opinion.) I finished off with a incredible and detailed pair of gauntlets, and a pair of simple boots. Head: Rune-maker's Hat (white dye) Skirmish camp classic barter Shoulders: Ceremonial Shoulders of the Lady's Defense (white dye) Lalia's Market barter Chest: Tattered Robe of ...

It has recently come to my attention that a fellow cosmetic blogger posted an outfit recently (but before I posted this) that has the same name. I and my kinship did not realize this when we named this outfit. I would like to extend a very large thank you to Keldarah of Gladden for taking time away from playing the new update 14 content to let me take photos of her outfit. I would also like the thank my kinmates, the players of Rangers of the West kinship, for name suggestions for this outfit!   For quite sometime now, it has been a wish and a want of mine to feature other players designed outfits on my blog. The reason for that is quite simple: not every player who enjoys cosmetics wishes, wants, or has time to maintain a cosmetic blog. But that also means that their gorgeous outfits will not reach the general LOTRO public, and I believe that there are many incredible and gorgeous outfits that deserve a platform upon which others can see them. Whilst kinchat is...

"Marshwarden? What in the world is a marshwarden? Do you mean march-warden, like Haldir?" Given the location of these screenshots, and the fact that this little hobbit is a warden, I decided to use this lovely play on words.  I bring you the first of a couple outfits from beta - and to be extremely honest, I'm crazy proud of this one. I think it is one of my best outfits yet, and I'm very sad I don't have this outfit on live. Whilst on beta, I took advantage of the large amounts of turbine points and mithril coins to purchase pieces of outfits I would usually never buy.  After picking out the chest and legs, I started choosing pieces that complimented the white, red, and brown. The circlet was easily chosen, and then I added the gauntlets. They feature brown bands, and with red dye, they matched perfectly. The shoulderguards were brown, and the simplicity caught my eye. My love for intricately designed boots easily chose the boots, and the warden...

 I started off this week's outfit with no actual purpose to it, and not really any plan behind it. I had this nice looking hauberk sitting in my vault, and I really wanted to use it, but I couldn't really find the perfect pieces to match it, so it stayed in the vault. A couple days ago, I was at the auction hall and I came across this hood for a fairly cheap price, and I quickly snatched it up. I ended up buying multiple pieces that day, and finishing up an outfit using the hauberk from ages ago. I originally started out with all the pieces dyed walnut brown, but then I mounted up on my current favorite horse, and I realized that if I dyed only a few pieces, the outfit would match the horse almost perfectly.  The hood and shoulder guards happen to be from the same set, with the same going for the gloves and boots, but there are certain things that help them match and go quite well with the outfit as a whole. Interestingly enough, despite the fact of them featuring sha...