Celebrate LOTRO's 5th Anniversary with ZAM!

To celebrate Lord of the Rings Online's 5th Anniversary, we're giving away PILES of prizes, including mounts, headsets, Turbine Points, a lifetime membership to LOTRO, and more!

Happy 5th Anniversary, Lord of the Rings Online! Turbine is celebrating LOTRO's anniversary today and, to celebrate, ZAM has joined in on the festivities! We've partnered up with Turbine to give away some fantastic prizes to all of our readers, so if winning free swag and celebrating Lord of the Rings Online is on your list of things you enjoy, then our big giveaway event will be right up your alley!

Enter our LOTRO Giveaway here!

First, be sure to enter in the ZAM giveaway by heading over to our contest page and entering your name. You'll be eligible to win 1000 Turbine Points, a Creative Labs HS-800 Headset, a lifetime membership for LOTRO, or even a SteelSeries Siberia V2 Headset. All you need to do is register for a free ZAM account, and then click "Enter Now!"


In addition to our giveaway, we will also be giving away a Lifetime Membership to LOTRO, a Mithril Edition of LOTROand 5000 Turbine Points. We'll be giving them away in a contest in the ZAM comments below! We're looking for two things from you (one sentence each):

Your first memory in LOTRO - A random draw will take place to award this winner 5000 Turbine points.

Your favorite memory in LOTRO - The top two entries will be awarded a Mithril Edition of LOTRO for the second place, with first place winning a Lifetime Membership to LOTRO.

The contest ends and prizes will be given out on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 11:59 PM EST.


What's that? Feeling a little unlucky, or maybe suffering from LOTRO memory loss? Throughout today we'll also be giving away PAX EAST 2012 Perlino Horse Codes via Twitter. Just follow @ZAMOfficial or @Pwyff and fire us a tweet with the hashtag #zamlotro and we'll be randomly awarding out these Perlino Horse codes throughout the day! Good luck to everyone!

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Lotro Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:51 AM Rating: Decent
My First Memory in LOTRO was being impressed by the size of the World(and that was in Archet). Since this was my First MMO ever I had not expected this sort of scale, I remember looking at my map for the first time and thinking it is going to take forever to get anywhere. Now I am glad it is that way, you should see all the scenery in LOTRO at least once.

My Favourite Memory in lotro had to be recently when I decided to go on a tour of Moria(my main is only lvl 61, I am a slow leveler :P ). The fun part was that I was only lvl 54 at the time and I decided I was going to find as many of the wierd and odd places in Moria as i could. Sure I pushed my Guards survivability to the max and died numerous times, but I was able to visit such cool places such as the Bridge of Khazad dum, The Chamber of Marzubul(sp?), and even some unexpected wonders that I had forgoten about such as the endless stair just north of the Twenty First hall. Although walking into the foundation of stone was odd, those creatures are so scary(shudder) and for the life of me I could not find the path to the shadowed refuge(until I died and poped up next to the entrance).
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:50 AM Rating: Decent
My First Memory of LOTRO - running around frostbluff and being completely overwhelmed/confused

My Favourite Memory of LOTRO - Playing Hide and seek with my kin :)
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:48 AM Rating: Decent
My First Memory in LOTRO - Jumping off a cliff to get to the Silver Deep Mine and dying.

My favourite Memory in LOTRO - Doing the chicken quest and trying to get to Rivendell.
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:47 AM Rating: Decent
First Memory: Looking around on my Elf at how much detail there was.
Favorite Memory: Standing outside the Prancing Pony playing music with my friends.
Colors
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:47 AM Rating: Decent
My first memory in LotRO - Playing with my boyfriend and not understanding why he was amazed by the beautiful water in celondim. Then I changed my graphic from low to ultra high... WOOOOOOW!

My favorite memory in LotRO - Exploring a new zone. There is something in LOTRO's landscapes that really speaks to my idea of middle earth, the colors, the atmosphere, there are so many zones I love, warm afternoons in the shire, sunny days in everswim, angmar's red sky and blue and yellow swamps, snow storms in misty mountains, the golden wood, mirwood's dark atmosphere, barad guldur with its great towers...
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:47 AM Rating: Decent
Your first memory in LOTRO - Chopping down trees and making items from it. Woodworker has become my favorite profession.

Your favorite memory in LOTRO - Buying my first mount!
LOTRO Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:43 AM Rating: Decent
My First Memory in LOTRO - Trying to decide what class to play, they all sounded so fun. Finally settled on a champion.

My favourite Memory in LOTRO - Wandering through the Old Forest and finally discovering Tom Bombadil's house. Awesome.
Memories
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:41 AM Rating: Decent
My First Memory in LOTRO - I thought "Bree it's huge!" and i got lost in the poorer quartier of the city XD

My favourite Memory in LOTRO - For now the first kill of Saruman with my kinship! (better than T2 bosses)
Memories
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:38 AM Rating: Decent
My first memory in lotro: Running around in late closed beta in the Shire on my hobbit hunter, and finding a nice ruin in the Bindbole Woods with scholar nodes. The bears around me were a bit more powerful than me so I was skulking in corners and learning their patrol points so I could grab the nodes and the one backpack that was in the middle of the clearing below. Suddenly I hear this insanely loud bear roar that scared the wits out of me.. but there was nothing there! Urgh. Much later I would learn this was the fabled "Ghost Bear" bug.

My favourite memory in lotro: Defeating Ivar in Ost Dunhoth in the 24th and last possible combination that I needed, to be the first person across all lotro servers (NA and EU) at the time to get an absolutely insane title/deed completion. Thanks to my kinship. :)
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:38 AM Rating: Decent
My first memory in LotRO - Buying riding skill for 195 TP (when the real price was 295 at that moment), thinking I was saving a large sum of TP.

My favourite memort in LotRO - Finally finishing the Evendim swimming quests... Still haunts me.
contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:34 AM Rating: Decent
My first memory in LOTRO - breaking out of the jail in Archet

My favourite Memory in LOTRO - I was doing some very boring quests where i had to walk a lot so i friend of mine came and he sat on a goat. He said, i will take you to there so he said: click on me and do /backseat and you will sit behind me on the goat but it didn´t work. He started laughing very hard on skype but after 2 minutes i realised it was a joke and i couldn´t stop laughing about it!
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:34 AM Rating: Decent
My first memory in LOTRO - Running my 1st character (a captain) from Bree to the Shire as soon as I could and being really impressed with the scale of the game.

My Favorite Memory in LOTRO - My first defeat of the Turtle in Filikul. That guy was a challenge!
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:33 AM Rating: Decent
My first memory in LOTRO was how fun the intro quests were to play. That you were taught how to play your character and that there was also a story line to the intro quests was awesome.

My favorite memory in LOTRO was finally beating Draigoch after many failed attempts. It was the first time I had been in and completed a raid since I had never been in a kinship that did any raiding. I still have the screenshot of my kinship standing under Draigoch's head. Great feeling!!!!!
Celebration of Lotro 5 years
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:31 AM Rating: Decent
My First Memory in LOTRO - Playing my elven Hunter and someone telling me to press alt + f4 : (

My Favorite Memory in LOTRO - Joining the wonderful kinship i am in today and getting to know them!!

(Extra one :) ) My worst Memory From LOTRO - Seeing that there was a sale on the liftime subscription and not being able to get it :' (
~~Underiall of Windfola~~
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:30 AM Rating: Decent
First Memory: Back in the beta, I remember a incredible event lead by GMs, with a big dragon poped on a boat ! All players there where instant kill by shower of fire ! So fun !

Favourite Memory: An 10h long instance run surrounded by friends, in Carn Dum managing to die so many times without even taint our fun.
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:26 AM Rating: Decent
My first memory in LOTRO was not just seeing the Brandywine in the Shire, but joyously recognizing it by its faithfulness to the books.

My favorite memory in LOTRO was entering Khazad-dûm as a dwarf and being overwhelmed by its awesome scope and grandeur which, to me, make it easily the greatest depiction of Moria ever created.
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:26 AM Rating: Decent
First Memory:
Starting an elf during the F2P beta, falling in love with the beauty and story of the game, then subscribing before it was even out of beta.

Favourite Memory:
Orthanc Lightning T2. My raid group started off as a group of puggers and we had spent hours of the last few weekend learning the mechanics of the fight and, more importantly, becoming better friends. We were all tired, but decided to stick around for one more run with the resolution to give it our entire focus... Then suddenly, he was down to 50k, all twelve were alive, and we knew we had it (though we were yelling at our pre-emptively celebrating champion not to jinx it). That moment, when you've messed up a million times before, when you realize that you've really come together as a team, is why I love this game.
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:25 AM Rating: Decent
My first memory in LOTRO - How I couldn't stop laughing at the fact that there is a class battling baddies with... a musical instrument.

My favourite memory in LOTRO - When I joined a kin on wonderful people, many of whom have become (and stayed) my good friends (also in real life). Thanks, LOTRO!
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:25 AM Rating: Decent
My first memory in LOTRO was how excited I was to play and how much fun the intro quests were. I loved that the intro quests showed you how to play your character and actually had a story, too.

My favorite memory in LOTRO was finally beating Draigoch for the first time after many failed attempts. It was actually my very first raid, since I had never been in a kinship that did any raiding before. I still have the screenshot of my kin standing under Draigoch's head. Great feeling!!!
Lotro memories
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:23 AM Rating: Decent
My first memory... spending an hour on the character creation screen, I had to be the perfect middle-earth character, with the right name and face, I was about to enter MIDDLE-EARTH

My favourite memory.... opening the Doors of Moria and entering, seeing that first hall and the stone stairs going up and up and up. I was entering MORIA!
Contest
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:23 AM Rating: Decent
My first memory of lotro -- is meeting up with my friends after the intro and running into the old forest... and getting beat up bad lol.

My favorite memory -- First time going into fighting the turtle and my son was watching saying "that's a big turtle you going to kill it?"
LOTRO Memories
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:22 AM Rating: Decent
Your first memory in LOTRO - Getting lost in the ruins of Edhelion with my elf hunter in the Free to Play beta while not knowing how to use the movement controls.

Your favorite memory in LOTRO - Making some friends while figuring out how to beat the Great Barrow maze instance for the first time as a newbie.
Memories
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:22 AM Rating: Decent
First Memory: Exploring the snowy reaches of Thorin's Hall, and reporting to my friend on how awesome the game was (he was still finishing the download).
Favorite Memory: Whenever my first character reached the cap - first time I've ever done something like in a MMO!
Memories
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:22 AM Rating: Decent
First Memory in LOTRO - Started a 2.5yr ago, trying to quest and figure myself out while being drawn in by my surroundings and the detail to the environment. Almost forgot I was supposed to be questing!

Favorite Memory in LOTRO - Too many memories to pick a favorite. The first time I walked into Moria was a mind blower. The vastness of the architecture and the endless pits was astounding. It can be a pain sometimes to go through but it's still one of the most favorite places to explore. So much detail in this game, especially there.
Memories
# Apr 24 2012 at 9:21 AM Rating: Decent
First Memory in LOTRO - Started a 2.5yr ago, trying to quest and figure myself out while being drawn in by my surroundings and the detail to the environment. Almost forgot I was supposed to be questing!

Favorite Memory in LOTRO - Too many memories to pick a favorite. The first time I walked into Moria was a mind blower. The vastness of the architecture and the endless pits was astounding. It can be a pain sometimes to go through but it's still one of the most favorite places to explore. So much detail in this game, especially there.
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