Celebrate LOTRO's 5th Anniversary with ZAM!Apr 24th, 2012 at 9:44 AM by Pwyff

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 LOTRO, and 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!

Tags: LordoftheRingsOnline, Feature, News

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# Apr 24 2012 at 10:12 PM Rating: Decent
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My first and favorite memory of LOTRO is when I first met my new best friend. We have been together ever since. Wherever I go she goes and vice-versa. Nothing is better than my friendship with her :3
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# Apr 24 2012 at 10:00 PM Rating: Decent
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First memory: Finishing the tutorial and entering the Bree area on my first character ever, so exciting!

Favourite memory: Finishing my first skirmish ever in a fellowship with my kinship; I felt so accomplished.
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# Apr 24 2012 at 9:55 PM Rating: Decent
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Your first memory in LOTRO was when I open up LOTRO for the very first time and started to create my first character, a elf hunter, and realized how much fun this game is.
Your favorite memory in LOTRO is when I lay eyes on Weathertop for the very first time and was blown away by the size of the location.
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# Apr 24 2012 at 9:49 PM Rating: Decent
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first moment would have to be when i first step into thorins hall and saw how grand it was i was like wow

favorite moment was the first time I vistited rivendell I thought it is so pretty I wish I was there
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# Apr 24 2012 at 9:31 PM Rating: Decent
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first memory in LOTRO - Getting my first death at the hands of brigands near Adso's camp in Breeland.

favorite memory in LOTRO - Going to Rivendell for the first time and seeing its scenery.
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# Apr 24 2012 at 9:23 PM Rating: Decent
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Your first memory in LOTRO - Finding Darkheart a Rare Elite Master in the Lone Lands and died trying to kill him.

Your favorite memory in LOTRO - Entering high level zones to see all the landscape while dying from monsters.

Edited, Apr 24th 2012 11:25pm by adrianrostas
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# Apr 24 2012 at 8:50 PM Rating: Decent
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Your first memory in LOTRO - How amazing was face the Nazgûl in Archet and I calling my friends and girlfriend to play with me this game

My best memory in LOTRO - When my friends and I danced with fireworks over the corpse of Ivar the Bloodhand, because we suffered a lot to kill him
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# Apr 24 2012 at 8:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Your first memory in LOTRO - Trying to figure out how the controls of the game worked but failing miserably because it was Strider fishing me out of jail with two hobbits.

Your favorite memory in LOTRO - being completely out of my mind with my newly bought warg and sneaking through a raging battle just to cheer-emote a freep. He cheered back and to the day we do the same silly thing every time he comes online on freepside.
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Thank you Turbine!
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# Apr 24 2012 at 8:27 PM Rating: Decent
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Your first memory in LOTRO - Playing Beta and questing throughout the Shire, I loved helping out all the hobbits and exploring all their towns and farms

Your favorite memory in LOTRO - Finally getting high enough level to make it to Rivendell, where I got to see the fellowship members in game, as well as Bilbo and Elrond. I felt giddy!
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# Apr 24 2012 at 8:26 PM Rating: Decent
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First Memory: Working with Strider and Amdir to form a jailbreak, and running into Black Riders!

Favorite Memory: So hard to pick, but the one that comes to mind is when entering Moria for the first time, that chill running down my back from the very first awe-inspiring view inside the Hollin Gate.
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Happy Birthday LoTRO!
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# Apr 24 2012 at 8:24 PM Rating: Decent
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First Memory: My first cut scene after completing a story quest chain. Movies in intros and when first logging in I'd expected, but to have them continue in gamer, and have them tie what you were doing into the events of the books, just blew me away.

Favourite Memory:
My kin decided to do a parade from the kinhouse into Bree, with fireworks, and a mini-concert at the end. So much fun, just hanging out and doing social activities.
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# Apr 24 2012 at 8:13 PM Rating: Decent
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My first memory: I remember how amazing was the world I saw... the trees, the grass, the water, the sky... it was beautiful...

My favorite memory: Making my girlfriend joining me in the game because we saw we could get horses... and riding in the amazing world, doing nothing, just riding in the horses... She really loves them, and I saw her smile and I still remember that day and makes me smile too :)
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# Apr 24 2012 at 8:02 PM Rating: Decent
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first memory was when i started my hunter on a free trial and i was in the starter town. I thought the game sucked so I QUIT......... then about a year later i got back into it with some friends. i started a cappy and quit DAOC and Warhammer and have had great times and made some great friends.




my favorite memory was after a long night of raids with my alliance and at about 4 in the morning the guy keys the mic and told us all "Goodnight i love u guys" as you hear him mutter "ohhhh crap that was meant for my dad and brother."
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# Apr 24 2012 at 7:57 PM Rating: Decent
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First Memory: Meeting Gandalf in the dwarf/elf starting and killing goblins with the friend I was playing with.

Favorite Memory: Braving the Trollshaws as level 20 newbies to make the trek to Rivendell, dodging mobs that would kill us instantly, and then being very impressed with Rivendell valley as we crested the hill.
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# Apr 24 2012 at 7:54 PM Rating: Decent
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#1 Memory was starting up in Combe thinking "oh goodness I'm seriously in middle earth." Then running into the spiders thinking "yep definitely in middle earth."

#2 I was running the Foundry tier 2 for the very first time. We get to the final bosses and we work our way to getting all of them taken care of except for Penrith. The whole team whipped except for me (hunter) and a friend who is a captain. We worked hard and proved successful in destroying Penrith for the rest of our team. The cappy worked hard on keeping me alive as I shot the blazes out of Penrith. VICTORY!! I remember thinking "ya, ya I totally just did that." Then I thought "oh man I better start breathing again" since I was holding my breath.
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# Apr 24 2012 at 7:47 PM Rating: Decent
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my first memory is that coming out of the intro area in Celondim, and then trying to run to Bree to meet up with my brother that also had just started. (i had no clue the stables even existed... lol)

my favorite memory is one where it first dawned on me how cool it was that i was in a fellowship that consisted of all friends and family and we were working together to get through Carn Dum, even though we all no longer lived anywhere near each other.
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# Apr 24 2012 at 7:47 PM Rating: Decent
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First memory: First viewing of Thorin's Hall and thinking to myself, "Wow, these guys are awesome stone masons." This was again reinforced later when entering Moria for the first time.

Favorite memory: Running around the Shire for the first time as a Hobbit. The Shire is so much fun. Even after four years of playing, I still enjoy running around the Shire.
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# Apr 24 2012 at 7:29 PM Rating: Decent
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My first memory in LOTRO was during a free trial a year or so after the game was released, when I had my first set of deeds appear and thought that was a great hook to encourage really spending time with a single character.

My favorite memory was the first time I did Sammath Gul with my kin and getting a feel of how good teamwork was just as important in LOTRO as in other games.
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# Apr 25 2012 at 9:58 AM Rating: Decent
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My first memory: Coming outside of the elven starter area and seeing the beautiful elven garden just outside of Celdondim. The pink shades, the statues and the water, it made it really perfect. I remember just pressing f12 to hide my ui and walking around inthere, taking screenshots all the time while people kept spawning and running past. Truly a great day and memory! :)

My favourite memory: The first time we got Thaurlach down, a server first and awesome moment. We could barely believe we finally did it and kept joking the server would probably roll back now and we wouldn't be able to take him down again. ^_^
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Awesome game!
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# Apr 24 2012 at 7:24 PM Rating: Decent
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First Memory: Playing with my IRL friend with him helping me with starter quests. The game was very captivating from the start.

Favorite Memory: Beating Draigoch for the first time. There are really too many favorite memories but this was one of them.
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# Apr 24 2012 at 7:13 PM Rating: Decent
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My first memory in Lotro was dwarf intro because I just finished read The Hobbit and I was so exciting about meeting Balin, Fili, Kili . . . and Thorin Oakshield u_u

My favorite memory in Lotro was when I was in front of The gates of Khazad dum!!! I started to play lotro because I just want to travel around Moria. My first expansion in mmorpg and the best!!!
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# Apr 24 2012 at 7:11 PM Rating: Decent
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First Memory: My first memory is running in circles around Gandalf as he was talking to Thorin during the tutorial.

Favourite Memory: My Favourite memory is running to Rivendell at a very low level with a friend. We were chased by what seemed like the entire monster population of the Trollshaws. We both managed to keep running and didn't die but it was such a relief to finally arrive at the safety of Rivendell. We wandered around Rivendell for a while just looking at everything.
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# Apr 24 2012 at 6:33 PM Rating: Decent
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First Memory: Looking over the shoulder when my best friend made the first steps in lotro, testing the game... in the elven tutorial...
My first steps: Edhelion was attacked, I (my character) were such a noob and Elrond had to save me... And then then the tragic death of the elf... I liked him.

Favorite Memory: My first steps in the tutorial of Ered Luin. It was in december and I liked the white landscape, all the white snow. There was a minstrel, the npc who trains members of this class, playing the flute all time. With this melody in my ears I enjoyed the atmosphere there. I WERE there in this moment and I loved it. Would go there again and again to indulge in memories, but things have changed there, the minstrel isn`t playing the melody any longer and the landscape there is not so beautiful in these days... But the memory is powerful. ^^
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# Apr 24 2012 at 6:28 PM Rating: Decent
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First memory:
My first memory is when the game went live and I was playing with my friends and we all just busted out instruments and just played randomness for hours straight. Was fun :)

Favorite Memory:
The first time my friends and I ran a dungeon, where at the end we had to be saved my Tom Bombadil. It was some amazingly fun stuff. :D
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# Apr 24 2012 at 6:26 PM Rating: Decent
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My first memory was walking with Gandalf as he collected up Thorin's company for their grand adventure, and immediately feeling like I stepped into on of Tolkiens books.

My favorite memory to date was emerging from Moria and turning around to see the East entrance in all it's majesty. Just a beautiful sight.
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# Apr 24 2012 at 6:23 PM Rating: Decent
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First Memory

Playing my first hunter to the then level cap of 15 and loving every minute of it!

Favorite Memory

Seeing Evendim for the first time after I upgraded my PC and just standing there looking at the water for 20 minutes!
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