LotRO Mines of Moria: Hero’s Guide to the Silvertine Lodes
By Stephany on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 10:17 AM PST In Codemasters, Computer, Games, Lord of the Rings
The Mines of Moria expansion for The Lord of the Rings online has been out for close to a month now, and the content included in the expansion just keeps getting more and more interesting. This week, Turbine has released a Hero’s Guide to the Silvertine Lodes and here is a excerpt from the post:
Deep in the belly of the great Misty Mountain peak called Celebdil by the Elves, Zirak-zigil by the Dwarves, and Silvertine by Men, one of the great quarries of Khazad-dûm lays in shadow and dust, waiting for its restoration, waiting for the echoes of pick-axes and miners’ songs to fill its empty caverns and tunnels once more. This deep place, known as the Silvertine Lodes, once glittered with ore and shone with the light of crystal lamps glinting off raw mithril. Now it gapes like a hole not just in the earth but in the image of Khazad-dûm.
Once, many long centuries ago, this hole was begun beneath the mountain to supply stone for great palaces and castles in Khazad-dûm and in far-off kingdoms beyond. But the Dwarves of Moria kept digging, beyond caution or reason, mad in their pursuit of mithril, until the Silvertine Lodes were all but exhausted. They scratched away at the dignity of the mines until little was left but a pit in the earth.
Sounds like a neat game area to me, and I have not even gotten finished with the Mirobel quests yet. There is so much to see and do in the new expansion and it seems that I am learning about another cool new area each week. This is thanks to the folks over at Turbine constantly updating the guides which are full of lore and mysterious creatures you will encounter. My only worry about all these cool new areas is that I will be a lvl 60 before I even get there because I have not finished Book 9 yet for crying out loud.
Anyway, enjoy the newest edition to the lore book, and a hearty thanks goes out to MMORPG for the heads up. Also, in case you were wondering, the screen above is my in-game character with a redhorn goat. Those things are so damn cute!
