A Day at the Races

This weekend features Landroval’s first Spring Racing Carnival. On Friday, qualifier races were held in Gondamon, Duillond, and Michel Delving. The winners (top three places) of each of those races will race again today for the prestigious Bree Cup and a prize of 100 gold! It will be a grand festival, with music, fashion, betting, everything that goes along with the idea of a “Day at the Races.” Friday was just a warm-up for the main event, so let’s have a look at how that warm-up went, shall we?

At the starting line for the Mithril Cup in Gondamon:

Ales and Tales at Tham Gelair

Locney and I are becoming quite attached to our role as Ales and Tales co-hosts, filling in for Harperella again this week up at Tham Gelair, home to an astonishing number of wolves and rats. Of course – Harperella’s return next week just means we can return to playing in Old Winyards as usual! Win-win, yes? Still, it’s been fun running things for a while!

Ales and Tales on Two Tree Hill

It doesn’t have a name, really. It’s just a nice tall hill in the Green Hill Country (so, ipso facto, one of many such hills). But we started calling it Two Tree Hill when we held Ales and Tales there last night. It does get tedious to repeatedly explain “You go south out of Frogmorton, through the apple orchard across the road, and then up the hill till you find the spot with two trees standing alone. That’s the stage.” In other words – one of our more rugged and obscure Ales and Tales locations, but as beautiful as only the Shire can be!

And as you can see from that picture, with Harperella on vacation, Locney and Lennidhren acted as hosts again. This is fun!

Belated Ales and Tales Pictures

For the two weeks whose writeups I missed, here are the photo albums:

March 21 at the Nos Morel kinhouse

March 14 at The Oak and Elm

Perhaps I will yet get the writeups done, but don’t count on it…

Also. Is it just April Fools’ Day hallucination, or is the My.LOTRO global feed working again?! I see a new post there today!