

Arkenstone is unofficially the Australasian server.Any roleplaying rule violations reported on other worlds will not be enforced, and the ticket closed without response." For detailed RP and RE rules, See: Turbine Official Roleplaying Rules and Policy "Roleplaying rule violations will only be enforced on the official Roleplay-supported worlds of Laurelin, and Belegaer. The European RP designations were enforced by Codemasters.) (This is a designation more in-line with Turbine's historical NA Policy. Note also that certain servers are listed as "" - that means Role Playing is encouraged.These specializations also tend to relate to the time-zones where the majority of the players on those servers are located. Those worlds specializing in Role Playing ( ) or the specific languages, German or French, are marked in the list below.Since that move, those "European Worlds" were moved to Turbine's data center and all worlds became accessible to all players.

Prior to 1 June 2011, the "European Worlds" (servers) were operated by Codemasters and were physically located in Europe (EU).Today, all servers are physically located in North America (NA).For Legendary servers, see Legendary Server Announcement.For the event server Bombadil, see Tournament of the Twins."Worlds" are more commonly known as "Servers." These weekly restarts typically last for about an hour, and take place starting at 8:00 AM Eastern (-5 GMT) on Wednesdays.īelow are the different worlds available for all to create characters and start playing LOTRO. They differ in their progression speed (150% experience speed vs 40% experience speed), and also introduce the new Landscape Difficulty option, where you can set the landscape difficulty between Normal and Deadly +6.Īn overview can be found here: Weekly World RestartsĮffective 5-24-18, SSG will be conducting weekly world restarts to support the health of the game environment once per week during weeks where they do not have other downtime planned. In 2021, two new Legendary Servers were opened, Shadowfax and Treebeard.You can find out if it is currently open or if it will be open anytime soon by going to LOTRO's Bullroarer Forum and looking for any beta release notes. More information on it can be found by clicking here. There is also one server occasionally opened for testing new content and fixes: Bullroarer.
