The LOTRO Reporter Network will be giving away keys to the Lord of the Rings Online Free-to-Play Beta and you can win!

We’ve got four different contest on the go, so enter often to increase your chance to win!

The LOTRO Reporter Network

To win a key in the network wide contest, you have to submit a screenshot to lotro.reporter@gmail.com that includes advice for new players. Screenshots must be submitted by August 18th, 11:59PM to be eligible.

We are looking for screenshots in any of the four following categories:

1) Best Advice

  • For this one, you are trying to help new players to the game learn something about how to play the game. This can be class specific, situation specific, questing, crafting, anything that you can think of. We’re looking for quality advice with this one.

2) Worst/Funniest Advice

  • For this category, we are looking for the funniest advice (i.e. “Just try hitting Alt+F4, that usually fixes all the problems”, or “When raiding, always run into the room yelling ‘Leeeeroy Jenkins’”)

3) Best Location and how to get there

  • This category requires you to find the best looking location, or the most unique, or the most perilous and let us know how to get there.

4) Best Cosmetic Item (for character, not for housing) and how best to get it.

  • In this category, we ask that you show us the most unique, best looking, outstanding cosmetic item that you have, and the best way to get it.

Winners will be decided by a panel of esteemed judges: The four hosts of the LOTRO Reporter Network Podcasts – Bill and Chris from LOTRO Reporter, Candace from The Green Dragon Inn, and Sparthir from LotroWorld.com. Screenshots will be graded very scientifically, on a scale of 1 to AWESOME!!!!!!!! We will be recording the decision making process and distrubuting it as a podcast after the contest has concluded.

We have a lot of keys to give away, so even if you think you might not have the perfect screenshot and advice, enter anyways! We will have several winners from each category. Screenshots must be submitted by August 18th 11:59PM PST to be eligible.

When the contest has concluded, we will post all of the winners on LOTRO Reporter.

By submitting your screenshot, you authorize LOTRO Reporter or any members of the LOTRO Reporter Network to use it (with attribution) for any further use that they see fit.

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LOTRO Reporter

LOTRO Reporter will be having its own contest, through Twitter and Facebook. At random times in the next few weeks, posts or tweets will go out with instructions on how you can win a beta key. You must follow LOTRO Reporter on Twitter or Facebook to be elligible.

www.twitter.com/lotroreporter

http://www.facebook.com/pages/LOTRO-Reporter/130934809030

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The Green Dragon Inn

Middle-earth Scavenger Hunt Beta Key Contest

The Green Dragon Inn has 20 LotRO free to play beta keys to give away. But Candace is not just going to give them away. You’re going to work for them! She’s doing a screen shot scavenger hunt through Middle-earth. Winners take the keys.
Here is how it works:

The screen shots needed are split into four areas of Middle-earth. I made them lowbie friendly so everyone can have a chance. If you find the “item” listed, take a screenie and send it in. For some of these, you’ll need friends help! The first screen shot of each item wins a beta key and 5,000 Turbine points to spend in the LotRO store during the beta. You can enter multiple times, but you can only win once. You can send me all 10 items if you’d like, but you will only win one key. All screen shot entries must be sent to Candace with your entry, you must include your e-mail address, name and/or character name and the server you play on. Entries must include that information in order to be chosen.
The scavenger hunt starts now!

#1. Bullroarer Took
#2. A Hobbit holding a pie
#3. An Elf making a face at Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
#4. Cheering outside the Green Dragon Inn in Bywater
#5. Jumping off of Weathertop
#6. A band playing outside the Prancing Pony
#7. A Man fishing off the Celondim docks
#8. A Dwarf smoking a pipe with Tom Bombadil
#9. A Woman playing a harp in Thorin’s Halls
#10. The fellowship re-made. This means we need a shot of three Men,
four Hobbits, an Elf and a Dwarf.

Candace is also holding a give away on Twitter . She’s asking random Lord of the Rings trivia questions. The correct answer in an @ reply wins a beta key.

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LotroWorld

The LotroWorld.com Beta Key Competition is quite simple really.  You have two or three chances to win a Beta Key and 5,000 Turbine points to spend in the LotRO store during the beta.

1.  Follow or be following @sparthir on twitter and tweet with the hash tag #lotroworld.  If you say something nice about lotroworld.com you get an extra entry.

2. Send a cool suggestion to sparthir@lotroworld.com for the podcast or blog.

Good luck everyone!

See you in game!