
Good morning! Can we interest you in an adventure? We thought we could! Come along and join us for An Unexpected Screenshot Contest!
The theme of this month's screenshot contest is, very obviously, the famous Bilbo Baggins! Journey through our lands and follow the very same paths that the Hobbit burglar followed. Your screenshot categories for the month are as follows:
Screenshot Categories
- Make You Late For Dinner! -- The theme of this category is to depict an adventrous situation that would make you late for your dinner The winner of this category will receive the title “Fashionably Late 2012” for the forums!
- In Bilbo's Hairy Footsteps -- Follow in the footsteps of Bilbo Baggins! Take a screenshot of your character in an area somehow related to the events of "The Hobbit." Will you choose the Shire? Goblin Town? Gollum's Cave? The Last Homely House? The winner of this category will receive the title “Hobbit Hopeful 2012” for the forums!
- Thorin & Company – Hobbits shouldn't get all the fun! After all, it was the will of the Dwarves that created Bilbo's adventure in the first place! Take a screenshot of your Dwarven character out in the lands of Middle-earth, fighting the good fight. The winner of this category will receive the title “Toss Me! 2012” for the forums!
The Unexpected Screenshot Contest runs from Monday, September 10th, 2012 until Friday, September 21st, 2012. Entries must be received by Turbine no later than September 21, and you may only submit two screenshots per category. Turbine will announce the winners of each category on the LOTRO Forums and website on Wednesday, September 26th, 2012. Winning submissions will receive 500 Turbine Points.
Screenshots must be original and unedited (cropping is allowed) and should have a resolution of at least 1024x768.
Here are some tips for taking screenshots:
- The number pad or right mouse button can be used to adjust the camera angle
- You can zoom in to a first-person view with the mouse-wheel
- CTRL-P/Print Screen takes your screenshot
- Screenshots are stored in My Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online
- F12 will remove the UI, and N will remove floaty names
Click here for official rules and how to send in your entry!