LOTRO’s highways, byways, and the Midgewater Pass
You take the high road, and I’ll take the – well… – very low, insect-infested, and excruciatingly muddy road. Sometimes, getting to your destination will require a toss up between a lot of possible paths to take. Even though the easiest route from Bree-land to the Lone-lands is through the Great East Road, that doesn’t mean it’s the only way.
In LOTRO, you can go through a small section of the Midgewater Marshes – just from the northeast corner of the bogs. It’s called the Midgewater Pass, and it’s only known to a bunch of Rangers of the North. This path leads up and out of the swamps and beyond the hills. From the highest point of the Midgewater Pass, you’ll actually be able to spy Weathertop.
It’s going to be trouble passing through here, so maybe you’re asking: why bother? For the Tolkien fans out there, you just might recognize this path as taken by Aragorn when he snuck the hobbits out of Bree-land and onto Rivendell. And so, once again, the toss-up: do you want to take the easy path down the Great East Road, or maybe take a much more historic trip where the Fellowship once passed?
You take the high road, and I’ll take the – well… – very low, insect-infested, and excruciatingly muddy road. Sometimes, getting to your destination will require a toss up between a lot of possible paths to take. Even though the easiest route from Bree-land to the Lone-lands is through the Great East Road, that doesn’t mean it’s the only way.
In LOTRO, you can go through a small section of the Midgewater Marshes – just from the northeast corner of the bogs. It’s called the Midgewater Pass, and it’s only known to a bunch of Rangers of the North. This path leads up and out of the swamps and beyond the hills. From the highest point of the Midgewater Pass, you’ll actually be able to spy Weathertop.
It’s going to be trouble passing through here, so maybe you’re asking: why bother? For the Tolkien fans out there, you just might recognize this path as taken by Aragorn when he snuck the hobbits out of Bree-land and onto Rivendell. And so, once again, the toss-up: do you want to take the easy path down the Great East Road, or maybe take a much more historic trip where the Fellowship once passed?
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