#server shutdown

Recently I’m at a gas station and I go into the store part. The clerk sees my license plate (FINROD) and asks me if I play LOTRO. We start talking and then I’m asked how I feel about the server shutdowns now this is the first I’m hearing about it so we talk a little bit and I find out that all of the servers I have characters on need to be cleared off and what’s more they need to be transferred by the end of August.

Now initially I felt this was something that I must have missed with all of the other things going on in my life so I grumble about it and make plans as to how we should deal with all of my alts. But over the past week, as I’ve talked to different people that I thought would have known I began to realize this was not necessarily common knowledge. And then I started sending messages to people who I haven’t seen play in a while and definitely found out this was not common knowledge. So I thought I would post here with some additional info that I’ve gathered about it to try to gain some awareness beyond those that I know play because I have a feeling there are a fair amount of people who are casual players or played in the past, but don’t want to lose their characters in case they might play again in the future. please spread the word because we only have until the end of this month (August 2025) to move characters before it’s pay to play on moving them in the future.

The basics:

Kin leaders should be moved first. In order to move a kin leader, the kin house must be abandoned.

I have seen many comments about moving items that are in escrow into storage or bags. I can’t verify how true it is that things are getting lost, but as a precautionary measure, I moved all of my escrow items into one of those two places before transferring.

After transferring kin leaders the other characters can be transferred.

Peregrin (US) and Meriadoc (EU) are the two 64 bit RP servers. There are three total servers for US and three total for UK.

if you have problems, seeing characters on the transfer screen, try going into your account and loading a character that is in that server. Then exit and try the transfer again. This seems to work to fix that situation.