I Missed the Great Hobbit Run in LOTR Online and Honestly That’s Probably for the Best

Every once in a while, something so absurdly wholesome and nerdy happens that I briefly consider reinstalling an MMO. And then I remember I lost two and a half actual years of my actual human life to World of Warcraft and had to socially detox like a feral raccoon being reintroduced to the wild. So no, I will probably never install The Lord of the Rings Online, even if the entire hobbit population just voluntarily walked into a volcano.

That's not a metaphor. It's a real thing. A Twitch streamer named BurkeBlack led a band of underleveled hobbits across Middle-earth with zero questing allowed, culminating in them yeeting themselves straight into Mount Doom like joyful, flammable lemmings. No ring. No Sam. Just seven glorious hours of walking and then a group barbecue at Sauron's house.

I don't know what's more impressive - that they made it through a level 112 zone as level 1 hobbits, or that The Lord of the Rings Online is still very much a thing.

Part of me wants in. The other part remembers raiding for loot I didn't need and thinking that was normal. So I'll just watch the video and whisper, "Fly, you fools."

Watch the entire journey below: