Welcome to the Rivendell Homesteads!
Summary:
♦ Neighborhood Presentation
♦ Premium Housing
♦ Price
♦ Hooks
♦ Links
Neighborhood Presentation
The Neighborhood:
You’ve been waiting for years to live peacefully near Elrond? Well, now you can! Welcome to the Rivendell Steadings.
Located on the western heights of Rivendell, this brand-new Elven neighborhood offers breathtaking views. The Lost Temple lies to the west, while the valley of Rivendell stretches out to the east. Live high in the mountains, on a dizzying plateau surrounded by waterfalls and flowing rivers.
The Town Square:
As usual, this Rivendell neighborhood offers all the services you need to settle in comfortably.
This includes a vault-keeper, auctioneer, forge masters, supplier, healer, housing furnisher, task boards and collection boxes, and crafting stations. In addition, there is a housing broker here which will make visiting other neighborhoods quite convenient!
Access to the Rivendell Homestead
There are several ways to access this residential neighborhood:
A gate allows you to enter on foot. It is located near the wooden bridge at the western end of Rivendell (right next to the Skirmish Camp, not far from the stables).
You’ll find the Housing Broker’s Office in Bree (across the street from the Bree-town Hall), allowing you to visit or purchase houses in any of the Housing areas throughout Middle Earth
Since U25.1 – A Stablemaster has been placed in the social center of Housing neighborhoods that offers travel between a number of major destinations across Middle-earth and between housing homesteads.
Premium Housing
What is Premium Housing?
There are some important differences between the premium housing and the original four neighborhoods.
→ For a comparison between premium and classic housing : use this page.
To begin, purchasing a Premium house is done through the LOTRO store using LOTRO points. You can buy your house with either Mithril Coins or Homesteading Coins.
Why would I spend real money on a house? What are the advantages?
There are a number of benefits that come with owning a premium house:
- You can own as many premium houses as you want on as many or few characters as you want, in addition to your original house in one of the other four neighborhoods
- Your kinship could own its own private island (Belfalas only)
- You can live in a Geode House (Erebor only)
- You can own a house with a Tower or a Cave you can actually decorate (Rohan only)
- You can use Mobile Hooks in your yards, allowing you to move yard items in all axis (Erebor, Lyndelby Stately houses and Rivendell)
- The smallest house in Gondor has more decoration hooks than any house in Eriador
- Only a one minute cooldown on the house port
- Each premium houses have a Music hook in their yard, and multiple Music hooks inside the house (compared to a single one on classic houses)
- You can customize the dayfile of your yard using the Ambient Environment hook (changing the weather, adding clouds, etc)
- Some hooks are exclusive to premium houses (Fences, Hitching Posts, Lights, Ceiling Surfaces…)
- No monthly maintenance fee for VIP players
- …
Transfer, abandonment or seizure
In case you transfer a character or account to another server, the house is fully refunded. You will get your Homesteading Coins back, that you can redeem for a new premium house.
In case of abandonment or seizure of the house, you will be reimbursed for up to 90% of the starting price through the Homesteading Coins.
Prices
Each neighborhood contains:
- 2 Base houses
- 4 Deluxe houses
- 1 Kinship House
Hooks
| Base House | Deluxe House | Kinship House | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interior Hooks | 187 | 229 | 343 |
| Wall | 40 | 45 | 60 |
| Yard/Furniture | 65 | 79 | 105 |
| Ceiling | 10 | 11 | 15 |
| Light Hooks | 11 | 15 | 20 |
| Universal Hooks | 40 | ||
| Ambient Music | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Surface (Floor) | 9 | 12 | 16 |
| Color (Floor) | 9 | 12 | 16 |
| Surface (Wall) | 10 | 13 | 17 |
| Color (Wall) | 10 | 13 | 17 |
| Surface (Ceiling) | 10 | 13 | 17 |
| Color (Ceiling) | 10 | 13 | 17 |
| Exterior Hooks | 49 | 67 | 91 |
| Enormous Yard (Mobile) | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Huge Yard (Mobile) | 11 | 16 | 20 |
| Yard/Furniture (Mobile) | 24 | 32 | 45 |
| Fence | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Doormat | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Ambient Environment | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hitching Post | 8 | 11 | 15 |
| Ambient Music | 1 | 1 | 1 |
*Universal Hooks: a special hook that you can find on Rivendell Kin houses that can accept Yard, Furniture, and Wall items.
