LotRO, like many MMOs, has it's own version of abbreviations and "leetspeak." This guide is simply to translate something like "LFM 3/6 Pel" into something an inexperienced player can understand. General Abbreviation Meaning PST Please Send Tell +<username> Turbine employee, usually a GM Trading Abbreviation Meaning WTB Want To Buy WTT Want To Trade WTS Want To Sell BTA Bound To Account* BTC Bound To Character* BOA Bound On Acquire COD Cash On Delivery* *BTA: previously, these items could not be traded/sent to characters outside of your account, but one of the recent updates allows you to mail some of them to other players with mithril coins *BTC: unlike bound-to-account items, these cannot be traded between the other characters on your account *COD: when items are mailed like this, the recieving character must pay a fee (to the character who sent it) to retrieve them; this is useful for guaranteeing payment when selling items through the mail Grouping Abbreviation Meaning Skirm Skirmish* Skraid Skirmish Raid FS Fellowship* LFG Looking for Group LFF Looking for Fellowship LFR Looking for Raid PUG Put Together Group* LFM Looking for More/Members LF1M Looking for One More/Members 1/6 have one player out of the six needed* T2 Teir 2 Skirmish/Instance* T2C Teir 2 Skirmish/Instance with a Challenge Tank, Heals, DPS class roles needed* *Skirm: this is an instance type *FS: can be anywhere from 2-6 people; when it holds more than that, it is converted to a raid *PUG: a fellowship/raid that is arranged spontaneously, typically in a general chat; this as opposed to a pre-planned group, which are more common in kinships *1/6: although it may be obvious the first number will vary, the second may too; there are some skirmishes that only require 3 or others that require a full 12 *T2: many skirmishes have different "tiers" that increase the difficulty (and reward) of the skirmish without increasing the actual level *Tank, Heals, DPS: different classes play different roles in a group; when a group is lacking in a certain role, they may advertise looking for one Specific Skirmishes/Instances Abbreviation Meaning BB/EB Big Battle/Epic Battle* 16th The 16th Hall 21st Battle of the Twenty-First Hall CD Carn Dum BfE Battle for Erebor BG Barad Gularan/Barad Guldur D/P Ost Dunhoth: Disease and Poison Wing DC Epic Battle: Deeping-Comb - any level DD Dark Delvings DDG/DoDG/Dungeons Dungeons of Dol Guldur DMT/DoMT/Defence Epic Battle: The Defence of Minas Tirith DN Dar Narbugud DoS The Dome of Stars Draig Draigoch's Lair - 12-man Drake Helegrod: Drake Wing DW Epic Battle: Deeping Wall DW Battle of the Deep-Way FE Fangorn's Edge FG Fil Gashan Flight Flight to the Lonely Mountain Ford Ford of Bruinen Forges The Forges of Khazad-Dum GA Garth Agarwen: Arboretum/Barrows/Fortress - level 32, 6-man GB The Great Barrow: Sambrog/ - any level, 6-man GC Epic Battle: Glittering Caves Giant Helegrod: Giant Wing Gling Glinghant GS The Grand Stair Hammer Epic Battle: Hammer of the Underworld HB Epic Battle: The Hornburg Hele Helegrod HD Epic Battle: Helm's Dike HoC Halls of Crafting HoN Halls of Night HotU Epic Battle: Hammer of the Underworld HV Haudh Valandil IoF Inn of the Forsaken IP Iorbar's Peak Lib The Library at Tham Mirdain* LT The Lost Temple Nec Breaching the Necromancer's Gate OE Ost Elendil Pel Epic Battle: Retaking Pelargir - any level, Solo/Duo/6-man* Pits/PoI Pits of Isengard PP/Pony The Defence of the Prancing Pony RC Osgiliath: The Ruined City Rift The Rift of Nurz Gashu RoF Roots of Fangorn Sammy Great Barrow: Sambrog - any level, 6-man* Sch/Skool/School The School at Tham Mirdain* SG Sammath Gul SG/SoG Seige of Gondamon SF/Skum Skumfil SH Sword Halls of Dol Guldur SH/STH Stoneheight SL The Sunken Labyrinth Smaug The Fires of Smaug Spider Helegrod: Spider Wing SS Sari-Surma Storm Storm on Methedras ToO/Orthanc Tower of Orthanc Treasury Moria: The Forgotten Treasury Tuck Trouble in Tuckborough Turtle/Turtle Soup Filikul - level 58, 12-man Uru Urugarth VM/Watcher/Watcher in the Water The Vile Maw WoS The Battle of the Way of the Smiths WW Water Wheels of Nala-dum *BB/EB: all characters above 10 can play these, but are auto-scaled to level 100 (along with their equipment and virtues), so many groups request players to be close to max level *Sammy: the first instance of the three-part Great Barrow run; although it can be run at any level, right now it is most popular with max level players *Pel: currently the most popular of the epic battle instances *Sch/Lib: Frequently run together; advertisements are often written as "sch/lib" Specific Classes Freeps* Creeps* Abbreviation Meaning Abbreviation Meaning LM Loremaster BA Blackarrow MNS/Mini Minstrel Def Defiler RK Runekeeper WL Warleader WRD/Ward Warden HNT/Hunt Hunter GRD/Guard Guardian CMP/Champ Champion CPT/Cappie Captain BRG/Burg Burglar BEO/Beorn Beorning *freep: Free-Peoples of Middle Earth, the "good side" of PVP: human, elf, hobbit, dwarf, and beornings *creep: Monsters, the "evil" side of PVP: orcs, goblins, wargs, and spiders