Behind the music of Lord of the Rings Online's Riders of Rohan expansion

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Earlier in the week, we gave you a look at the mounted combat system coming in Lord of the Rings Online's Riders of Rohan expansion. But if horses are the most important thing to portraying the Riddermark of Tolkien's world, the second most important things has got to be fiddles. Preferably ancient Norwegian fiddles, of the sort composer Chance Thomas used in crafting the expansion's score. Check out the video above to hear more about how the music of Rohan was created.

Len Hafer
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Len Hafer is a freelancer and lifelong PC gamer with a specialty in strategy, RPGs, horror, and survival games. A chance encounter with Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness changed her life forever. Today, her favorites include the grand strategy games from Paradox Interactive like Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis, and thought-provoking, story-rich RPGs like Persona 5 and Disco Elysium. She also loves history, hiking in the mountains of Colorado, and heavy metal music.