There is no official data on this but here are some data collected from different sources (including the Lore Book).

Fire: good against snow animals, Nazguls and undeads.
Light: good agains trolls and undead.
Beleriand: good against orcs, undead
Westernesse: good agains undead
Ancient Dwarf-make: good against drakes

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The thing Gwindeth values the most is respect. Use emotes to show her some respect
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When you target another character or an item, or node you can type /follow to get automatically there.

Get the reputation items and stack them in your inventory or in your vault space and exchange it all at once by getting the quest after the items. This will save space in your quest log since it is easy to reach the limit. Specially if you have normal quests and monster player quests besides reputation quests.

This information is useful for crafting and to identify the different weapons, instruments and items used by each class including level.

Armaments: Captains (20)

One-Hand Axes: All classes but Burglars and Lore-Masters

Two-Handed Axes: Champions (10), Guardians (10)

Bows: Hunters, Champions (20), Guardians(30)

Clarinet: Burglars (5), Hunters (5), Minstrels (5)

One-Handed Clubs: Captains, Champions, Guardians, Minstrels and Hunters at level 15

Crossbows: Guardians (30), Hunters (30)

Daggers: all classes but Lore-Masters

Dual Welding: Champions, Burglars (10), Hunters(15)

Flute: Minstrels at level 5

Halberds: Captains at level 15

Two-Handed Hammers: Champions (10), Guardians (10)

Harps: Minstrels at level 5

Horns: Captains (5), Champions (5), Guardians (5), Minstrels (5)

Horns: Captains (5), Champions (5), Guardians (5), Minstrels (5)

One-Handed Hammers: Hunters at level 15

Lutes: Burglars (5), Captains (5), Champions (5), Guardians (5), Hunters (5), Lore-Masters (5)

One-Handed Maces: Hunters at level 15

Medium Armor: Burglars (10), Hunters (10)

Shields: Guardians, Captains (15), Champions (15), Minstrels (20)

Spears: Captains (10), Champions (10), Guardians (10), Hunters(20)

Staffs: Lore-Masters

Two-Handed Swords: Champions (10), Guardians (10)

Besides Minstrels, Lore-Masters and Captains can heal.

Captains can even rezz (bring from defeat) a companion using the Escape From Darkness skill with half of morale and 1/4 power starting at level 20.

Lore-Masters can give some morale with the Beacon of Hope skill that can be incremented through traits.
At level 24 Lore-Masters can also transfer power to an ally.

Minstrels are by far the bet healers but depending on the group they can be replaced as any other class in the game.

These two wights at Garth Agarwen are very important since the chest in their area holds a key and the greatly appreciated Ferchu bow for hunters.

Edan can heal Esyld and Esyld can summon hillmen. The best approach is to disable one by stunning or traping him. Since both can do great damage I recommend taking on Edan first since he can heal even trapped.

Protect the main healer and talking is a must to not remove the wights from the stun.

To defeat this master elite remove all roots ans specially bees, since they heal Grimbark, and do that first before focusing on the tree again. That will save lots of distraction and missing shots.

Do damage over time FM is its possible (Yellows).

Hunters can do a good use to the Rain of Arrows skill.

Roots will attack (if present) minstrels. Keep aggro from them by simply killing the bees.

A great example of a quest that needs good guardians or captains to gett aggro while the rest of the team kills adds and try to keep the group alive.

One of the toughest quests on the game if you try to do it at lower levels. Still a good one. And frustrating some times since it require a good group.

Getting to Ivar does not mean you have a good group since most groups get to him and die several times once in front of him and his minions.

Some tips:

- The group needs a good Guardian.
- The groups that normally finish it easily have a mixture of all classes.
- A minstrel will help but a good guardian (again) needs to keep aggro from him / her.
- Hunters use anything you have to not aggro. Wait until the aggrohas been built (again, a good guardian).
- A Burglar can really help with triggering a fellowship maneuver. In that case DO NOT USE all reds.
- Use all yellow YYYYYY or, since it is common to loose power and health, use GYYYYB. Y will deal damage over time and this is good since Ivar is charged.
- Hunters hit Y.
- Hunters and Lore-Masters and any other class should focus on removing the adds, then on Ivar. Kill the banner-wights since they heal Ivar.
- Eat food, use buffs. Make it easier for the minstrel or the main healer.
- Lore-Masters can help for using their skills to debuff the enemies.
- A Minstrel can be useful to heal individually or in group as a backup.
- Burglars can also do some tricks and try to open a exploit (FM).
- Hunters can be good for DPS but will run out of power so food and the right stance is a must.
- Captains and champios can help also in DPS and helping the guardian.
- Guardian is a must.

After Ferchuor a Carved Lebethron bow you can use a SmoothBlack Ash Bow (Woodworkers can craft them easily). Use those bows (or any other quest bo you can find until level 47. At that level more options will be available both from crafting and quests.

1H / 2H: one handed and two handed weapons.
Add / Adds: one or more monster or into the fight.
Aggro: is the invisible area sorrounding a monster where he will start attacking you. This varies depending on level and weapons.
Alt: another character from the same player. For example: I play a hunter, my alt is a minstrel.
AoE: Area of Effect. When a skill or item deals damage to an area and not to a single npc, monster or character. Example: fire.
BoE: Bind on Equip. The item will be bound (you will be not able to sell it) once equipped.
BoP: Bind on Pick Up. the item will be bounded to you once you purchase it.
Buff: a temporary increase in one or more stats… for example by eating food or using a skill.
CC:Crowd Control, a set of skills that allow players (Lore-Masters specially) to deal with more than 2 mobs at a time easily.
Crit: critical chance or critical. Related to crafting or critical hits (chance to deal more damage with a skill)
DoT: Damage over time. An effect from a skill or item that deals damage through a period of time.
DPS: Damage Per Second. A way of measuring the damage from weapons.
Dread: a modifier to your stats. Generally decreases a percentage of your skills down.
Drop Rate: the frequency a mob drops an item.
Exploit: a flaw in the game that allows to cheat.
FM: Fellowship Maneuver, also called Conjunction.
Instance: a part of the game world that is private for a group or individual. Other players getting into the instance will have their own game experience separated from each other.
LFF: Looking for Fellowship. You are alone and you are looking for a group.
LFM: Looking for More. You already have a fellowship and you are asking for more to join.
Lore: the story and history of the game world.
MA: Main Assist. The person in a fellowship that assists (hits) mobs to defend and support other players… or Tank.
Mats: materials for crafting, often refered to how many items and money required to craft an item.
Melee: close combat.
Mezz: to stun or freeze or stop a mob for a moment.
Mitigation: the ability to absorb attacks
MH: Main Healer. Normally a Minstrel and secondary classes that can heal at certain levels like Captains and Lore-Masters.
Mob: an NPC monster or creature.
Named: a monster or creature that stands among others. Usually a signature that has his own name and its unique among its species. Example: Sargurz, Karnasht, Silverclaw.
Need / Greed: the action taken when looting in a group.
Noob, Newby, l33t, N00b: an inexperienced player.
NPC: Non Player Character. A computer controled character: vendors, monsters, etc.
OMW: On My Way
Power Levelling: the action of doing quests and spending virtual money to get to higher levels faster.
PST: Please Send Tell. to send a /tell (private question).
PUG: Pick Up Group, a casual group.
Pull: the action to hit a mob to start a fight.
PvE: Playr vs. Environment.
PvP - PvMP: Player vs Player, Player vs Monster Player.
Raid: a combo of 2 to 4 Fellowships.
Regen: the process to regain morale and power (or other stats).
Reset: the action when a mob or NPC returns to its original state.
Rez: from resurrect. The action to bring back a character from being defeated.
RP: Role Playing
Spawn: the moment where a mob appears.
Tank or MT: the character inside a Fellowship that is supposed to take aggro and absorb the hits while other players try to defeat him.
TS: TeamSpeak a chat server or service
Vendor: an NPC that sells stuff.
WTB: Want to Buy
WTS: Want to Sell
WTT: Want to Trade
XP: Experience Points.
Vent, Ventrilo: hat server or system

You can hit N to turn floaty names off. This will make things easier in crowded zones and your system will gain performance.

you can automatically create a screenshot of the screen by hitting F11. You can also hit F12 to hide the user interface to have a clear view of the ambiance.

The screenshots will be automatically saved in you My Documents folder (or Documents folder in Windows Vista) inside the LOTRO folder created during the instalation.

It is currently broken. The overwhelm skill is superior to it because:

- It can stun on critical
- It does more damage
- It is instant damage, as opposed to damage-over-time that Thrust does
- It costs the same amount of power.

So until it is fixed just use Overwhelm instead.