Awesome / The Lord of the Rings Online

Raids and Fellowship Instances:

• The battle with Gortheron, especially Gandalf's Big Damn Heroes moment at the end.
• Slaying Draigoch, a full-grown live dragon. (Also Thorog, a full-grown undead dragon).
• Defying Saruman, breaking his Ring and getting away with it.
  • A certain Scavenger Hunt quest ups the ante - you must call him crazy to his face before the fight.
• At the end of the Othrongroth instance in Bree-land, you fight the Wight-lord Sambrog, who regenerates when it reaches mid-health. After a few rounds and dealing with its minions, Tom Bombadil walks in after collapsing a wall leading from a hidden entrance, and destroys the Wight-lord in an instant.
  Tom Bombadil: Hey dol! Merry dol!
  Sambrog: What? It cannot be!
  Tom Bombadil: What be you a-thinking? Dead men should not be waking!
  Sambrog dies.
  Tom Bombadil: Vanish into sunlight, leave your barrows empty!

Landscape Quests

• The session play "We Cannot Get Out", depicting the last stand of the dwarves of Balin's Company inside the Chamber of Mazarbul.
• Rousing the Ents at the culmination of first the Eaves of Fangorn quests and then the Balewood quests.
• On These Stones, in which you unite with various leaders in Rohan to take down a Black Númenórean, similar to Mordrambor from Volume I of the Epic Story.

Epic Quests

• The first time a Nazgûl is fought and defeated, in Epic Volume I Book 4.
  • Canonically the player only managed to defeat Nazgûls when he/she was part of a larger group or when the Nazgûl had already been weakened before the fight. Comes the End of Volum VI Book I and the player and a lone Swan Knight are able to defeat a Nazgûl at the height of it’s power and live to tell the tale.
• Epic Book 5, which takes place in the Misty Mountains. First, you slay a goblin leader, then you storm a Dourhand stronghold and slay their leader, and finally, you head into the Helegrod Treasury to face the Nazgûl again, and stop him and his allies from controlling a Dracolich. You only manage to banish the Nazgûl back to Mordor, and temporarily keep the dragon out of the enemy's hands, but WOW.
• The two confrontations against Mordirith in the epic, first in Book 8 then Book 15.
• Storming Mazog's throne room and taking him captive in Epic Volume II Book 7.
• Storming Barad Guldur and killing Mazog at the end of Epic Volume II Book 9.
• Helping Aragorn retake Pelargir and kill the leader of the Corsairs of Umbar in Epic Volume IV Book 2.