Greetings lads and lasses,

With limited experience, considering I don't have a steady group to enjoy the beauty of TOR just quite yet, I was wondering how far people are willing to go to bring the world of Middle-earth to life? And this should not be taken to mean "how kooky or crazy are you literally?" Just, what do you do to really bring the game to life for your players?

I have realized, from personal experience and from the wisdom of others, an RPG is an RPG regardless of system or setting. Uusally after a few have been played and the experiences are all collected and hung over the hearth of our memories one starts to realize that a few coincidences and similarities begin to overlap.

Now, being that TOR is a new experience to me and exploring the abstract nature of the game itself is somewhat fascinating and a bit intimidating, I was thinking of getting into a real position of storyteller and attempting to bring to life for my players the professor's world as Tolkien did for the reader.

That is to say, one point I found endearing of The Hobbit, which admittedly made it seem less of a serious and rather mature novel, was the singing of songs and the reciting of poetry. I don't plan on whittling the entire length of session time in artistic oration, but I think sporadically it would aid in bringing Middle-earth to life.

So what are your thoughts on this? Would you do it? If so, how would you go about it?