With summer's long days tumbling slowly into dark, hot nights, there are gorgeous night skies to behold. Of course, if you're in an area like many of the Massively staff are where it is just entirely too hot to go mucking about at night, the gorgeous skies of online worlds like Lord of the Rings Online are always a great place to spend time. Today's placid evening shot comes to us from Arday from the Vilya server. Arday writes in to describe the scene: This shot was taken just after Book 7 was released in Lord of the Rings Online. I was looking across the river Anduin as I was exploring Lothlorien for the first time. All I could think of when I took this shot was what an amazingly beautiful world Turbine has created while staying true to the source material, it brought a tear to the eye of this Tolkien fan.

We're going to avoid making the obvious "what have you been doing on your summer vacation" reference, but the invitation is all the same. If you've got some screenshots of your travels, we'd love to see them. Just send them to us here at oneshots AT massively.com along with a brief description and your name.