I may throw in my 2 pennies too.
I joined around December 2012/January 2013, I wasn't really active back then, maybe came on like once a week, found the server by searching ''war'' from some place. I became more active around February/March 2013, I wasn't very talkative back then. I started talking more around May/June 2013, when I started to make friends in server. The first person, who I really got a long was Tonino2000, at that time, the recruiting for RP server was going on, so, he recruited me to Blackfyre. On 24th of June(or 23rd), the first testing of LMS happened, the map was Mirkwood, though, the event only lasted for 3 days, it was fun, very very fun. And then, 1 month later, the RP opened, I was lucky enough to get in the server. I remember the days in the server were nearly an hour long due to lag. I searched for Blackfyre in the first 3 days, until I got sick of searching and just asked for coordinates. And not that much time later, the first wars happened with Demons and Ilthilien. And then the server was closed, for me, the best times got over with that, older players, whom I had know for some time, started leaving, however, I still made a lot of new friends, I'd bring up Wacko, whom I met at RP server. At the end of the year, I got quite well along with Tim and helped him with some stuff (EQ christmas stuff). In 2014, I became quite popular in the server and my popularity grew. I got along with everyone, I think. I made a lot more friends and I enjoyed playing in the server, however, the maps started to get boring over time, however, the community kept me playing. And I don't really remember what happened at the first half of the 2014, but I do remember we had a factions server, and there basically was only 1 town, which me and Anrza lead. It had 2 forts and a ton of houses. Then, at some time, I remember Tim built the new Moria, and at that time, I was temp OP
My name was all nice and bold. I made a lava river at the new Moria. Then, at the end of the year, I didn't really connect with the community anymore and I missed the old people a lot, so I left the server about 2 times, until like 4 months ago, I actually did leave the server, though, made no official statement or something like that.
Oh, right, there was this Avatar stuff too once. And then there has been several times when I have been smitten, caged, poured lava on, muted, banned etc.