Board Thread:LotR Mod Technical Support/@comment-76.21.102.220-20160508012630/@comment-76.21.102.220-20160508223150

I was able to get it to work, but it required a full uninstall of Java, Forge, the Mod, and Minecraft itself (Vanilla has always worked fine). After a clean reinstall (with Java 1.7.X, specifically), it started right up. I don't have the patience to try to rebuild the server right now, so I'm just running a single player game, that's open to the LAN (so my wife can log on as well).

So I guess that's the best solution: full uninstall/reinstall of all parts. Done. Took 10 min.