The Game Servers and myaccount.turbine.com will be offline for maintenance on Monday, July 7 from 7:00AM to 11:00AM Eastern (-4 GMT).

The websites, forums, and wikis will remain up and readable, but players may not be able to log in. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game following the maintenance!

The June-September 2008 Calendars are now available on our Wallpapers page, including a never-before-seen image from Book 14: The Ring-forges of Eregion! Enjoy the summer!Click here to read full

The June-September 2008 Calendars are now available on our Wallpapers page, including a never-before-seen image from Book 14: The Ring-forges of Eregion! Enjoy the summer!

Many of the player-created guides on the LOTRO forums have been moved to new homes on the Lorebook. Visit the new Community Created Guides category and check it out!Click here to read full

Many of the player-created guides on the LOTRO forums have been moved to new homes on the Lorebook. Visit the new Community Created Guides category and check it out!

Crazy horse:) Conan game by Zinexgs

Crazy horse:) Conan game
by Zinexgs

Now you can download over 50 tunes from The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ in .mp3 format! Featuring award-winning artist Chance Thomas as well as original compositions by Turbine, LOTRO has received wide-spread critical...Click here to read full

Now you can download over 50 tunes from The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ in .mp3 format! Featuring award-winning artist Chance Thomas as well as original compositions by Turbine, LOTRO has received wide-spread critical acclaim for its high audio quality and variety.

The LOTRO audio library is the first product to be distributed by the Turbine Download Manager, currently in a late Beta version. Ready to get started?
Click here for more information, or click here to download the Turbine Download Manager right away.

This is a great opportunity for you to enjoy the tracks whenever, wherever you want and not just when you happen to visit Bree, Rivendell, Carn Dûm, or the Old Forest! Enjoy the music!

Is book 14 going to be a little smaller than previous books because of the work on Moria? It all depends on how you look at it.. in certain areas, absolutely.  We are not adding a whole new region, like we did in a couple updates, because...Click here to read full

Is book 14 going to be a little smaller than previous books because of the work on Moria?

It all depends on how you look at it.. in certain areas, absolutely.  We are not adding a whole new region, like we did in a couple updates, because people are working on building out Moria.  We are adding a bunch of new content, maybe on balance not as much new content than as we have in some of the other ones.    On the other hand, we are having an awful lot of activity and stuff that you can do with some of this live event and event related stuff we are doing.  I would say, a little smaller than our other updates, but I want to be clear, that we have grown our LOTRO team in order to start building expansion on top of our live team, we didn't just sever our live team and throw them over to Moria and say "we will worry about the live game later".

A new interview from Ten Ton Hammer with Producer Jeffrey Steele

Now that the dwarves have had their fun with Swig & Toss, it's time to give Hobbits what they love most: a game and a snack in one fell swoop!   Eleventy-Seven Morsels, a game straight out of the Shire, is now available at the Unlock...Click here to read full

Now that the dwarves have had their fun with Swig & Toss, it's time to give Hobbits what they love most: a game and a snack in one fell swoop!

 

Eleventy-Seven Morsels, a game straight out of the Shire, is now available at the Unlock the Mines of Moria site.

If that's not enough, playing Eleventy-Seven Morsels can earn you another star on the gate, unlocking another exclusive image from the upcoming expansion to The Lord of the Rings Online™: Mines of Moria™ and putting one step closer to the prize!

Eleventy-Seven Morsels is a Hobbit game, and everyone knows Hobbits like to eat! The playing pieces are edible and each time a player starts a move, they suddenly have one less playing piece. Eleventy-Seven Morsels is easy to get into and fun to play, but may take time to master. Eleventy-Seven Morsels awaits!

European subscribers to The Lord of the Rings Online™ are now able to use their Player Account System (PAS) username and password to log into and edit the LOTRO Lorebook for the first time. This is a fantastic opportunity for the European...Click here to read full

European subscribers to The Lord of the Rings Online™ are now able to use their Player Account System (PAS) username and password to log into and edit the LOTRO Lorebook for the first time.

This is a fantastic opportunity for the European community to take part in the day to day updating of everything to do with The Lord of the Rings Online™ and help to support the global community with our wealth of knowledge.

The Lorebook is a wiki which contains hundreds of pages of information pulled directly from the game’s databases, including quests, items, recipes, creatures, NPCs, locations, and more. There’s even a Google map of Middle-earth on which the locations of many items are marked. These pages can be searched, linked to one another, and most are editable by LOTRO players to add their notes and tips for other players.

Please be aware there are a few ground rules for using the Lorebook.

• The Lorebook currently only supports English language. Pages which communicate in any other language including French and German will be removed until we have the systems and support in place to manage those languages at the level of quality we’d be happy with.
  
  
• Players are free to edit or add any information as long as it is accurate and relevant. Any irrelevant text will be removed without notice.
  
  
• Misuse of this feature will lead to your username being banned from the Lorebook. This means all login access will be removed.
  
  
• European players are free to create their own Kinship pages however at this time there are no European server listings.

The Lorebook can be found here: http://lorebook.lotro.com

Enjoy!

The creature Gollum earned his name because of the horrible noises he makes in his throat. Gandalf the Grey speculated that he belonged to a race of river-folk akin to the hobbits, which once dwelt east of the Misty Mountains in the Vale of Anduin...Click here to read full

The creature Gollum earned his name because of the horrible noises he makes in his throat. Gandalf the Grey speculated that he belonged to a race of river-folk akin to the hobbits, which once dwelt east of the Misty Mountains in the Vale of Anduin. Gollum’s tale is a sad and perilous one.

Sméagol, as was his name of old, went fishing on his birthday with his friend Déagol, who was suddenly pulled into the river by a fish. There, Déagol found a shiny gold ring in the silt at the river-bottom. Sméagol demanded the ring as a birthday present, but Déagol refused to relinquish it Overcome by the power of the Ring – for this was the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron – Sméagol murdered his friend and claimed the Ring for himself. Banished by his people, he fled to a cave in the Misty Mountains, where the Ring’s power twisted his body and mind even as it prolonged his life for centuries.

Hundreds of years later, Gollum lost the Ring – or rather the Ring chose to be lost again – just in time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to stumble upon it. After a lengthy riddle-game in which Gollum tried to cheat his way to an easy meal – namely Bilbo – the hobbit escaped from the cave with the Ring’s aid, leaving the frustrated Gollum to stew in his own wrath until he at last gained the courage to leave the Misty Mountains in search of his birthday present. Since then he has endured many torments, including captivity at the hands of the Ranger Aragorn and the Elves of Mirkwood, and also torture in Mordor at the whim of Sauron. Still he endures, driven by a ceaseless yearning to regain the Ring… his “precious.”

Gollum appears in The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ at a time between his escape from the Elves of Mirkwood and when he began following the Company of the Ring at the gates of Moria. Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings will no doubt wish to track down the elusive creature and thwart his mischief....

Visionsofthering.com has added a new entry to the Overhead Maps page: the Horse Route Flash Map, marking the locations of Stable-Masters and their destinations and travel costs. Click here to read full

Visionsofthering.com has added a new entry to the Overhead Maps page: the Horse Route Flash Map, marking the locations of Stable-Masters and their destinations and travel costs.