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Read more about the upcoming Yule Festival in the latest Developer Diary from Lauren "Budgeford" Salk! 
During The Lord of the Rings Online™ Welcome Back Weekend, from December 17th through December 21st, you can play your old characters for free* and get +10% Bonus XP on Mob kills! Plus, if you come back now you can renew your subscription to LOTRO for only $9.99 per month with any 3-, 6-, or 12-month plan**!
LOTRO Hardware Upgrade and Preview Event!
LOTRO will soon receive a significant hardware upgrade that will improve the performance and capacity of our game worlds. In preparation, we’ve moved Bullroarer over to the new hardware and we’re throwing the doors open to everyone with an active subscription! Plus, all content added with Mines of Moria™ and Siege of Mirkwood™ is available to all players on the Bullroarer server, even if you’ve never upgraded! All you need is an active subscription to any version of LOTRO!
WESTWOOD, MA –December 1, 2009 - Turbine, Inc. today launched The Lord of the Rings Online™: Siege of Mirkwood™, the digital expansion to the award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Siege of Mirkwood expands the online world of Middle-earth where players join forces to press further eastward into the dark, foreboding and treacherous forest of Mirkwood and take part in the epic conclusion to Volume II of The Lord of the Rings Online.
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"The glorious beer is drawing quite a crowd to the Inn in Thorin’s Hall this year, and why should it not? It is boasting to be the finest brew in all of Middle-earth this season…"
With more recipes and materials to create superior equipment, special crafted relics for customizing legendary items, new uses for guild reputation items, and an entirely new type of recipe that lets you choose the item being produced, there's never been a better time to be a crafter!
As detailed in the Legendary Items Dev Diary, each class, upon the launch of Siege of Mirkwood™, will have its legacies divided into two Pools.
With the decision to place the main focus of the systems work for Siege of Mirkwood™ on our basic combat and item advancement systems, we had to re-evaluate what that would mean for class skills and how changing or adding to them would alter the balance we were looking for with the other changes.
