"The end of 2011 is here, and it has been an incredible year for The Lord of the Rings Online. I want to express deep thanks and gratitude from the staff at Turbine to all our fans that made this LOTRO's strongest year ever."  Read more in the latest Producer's Letter from Aaron “Rowan” Campbell!

"Hello everyone and welcome back to the Yule Festival! I'm Pinion, the newest content designer on The Lord of the Rings Online. I was previously a part of Turbine's QA team, and some of you may know me from our test servers. For my first design task, I was charged with improving and polishing the Yule Festival, specifically the Winter-home area."  Read more in Pinion's first Developer Diary!

In this update we have a total of 5 instances -- three small fellowships, one fellowship, and one raid. There are 15 boss fights, two difficulty tiers, 10 challenges, over 75 new monsters, 250 new skills, 500 new effects, 200 new chest drops, and 54 new armour sets! Read more in today's Developer Diary from Joe 'jwbarry' Barry!

All the various marks and tokens that appear in Skirmishes and Classic Instances are being collapsed into three new currencies; Marks, Medallions and Seals. These three currencies will also be used in the new Isengard instance cluster, as well as future instances. Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Brian 'Zombie Columbus' Aloisio!

The reputation items have seen a slight revision in Update 5 that significantly changes the way they work. Read more about these changes in the latest Developer Diary from Elliot 'Avon' Gilman!

Instance Finder, a new feature in Update 5, is a tool to both help find groups to run instances and provide rewards for playing random content.

Read more about Instance Finder in the latest Developer Diary from Leo 'Ransroth' Zelevinsky!

It hasn’t been very long since the last edition of Quest Notes, but already it’s time to sit down and discuss what lies ahead in the next installment of the Epic Story for LOTRO! Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Jeff ‘MadeOfLions’ Libby!

"It’s time again for Quest Notes! In today’s installment, you can peek behind the curtain at the development of the Epic quest arc in Volume III Book 4: Rise of Isengard."

Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Jeff ‘MadeOfLions’ Libby!

Dunland is the natural extension of our path down through Enedwaith, following the path of the Grey Company as they rush to the south to aid Aragorn in his quest to confront Sauron and rescue the city of Minas Tirith from the onslaught of the Dark Lord’s armies.

Read more in the latest Developer Diary from Jessie 'Vastin' King!