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Summer is here! The July-September 2009 Calendars are now available on our Wallpapers Page. Enjoy!
 
 
 

After an exciting few weeks, we are very proud to announce the winners of The One Kinship to Rule Them All kinship contest! Congratulations again to everyone who participated and all of our winners!

 

Click on your server to see the winners for that world:

Arkenstone Brandywine Elendilmir Firefoot Gladden Landroval Meneldor Nimrodel Silverlode Vilya Windfola

 

Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-Dûm is almost here!  Find out what the press have to say about the upcoming changes to crafting, the new Summer Festival events and our new instances.

ZAM.com
“…let me tell you, their latest content is so cool, I almost resisted the urge to climb everything I saw. Almost.”

Chat with Jalessa, Graalx2, Fantus, and other members of the Turbine team this Wednesday at 8:00PM Eastern (-4 GMT) for a developer chat hosted by Warcry!

Where: irc.chatspike.net 6667 in #warcouncil  (you’ll need an IRC client to join the discussion)

Can’t make the chat? Submit your question now and we might answer it during the chat!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sit down over a plate of Sushi and talk LOTRO, DDO, and AC1 with Patience? ZAM.com caught up with our own Meghan “Patience” Rodberg at the LOGIN conference and did just that. You can read the interview on zam.com.

LOTRO is getting a performance boost for its servers, and you could get a performance boost for your PC just for playing on Bullroarer during our LOTRO Performance Event! You could win a super-fast solid state hard drive, a blazing CPU + 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a killer DX10.1 video card, or a signed copy of the game!

It’s our birthday, it is! Come celebrate our 2nd anniversary! We'd like to welcome you back for an extended week of free gameplay from April 24th - April 30th, 2009*. In addition, there is a +25% bonus experience boost on mob kills for everyone playing on those days!**
 

Spring has sprung! The April-June 2009 Calendars are now available on our Wallpapers Page. Enjoy!
 
 
 

Thanks to a great idea from the you the community and the increasing popularity of the iPhone we are pleased to offer you class-themed iPhone wallpapers!

Be sure to show your class pride. Head on over to the newly created gallery and check them out!

The LOTRO development team recently participated in a live chat hosted by Xfire. Producer Rowan, Art Director Floon, and designers Jalessa, Amlug, and Constant Gardener shared some new info about Volume II, Book 7; the first free content update to Mines of Moria ™!
 
Some of the highlights included
  • A new 12-man raid
  • The opening of Lorien to players
  • A new Lorien reputation system
  • New Minstrel Instruments
  • Insights into Class creation and changes on the way
Read the full transcript to get all the details!
 

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