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Codemasters has announced an interesting contest for all players with an eye for landscapes! We want to see your best landscape pictures from The Lord of the Rings Online for a chance to win a beautiful hardback book, "Lost Worlds" … Continue reading →

If you have recently received the message "You have been booted from the world" , don’t think that someone else has logged on your account and that your password has been compromised. We had an internal issue earlier that caused … Continue reading →

Turbine has released several  Volume III Book 1 Skirmishes screenshots. Enjoy! Epic Skirmish 1 Epic Skirmish 2 Epic Skirmish 3 Epic Skirmish 4 Epic Skirmish 5 Mirkwood Skirmish 1 Mirkwood Skirmish 2 Mirkwood Skirmish 3 Mirkwood Skirmish 4 Mirkwood Skirmish … Continue reading →

Volume III, Book 1 brings a bunch of updates for crafting professions of Middle-earth. Improvements for Jewellers, Cooks, Farmers, Woodworkers and Weaponsmiths bring more choices and enhanced functionality to these professions. Jewellery Stats Rebalancing and new icons All bracelets, earrings, … Continue reading →

All Turbine games will be offline on Tuesday February 23, from 4:00AM – 4:00PM Eastern Time (-5 GMT). Websites, including myaccount.turbine.com, forums, wikis, and social networks will be available, but players may be unable to log in or access their … Continue reading →

The following release notes (2/17/2010) apply to the Bullroarer server only . General * Addressed a number of typos. Instances & Raids Water Wheels * The Challenge Quest to Kill Caeryg and Caerlung will now complete properly. Skirmishes Lieutenants * … Continue reading →

Today Turbine has announced new Developer Diary: Volume III: Book 1 Skill Upgrades by Brian "Zombie Columbus" The goals for this project were: Enhance underused skills. Give bonuses that are exciting. Don’t greatly alter relative class balance. Burglar: Mischievous Delight … Continue reading →

From February 2nd through February 23rd Mirkwood players can invite friends to a fellowship and play in four different Skirmishes exclusive to the Siege of Mirkwood Expansion, even if they haven’t upgraded to Mirkwood yet.  Play as many times as … Continue reading →

A few days ago Zombie Columbus wrote a Mini Diary about Skirmish changes and fixes with latest Patch 1. Item wear on defeat has been reduced while inside Skirmishes. While individual results may vary, we feel overall Skirmishes are providing … Continue reading →

Codemasters Online and Turbine Inc. today announced details of the next free content update for subscribers to The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood. The War continues to rage in the North and your skill and bravery is … Continue reading →