The challenges continue in Update 3: Lost Legends of Eriador! Update 3 brings two new 3-player instances and two new skirmishes! Plus, a host of new items in the LOTRO store will grant you the necessities you need to defend the good folk of Middle-earth.

Ancient and powerful evil rises from the heart of Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings Online™ Update 2: Echoes of the Dead. Sauron’s dread servants, the Gaunt-lords, bring plague and death across the land in the wake of the Rangers’ departure. It falls to you to turn back the tide of darkness and protect the Free Peoples. Upgrades to the Legendary Items system put epic power in your hands and get you ready for the fight. New instances and a fearsome new raid bring you face to face with the evil growing around you. New encounters, new powers, new foes, and more will prepare you for a battle that is just beginning.

The November Update brings in the holidays with a wide range of improvements, additions and a completely new Yule Festival set in Winter-home. Players get access to more quests, content and adventure than ever before.

Once it was Greenwood the Great, and men and Elves lived in peace beneath its boughs - until the Necromancer’s Tower arose, waking evil in the forest’s heart. And then the shadow spread.

Read more about the Siege of Mirkwood Features!

Beneath the enchanted golden leaves of Lothlórien, you have made your name and won your glory, but the darkness of Moria is calling you back. In Volume II: Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dûm, you must return to the ancient, harrowed darkness of Moria and uproot deadly evil growing there from pestilential roots.

Read more in the Volume II: Book 8 Spotlight!

You have braved the darkest depths of Moria and battled the terrors of the Nameless Deep. Now in Volume II: Book 7: Leaves of Lórien, you are called upon to enter the enchanted lands sheltered beneath the shimmering leaves of the ancient forest Lothlórien.

Read more in the Volume II: Book 7: Leaves of Lórien Spotlight!