Creatures of Middle-earth: Nûrsufum

When Angmar's army holds the fortress of Tirith Rhaw, the great troll Nûrsufum stations himself outside the walls, watching in silence. Read more about Nûrsufum in today's content update!

LOTRO Design a Horse Contest

We're pleased to announce a brand new contest for players of The Lord of the Rings Online; the LOTRO "Design a Horse Contest"!

LOTRO fans, it's time to show us your artistic and creative skills: we're giving you the opportunity to submit your very own design for a horse which could be taken and implemented into the game as a player mount in a future content update.

Below you can find the design template to use when creating your unique design. Please note, you only need to complete the side on view to complete a successful entry, the top-down and front views are there for additional details if you wish to provide them.

The areas of customisation on the mount include:
- Horse's colour and marking
- Horse blanket pattern and colour
- Horse saddle


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For some inspiration to guide your creations, please see some of the existing horse designs currently in The Lord of the Rings Online. (Click the below images for a full montage).





In addition to having your horse design immortalised into the live game, the winning entry will also receive a Codemasters goodie bag, a unique forum avatar and forum title. Two runners up will also be awarded the Codemasters goodie bags and forum prizes.

The full terms and conditions for this competition are available here.

Good luck and we look forward to seeing your designs!

RULES:

- To enter the LOTRO "Design a Horse" contest send your entry via email to lotrocompetition@codemasters.com with the subject line “LOTRO Design A Horse Competition”.

- Entries should include the following to be deemed a valid entry:
• The attached horse design in .bmp / .jpeg format
• Entrant's real name
• E-mail address
• Primary character and/or forum name (if any) and desired name(s) to credit (i.e., real name, player name or forum name).
Entries that are not sent in containing all of the above details will be discarded and marked as void.

- The contest is open to registered players who are legal European residents aged 18 or older at the time of entry with an active LOTRO game account in good standing.

- All entries must be original and created and/or owned exclusively by the player submitting the design.

- Entries are limited to one submission per person.

- The contest will run from 16.00 (GMT+1) Monday 6th July, 2009 until 11.59AM (GMT+1) Tuesday 28th July, 2009. The winning entry will be selected on Tuesday 18th August, 2009 and announced on the official forums and website.

Quarterly Wallpapers are here!

It's that time of year again! Decorate your desktop with one of our handy LOTRO quarterly calendar wallpapers!

Feature Article: Mobs of LOTRO

There are too many mobs roaming the world to count—from the farms of the Shire to the hellish pits of Angmar, from the meekest shrews to a mighty balrog —but in each breed of creature there are distinctive enemies that define their type. Read more about the Mobs of LOTRO in today's content update!

Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dûm out now!

Codemasters Online is proud to announce that the latest major free content update to The Lord of the Rings Online™: Mines of Moria™ is now live and ready to play!

Free to subscribers, Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dûm is a huge new update with a whole host of new features. These include the continuation of the Epic storyline, crafting revisited and the return of the Summer Festival.

NEW FEATURES:

• The Epic story continues
  
• New Boat-keepers offer Swift Travel routes across Lake Evendim!
  
• Free up inventory space with item stacking to 50 or 100!
  
• New barter system for First Age legendary weapons!
  
• New UI to fill out a stack of goods or enter the amount you need!
  
• Save your UI layout with the /UI command!

For more detailed information about what new content is included in Book 8, view the official patch notes or check out our Book 8 overview page.