

Update 24.2 Interlude: Shades in the Swamp Darkness has fallen upon the Vales of Anduin, and Gandalf needs your help to safeguard the Woodmen and Beornings who live nearby. This storyline will guide you to the Vales of Anduin once your business with the dwarves has been resolved. If you have completed 'Chapter 8.7: The First Promise,' you can pick up Chapter 9 by speaking with Durin on the upper level of Skarháld. Update 24: Vales of Anduin Pushed to the limit by the attack of Karazgar, the Weeping Warrior, and fearing his promised return, the Dwarves of Skarháld attempt to fortify their position in the Grey Mountains. Stand with Gandalf the Wizard against Sauron’s lieutenants, and beware the weapons of Karazgar, the Weeping Warrior! Any player who has purchased the Mordor expansion will continue to have access to the entire Black Book of Mordor story line. Your adventures will bring you to new lands in the company of allies familiar and unexpected, as you uncover secrets that have been hidden for an age. Update 23: Where Dragons Dwell The War of the Ring brought darkness and bloodshed to the Lonely Mountain, but now the dwarves of Erebor seek to rebuild their home and make certain their legacy.

Players who have completed Chapter 4.4, "Union of Evil", can speak to Mithrandir in the wreckage of the Black Gate to begin Chapter 5 of the Black Book of Mordor.

Players who have purchased the Mordor expansion automatically have access to this new content. Update 22: Legacy of the Necromancer Chapters 5 and 6 of the Black Book of Mordor are now available! As the Golden Host moves toward Dol Guldur, others come that way too, in search of things lost and forgotten. What is driving the Darkness? Players must determine who/what is filling that vacuum and prevent it from seeping out into the rest of Middle-earth. Who/what are left after Sauron and the Nazgûl are gone? A number of Dark Personages are now rising in power. Exploring the power vacuum left by Sauron:.The Fellowship is no longer the Focus, "The Black Book of Mordor" - deals with what happens AFTER the Ring is gone.Mordor is a tremendous pit of evil and players are going to have to deal with the things that remain. Something as evil as Sauron doesn’t just go away and everything is fine.The reason that we can enter Mordor and not interfere with Frodo and Sam’s mission is because the majority of the Mordor expansion is going to take place after they’ve already gotten to Mount Doom.The Black Book of Mordor: Where the Shadows Lie Introduced in Update 21, The Black Book of Mordor: Where the Shadows Lie is the story line which narrates the way through the unexplored territory of Mordor, while the Epic Quest line continues to trace the activities of the Fellowship of the Ring.(Requires purchase of the Mordor Expansion.) 1.1 Update 22: Legacy of the Necromancer.1 The Black Book of Mordor: Where the Shadows Lie.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam Gimli the Dwarf Legolas the Elf Boromir of Gondor and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.įrom Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
