Welcome to another edition of Quest Notes, the place to find all the latest and greatest information about some of the quests coming in the next update. You’ve combated the threat of the False King in Volume I: Shadows of Angmar.

With the release of Siege of Mirkwood™, adventurers of level 30 and higher have been called to help defend Middle-earth from the ever lengthening Shadow in the East. With the new Skirmish system, players can now jump into instant-action combat from anywhere in the world and earn a variety of rewards. But how, exactly, do you get started? Listen up, Recruit: Skirmish Training 101 starts right now!

The glorious beer is drawing quite a crowd to the Inn in Thorin’s Hall this year, and why should it not? It is boasting to be the finest brew in all of Middle-earth this season…

Players who love to make things have a lot to look forward to in The Lord of the Rings Online™: Siege of Mirkwood™! With more recipes and materials to create superior equipment, special crafted relics for customising legendary items, new uses for guild reputation items, and an entirely new type of recipe that lets you choose the item being produced, there's never been a better time to be a crafter!

In Siege of Mirkwood™, I continued with a re-vamp of early game content in what has become a personal crusade for yours truly to improve player experience from beginning to end. For this milestone, I returned to an area in which I am well versed; I started here when I made my way onto the LOTRO team many years back. Here I am again…the Lone-lands.