The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (LotRO) received its first official expansion pack today (November 18, 2008) in the form of Mines of Moria. Now available across both Europe and North America for Windows PCs, the expansion boasts large dwarven environments to explore as well as several additional updates to the core game.

As seen in the Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moria – or Khazad-dûm to give it its dwarven name – is a massive underground complex located underneath the Misty Mountains of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth. In the LotRO expansion it will play host to hundreds of new quests to complete and foes to battle.

As well as marking the beginning of the game’s second volume…

Jeff Anderson, CEO of gaming company Turbine, will take questions from SlashDot members next week in a phone interview celebrating the latest game from his design group, Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. When the Massively Multiplayer LOTR game was launched a few weeks ago, gamers and enthusiasts trooped to it and gave more »