The Description of LOTRO

The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar was developed by Turbine, is subscription-based, and requires Internet access. It launched in Canada, the United States, Australia, Japan and Europe on April 24, 2007. In China, beta testing started in July 2007, and the game was released by the end of 2007. The first expansion pack, Mines of Moria, has been announced to be released in Autumn 2008.
LOTRO's milieu is based on the movies, but is not limited to play, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. However, Turbine does not have rights to any other works in Tolkien's legendarium, such as The Silmarillion.
Much of the gameplay is very standard to the MMO format. The player controls a character avatar which can be moved around the game world and interacts with other players, non-player characters and other entities in the virtual world. Camera angles can be switched between first-person and third-person options. Player's characters are improved by gaining "levels". A character's level increases after it earns a set amount of experience points through the player versus environment combat and storyline adventures. Characters' abilities are improved by increasing in level, but character skills must be purchased from specified NPCs after gaining a new LOTRO power leveling.
The main storyline is set up as a series of "Books", which feature quests called "Chapters". There were initially eight Books when the game was released, with new books added with each free content update. So far there have been 5 free content updates.