The Lord of the Rings Online Released on Mac

Great news for fans of Apple's operating system came our way via a press release from Turbine today, as the MMO developer has announced that The Lord of the Rings Online and its expansion packs have been ported over to the Macintosh. If you've been waiting to take the plunge into Middle-earth until it was ported over to the Mac, then you'll want to go grab the 16.5GB client as soon as you're able to:
Turbine announced today the launch of beta client for The Lord of the Rings Onlineâ„¢ for Mac. Mac users in North America and Europe can play the award-winning free-to-play MMORPG on Mac starting today by visiting http://www.lotro.com/.

(We are really excited to open up the world of Middle-earth to Mac,) said Kate Paiz, Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings Online. (We've just launched our biggest expansion yet and we're happy to welcome gamers to play the game natively on Mac OS X for the first time ever.)

To download the client, please visit: http://download.lotro.akamai.turbine.com/largecontent/lotro/Mac/Live/u08_0/highres/LotroLauncher.dmg

The Lord of the Rings Onlineâ„¢ is the ultimate adventure! This award-winning free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game delivers an interactive experience brimming with life and filled with the familiar people, places, and monsters from the most famous fantasy of all time. For more information, visit www.lotro.com.