The Lord of the Rings Online Developer Diary

Turbine's official The Lord of the Rings Online website has been updated with a new developer diary penned by world lead Ryan "Tens" Bednar. In it, Ryan discusses how the team re-creates the lands between the Prancing Pony and the Forsake Inn:
The best aspect of working as a Worldbuilder on LOTRO is the incredible context I have for all of my work. It goes without saying that this will be one of the fundamental differences between LOTRO and other MMOGs. Because our source material is so detailed and compelling, it is of the utmost importance that we present it in the most geographically and historically (to Tolkien's fiction) accurate manner possible.