Lord of the Rings Online - Interview @ GameShark

GameShark talks to Jeff Anderson , CEO of Turbine Entertainment, about the development and future of Lord of the Rings Online.

What went into deciding the timeframe for Lord of the Rings Online? Did you know that you wanted to put it into the same setting as the books or was there debate about having it take place before or after the books?

Well there was a slight difference of opinion there from when it was being run by Vivendi. Even the name change itself reflected that. When it was Middle-Earth Online it was almost timeless in its placement. We wanted to go to a much more specific role where we talked about the Fellowship, where we talked about Tolkien, and we really talked about the timeline around the trilogy itself. So that you felt you were in the middle of the War of the Ring and you were watching the events unfold and you were at the places when these things were going on.