Each week we ask you to share your successes in Middle Earth with the rest of the community. Post a comment letting us know what you've accomplished this past week.

The following items are on sale from May 3 - 9. Below you will find the sale listings as well as our recommendation on purchasing.

The new store exclusive steed for the month of May is Obsidian Steed. This steed appeared in the store starting on May 1st and will be available in the LOTRO Store through May 31st.

We were all saddened by the story of the bombing attacks on the Boston Marathon earlier this month. Turbine, who produces LOTRO for us, is actually located in the Boston area and so this is something that happened in their back yard.

Sapience mentioned last weekend that the festival will be extended. Today logging in I saw the loading screen showing the actual date.

Ketani was awesome enough to go get screenshots and prices of the new anniversary items. I will add these to the Anniversary Festival Guide later tonight but I thought you guys might want to see them before then!

The official patch notes for today’s update have been released. This is a small update to fix several server and gameplay issues. In a nice treat though, there are a number of new rewards that are also being added to the Anniversary Festival as well.

This episode we talk about the big announcement of Helms Deep, update 11 on bullroarer, upcoming changes to the LOTRO site, player council and more!

The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Monday, April 29th from 7:00 - 10:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) for an update to the game.

Join the Share Your LOTRO Screenshots Flickr group and submit your screenshots. Each week we will pick out a screenshot to share with the community!

This week's poll was suggested to us by Malhirviel, 85 Minstrel, Arkenstone server, Swifty and Hammo kinship and is discussing how much you like Mounted Combat now and how much you'd like to see it expanded in the future.

The LOTRO Game Servers and http://myaccount.turbine.com will be offline for maintenance on Saturday, April 27th from 5:00 to 7:00 Eastern (-4 GMT).

Last month LOTRO announced the details an open applications for the first player council. The council is to act as direct player feedback and comments on game ideas to Turbine for one calendar year.

Let me say that I love this series. Each one is a different take on computer games that portray interactions between characters within a game.

Sapience has been giving us hints of changes to the my.lotro site that have been in the works and he has posted a listing of what updates we will see.

Each week we ask you to share your successes in Middle Earth with the rest of the community. Post a comment letting us know what you've accomplished this past week.

The following items are on sale from April 26 – May 2. Below you will find the sale listings as well as our recommendation on purchasing.

Andang heads to Bullroarer to explore the new Wildermore region and show us some of the new system changes coming with Update 11.

..This journal is a record of all the amazing and far out things I've seen since awakening, let the good times roll.

The release notes for Update 11 have been posted for the Bullroarer server and they contain a lot of information including a new region and a new segment of the Epic Story!

Turbine has announced today their fifth expansion Helm’s Deep!

Today we are going to be taking a quick peek behind the High Hay, heading into the Old Forest. Then over the Brandywine Bridge to look at life on the fields. Join me Lilikate, as I go Beating the Bounds.

Sapience has given us a heads up on the forums that the my.lotro blogs currently on the site will not be in the new site design.

When you're in love with your alts, but you're afraid of burning out; what do you do to avoid doing so?

This week we talk about the anniversary festival, hobbit presents, some store specials, player events and more!