Turbine is currently experiencing connectivity issues. They say they are investigating the problem, but in the mean time, all of their games, including Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and Asheron's call are currently unavailable to players. The message quoted below is the latest message players see when they try to start up LotRO.
The problem, we are told, is with the company's service provider. Turbine will keep us updated as this develops.
Connectivity problems continue. Our staff at the datacenter are continuing to investigate and are working with our vendors as well to identify the problem. If you'd like to chat with other players during the downtime, we've created an official thread on the LOTRO forums. We do want to clarify that this is not an issue caused by Book 12; Book 12 was successfully pushed to the servers and tested by QA, and will be available as soon as the connectivity issues are resolved!
