Turbine announces that Book 9: Shores of Evendim, the first free update for The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar is now live, offering a new landscape region, over 100 additional quests, the battle for Helegrod raid, nine new monsters, and other enhancements. There is a Q&A on MGOD discussing the new content with Jeffrey Steefel and Adam Mersky: "Well again, one of the other things that is a big goal for us is just adding content. Making sure it is good is cool too, but it needs to feel new and fresh. So everywhere that becomes a new region in the world, it feels unlike other places you've been. So when people walk into Evendim, they are going to walk into an environment where there is a giant lake surrounded by completely different types of trees, and landscapes that you might find around a lake. They are going to see ancient Arnorian architecture, all sort of aggregated together, in a way they've never seen it before. Just the whole backwoods and bramble and the way the ground looks, and the creatures they are going to encounter; there are nine new monsters in the game, and a number of them are in Evendim, and a couple of them have very specific AI created for them for Evendim, where monsters are behaving in ways players have never seen before."