The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (commonly abbreviated as LOTRO) is a free-to-play PC video game characterized by the genre commonly referred to as massively multiplayer online role-playing game or MMO. It is set in a fictional fantasy universe created by J. R. R. Tolkien named Middle-earth , during the time-period of The Lord of the Rings. It is based on information from J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novels; as such, it deviates in small ways from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie series (although some of the imagery in the game compares favorably to those movies). The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar was developed by Turbine, Inc but is now subsidiry of Warner Bros. Entertainment and is a free to play based game which requires a connection to