Lord of the Rings Online is bringing down their servers tomorrow, Thursday the 24th of April to patch Book 13!

The LOTRO Game Servers will be brought down on Thursday, April 24 from 6:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (-5 GMT) for an update to Book 13: Doom of the Last-king. The release notes will be available soon. Roheryn will remain up and available during the downtime. Thanks for your patience, and we'll see you back in the game soon!

Book 13 is available for pre-patching as a torrent file.  Patience had this to say:

The downloadable patch for Book 13 is now available! This patch will update clients from Book 12 to Book 13. New players will still need to go through the normal patching process - this patch will only work for those whose clients are current as of today (April 23). It will not work for Roheryn.

The downloadable patch means you can download it and patch your client before the update goes live on the servers, saving you time when they come back up. It also means you can download the patch on a computer that you don't have LOTRO installed on (i.e. your work computer), transfer the patch to a disk or device, and then run it on the computer with a LOTRO client to update it. After you've updated your client, when the servers go live with Book 13 your client will apply the patch and update itself.

The downloadable patch is approximately ~635mb.

We are currently offering the download as a .torrent. Direct download links will be posted here as they become available. Turbine recommends the µTorrent client to download the patch; you can find more information on µTorrent here.

Click here for the .torrent!

Feel free to distribute the file to others as well!

IMPORTANT NOTE: This file will ONLY patch the North America/AU/NZ version of the LOTRO client. If you try to apply it to the EU version, you'll get an error message.

Patch early, patch often, and everybody have a great downtime by joining us in our LotRO forums!