Quote Originally Posted by catcommando View Post
Eh...I could see why it's not accessible to us as players at this time. The game follows the storyline/timeline of the books...granted it's been 7 years *cough*. But to my knowledge they've not put in a zone without a book (main storyline) in place. We're following in the footsteps of the Fellowship. We're not seeing Gondor before hand because the Fellowship (sundered parts and all) haven't gotten to it yet at this point in the game. Can see why you're asking and on some levels it would make sense since we can opt to make human characters that are from that part of the world during character creation. But for the purposes of where the game is in terms of Tolkien's story, asking why LotRO hasn't put in these regions until now would be akin to asking why we couldn't visit Northrend before WotLK. :P.

Maybe Mr. Khazad Dum would have a better answer.
Well said.