Turbine preparing for a console-version of LOTRO

Developer Turbine is in the process of preparing for the development of a console-version of The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. The Westwood-based studio currently lists a number of employment adverts at their official website, including engineers with Xbox360/PS3/similar experience that have created a user interface for a console game before.

Also, Turbines executive developer Jeffrey Steefel stated in an interview with Dutch technology-website Tweakers.net they are allowed to make use of the Lord of the Rings-license on any of the platforms and they intent to do so. Steefel goes in to detail about the possibility of a console mmo and explains the (obvious) problem factor for any console mmo: a good UI.

Link: Rough babelfish translation of the original dutch news article.