LotRO soundtrack, available for free!

When you can't be slaying orcs in Lord of the Rings Online, you can at least take the music with you to remind you of your glorious defense of the free peoples of Middle-Earth. Turbine is releasing fifty tunes from LotRO as a test of their Turbine Download Manager, a peer-to-peer downloader similar to Blizzard's World of Warcraft patcher. Since the download manager uses Microsoft's .NET frameworks, this only will work under Windows, but the music itself is in .MP3 format and can be played anywhere.

Turbine doesn't seem to have included a recording of a line of minstrels playing Freebird in the Prancing Pony in this collection. Maybe next time?

UPDATED: Free music no longer available from Turbine. Sorry. :(