- Who
- Lord of the Rings Online (Turbine/Standing Stone Games, 2007-present)
- What
- 9 year(s)
- Where
- Not Applicable ()
- When
Tales of sword and sorcery have long been a staple ingredients of MMO and RPG videogames. Successful MMORPG franchises, such as Ultima Online, Everquest and World of Warcraft, have all borrowed liberally from literature – and especially the Middle-earth works of J. R. R. Tolkien – but Lord of the Rings Online (Turbine/Standing Stone Games, 2007–present), launched on 24 April 2007, was the first to directly adapt the literary source into an MMORPG – and the game is still going strong nearly a decade later.
The longest-running licensed MMORPG is Dungeons and Dragons Online, which was first released in February 2006 and is still running as of 12 January 2017, beating Lord of the Rings Online by a year.
