Tur­bine sent out a press release today con­cern­ing Mines of Moria. It turns out that Warner Bros. will be dis­trib­ut­ing the title to retail in North Amer­ica. Mid­way dis­trib­uted the orig­i­nal release in the area.

The release states that three ver­sions of the game will be available:

• The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria Com­plete Edition
• The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria Collector’s Edition
• The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria Dig­i­tal Expansion

The Com­plete Edi­tion is a retail release and will con­tain both Shad­ows of Angmar and Mines of Moria in a sin­gle package.

The Collector’s Edi­tion is a sec­ond retail release and will con­tain both Shad­ows of Angmar and Mines of Moria. This will be avail­able in lim­ited quan­ti­ties and come in a leather-bound book-like pack­age. It also includes:

• 3 exclu­sive tokens that can be exchanged for the player’s choice of 8 dif­fer­ent in-game items
• 22″ x 22″ pre­mium qual­ity cloth map of the Mines of Moria
• Spe­cial gold-plated ring com­plete with chain and pouch
• Mines of Moria poster
• The Lord of the Rings Online Art and Music Col­lec­tion with the offi­cial Mines of Moria Soundtrack
• A full color Collector’s Edi­tion Starter Guide

The Dig­i­tal Expan­sion is a down­load­able ver­sion of Mines of Moria that will be avail­able only to exist­ing subscribers.

There’s no offi­cial word on the cost of these var­i­ous pack­ages. I would hope the Com­plete Edi­tion would top out at $50, given that the orig­i­nal release can be found for as lit­tle as $10. Hope­fully the Dig­i­tal Expan­sion will keep all of this in mind and be priced competitively.

All three ver­sions will release this Fall, but an exact date isn’t yet available.

Thanks to Mas­sively for point­ing this out again.

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