The Chamber of Records - a site for all modifications for Lord of the Rings - has put up a new interview with wlesmana, creator of the The Lord of the Rings: Total War modification. He talks about the future of the LOTR mod, how he got into this crazy business and his tips for mod development:

Quote Originally Posted by wlesmana
If your first thought is “Full conversion!! New everything!! Hey, what’s a DMB?” then it’s probably a failure from the start.
Read the interview here.

Download v1 of the LOTR mod here.

See the latest preview for v2 here.