Ahhhh, so you've found the old thread have you?
Well, I do probably owe everyone an explanation...
The mod, as many of you rightly surmised, is dead. This was partly due to many people involved in it moving on to other things; the main blow however, was my PC getting a virus and me needing to reinstall. Sadly, I hadn't backed up any of the mod files and I couldn't face the idea of starting from scratch again (not that I'd really done much though).
Much as I'd like to release the code to the community, I don't have it, so that isn't an option. The mod was really a victim of being announced waaay too early (something I wouldn't have done had it not been for pleas from the community for a LoTR mod).
I'm now up to my eyeballs in work (college and otherwise), so don't really have time to mastermind anything. Though I am a much more accomplished Blender user now, so if anybody else wants to re-start a LoTR mod I can offer models.
Sorry all. I really should have made this announcement long ago.
All the best, Monkey