It may have been coincidental timing, but shortly after CSTM's article, we got our first official communique from Turbine about the state of Lua and skinning:
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...art-Monitoring
Narrel has sworn that unless he has an untimely meeting with a large vehicle, a new art pack
will be made available around the time of the release of Isengard.