Don't know much about Middle Earth except that it is apparently pretty vanilla and bland. To me, the Tolkien universe does not lend itself well to a MMOG, since everyone playing would want to be in the fellowship battling Sauron.
Everquest2 is pretty good, but I havn't played it in over a year and half. Though I do hear that their development team is very responsive to the player base.
If you want a light and easy game to play around in, World of Warcraft is the best one out there. The issues with it only really come out at the top end game where less then 10% of the total player base well ever see the top instances. But the trip up to the top has yet to be matched by any other game.
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