The biggest fault of LOTRO is that it doesn't truly feel like the lord of the rings. It completely lacks the depth of good and evil that Tolkien presented. Sure, the cities and locations are largely pulled from Tolkien, but 99.9% of the quests have no relevance to the lord of the rings. For example, there's a loading screen ad for the next expansion. It mentions the new quest line of going with aragorn to the northwestern area of middle earth to search for a jewel Gandalf needs for his sword to be reforged. Remember that in the Lord of the Rings? Neither do I, but that's about as close to the actual plots of Tolkien that you get.
Re: The LotR Online short-living bubble
The biggest fault of LOTRO is that it doesn't truly feel like the lord of the rings. It completely lacks the depth of good and evil that Tolkien presented. Sure, the cities and locations are largely pulled from Tolkien, but 99.9% of the quests have no relevance to the lord of the rings. For example, there's a loading screen ad for the next expansion. It mentions the new quest line of going with aragorn to the northwestern area of middle earth to search for a jewel Gandalf needs for his sword to be reforged. Remember that in the Lord of the Rings? Neither do I, but that's about as close to the actual plots of Tolkien that you get.