I'm looking forward to LoTRO as well. Of course, I'm a bit of a Turbine Fanboy (no pun intended) as I've been playing most of their games since Beta 2 of the original Asheron's Call. (I was in Beta 2 for AC and AC2. I still maintain my AC account and had my AC2 account from release till close and was also in the Beta for the AC2: Legions Expansion.) I sort of know a person there as well who I've been trying to keep in touch with. I had applied for a content designer postion on the game, but it ended up being filled internally.
Of course, I already have a job working on a game no one has mentioned, Gods and Heroes. Granted, I'm only a QA tester, but I'm still working on it. I've been here about three weeks now and it looks like the game might have potential. There's some interesting things, none of which I can talk about because I'd prefer to keep my job...
Anyway, if you're interested in checking out GnH, here's the site:
http://www.godsandheroes.com/Perpetual, the developer, is also working on Star Trek Online. Far as I know, it's still in pre-production but the tech demos I've seen look pretty cool so far.