Very good move by Turbine. People who want to pay extra for some premium content will pay, others won't and thats the end of story. This is hardly a PvP MMO anyway so there's very little point in nagging about superiority of premium users. Besides they are giving you this high budget MMO FOR FREE, what more could you want . As of DDO, it's a very different game in it's essence, especially cause of D&D rules implemented so I doubt there's gonna be much difference between premium and regular users in LOTRO, like there is in that game.