I have to say firstly Lotro is pretty damn good, a lot of the classes are hidden fun that you really can't see at first. The minstrel, lets face it, couldn't be gayer if it tried. But once you hit lvl 20 you find yourself one of the few almost no induction time spells so you can just run around like a lunatic aggro'ing everything and smacking off craploads of damage(once you get warcry at 20 and a few AOE attacks you can rival most classes for damage with unparalelled healing). I was bored out of my brain after having a couple hunters at 50 but thought i'd give it a shout after one of there months they improved and added skills to the mincer, it really is fantastic.
AS for boring quests and not being intuitive, thats what I love unlike War with a quest system I completely dispise, i don't want to be told where everything is. In War unless there was a quest there I didn't go there, simple as that, no need, for me, dull uninspiring and massively overspawned area's make exploring so boring, grindy and dull I couldn't be bothered. The PvP might be ok(seems just as "simple" to me as WoW) but I don't like the world or any of the PvE.
Lotro has by far, and I mean by a massive distance, the best storyline, group quests of a reasonable length(wow raiding, yawn) and continuing storyline of any MMO i've played and easily out of WoW, Lotro and War.
I've been playing WoW again after playing 2-3 months over 2 years ago when I never got into it, using the RAF thing i'm buring through the levels and it really is a very nice world to play in, some nice instances on the way that aren't particularly grind-a-rific and enough quests that you can pretty much ignore every last "collect 15 used condoms from a dark knight having sex with a evil spider" quests there are which just add's to it at the moment.
For a quick blast, sign up with a friend and power through the WoW world if for nothing else, like I am, just to have a damn look at everything. I went back because I never got far and feel like I want to at least see most stuff before I complain, or don't complain about the game. triple xp on everything and loads of people on for similar reasons, done 1-38 so far and everywhere before 30 was packed, its only not packed as I was in some places people tend not to go for class quests.
I see people constantly asking for certain classes and certain specs, asking for good gear for high end instances. But amongst them is hundreds of people saying, casual guild with 20-40 people who don't care what you've grinded, just want to see the damn instances.
Think about it, 90% of this forum is against the grind and not getting into groups because of the "epic gear grind", that means if all 90% of you joined there would be hundreds of people who would also play for fun and not for the grind. Not to mention there are thousands of every single type of player in WoW, grinders, gold farmers, irritating twits, funny people, nice people, boring people, nasty people, young and old people. Which is pretty much the same as every MMO out there.
Lotro for long term I think, frequent additions, rarely "nerfed" things, they just add usability to classes rather than nerf other classes, which mostly means more fun for underpowered classes rather than less fun playing your high level alt that just got beaten with a nerf stick. The way most MMO's should be run, and one of the best looking games period, easily the best lookin MMO.
. Maybe bad wasn't the word I wanted. I found the designs flat, boring and uninteresting, and the world had no atmosphere to me. Technically the graphics were pretty good but there was no imagination or atmosphere in the level designs, or none that grabbed me anyway. *grumble grumble* marsh swamp thing *grumble*. 
