with LOTR you mean FOTR?

I played it over at my friend's house (he has an xbox)..
and it looks very beautiful.. sound is nice too..

The story follows the book pretty closely and the voice actors do a nice job.

The game uses a evil/goodness bar which will "fill up" goodness when you do things for other people.
When you start breaking chests and stuff while in other peoples houses the bar starts turning towards evil.
It's useful to be "good" cause then you can wear the ring sometimes (the ring will turn you to evil)

Tom Bombadil is in it and the barrow downs..

After Bree you get to play Aragorn, who is much better at fighting than Frodo.. and I guess you get to play Gandalf as well, later on

The game follows paths that you can walk on and everything else is just background mountains and hills.
I would have liked to be able to walk anywhere I wanted, but I hope0 maybe there will be a MMORPG someday or just a really huge pc game

hope this helps ya