The old item experience we had levelling up our original new LIs did have you going out for some time questing and killing mobs before any chance of...
The only thing that LOTRO did that really irked me with deviating from the lore was not having female dwarves in Gundabad conform to the books. They...
I agree, they should've made the cutoff maybe 5 years. A that point you're probably not all that invested in the name anymore, but it still opens up...