All this talk about monthly fees.... I recommend guild wars! PVP is freakin' brilliant!
You can also get a free version of the prophecy (first) campaign. You can't trade items, that's one of the few limitations.

^For Kirby, the only downside to the free trial for LOTRO is you can't trade items with anyone and you can't use the auction house. So every good item you get goes straight to a regular vendor for money. Kind of sucks but that's a way of making you pay for the game.

The PVP is actually pretty fun, especially if you do monster play. It is flipping amazingly fun killing hobbits and elves when you are an orc or whatever you want to play as.

You're in luck now... they've made the early upgrade available to those who live in Texas and Washington. Of course, since I don't think you own the first game (Shadows of Angmar), I don't think you qualify for it anyway...

Also, what server does everyone play on (for those who have the game)?

I played EVE for about a month, didn't like it much. I thought it was a nice concept, in which everything in the game is created and run by players, but I found the actual gameplay boring, especially the mining and production. I also didn't like the leveling system (queue up a skill, wait x hours logged on or off), I felt the game basically didn't want you to play it, and by that I mean you could level your character playing 5 minutes a day just as fast as someone who plays 10 hrs. I also hated the way that everytime you bought something, you'd have to fly to wherever it was to pick it up, so all your stuff ended up spread out across the galaxy.

I'm sure it's a great game for some people, some of which I know who love it, but it wasn't for me. They have a 2 week trial though to see if you like it.