So, for the last four years or so, Codemasters have run the Lord of the Rings Service in Europe, on behalf of Turbine, but Turbine are taking it back.
http://www.lotro.com/news/latestnews/1157
1. What’s happening?
Turbine is taking over full operations of The Lord of the Rings Online™ throughout Europe starting June 1, 2011. We’re merging the US and EU services into one mega-service we’re calling the LOTRO Global Service.
This includes the servers used to present the EU service being hosted in the US. Lots of change, I hope the game I know and love survives.