Noticed this on the forums this afternoon:

The LOTRO servers will be brought down on Thursday, Dec. 6 from 6:00AM - 12:00PM ET (-5 GMT) for an update to the game. The following changes will be made in the patch:

UI

• Items (like Legendary Book pages) will no longer have truncated names in tooltips.
• Fixed a bug which would periodically cause Housing Storage Containers to become inaccessible.
• Corrected a bug in the Auction House UI where an auction's time remaining could appear to oscillate.

Quests

• The "Aid from the Rangers" quest in the Ettenmoors should be fixed. Ranger and Troll session play are once again available.*
• The "Mushrooms for Rivendell" quest can now be advanced when you are in a Raid group.
• Rift chests will now remain in the world for 1 hour after the chest has first been opened.
• We've addressed an issue where players would be killed on entering Gorthban after the death of the Balrog, Thaurlach.

Misc.

• Fixed a stuck in combat issue when fighting creatures that despawn during combat (for instance, trolls that disappear when day breaks).
• We believe the patch will fix the error some players are encountering when trying to access their housing storage containers.

Graphics

• Fixed a stability issue triggered by changing graphics settings.
• Fixed a visual glitch that could appear when opening a dropdown menu for the first time under DirectX 10.
• Performance improvements made to DirectX 10 Dynamic Shadows.

* Please note that if you are one of the small number of players who encountered a problem entering Ranger play immediately after the last patch, you may still be unable to access Ranger play. We are still working on a fix for this.