I had the problem Monday night and one day last week.  It seemed to be only Crick (tried other US servers and EU servers; they were fine) and with both my accounts there.  (During Monday's episode, I did also experience the same symptoms once while trying to get into Landroval).

What happens is, after clicking "Enter Middle Earth", the load screen appears and the eye of Sauron continues its animation, but the progress bar never moves.  On Monday, one of my accounts was logged in, but experienced that same stuck load screen after grabbing a stable horse.  I rebooted, but it was stuck on entry just like the other account.  Thus, I think it has something to do with loading the landscape frames. . .either the server is not sending the information or is garbling it.

Bracko I was reading elsewhere and found this:

Reinstall. I hate to say it but I had a problem last year where I would sign in and it would just never move passed the login and no matter what I did it wouldn't work..I couldn't play on it for a few months (luckily I could on my lappy) but your problem sounds way different so hopefully you can get it working.

Not sure if you have already done this. Just trying to think of options for you mate!

yep its only Crickhollow, i play ALL the time on Drarrowdelf and never EVER have problems. this is very frustrating, ive tried different proxy's and all sorts of junk, everything i could think of. tried again to log on either of my characters and couldnt even log on again. ive contacted Turbine and they coudlnt help at all.

Yeah I misunderstood that it was only with Crick.

Can't see as how it'd be a 'ware issue on his end, if'n it's only Crick where he's havin trouble, an not pretty much every server...

Bracko there must be something basic that is going wrong - have you spoken with techies at Turbine or taken it to the shop to see if your drivers are all ok or that you haven't blown part of your video card or something? 

Hello all! Sorry havent been on too much lately, but 1/2 the time i cant even log on =(  tonight im trying to log in for elevenses but it want let me.  i love the Halloween events commercial! Very well done, i will try my bestest to make it friday night and maybe saturday also, if i can get on.  i dont know what im gonna do, i cant even hardly play on this server anymore, its getting bad, i cant even travel much or i will get booted.... oh well. jus tryin to keep in touch with my favoritest peoples!  HUGS ALL