Lord of the Rings Online Trial & Demo For Free

Turbine Inc Offer a buddy code system where people can obtain a 3-7 day free trial / demo of the game and if you like it you can continue to play by paying for the monthly subscription, However these trials are not available to everyone instead Turbine give them out to Players randomly to give to there friends (see here). However dont despare there are still a number of options open to you, first off you can register at our forums and make a post in this thread where some of our members kindly give out buddy keys, there are a number of other forums that do this too.
Ask someone in the forums for a buddy key.... (you will have to register and make some posts before anyone will give you one)

Codemaster's have announced that they are offering a free lord of the rings online demo to everyone, all you have to do is head over to trylotro.com and signup and download the game, you will recieve a free 7 day demo of LOTR online, (they will give you a buddy code that is useful for 7 days then if you like the game you can pay for the monthly membership.

If you're looking for more information on LotRO or decide to continue playing and require further assistance, the folks who offer the Killer Game Guides can probably help you out. They offer a LotRO guide package that basically gets you all strategy information available for the game in a package that comes with free updates. In addition future products get added for free as well.