I dont know if anyone has seen this yet, but a .dat tool has been released with the help of some devs that will spped up load and zoning times, I downloaded this and ran it on Saturday and my loading times have greatly increased.
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=316502You download it and unzip it to your codemasters lord of the rings folder, and run, this will open up a ms-dos window and it will count down as each files is defraged, mine took about 15mins, and I would recommend it to anyone that is bored of waiting on the load screen