http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16051
--- Comment #13 from Jeremy White jwhite@codeweavers.com 2009-07-06 16:41:29 --- With git as of today, this behavior has changed. You now get an error message trying to connect to the lotro servers, but you do not get the 'normal' exception failure.
This is likely a new bug that is preventing lotro from getting to the 'normal' bug, but it might be worth investigating.