Don't know about The Two Towers, but I had the same experience playing Age of Conan. It has an 80 at Metacritic, but it felt like a half-done game to me, not the second coming or the "fine Beef and fancy wine" compared to World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online's "fast food burger" as the lead designer put it.
Hell, even the camera messes up when you talk to people, showing a close-up of their knees or something equally peculiar, and there are no animations for getting off a ladder. The character just appear in mid-air above it.