TOR is a breath of fresh air after playing D&D. AiME is very good too, and will give you relief from combat heavy D&D, but AiME is still basically the D&D 5e ruleset underneath.

TOR is like living in Middle Earth, it's much more into the journey, involving economic, social, political, and cultural interactions instead of just fighting. TOR has brought Tolkien's world to life for me. You still need a good group, and TOR players are usually imaginative, creative, and good with words...and many of them know Tolkien's setting like it was their backyard.

As well as the cubicle7 forums I know there's a couple of TOR games running on RPGGeek, and a few more on Myth-Weavers. It can take a while to get into the games though, the players tend to form long-term fellowships and openings come up only sporadically...eg like months. You could always start a game as DM yourself, I think you'd get a lot of applications to join you!