Yeah... I miss my old friends from those days. It's sad that there are so few of us left, but that's just how things work I guess.
And I just feel like I should add my agreement to the Old Forest Map/Quest Tracker train of thought. There is a certain virtue to not knowing where you're going - leave a little mystery in the world. That's the point of Tom Bombadil and the Old Forest anyway, isn't it?
That was the entire point of the Old Forest (and many other areas, for that matter). I would love to have the option of not having maps. Maybe not having maps, but having to earn the maps to the area you're in. Automatically have the maps for the starter areas, but not for others. Maybe have them built into the reputation system or something. Fact being, people in Middle-earth did not have maps for everywhere they were going and when they did, the maps took quite some time to make and were rare to find.