would anyone be interested in me running lord of the rings style role playing campaign online?

i'm a very cinematic DM i like to describe the world a situation more and let the player have more of free hand. The basic rules are enough. i also go by rule of cool which is if what the player suggests or does is cool i'm more likely to allow the attempt. So obviously dice rolling is integral but i prefer running for realistic (as you can be in a fantasy setting) so characters have to have real flaws and personalities and not just a stat line.

I've never gamed on either platform. The closest I came to that was a TOR campaign played on the RPGGeek forums. The Loremaster had to abruptly cancel the game when he found he was too busy to run it.

One way to do it is to limit player characters to fighters, thieves/rogues, and rangers. I personally don't mind that option, although I know a few people who won't like it. You'd also need to find some way for characters to heal quickly since healing magic would be rare.

One game designer, Dr. Lewis Pulsipher, once stated that magic in Middle-earth was clerical in nature. In his Khazad-dum adventure in an early White Dwarf issue, he wrote up Gandalf as a cleric and equated Sauron to a clerical lich. You can use that approach. State that clerics must be either good or evil, not neutral. Good clerics are healers; evil clerics are necromancers.

One Dungeon Master who plays the original D&D game, allowed clerics to use swords and called them rangers. Beornings were druids. Note that the original D&D classes were fighting man, magic-user, cleric. Druids and thieves came out in later supplements. Rangers first came out in The Strategic Review (this later turned into Dragon Magazine) and weren't made official until AD&D. That's why the DM made those changes.