To get you started:

• A short overview of LotRO items.
• A short-cut: Buying LotRO gold. (well, maybe even better: buy LotrRO gold from trusted sellers)
  
• What you need to know about armor in Lord of the Rings Online

Tools and Ingredients

Some of the tools and ingredients that are not able to be crafted or gathered from a nodeare bought off the vender from a 'provisioner'. Provisioners are usually near crafting stations and the 'Master/Mistress of Apprentices. Such as the Boiled Light Leather, it is a component crafted by a Forester from two 'light hides', common loot of animals. The chances are, if the provisioner doesn't have the item you need then it is crafted or gathered by another trade.


Crafting Stations

Crafting stations include; Oven(Cook), Forge(Metalsmithing/Prospection), Workbench(Woodsman,Tailor, Forester, Jeweler), Fields(Farmer).



These stations are usually close by provisioners and Master/Mistress of Apprentices. But farms are dotted about some places you can find them are, Staddle (east of Bree-Town) and Delving Fields (South-East of Michael Delving).