Crafting in Lord of the Rings: Online allows you to create all sort of interesting and unique items for your character to use, barter or sell. From swords to shields, pipe-weed to potions, you can hand make all sorts of items, including unique ones you can't find anywhere else. The primary ingredients in crafting vary from vocation to vocation. Some are found in resource nodes around the map, others purchased from vendors, and still others drop from monsters around the world. The strongest and rarest items will require a series of exotic and difficult to acquire ingredients.