These will drop randomly from human / humanoids. Specially high level ones. If you want to increase your chances of getting these I would suggest trying the following places: Sarnur, Annuminas, Goblin Town.

After Trying Woodworker, Scholar and Tinker I think one of the best Professions is to be an explorer… basically, if you want to explore while playing this is a great combo since you will collect and prepare stuff for other crafters. You can gather wood and ore to turn into treated wood and ingots… hides too. Both Ingots and Hides sell really well.

Another way to nake money in the lone lands if you are LVL 40+ is to kill Huorns (trees) in Agamaur. You will get an average of 10s per kill, 100s by selling the loot and you can even get some Flawed Huorn Heartwood that will sell well in the AH. You just need to spend 10 - 20 minutes. If you are lucky enough you can get a chance to kill Darkheart too.

If you can (unless you need the money) save all the scrolls and purple items needed for crafting. At higher levels you will need something crafted and the cost can lower down if you have the recipes. Ask a friend or check the LOTRO Forums about useful items such as Beryl Shards, Ingots, scraps of text and relics.

Always keep the best gear that fits your required stats.

Blue items are good but there are some quests items (from Angmar specialy) that will give you same or better combinations.

Also, you can keep different jewelry, gear for different moments (raids, MP, Solo Play)

Gear with additional options with cooldown are ok but normally the cooldown makes it worthless.

Work on your traits to develop specific stats.

Find someone to craft new armor, jewelry and weapons. If you find some or in your kin get the right recipes and materials to reduce costs.

Good place to gather these easily is the northeast part of The Shire, north of Scary. The northern part of Bree and the North Downs can work also.

In the Haunted Forest, there is a misty, swampy area where there are level 18 bears. This area is a giant circle with about 15-20 bears. Once you hit level 35 or higher, you can farm a fair amount of money by “kiting” these bears together in groups of 4-6 bears and killing them at once.

Before starting, be sure your focus is at 100%. Then stand where you are in bow range of abotu 4-6 bears. Fire one shot at each of them and get them to come to you. Once they are all on top of you, use RAIN OF ARROWS as a nice area-of-effect (AOE) attack. Depending on your level, this will likely kill most of the bears. If not, you will be able to finish them off quickly with melee. Move to the next group and repeat. You can walk around this circle almost endlessly farming medium hides and vendor trash off these bears.

Loot them and collect medium hides and other vendor-trash items. A full stack of some of these vendor-trash items will sell for 8 silver, and you will have multiple stacks of this trash at the conclusion of your farming. In addition, the medium hides that drop will sell for several hundred gold on the auction house (depending on the going rate).

In LOTRO, mounts are available to level 35 players at the cost of 4.2 gold. This is quite a bit of money and is difficult to attain.

One strategy that is guaranteed to work is to choose the profession of EXPLORER (Forester, Prospector, Tailor).

Ignore the TAILOR profession entirely until after you have your mount. While crafting is fun, it can also be expensive. Too many players sink their money in leveling their crafting skills when they should be saving for a mount.

Mine every node of ore and pickup every bundle of wood you come across. Then process them in the crafting hall (so as you level your forestry and prospecting skills), then sell these items on the auction house for the current going rate.

If you do this for 35 levels and avoid the temptation to spend all of your money at the auction house, you will have more than enough money for a mount.

Also remember… you do not need top-of-the-line gear as you are leveling. There is no need to pay for expensive, rare gear items on the auction house when they last only a few levels anyways. Save your money, get your mount, and THEN switch over to whatever crafting professions you choose.

- As a cook you can create all sort of buffs that are useful at all levels for all classes. Food helps in combat and to recover.
- As a prospector you can create ingots from different metals and polish items that are not only useful to you for the jeweler profession but also for other professions such as woodworkers, weaponsmiths and tailors to name a few.
- You can create your own jewelery also useful at an level for any class. This is good to keep good stats.
- You can create tokens to increase hope. Very useful for fellowships.

- You can boil leathers and treat wood. The first one is specially lucrative since tailors need lots of them. Also, weaponsmiths need it too.
- You can use farming to get food ingredients for Cooks plus other fun or RP items such as pipe weed and brews.
- You can craft instruments for other classes such as Horns, Lutes and Harps.
- You can craft instruments.
- If you are a hunter or any other class that can use a bow you can make some good ones. Not all the times but you will be able to.
- You can create staffs, spears and hammers also for other classes.
- You can create reputation items at tier 4 and 5 that may sell well at the AH (Viols, wood figurines).

Hides are onw of the top sales in LOTRO and one of the easiest items to get since you will collect some from -killing such and such- animals. There are different types of hides:

Light Hides
Medium Hides
Pristine Hides
Exceptional Hides

You can sell them between 1 and 5 silver each depending on demand and if you ask a forester to boil them you can get more money (2 to 10 silver and more in some cases per stack of 50).

Remember that when boiling two raw hides make only one boiled hide, unless the forester have the complete tier in that case you can get lucky and receive 3 boiled per 2 raw during a critical recipe.

Even for quest items, food, chests, cocoons, nodes, etc hit the Del button and check in your UI Settings for the option Directional Selection Indicator and mark it. It will display a dotted red line that will help you find the way. You can also use the /follow command.

You can try the area west of Ost Guruth around Level 27 to kill Wargs and Orcs to farm hides and other stuff that sells well with vendors. The hides can be sold at the Auction Hall. If you know a hunter that can boil them (and get experience for the Farmer profession) you can sell them at a higher price.