How to Read the Guide

Each page shows one level range of armour.
The pictures show what it will look like (on a Human male).
The colour of the Armour in the Armour Stats section relates to the 'colour' of the item. I've used Violet rather than Purple for clarity.
The pictures were created using the dressing room feature, so pictures could be taken for armour items that the character pictured can make, can find on the auction house, worn by others, or from vendors. This is why only one race is featured, and why armour didn't have to be made to produce the site.
I try to post in relevant places forums.

Change Log

24th January 2012 - Updated Light and Medium Armour and Dunland Armour sets to Volume 3, Update 5.
7th December 2011 - Added all Westfold Jewellery recipes.
4th November 2011 - Updated existing Jewellery, Instrument and Weapon stats to Volume 3, Update 4. Added Dunland Armour sets.
30th October 2011 - Added all new Tailor Recipes, and all Tailor stats to Volume 3, Update 4.
10th October 2011 - Updated all other Metalsmith stats (crafted Heavy Armour and Shields) to Volume 3, Update 4.
9th October 2011 - Added all Westfold Metalsmith Recipes, updated Runekeeper Chisel and Riffler stats to Volume 3, Update 4.
28th August 2011 - Added Evendim Barter Armour, Garth Agarwen Shields, Isengard Pre-order Cosmetics and Lothlorien Cook's Guild recipes.
25th August 2011 - Restructured Armour Set pages.
22nd August 2011 - Updated Consumable items to HTML 4.01 and validated it.
19th August 2011 - Updated Crafting items, Crafted Relics and Dyes to HTML 4.01 and validated it.
15th August 2011 - Updated Jewellery to HTML 4.01 and validated it.
3rd August 2011 - Updated Shields to HTML 4.01 and validated it.
2nd August 2011 - Updated Weapons and cloaks to HTML 4.01 and validated it. Added First Age Legendary Weapons.
24th July 2011 - Updated Class items to HTML 4.01 and validated it. Added First Age non-weapon Legendaries and any missing class items.
31st May 2011 - Added rest of Loremaster pet appearances.
24th April 2011 - Added Anniversary Outfits and Store Outfits from Volume 3, Update 2.
20th April 2011 - Updated Heavy Armour to Volume 3, Update 2.
16th April 2011 - Updated Medium Armour to Volume 3, Update 2.
13th April 2011 - Added Spring Festival Outfits.
3rd April 2011 - Altered Light Armour, Purchased Armour and Armour Sets to HTML 4.01, and validated it at W3C. Started updating Medium Armour to Volume 3, Update 2.
28th March 2011 - Added new Armour Sets from Volume 3, Update 2.
25th March 2011 - Started conversion to using cascading style sheets. Updated Light Armour to Volume 3, Update 2.
21st March 2011 - Added missing Rifflers.
20th March 2011 - Moved Purchased Armour to it's own section.
15th March 2011 - Added some Rifflers, but still missing two I think.
23rd January 2011 - Added Task reward cloaks.
11th January 2011 - Added new dyes.
9th January 2011 - Added two pre-order cloaks and the Yule Festival dresses.
23rd December 2010 - Added most new Class items.
21st December 2010 - Added other LOTRO Store outfit items and Yule Festival Outfits.
14th December 2010 - Added new LOTRO Store Cloaks.
22nd November 2010 - Completed changes for Volume 3, Book 2, including Food updates, Captain Armaments and Standards, Skirmish Soldier outfits.
21st November 2010 - Lots of minor changes for Volume 3, Book 2 - Craft XP for Traps and Tricks, Materials for Steel, Westernesse and Dwarf-Craft weapons, Elven-Soldier and Elven-Knight Light and Heavy Shield appearance, Some Set Armour stat changes, Level guides for Burglar tricks, Cosmetic Forochel cloaks, Healing Potion changes.
20th November 2010 - Added new Set Armours.
9th November 2010 - Updated Two Handed Weapons and Bows to Volume 3, Book 2.
8th November 2010 - Updated One Handed weapons to Volume 3, Book 2.
8th August 2010 - Added preview of LOTRO Store Outfits from Beta.
5th July 2010 - Added Summer Festival Outfits.
27th June 2010 - Added Summoned Loremaster Pet appearances.
25th June 2010 - Title tags added, so mouseover tips work in Firefox as well as Internet Exlorer.
30th May 2010 - Added a few more cosmetic outfits.
20th May 2010 - Added various cosmetic outfits, including Lancer's Hauberk (Thanks, Eragio!)
14th May 2010 - Added Cosmetic Boots from Outfitters.
11th April 2010 - Added Mirkwood Shields (No idea why I didn't do this in December when I bought them!), Rift Skirmish Cosmetics and Spring Festival Outfits. Updated all other Crafting pages to Volume 3, Book 1.
7th April 2010 - Updated Trail Food to Volume 3, Book 1.
1st April 2010 - Updated Jewellery to Volume 3, Book 1. Reformatted Jewellery Pages.
8th March 2010 - Updated crafted Class items to Volume 3, Book 1.
19th February 2010 - Added Improved Black Dye Recipe.
18th February 2010 - Added Mirkwood Reputation Dresses.
13th February 2010 - Added Mirkwood Scholar Potions.
8th February 2010 - Added Skirmish Soldier Cosmetics.
7th January 2010 - Added Crafted Relics.
5th January 2010 - Added Skirmish and Yule Festival Outfits.
4th Janauary 2010 - Added Mirkwood crafted Light Armour.
1st January 2010 - Added Mirkwood and Ettenmoors Armour Sets, and updated existing Armour Sets.
30th December 2009 - Added Mirkwood crafted Medium Armour.
21st December 2009 - Added Mirkwood Two Handed Weapons and updated existing Two Handed Weapons to Book 9 17th December 2009 - Added Mirkwood One Handed Weapons.
14th December 2009 - Added Mirkwood Bows and updated existing crafted Bows to Book 9.
12th December 2009 - Added Mirkwood Jewellery and updated existing crafted One Handed Weapons and Runestones to Book 9.
10th December 2009 - Updated existing and new crafted Class items to Book 9.
7th December 2009 - Updated existing crafted Jewellery, General Consumables and Crafting Items to Book 9.
6th December 2009 - Added Mirkwood crafted Heavy Armour and updated existing crafted Cloaks to Book 9.
5th December 2009 - Updated existing crafted Light and Medium Armour to Book 9.
4th December 2009 - Updated existing crafted Shields to Book 9.
3rd December 2009 - Updated existing crafted Heavy Armour to Book 9.
22nd November 2009 - Added final Celebrant drop armour piece.
12th November 2009 - Added Lothlorien Potions.
13th October 2009 - Added Captain Herald images to Captain item page.
28th September 2009 - Added a few outfits.
24th August 2009 - Updated Crit Item Mob Drop lists to Book 8.
17th August 2009 - Added Lothlorien Jewellery and Food, and Reforged Second Age items.
13th August 2009 - Added Lothlorien crafted armour.
12th August 2009 - Updated Two handed weapon recipes to Book 8, and added Guild and Lothlorien recipes for them.
10th August 2009 - Updated One handed weapon recipes to Book 8, and added Guild and Lothlorien recipes for them.
8th August 2009 - Updated Bow recipes to Book 8, and added Guild and Lothlorien recipes for them.
20th July 2009 - Updated Tailor recipes to Book 8, and added Guild recipe for them.
17th July 2009 - Added Lothlorien Armour Sets.
8th July 2009 - Updated Metalsmith recipes to Book 8, and added Guild recipe for them. Added Turtle-shell Bracelet Recipe.
4th July 2009 - Updated Scholar recipes to Book 8, and added Guild recipes for them. Updated Pipe-weed and Ale recipes to Book 8.
3rd July 2009 - Updated Jeweller recipes to Book 8, and added Guild recipes for them. Updated Cook recipes to Book 8, and added Guild recipes for them. Added fine drinks.
7th June 2009 - Added Engraved Ruby Ring of Tactics.
24th May 2009 - Added Elegant Instruments and Outfits from Lothlorien.
17th May 2009 - Added Engraved Beryl Ring of Tactics.
1st May 2009 - Added Forge-crafted Warden's Shield (last missing pre-Book 7 recipe).
27th April 2009 - Reformatted Jewellery sections.
26th April 2009 - Reformatted Class Items and Crafting Items sections, and added all non-Weapon Legendary crafted items. Added the last missing Rune-keeper's Chisel recipe, and most Rings of Tactics. Reformatted Runestone page.
23rd April 2009 - Added a General Consumables section, and added all non class specific Consumables.
22nd April 2009 - Added Lothlorien reputation Cloaks.
20th April 2009 - Updated all other crafted items to Book 7. Added most new Burglar, Rune-keeper and Warden crafted class items. Added Lothlorien reputation Shields, White Dye and new Book 7 outfits.
4th April 2009 - Updated weapons to Book 7.
28th March 2009 - Added Tier 6 Two handed weapons.
27th March 2009 - Added Balanced Warden's Shield of the Elven-Knight.
2nd March 2009 - Added Tier 6 One handed weapons and Weaponsmith crit items and crit stats.
6th February 2009 - Updated Healing and Buffing Consumables, Supreme Tier Pipeweed.
3rd February 2009 - Added Rune-satchels and Woodworker crit items and crit stats.
2nd February 2009 - Added Rune-stones and updated Jewellry recipes as per Book 15, Patch 2. Added 3 Outfits from the Fashion Maven.
23rd January 2009 - Added Combination Crafting tools and most Balanced Warden Shields.
21st January 2009 - Added Metalsmith crit items and crit stats.
12th January 2009 - Added Jeweller crit items.
29th December 2008 - Added Tier 6 Mob Drops, Scholar crit items, Level 50/60 Champion Horns, Javelins and Tier 6 Bows.
26th December 2008 - Added Warden Moria Armour sets.
18th December 2008 - Added Tailor Tier 6 critical stats.
15th December 2008 - Added Shields as Shield display bug was fixed in Book 15, Patch 1. Added Supreme Tier single use Cloaks, and Khazad-Gold and Dawn-Rose Jewellery.
14th December 2008 - Updated Armour values for Heavy Armour Shoulder-Guards as per changes in Book 15, Patch 1.
10th December 2008 - Added Master's and Marchwarden's Armour, as well as Runekeeper Moria Sets.
5th December 2008 - Added Noble's Armour.
2nd December 2008 - Added Herald's and Officer's Armour.
29th November 2008 - Added Scout's and Treasure-hunter's Armour.
28th November 2008 - Updated Weapons, and Mob drop information (up to Master tier). Added Supreme Master Journals.
26th November 2008 - Updated Set Armour, Jewellery and Cloaks, added Searcher's Armour and Moria sets other than Warden/Runekeeper.
22nd November 2008 - Added Sentinel's Armour.
20th November 2008 - Updated Light Armour, most Class items to Book 15.
18th November 2008 - Updated Medium Armour, Heavy Armour, Shields and Tools to Book 15 (Shield images not updated as preview window is bugged).
16th November 2008 - Added Pipeweed with video clips and Ales.
12th November 2008 - Added Rivendell Scholar Reputation Potion and Lore Recipes.
24th October 2008 - Added Dyes.
3rd October 2008 - Added Purchased Light Armour, Lossoth Heavy Shield and Torahammas Cloak.
2nd October 2008 - Added Purchased Medium Armour.
29th September 2008 - Added Crafting Outfits, Purchased Heavy Armour and Fall Festival Masks.
28th September 2008 - Fixed a huge number of broken links after a 'transparent' server migration. Added Feedback Form and Darzil's Crafting Site Blog.
14th August 2008 - Added Journal recipes.
31st July - 9th August 2008 - Added the other Club recipes.
29th July 2008 - Updated to Book 14. Added Angmar Armour Set and some Club recipes.
26th July 2008 - Added List of Crafting Mob Drops.
14th July 2008 - Added Healing and Buffing Consumables and Crafting Items.
12th July 2008 - Added levels of items on menus to mouseover.
2nd July 2008 - Added Class items.
22nd June 2008 - Added Weaponry.
18th June 2008 - Added Elegant Short-Sleeved Dress Outfit.
27th May 2008 - Added Orod-na-Thon set.
9th May 2008 - Added Lossoth Armour, Fishing Outfits and Dwarf-make Circlet.
4th May 2008 - Updated to Book 13. Added 7 World Drop Armour Sets, and some First Anniversary Outfits.
22nd Apr 2008 - Added Jewellery pages. Corrected note on Light, Medium and Cloaks pages.
7th Apr 2008 - Restructed Sets page, added Light, Medium and Heavy pages. Replaced Rift Set pictures with better ones (blacker background).
5th Apr 2008 - Added Guardian Helegrod set.
17th Mar 2008 - Added Hunter Helegrod set and corrected recipe for Fine Hauberk Outfit.
14th Mar 2008 - Updated Dwarf Medium Armour pictures to Book 12 Patch 1, and added Loremaster Helegrod set.
13th Mar 2008 - Added Burglar Helegrod set.
12th Mar 2008 - Added remaining Spring Festival Outfits.
10th Mar 2008 - Added Corsair outfit and Minstrel Helegrod set.
9th Mar 2008 - Added Spring Festival Outfits and Captain Helegrod set.
4th Mar 2008 - Added Annuminas, Ettenmoors and Rift sets, as well as Champion Helegrod set.
17th Feb 2008 - Added purchased Outfits. Updated Cloaks to Book 12.
15th Feb 2008 - Updated Armour and Shields to Book 12.
31 Jan 2008 - Added this notes page and the crafting oddities page.
31 Jan 2008 - After a suggestion from Russano on the US LoTRO Forums that purple was hard to read on the black background, changed all purple text to violet.
30 Jan 2008 - Altered Ancient Armour images. I was previously under the impression that racial recipes of the same level had the same appearance. This isn't true for Ancient Armour.
14th Dec 2007 - Site goes live!

Possible Future Changes

Updating with each Book change (ongoing).
Adding Skirmish Reward Armour.

Credits

This guide was created by Darzil of Snowbourne, with help from Mjolnir Bladestorm of Elendilmir, Alash and Insomniel of Eldar, Eragio, Aegiborn and Dranwig of Laurelin, Talifer, Yrrab, Darkz, Kyoko, Apocalypse, Thehlyone, Ootoke, Argoel and many in Guardians of Annuminas of Snowbourne.

The important credit is of course to Turbine, for creating Lord of the Rings Online, and designing all this content, and Codemasters for hosting it for Snowbourne until June 2011.