LOTRO Spring Festival Guide 2012

Spring Festival is running this year from May 24 – June 11, 2012 . This guide is here to help you find all the events available.

The currency of this festival is the Spring Leaf. Collecting these can help you buy the goodies listed in the rewards section below. The quests are mostly broken up into five major regions in Middle Earth. These are where you will find the festival vendors as well as other festival activities.

• Bree Festival Grounds (24.7S, 51.6W Breeland)
• Thorin’s Hall (13.48S, 103.2W Thorin’s Gate) – in the underground Tavern
• Duillond (24.6S, 93.1W Ered Luin)
• Shire Party Tree (29.85S, 71.48W Shire)

What is not included in this guide The festivals of Middle Earth include certain quests that appear with each and every festival. Please see our guide on these General Festival Quests for help with those events. This would include the

• Dance Quests
• Horse Race
• Inn League quests
• Ale Association quests

What is different from last year?

• The flower collection quests are back from 2010’s events with a twist allowing you to pick up gift boxes once a day similar to the Anniversary envelope quest. New horse to win too!
• New horse at Hengstacer Farm
• New cosmetics
• Secret Admirer mailings appear to be gone – all the gifts appear to be in the new flower collection boxes.

Deeds

• Spring Sprung! Complete the 5 repeatable quests at the Bree-land Hedge Maze (doesn’t include the quests Terrible Tweens or Disorientation) Title: Amazling
• Spring is Dandy This is a check list of 9 quests you must complete. It is all the shrew stomping (minus this years new quests), the 2 horse races, 3 from the hedge maze and Bullroarer’s Advanced Challenge in the Shire. Title: Spring Dandy
• Shrewed Gardener Defeat 160 shrews in the stomp a shrew event Title: The Shrewed
• Taming of the Shrews Defeat 400 shrews at the stomp a shrew event. This is opened after completing “Shrewed Gardener” Title: Tamer of the Shrews
• Fortune Cookies These deeds are completed by collecting fortunes from the Extra Deliciously Tasty Biscuit consumables bought at the festival vendors. The fortunes are tradable so you do not need to collect all of them yourself to complete the deed. There are a total of 50 fortunes to be found.
• Festival Fortunes: Oddly Familiar (Fortunes 1-10) Title: Same Old Song
• Festival Fortunes: A Storyteller’s Snippets (Fortunes 11-20) Title: The Peculiar
• Festival Fortunes: Fateful Foretellings (Fortunes 21-30) Title: Writing on the Wall
• Festival Fortunes: Excellent Advice (Fortunes 31-40) Title: The Enlightened
• Festival Fortunes: An Adventurer’s Song (Fortunes 41-50) Title: The Poetical
• Cartogrophile – Eriador 4 maps available in the Spring Festival towards this deed. See more details about this deed here.
• Consume Consumables: D.R.A.G.O.N.
  Use consumable 300 times and you will be able to use this affect as a permanent skill (no consumable required)
• Consume Consumables: Doom-Shroom
  Use consumable 300 times and you will be able to use this affect as a permanent skill (no consumable required)

Quests

Flower Quests

Starter quest arrives in the mail called “When the Rare Flowers Bloom” and instructs you to go speak with Avery Crabapple in Bree near the boar fountain. If you have never done them before there is a chain before you get to the repeatable “A Fist Full of Flowers” quest.

This event works similar to the anniversary festival in that there is a daily consumable item you have to pick up to do the quest. For this festival, you pick up a ticket from Gredlan Mugwort standing next to Avery in Bree and then turn to talk to Avery to pick up the repeatable flower quest. A ticket is only required for this repeatable quest; not the pre-requisite quests.

Love is Like a Flower

Quest Giver: Avery Crabapple (in Bree-town by the Boar Fountain)
Quest Level: 6+
Rewards: 90 copper
Repeat: No
Collect one Marigold, Violet and Primrose. Marigolds are found primarily outside Michel Delving. Violets are outside Breetown near the stone circle. Primroses are outside Celondim in Ered Luin.

A-courting Bree Will Go

Quest Giver: Avery Crabapple (in Bree-town by the Boar Fountain)
Quest Level: 10+
Rewards: 42 copper
Repeat: No
Talk to Barliman Butterbur and place a bouquet of flowers at a house in Bree-town (30.1S, 52.1W)

A Fern By Any Other Name….

Quest Giver: Avery Crabapple (in Bree-town by the Boar Fountain)
Quest Level: 6+
Rewards: 42 copper
Repeat: No
Collect the bouquet you left at the wrong door and ask Fern Coppersmith (30.2S 52.0W)  for the correct address. Collect the sweets from the alley behind Avery and give them to him.

A Fist Full of Flowers

Quest Giver: Avery Crabapple (in Bree-town by the Boar Fountain)
Quest Level: 10+
Rewards: Gift Box
Repeat: Daily
Collect as many flowers from “Patch of Flowers” as you can in 1 hour. Turn them into Gredlan Mugwort in Bree-town (30.3S, 51.2W) near Avery for a red, blue or green gift box.

• Marigolds are found primarily outside Michel Delving in the Shire.
• Violets are outside Breetown near the stone circle.
• Primroses are outside Celondim in Ered Luin.

Note that to receive a gift box, you need 6 of each type of flower. Keep that in mind before you have the grand idea of only picking flowers in one location.

Your quest tracker will show you the area to search for the flowers and the areas are quite large. All flowers have a chance of being picked up from a patch of flowers but the locations listed above is the primary locale to pick them in larger quantities. The good news is the flowers count as tokens and go in your barter wallet rather than your inventory (this may be because I purchased the premium wallet).

If you want to continue to repeat this quest without waiting until the next day, you’ll have to buy another Ticket from the store (for 100 TP). It works a bit similarly to buying more picks during the Treasure-Hunt or Badges from the anniversary festival. You’re just buying a chance to pick up more flowers for gift boxes.

PRO TIP:
The delete key is default mapped to target items near you. The easiest way to find flowers is to run around tapping your delete key and waiting for a Patch of Flowers to be targeted.

For added assistance locating the flowers you have targeted, go to your options > combat options and turn on Directional Selection Indicator. This will place a small dotted line at your feet that points to the location of your target.

The boxes will largely contain fun items such as dyes, wall paint, tart recipes or cosmetics. One thing Ketani did notice is that blue dyes and paints were coming from blue boxes, pinks and reds from red boxes, etc. It may be coincidence but it seems to be a theme. This thread on the forums has folks reporting the items they’ve collected from the gift boxes.

The big prize from the flower gift boxes is a new steed, Steed of the Jester! This is a 68% speed 250 morale steed that jingles as you ride it. It has been reported as dropping for each color of gift box so it is just a random gift box reward.

Bree-land Hedge Maze

The hedge maze is east of the Bree Festival Grounds just past the horse race track.

Great map of the Festival Hedge Maze is available over at The Brasse. It should be a big help in completing the quests although it does not have the two quests that were added in 2011 shown. Don’t worry, the quests are simple enough to not have to find a specific spot on the map. Just seeing the layout will help.

The maze allows the use of speed buffs! For those not a hunter a speed boost could be obtained in several different fashions including but not limited to:  Harbringer’s Cloak from Mirkwood Adventurer’s Pack, crafted jewelry that grants speed buff such as the Fine Agate Necklace of Quickness , VIPs can purchase boosts with destiny points and there are the run speed boosts in the LOTRO Store.

The quests do not require a speed boost to finish them so don’t feel like you need one. I was able to do them all on my regular speed minstrel.

Misplaced Companions

Quest Giver: Saelthalel (24.75S, 50.87W)
Quest Level: 1+
Rewards: 1 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Daily
Six of Saelthalel’s friends are lost in the hedgemaze and she wants you to find them!

A Laugh at the Lost

Quest Giver: Gísi
Quest Level: 1+
Rewards: 1 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Daily
This trickster dwarf wants you to hang up fake directions signs to keep the people in the maze lost a bit longer.

The Chicken Dash

Quest Giver: Buttercup North-took (24.78S, 50.88W)
Quest Level: 1+
Rewards: 1 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Daily
There are loose chickens inside the maze that Buttercup wants you to catch before they escape. This quest is only available approximately every 45 minutes. A broadcast about chickens being loose is sent to the entire Bree-land area. That is the signal that this quest is available.

The Cloven Track

Quest Giver: Gil Plover (24.79S, 50.85W)
Quest Level: 1+
Rewards: 1 Spring Leaf
Repeat: No
You are challenged to make it through the maze in under 15 minutes.

A Speedy Errand

Quest Giver: Gil Plover (24.79S, 50.85W)
Quest Level: 1+
Rewards: 1 Spring Leaf
Repeat: No
Same objective as above to get through the maze in under 10 minutes.

A Fool’s Errand

Quest Giver: Gil Plover (24.79S, 50.85W)
Quest Level: 1+
Rewards: 1 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Daily
Same objective as above to get through the maze in under 3 minutes. This one becomes your repeatable daily quest.

The Green Challenge

Quest Giver: Tob Sandyman (24.80S, 50.86W)
Quest Level: 1+
Rewards: +700 with the Inn League
Selectable Rewards: Spring Leaf (x2), Inn League Sinister Keg
Repeat: Daily
This quest giver will only speak with you if you are a member of the Inn League! This one can get tricky because after finding the artifact requested you are slowed and are given 3 minutes to find the exit before ported away (as the Sinister Keg is known to do). This still puts a speed debuff on as part of it’s quest and will remove any speed increase you add such as hunter speed buffs. I did test this with my Harbringer’s Clock and after turning it in the Harbringer’s Cloak buff did return so it didn’t waste using your speed run items.

Terrible Tweens

Quest Giver: Emma Greenbush (24.8S, 50.8W)
Quest Level: 10+
Rewards: 2 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Daily
Tweens are younger hobbits (normal hobbit size NPCs) running about shouting and generally disrupting normal maze activities. They tend to spawn in a dead end of the maze and run to another dead end where they de-spawn. Rings will appear on the mini-map for their location. There are many of them and you only need to catch 4. There is no timer. Just grab one as you find it.

Disorientation

Quest Giver: Birdie Thornthicket (24.8S, 50.8W)
Quest Level: 10+
Rewards: 2 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Daily
You have 10 minutes to find and drink 6 dire brews that are scattered across the maze. These are simple mugs of beer that spawn at random points in the maze. Almost like an easter egg hunt. There’s a twist though. Dire brews are strong and will cause you to pass out and wake up in a random portion of the maze.

Duillond Stomp-A-Shrew

Entrance to the shrew stomping ground is behind the gazebo where the dance lessons happen inside a cave (24.7S, 93.2W).

Inside you’ll find an arena type area where probably there are a bunch of people running around frantically if a game is going on. There are several levels of the shrew game you can play, each one just a bit more difficult than the last. You can chose one pesky shrew type (leisurely, practiced or challenge) and the enormous shrew quest before the round begins. Each round last 3 minutes with 5 minutes between games.

Stomp-a-shrew for the Leisurely Gardner

Quest Giver: Maengamiel (Leisurely Gardner)
Quest Level: 10+
Reward:  1 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Can participate in each game session.
Drive away pesky shrews (10). There is no need to kill all 10 of the shrews in one round. You can take it easy and stomp a few here and there and finish in however many turns it takes.

Stomp-a-shrew for the Practiced Gardner

Quest Giver: Brangloth (Practiced Gardner)
Quest Level: 10+
Reward: 2 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Can participate in each game session.
Drive away pesky shrews (10). Must complete this task within one round.

The Stomp-a-Shrew Challenge

Quest Giver: Logethuil (Elite Gardner)
Quest Level: 10+
Reward: 5 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Can participate in each game session.
Drive away pesky shrews (10), Plant  seedlings in the soil (5) Must complete these tasks within one round.

Stomp-a-shrew — An enormous shrew

Quest Giver: Dinedhrin (Infuriated Gardner)
Quest Level:10+
Reward: 5 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Can participate in each game session.
Use the Enormous Boots to stop the Enormous Shrew (Only one of these spawn per round, so only one player can accomplish this per round.) 

After accepting your quest, you need to go pick up your Boots of Quite-Imaginable Power from nearby crates. You must pick up the quest/boots each time. You do not have to put them on your feet but you will need to put them in your action bar so you can use them. When the game starts you must target and stomp nearby shrews for credit . For the challenge you will also need to plant the seedlings while stomping shrews to oblivion.

A Shortage of Boots

Quest Giver: Santmereth (Worried Gardener)
Quest Level: 10+
Reward: 2 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Daily
First run of this quest you’ll need to visit Deluraw in Duillon (near the ovens) to get 3 sub-quests to collect flax plants, twine from the Celodim docks and cherry wood branches. On the repeat of this quest, there are no sub-quests, you just go out and collect the same 3 items.

How the Shire Shoos Shrews

Quest Giver: Bodo Burrows (Know-it-all)
Quest Level: 10+
Reward: 2 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Daily
This quest leads you back to the farms of the Shire to get advice from expert Shire farmers on the best way to remove pesky shrews. Visit Cotton Farm, Sandson’s Farm and Samwise’s old Gaffer on Backshot Row. Be sure to read the text from the Hobbits

A Proper Festival

Quest Giver: Forlad (Annoyed Gardener)
Quest Level: 10+
Reward: 2 Spring Leaf
Repeat: Daily
Forlad is annoyed that all there seems to be to this festival is stomping shrews and requests you go collect followers for the stomping ground flower pots. The flowers can be found outside the shrew stomping area near Duillond. Once collected, return to the shrew stomping grounds to place them in the flower pots.

The Shire Bullroarer Celebrations

Most of the Shire quests are one time only quests. Meaning if you did it last year, you won’t get the quest again this year. Only repeatable open is the Bullroarer fence running challenge.

A Hobbit Among the Hedges

Quest Giver: Sorrel North-Took (29.84S, 71.55W)
Quest Level: 1+
Rewards: None
Repeat: No
This quest is simply to move you towards Bree for the Hedge maze. You will not get this quest if you’ve already been to Bree and done these quests.

A Celebration at the Greenfields

Quest Giver: Sorrel North-Took (29.84S, 71.55W)
Quest Level: 1+
Rewards: 1 Spring Leaf, 42 copper
Repeat: No
Quest has you go visit Sigismond North-Took in Brokenborings

Bullroarer’s Brew

Quest Giver: Sigismond North-took (27.23S, 67.71W)
Quest Level: 6+
Rewards: 90 copper
Repeat: No

You are asked to go pick the needed clover so more Bullroarer’s Brew can be made for the celebration. Head north into the Greenfields and look for glowy patches of clover on the ground. Creatures around this area are level 11-13 so fairly safe for most.

Paying Your Respects

Quest Giver: Sigismond North-took (27.23S, 67.71W)
Quest Level: 6+
Rewards: 90 copper
Repeat: No

You are sent to the deliver the clover to the Golden Perch in Stock. You take it to Gunderic Grubb(31.98S 63.79W) and instructed to return to Brockenborings to place a tankard of ale near Bullroarer’s statue (just return to Sigismond). After placing your brew and talking to Sigismond again you’re instructed to go visit Tobias Brockhouse (27.24S, 67.25W) east of Brockenborings. He’s standing on a little stage.

Bullroarer’s Challenge

Quest Giver: Tobias Brockhouse (27.24S, 67.25W)
Quest Level: 6+
Rewards: 90 copper, 5 pints of Bullroarers Brew
Selectable Rewards: Wooden Keg, Bullroarer’s Tankard, Clover Patch, Greenfields Hat, Bullroarer’s Brew (x5)
Repeat: Daily

Behind the stage where Tobias stands you’ll notice a thin fencing. You are instructed to toast to Bandobras’s Health with the mugs near by and then walk the length of the fence without falling off. Don’t sweat it if you fall off as you can try again in about 20 seconds. You receive your rewards from back at Sigismond (not Tobias).

Also if you’re curious as to what the Greenfields Hat looks like, Sigismond is wearing one. The clover patch looks exactly like the patches you picked up off the ground. I went with the tankard myself! There is also the “Bullroarer’s Challenge – Advanced” quest which is the same except you must cross the fence in under 20 seconds! The rewards for this version are a choice of Inn League Kegor Bullroarer’s Brew (x10).

Thorin’s Hall

While still a big hub of Ale Association quests, I found nothing specific to Spring Festival here other than the dance quest.

Festival Mounts

This event operates the same way as all other festival horse races. If you are new to the festival horse races you can read our General Festival Guide for the run down on this event.

The race quest rewards one of the following: 1 spring race token -or-  3 spring tokens. It is repeatable daily for both the Bree and Shire locations.

2012 Simbelmyne Steed 62% speed 200 morale Cost: 2 Spring Race Tokens 1 document of mount ownership 40 Spring Leaves	2011 Springtime Steed 62% speed 100 morale Cost: 1 Spring Race Tokens 1 document of mount ownership 20 Spring Leaves
2010 Blue Roan Steed STORE EXCLUSIVE	2009 Springfest Steed STORE EXCLUSIVE

Rewards

Consumables

Extra Delicious Tasty Biscuits 3 Spring Leaves These give out fortunes. See the deeds section above for the fortune deeds from these fortune cookies.	Springfest Brew Mugs x5 3 Spring Leaves
Doom Shrooms x5 3 Spring Leaves	D.R.A.G.O.N. x5 3 Spring Leaves
Piles of Mysterious Powder x5 2 Spring Leaves Used to craft fireworks (recipes are obtained in the Anniversary Festival)	Sack of Petals 20 Spring Leaves

Decorations

Rather than reposting all the images and descriptions of the decorations I’ll point you to these resources:

• Spring Festival Housing Decoration Guide. – Updated with new housing items!
• You can listen to the Spring Festival Theme in our Ambiant Music Guide.
• 4 Maps linked to the Cartographile – Eriador deed are available in the Spring Festival.

Cosmetics

Photos of the items can be seen larger by clicking on them.

Long-Sleeved Spring-Flinger Hauberk 13 Spring Leaves	Short-Sleeved Spring-Flinger Hauberk 13 Spring Leaves	Spring Adventurer’s Quiver 13 Spring Leaves
Spring-Flinger Hat 13 Spring Leaves	Spring-Flinger Cloak 13 Spring Leaves	Spring-Flinger Hooded Cloak 13 Spring Leaves
Spring Dandy Cloak 13 Spring Leaves	Spring Dandy Hooded Cloak 13 Spring Leaves	White Rose Circlet 15 Spring Leaves
Slapper Fish 15 Spring Leaves	Wide Brimmed Spring Hat 15 Spring Leaves	Simbelmyne Circlet 15 Spring Leaves
Simbelmyne Cloak 18 Spring Leaves	Simbelmyne Tunic & Trousers 18 Spring Leaves	Simbelmyne Dress 18 Spring Leaves

Miscellaneous

Farmer Recipes

• Potted Bluebottle Recipe 5 Spring Leaves
• Potted Lily of the Valley Recipe 5 Spring Leaves
• Potted Iris Recipe 5 Spring Leaves

Emote

• Cold Fish (grants /fishslap emote) 15 Spring Leaves