Yule Festival is running this year from December 17, 2012 – January 1, 2013. This guide is here to help you find all the events available.

The quests are mostly broken up into five major regions in Middle Earth.

• 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)
• Winter-home (special stable master in the 4 major cities)

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 New This Year:

• Currency used in the festival has changed.
  • No longer are there Yule Festival Tokens and Frostbluff Coins. All currency has been converted to Festival Tokens. These tokens will work similar to the previous currency and will not expire after the festival has closed.
  • New currency “Golden Festival Tokens” are now earned through completing tiers of new festival deeds. The deed is called “The More the Merrier” and each tier completed grants Golden Tokens. These deeds will reset each year and Golden Tokens do not expire at the end of the festival. Golden Tokens are also available for purchase from the Festival Barter Vendors in exchange for Festival Tokens.
• New Barter Vendors: Jeffry Bloomer has some normal (older) festival items available and Andy Brown (Golden Festival Token with newer items) are now located in Frostbluff right near the front gate. Not all items require the new Golden Festival Token but the big ticket items such as steeds, war-steed appearances and some special cosmetics require both Festival Tokens and Golden Festival Tokens.  Dawson Berwick is also new standing outside by the Festival Stable-Master and sells just horse related items (same exact items Andy Brown also sells).
• Race Token and Documents of Mount Ownership no longer required to obtain the new festival steed. The horse races will still be available and grant Festival Tokens. The steed is purchased from the new Golden Festival Token barter vendor.
• Daily quests in Winter-home can be reset using Festival Tickets (sold in the LOTRO Store). Simply visit the quest NPC, click on the quest and you will be offered the option to reset the quest so you may do it again. There is no NPC handing out Festival Tickets so the only way to earn one this festival is to buy them!
• A auto-bestow quest introduces you to the Yule Festival and will port you directly to Frostbluff.
• A new daily gift giver will give you a sack of presents with an assortment of items after participating in the Yule Festival. Mara Sandydowns “Gift Giver” can be found at the entrance to Winter-Home (near the Town Crier).
• Festival quests grant experience.

Deeds

• The More the Merrier:
  • Tier 1: Complete 20 quests in Winter-home – 2 Golden Festival Tokens
  • Tier 2: Complete 60 quests in Winter-home – 2 Golden Festival Tokens
  • Tier 3: Complete 120 quests in Winter-home – 2 Golden Festival Tokens & new Yule Festival Frame (this is the frame that goes around your character’s portrait)
• Honored Yule Friend:
  Complete 30 quests in Winter-Home for the Yule Festival – 2 Festival Token
• A Monstrous Feast:
  complete all the quests in the eating contest 8 times for the title “Feast-Beast”
• Raining Snowballs:
  win the snowball fight 8 times on easy and 3 times on hard for the title “Snow-beast”
• Several title deeds for being in the play – See the Frostbluff Theater section below for details.
• Such Generosity:
  complete the quest “A Charitable Spirit” 10 times to receive the title “The Openhanded” and 50 Festival Token.
• Frostbluff Flower Petals:
  Throw flowers at actors. Several tiers to this one.
  • Tier 1 throw 5 times – 4 Festival Token, 5 TP, 10 bags flower petals
  • Tier 2 throw 10 times – 4 Festival Token, grants title “Petal Pusher”, 5 TP
  • Tier 3 throw 25 times – 8 Festival Token and a non-consumable “Flower Petals” with a 1m cool down timer, 5 TP
• Frostbluff Rotten Fruit:
  Throw rotten fruit at actors. Same tier structure as the flower petals. Tier 2 grants title “Fruit Hucker”. Tier 3 gives 8 Festival Token (previous tiers give 4) and a non-consumable “Rotten Fruit” with a 1m cool down timer. All three tiers give 5 tp each
  • Tier 1 throw 5 times – 4 Festival Token, 5 TP, 10 pieces rotten fruit
  • Tier 2 throw 10 times – 4 Festival Token, grants title “Fruit Hucker”, 5 TP
  • Tier 3 throw 25 times – 8 Festival Token and a non-consumable “Rotten Fruit” with a 1m cool down timer, 5 TP
• A Cool Reception:
  Build all 5 types of snowmen and earn the title “Gather of Cool Company” and broken snowman decoration
• Consume Consumables: Frosty Beverages
  Use consumable 300 times and you will be able to use this effect as a permanent skill (no consumable required)
• Consume Consumables: Grim Crystals
  Use consumable 300 times and you will be able to use this effect as a permanent skill (no consumable required)
• Consume Consumables: Piles of Fluffy Snow
  Use consumable 300 times and you will be able to use this effect as a permanent skill (no consumable required)
• Consume Consumables: Snow-Jars
  Use consumable 300 times and you will be able to use this effect as a permanent skill (no consumable required)
• Consume Consumables: Perfect Snowballs
  Use consumable 300 times and you will be able to use this effect as a permanent skill (no consumable required)

Winter-home

Winter-home is the main event for the Yule Festival. It is in a completely separate zone that is accessed by special festival stable-masters in one of the four major cities of Bree, Michel Delving, Celondim, or Thorin’s Hall. The festival stable-master stands directly next to the city’s normal stable-master.

ONLY the quests in Winter-home count towards the “The More the Merrier” deeds. There are quests in the normal landscape but they will not advance the deed.

Starting the Winter-home Quests

An auto-bestow quest will be granted to your character when the festival is active. It will even allow you a quick port to Winter-home so you can begin without the muss and fuss of visiting the festival stable masters.

Yule Festival is Here!

Quest Giver: Auto-bestow Quest System
Level: 1+
Rewards: 3 Festival Token

This quest is granted as a auto-bestow quest when you login. This quest rewards 3 Festival Tokens and it will automatically port you to Frostbluff when you finish it.

The Yule Celebration of Winter-Home

Quest Giver: Albert Yule 
Level: 10+ 
Rewards: 2 Festival Token

• Speak with the mayor of town about the festivites. (12.1N, 95.3W)
• Speak with Carolyn Goodnough (next to mayor)
• Speak with Cecil Voller at Snowball Field (13.1N, 95.0W)
• Speak with Mabel Mitford back near the Mayor (12.2N, 95.3W)
• Speak with Guard Kember near gate (11.9N, 95.2W)
• Speak with Hobbit outside G.L.O.B.E. theater (12.1N, 95.5W)
• Speak with Ona Kay (12.0N 95.3W)
• Speak with Gareth Rust (12.0N, 95.7W)
• Speak with Daley Utteridge (12.0N, 95.6W)
• Return to Mayor

Yes Means Snow

Quest Giver: Carolyn Goodnough 
Level: 10+ 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-Home

Carolyn talks about Virgil who is building snowmen and encourages you to check it out and help. No tokens or coins for this one (although I think I got like 90 copper) but all this quest is doing is directing you to Virgil. I attempted to run straight to Virgil on an alt and he won’t talk to you until you do this quest.

Winter-home Daily Repeatable Quests

New in 2012 is the ability to unlock daily quests to do them again if desired. Cost to reset a daily quest is 1 Festival Ticket which are purchased for 100 Turbine Points.

NOTE THESE ARE USING TICKETS NOT TOKENS. Tickets cannot be obtained through in-game methods during this festival and can only be found in the LOTRO Store. I’m only warning you because I was reading them as tokens at first and wasn’t making the connection they were different.

To reset, simply go to the quest NPC, click on the quest and you will be offered the option to unlock. One ticket unlocks one quest repeatable! Reset quests can advance your deed count for “The More the Merrier”.

Yule Festival (Daily)

Quest Giver:  Auto-bestow Quest Ssytem
Level: 1+
Rewards: 1 Festival Token and Sack of Presents

This is a new quest this year that is auto-bestowed daily. Mara Sandydowns, a new NPC near the front gate (right next to Guard Kember) hands out presents for participation in the festival.

Complete one quest in Winter-home and she will give you a “Sack of Presents” which will have an assortment of item or items. This is a random draw type prize. You can get festival tokens, marks, unique cosmetics, the hobby horse, etc.

I’d keep an eye on the cosmetic blogs out there as I’m certain they’re going to report any unique cosmetics faster than I am! Feel free to add your findings in the comments below.

Wintry Yule Cap

Hobby Horse

Stuffing the Stuffed

Quest Giver: Mabel Mitford 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: 4 Festival Token 
Repeatable: Daily 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-Home

• Collect Fresh winterberries – near cabin 12.7N, 93.4W
• collect eggs from pampered chickens – Cluckland 13.3N, 94.6W
• collect pampered mushrooms – in greenhouse 11.8N, 94.3W
• make fresh bread at the servants oven – 12.4N, 95.6W

Unwilling Firewood

Quest Giver: Mabel Mitford 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: 4 Festival Token 
Repeatable: Daily 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-Home

Collect 9 pieces of firewood from the best trees. The major doesn’t seem to know the “best trees” are actually wood trolls. Drops off “Grouchy Trees” in The Grumpwood (13.6N, 93.9W). Level 10 walking troll creatures.

The new auto-looting works brilliantly here allowing you to easily go in slaughter 9 and run off without having to stop and pick up all the wood. Open tapping is not so useful as most players will probably be able to one shot kill these guys.

Empty Keg Emergency

Quest Giver: Basil Wyndham (12.2N, 95.3W) 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: 4 Festival Token 
Repeatable: Daily 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-Home

Pick up a keg from the servants area near the oven. You must deliver the keg to the Thirsty Patron (12.3N, 95.4W) without being seen by a watcher.

The Biggest Stomach of Them All

Quest Giver: Ona Kay 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: Festival Token at each table 
Repeatable: Yes 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-Home

This is a food eating race that you participate in. There are tables of food and you must eat 5 things, check in with the announcer and run to the next station. There are 5 stations in total. Completing the first table will advance “The More the Merrier” deed so you do not have to complete all the tables for the quest to count for that.

There are a couple tricks to completing this race!

The first trick to beating the timer on this is to avoid eating the bread and pies. They take longer to consume and weigh you down. Stick to the mushrooms, berries and eggs.

Eating Contest Debuffs:

• Berries: -1% run speed (4m)
• Mushrooms: -3% run speed (4m)
• Eggs: -5% run speed (4m)
• Pie: -10% run speed (4m)
• Bread: -15% run speed (4m)
• Mystery Drink: Removes all debuffs OR -60% run speed (20s)

The second trick to share is that you DO NOT have to start when Ona says go. If the table is particularly packed with participants trying to gobble up the same food at once it’s likely someone will fail just for food not spawning fast enough or only pie is left. Here’s the pro-tip: the first table has no timer. You don’t even have to be in the area when Ona says go. Collect the quest, keep having fun in Winter-home and run back in a minute or two when the tables will be clear for your solo run.

Eating Contest Rewards:

• 1st table: no coins
• 2nd table: 2 Festival Token
• 3rd table: 3 Festival Token
• 4th table: 4 Festival Token
• 5th table: 4 Festival Token
• Full run = 13 Festival Token

With 2012 you can no longer repeat this quest after you have won unless you purchase a Festival Ticket to reset the quests.

Tidying Up

Quest Giver: Basil Wyndham 
Level: 10+ 
Reward 4 Festival Token 
Repeatable: Daily 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-Home

• Pick up dirty dishes
• clean up reeking garbage
• clean up liquid spills

There are many locations throughout the town that have tables full of messes.  No timers or limitations, just walk around and clean up the tables.

Tables that are dirty are the same ones used for the eating competition quest “The Biggest Stomach of Them All”

Making Mischief

Quest Giver: Gareth Rust 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: 4 Festival Token 
Repeatable: Daily 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-Home

You are to distract patrons of the festival with fireworks and then pick-pocket 8 of them while they stare at the fireworks display. The fireworks is located at the stairs overlooking the festival square (12.2N, 95.4W)

After setting them off patrons will have rings over their heads for you to click on them. Do not worry about the watcher or any of the patrons catching on to your deeds. Simply click them all as quickly as you can as they will eventually wander off when the show is over.

A Charitable Spirit

Quest Giver: Daley Utteridge 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: none 
Repeatable: Daily 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-Home

Daley asks you to donate a total of 5 Festival Token to various people in town. One token to each person. This quest is not available if you have accepted “Moving them Off” quest but you can pick up this quest after completing “Moving them Off” if you wish.

• Barret Nowell 11.9N, 95.3W
• Ted Ives 12.0N, 95.5W
• Regina Judson 12.1N, 95.6W
• Jack Judson 12.2N, 95.5W
• Bill Hyde 12.3N, 95.5W

There is no reward for this (in fact you’re giving away tokens) except for that of the good feeling inside that you’ve helped some poor folk down on their luck. However, this quest will count towards the “Honored Yule Friend” and “More the Merrier” deeds.

There is a hidden deed associated with this quest. Completing it 10 times will grant you the title “The Openhanded” as well as 50 Festival Token.

Moving Them Off

Quest Giver: Guard Kember 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: 4 Festival Token 
Repeatable: Daily 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-Home

You are to chase off the same 5 beggars from “A Charitable Spirit” quest above. Sort of the opposite feel good feeling but this one rewards some Festival Token.

You cannot have this and “Charitable Spirit” quests at the same time but you can complete them both.

Cold as Ice

Quest Giver: Daley Utteridge 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: 4 Festival Token 
Repeatable: Daily 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-home

The frost grims in the area are making life difficult for the less fortunate who have been forced to move outside of the city walls. You are asked to drive the grims off.

The grims are on the frozen lake on the east side of the map (12.7N, 93.7W). They are level 10 beasts and should not be an issue for most adventurers to kill, however they have a unique debuff called Whiteout that essentially bleaches out your screen when near them and reduces your run speed by –25%.

All you need to kill is 4 of them to complete the quest.

The Abominable Snow-Beasts

Quest Giver: Guard Kember 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: 4 Festival Token 
Repeatable: Daily 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-home

You are charged to go drive off the snowbeasts in the area for the safety of the winter-home festivities.

The snowbeasts can be found in the lightly wooded area in the southeast corner of the map (12.2N, 93.6W).

The snowbeasts dislike noise and cheer and you shoo them off by using the /cheer emote at three of them while having them targeted. This can even be done on horseback if desired. The snowbeasts do not attack so do not fear having to fight them.

Filling the Field

Quest Giver: Virgil Greenfield (12.6N, 95.2W) 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: 4 Festival Token 
Repeatable: Daily 
Pre-requisite: Yes Means Snow

Virgil asks for help building snowmen. He has 5 snowmen templates and you choose which of the 5 you wish to build.

• Coal is found up at the servant’s oven in Winter-home.
• Acorns are found on the ground under the trees near the snowman field.
• Sticks are gathered from bushes near the snowman field
• Carrots are located at the chicken farm
• All other items are scattered inside winter-home

Pro-tip for helping find these items:

1. Go to settings > UI settings and turn on “Selection Indicator” (if not already on) and make sure “Show Selection Indicator in Combat Only” is not selected.
2. Go to settings > Combat options and turn on “Directional Selection Indicator”
3. Tap the delete key (default setting to target usable objects near you). The two settings above will point you in the direction of the object you found and put a big arrow over it.

Building all five grants a deed (see the deed section). The quickest way to get your tokens and be finished is to simply build the broken snowman.

Final Quests: Help the Poor or the Rich

When you complete 30 quests in Winter-Home, you complete the deed ‘’Honoured Yule-friend’’ that gives you 2 Festival Token. It also unlocks the final quests of Winter-Home.

The final quests of Winter-Home are given by the NPC Albert Yule. He asks you to choose between helping the poor or the rich citizens of Frostbluff.

Choosing one quest makes you ineligible to complete the other one (although you can come back and do it on an alt). You get to preview of both cosmetic items they give. Choosing one side will lead you along a short quest line before you finally get your hands on the cosmetics.

These quests are a one time deal, they are not dailies!

This quest will not open again if you completed it in past years as is was tied to completing a deed.

Self-Sacrifice: Support the Poor

Quest Giver: Albert Yule 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: cosmetics, 5 Yule Tokens & Title “The Blameless” 
Repeatable: No 
Pre-requisite: Complete Honoured-Yule Friend deed.

Completing this quest will grant you a full beggar’s outfit of shabby clothing. You have a choice of a tunic or a robe for the chest piece.

Note: there is a hidden quest that triggers 40 days after completion of this quest that will grant you the Frostbluff Robe and Frostbluff Dress of Thanks. Only supporting the poor will get you these items. They are bound but can easily be tossed into shared wardrobe to be worn by other alts.

Gain and Glory: Support the Rich

Quest Giver: Albert Yule 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: cosmetics, 5 Yule Tokens & Title “Miser” 
Repeatable: No 
Pre-requisite: Complete Honoured-Yule Friend deed.

Completing this quest will grant you a full set of extravagant clothing. You have a choice of a robe or tunic for the chest piece.

The Frostbluff Theater

The Frostbluff Theater

Quest Giver: Hobbit (12.2N 95.5W) 
Level: 10+ 
Reward: 4 Festival Token 
Repeatable: Daily 
Pre-requisite: Yule Celebration of Winter-Home 
Attend a performance of the Frostbluff Theater.

The Frostbluff Theater has two parts to it: The audience member and the actors. As soon as 3 players are in the theatre, a representation of the play can start. If there are more than 3 players in the theatre, 3 random players are selected among the audience to become actors in the presentation.

Because of the 3 person limit, I do advise you to do this early in the festival season or be prepared to beg some kinnies to do it with you. Events like these are typically wildly popular at the start and then peeter out when people have done them several times. By the end of the festival it may be difficult to start a performance because of the 3 person minimum.

You can be in the audience and possibly selected as an actor as many times as you wish as there is no limit to the number of performances you watch.

Being in the Audience

Being active while in the audience is optional, but you will complete deeds for throwing flowers or rotten fruits to the actors (see deed listing above).

To do so, you must purchase flowers or rotten fruits at the hobbit vendors inside Frostbluff theatre sold for 4 copper pieces each at the theatre titled ‘’concessions’’. When an actor performs a relevant emote, you get a warning to throw flowers. When he performs an emote that doesn’t make sense with the play, you get to throw rotten fruit. Successful actors emoting are highlighted with white flashing arrows. Bad actors in red arrows.

It is helpful to pay attention to what part each is actor is playing (they have an icon over their head, and a buff you can see if you select them) and be prepared for their upcoming part so you can be ready to toss rotten fruit or flowers at them as needed. I put my flowers and fruit in quickslots for easy access. You only have 10 seconds afte
r they have emoted (or failed to) in which you can “reward” their performance.

Being an Actor

When you get selected to be an actor, you are teleported backstage where you have about 2 minutes to know your role. You will hear the person presenting the play on the stage calling your name and the role you were cast in.

There are 3 roles in the play: the villain, the protagonist and extra. You can also know which part of the play you are cast in by looking at the icon over your head.

You can talk to the NPCs backstage to get information about the kind of emote would be appropriate to do on stage. There will be an NPC to talk to for your specific role. They will not tell you exactly what emotes to use but will guide you to the type you need.

If you are not familiar with the emotes available in LOTRO you can type /emotelist in game or see the emotes listed on the lorebook. Note that some of the emotes in the list may be hidden deeds or store exclusives that are not available to you.

You are then teleported to the stage, where the action begins. There are NPCs on stage that are telling the story and are there to help you play your part.

You must listen (read!) to what the narrator and the actor in your role has to say to get further tips on what kind of emote will be appropriate to do. You will get a warning when the time has come to perform your emote.

To perform an emote for the play, you MUST target the audience (just click on the public) otherwise it won’t count.

You can throw fruits and flowers to other actors as an actor so feel free to do so and work on those deeds while on stage!

As the story goes on, every actor will have 3 emotes to perform. The order in which emotes are performed by the Actors in the play:

• Extra
• Villain
• Protagonist
• Extra
• Villain
• Protagonist
• Extra
• Protagonist
• Villain

After the end of the play, you are teleported back into the audience.

Titles

• Completing the event you will win a title for the role you played (Protagonist, Villain or Extra).
• If you successfully performed two emotes you will earn the “Star of the Show” title.
• Perform two emotes poorly and you are granted the title “Laughing-Stock”.
• Perform as all three roles to earn the “Thespian” title.

These same titles are also available to buy with Festival Token from the vendors in the theater if you are not lucky enough to be selected to act.

Also don’t miss the subtle Muppet easter egg to be found in the theater. Some familiar critics can be found in their standard heckling spot.

Snowball Fight

Not far away from the main city of Winter-home is a snowman filled field set aside for a game of snowball fights!

Snow piles will be usable while event is active. Use them to gather Perfect Snowballs. Piles can randomly give 1-3 snowballs. Snowballs will disappear from your inventory after the event is over and the snowballs from the festival vendors will not count on the snowball field.

There are two quests available labeled easy and hard. There is a deed for completing both quests. (See deeds section above).

Easy
Gather snowballs and hit 10 players in the snow arena. What makes this easy is you don’t have to do it all at once. You can finish this in several rounds if need be. 
Reward 2 Festival Token.

Hard 
Gather snowballs and hit 15 players within one round of a snowball fight. 
Reward 4 Festival Token

Pro-tips:

• Ctrl+Tab will select the nearest player
• Add the snowballs to your quick slot bar for easy access
• You do not have to stand still to throw snowballs
• Quests are available 3 minutes after last event ended.  1 minute warning given before the next event starts. Event completes a cycle approximately every 9 minutes.

There is an effect added when hit by snowballs that will slow you down. The effect stacks as you are hit and increases the severity of the slowdown. The highest I was able to get it to stack was up to tier 5 but the debuff only lasted 6 seconds.

With 2012 you can no longer repeat this quest after you have won unless you purchase a Festival Ticket to reset the quests.

Breeland Quests

More Boar for Bree

Quest Giver: Sally
Blackwort (24.7S, 51.5W) 
Quest Level: 1+ 
Rewards: 2 Festival Token
Repeat: Daily

The Festival Cook is asking you to find the missing dried boar meat that was stolen by the wolves. You must go to the “Snarling Hollow” (24.1S, 54.7W) west of the Festival Grounds and you will find the slabs of meat around there. It’s a small area and you only need to find five. It isn’t difficult.

The only part that may be a tad difficult is even though this is listed as a level 1 quest, the wolves in this area are level 18 and 19. If it appears dangerous for your level, be sure to bring a friend.

An Ailing Tradition of Ale

Quest Giver: Wim Wheatsheaf (24.6S, 51.5W) 
Quest Level: 1+ 
Rewards: 2 Festival Token
Repeat: Daily

The cart delivering the festival ale was attacked by brigands and the Festival Brew-Master wants you to go and recover what is left of them. You will find an ale-cask by the lake just past Thornely’s Work Site at 27.0S, 54.1W. There were no brigands to be found. Just a broken cart and a cask. This can be easily accomplished by any level without any difficulties.

Thorin’s Hall Quests

Snow for a White Yule

Quest GIver: Gloi (In Undeground Tavern) 
Quest Level: 1+ 
Rewards: 2 Festival Token
Repeat: Daily

This odd dwarf is planning on piling snow in a cart and bring it to Bree. He asks you help him gather snow. There’s snow everywhere but apparently he only wants ones I find in small piles.

Head out of Thorin’s gate and start looking around 15.5S, 104.0W and you’ll find snow piles you can gather. The monsters I saw around are level 5 or lower. Only the level 5 I spotted was aggressive.

Dwarf-Ice

Quest Giver: Imi (in Underground Tavern) 
Quest Level: 1+ 
Rewards: 2 Festival Token
Repeat Timer: 15 hours

This cook is looking to make some desert but needs some more ice and berries. Head out of Thorin’s Gate and to 14.4S, 103.9W. There is a frozen pond and waterfall. One of the pieces of the frozen waterfall is able to be gathered. The berries he is looking for is in the center of the pond on a little snow covered island. There were no monsters around this area making this a very quick and easy quest to complete.

Duillond Quests

Wreathed in Fir

Quest Giver: Anglalaith (24.6S, 93.0W) 
Quest Level: 1+ 
Rewards: 2 Festival Token
Repeat: Daily

This Festival Patron is putting together a evergreen wreath but has ran out of branches and asks that you collect some more for him. They aren’t far just a little west of Duillond and I ran into some Fir Branches. Start looking around 24.0S, 94.3W and you’ll see them glowing. There are some boars in the area at around level 9 but that’s pretty easy to dispatch or you could probably even avoid them if you fear they will attack you.

The Season of Merry-Making

Quest Giver: Saervereth (24.6S, 93.1W) 
Quest Level: 1+ 
Rewards: 2 Festival Token
Repeat: Daily

This Festival Patron is in need of some mistletoe and asks you to go gather some for her. Head towardsThrasi’s Lodge and you’ll see some trees glowing on the side of the road. Look around 21.8S, 93.8W. The trees contain the mistletoe you are looking for.

This area of forest is a little more populated, primarily with bears around level 11 and 12.

Shire Quests

Ribbons and Bows

Quest Giver: Daisy Boffin (29.9S, 71.6W) 
Quest Level: 1+ 
Rewards: 2 Festival Token
Repeat: Daily

The Party Planner has underestimated the amount of ribbon needed for the festival and needs you to travel to Overhill to find the boxes of ribbon and gather red and blue berries so she can dye the ribbon.

Travel north on the road to Overhill and you will find the boxes along the road at around 28.9S, 70.6W. A little off the road in the wooded area you will find the red and blue flowers growing. The most fearsome thing I encountered in the wood was a level 10 boar and a level 11 bear so take note of that if you are doing this on a newer character.

Good Cheer and Warm Cider

Quest Giver: Samfast Longburrow (29.9S, 71.
5W) 
Quest Level: 1+ 
Rewards: 2 Festival Token
Repeat: Daily

The festival Brew-Master is looking to make some cider but has ran out of apples from Appledore’s Orchard. This is very quick and easy. Head directly west of Samfast and you’ll be in Appledore’s orchard where there are apples on the ground for you to pick up. There are no monsters save a random shrew or two in the area so it’s easily and quickly completed by anyone.

Yuletide Woes Quest Chain

Quest Givers: Hal Hornblower, Bogo Chubb, Daddy Twofoot, Holly Hornblower, Postman Grubb,Opal Goodbody, Gaffer Gamgee, Shirriff Robin Smallburrow, Hereward Loamsdown
Quest Level: 1+ 
Rewards: Yule-Tree

There are many Hobbits in Hobbiton that can give you this quest (listed above). Lobelia Sackville-Baggins has been named the Yule-Planner for Hobbiton and you’re asked to inquire amongst the local Hobbits how this happened. You can inquire with some hobbits but you are pointed to talk to Ted Sandyman and search his mill. You will find and invitation at the mill which you are to take to Mayor Will Whitfoot in Michel Delving.

The mayor claims there is nothing he can do about this but to search for the Book of Festival-law for more options which is kept in the Great Smials library in Tuckburough and return it to him.

The book states Yule-Planner can be changed with a petition with 10 signatures and you are sent to Hobbiton to gather signatures. All of the original potential quest givers will agree to sign your petition. Ted Sandyman will refuse to sign. That is 9 signatures but go to Lobelia and Marigold Gamgee will arrive to sign the 10th signature.

Afterwards go speak with Gaffer Gamgee for your very own Yule-Tree to place in your home’s front yard. This quest is not repeatable and can only be done once per character total. If you did this quest in past years, you will not be able to do it again.

Yule Festival Mounts

The quest and method to obtain the festival mounts is the same as other festivals. See General Festival Quests for information on that quest. However, I wanted to share pictures of the mounts available so you can decide if you need them!

Rewards

The rewards available are fun and very festive. I am afraid I will have to collect them all! All are purchased using the Festival Token you’ve been collecting.

Gift Boxes

Gift boxes are purchased from festival vendors. There are special race (hobbit, elf, etc) gift boxes hand out a wide array of cosmetics, goodies and housing items.

The supreme legendary gift box only gives coal (which I’ve heard some crafters stock up on as it is cheap coal).

• Bree-Land Gift Box – 10 tokens
• Hobbit Gift Box  – 10 tokens
• Elf Gift Box – 10 tokens
• Dwarf Gift Box  – 10 tokens
• ‘Supreme Legendary Gift’ Boxes – 1 token

Consumables

See the deeds section above for deeds related to these consumables!

• Frosty Beverages – 5 tokens for 5 drinks 
  When consumed you will have a shot of snow around your character.
• Snow-Jars – 5 tokens for 5 jars 
  This causes a snow storm to rain in your general area and people will actually faint or be forced prone on the ground due to the snow.
• Grim Crystals – 5 tokens for 5 crystals 
  This summons a very brief swirl of snow cloud which a frost grim will rise from and then disappear. People in the area are forced to cower at the sight.
• Piles of Fluffy Snow – 5 tokens for 5 piles 
  Puts a snow tornado around a person and causes them to dust themselves off.
• 5 Rotten Fruit: 5 Token (these will not work inside the theater)
• 5 Bag of Flower Petals: 5 Token (these will not work inside the theater)
• 5 Perfect Snowballs: 5 Token (these will not work in the snowball fight)

Titles

Titles are available from the barter vendors for 10 Festival Tokens Each. They all can be earned from the theater quest if selected to perform in the play.

• Title Writ – Thespian
• Title Writ – Star of the Show
• Title Writ – Protagonist
• Title Writ – Villain
• Title Writ – Extra
• Title Writ – Laughing-Stock

Housing Items

Kiarane has collected all the items, the details on how to get them and pictures of what they look like in her Yule Festival Furniture and Decoration Guide. Many housing items are picked up by luck of the draw in the race gift boxes like the snow-globes.

Maps

There are 4 maps to collect available from the barter vendors for 15 tokens each. All four of these maps are part of the 21 required for the Eriador Cartographer Deed.

• Map of Thorin’s Gate
• Map of Forochel
• Map of Frostbluff
• Map of the Southern Barrow-downs

Cosmetics

Images can be clicked on to see slightly larger views. There are also the special cosmetic items that cannot be purchased with tokens from the final quests. See Winter-home quests above for more details.

See Cosmetic LOTRO’s post for color options available for the new items.