It’s time to celebrate 16 Years of gaming in Middle-Earth at the LOTRO Anniversary 2023! Quests and events are being held across Middle-Earth with the main and Eriador Scavenger Hunt literally seeing people trekking across most map regions. So whether you’re after Anniversary 
, Steel 
, or Festivity Tokens 
, sit back, relax and enjoy.
When is the 2023 LOTRO Anniversary?
The 2023 Anniversary Event is from 20th April at 10am /ServerTime to the 11th May 2023 at 3am Server Time.
The last full day of the celebration is, for many, 10th May 2023.
I’m Just Here for the Rewards, Man!
Well, fair enough! Here are your shortcuts:
- Mount: New goat mount.
- Cosmetics: New Illumination cosmetics
- Pet: New goat pet
- Firework: New fireworks consumable
LOTRO Anniversary Guide – Quests & Wrappers
Why Do I Keep Getting Fireworks?
Every week the Anniversary Event is on, you’ll receive the quest The Anniversary Celebration Has Arrived!. As part of that you’ll get a box of fireworks. Keep one of each type for Farmers Faire.
Yes, you heard me right! If your character has not completed the Celebrating Sunshine Deed (for the title “Sunshine”), then use these free fireworks to complete it when Farmers Faire arrives.
Where Are LOTRO Anniversary Quests?
As the whole of Middle-Earth is celebrating the anniversary, you will find yourself in three main map regions!
- Bree Town Centre and Bree Race Courses
- The Shire: the Methel-Stage and the Shire Racing Track
- Thorin’s Hall Ale House (also called Thorin’s Hall Inn in some quests)
- Also, there is a daily inside this festival’s seasonal instance called A Flurry of Fireworks.
Traveling Between Zones
Hunters with travel guides and campsite skills rejoice! The rest of us can use:
- Return to Thorin’s Gate
- Return to Michel Delving, a Hobbit Race trait or purchased from the LOTRO store.
- Return to Bree, a Race of Man trait, or for other races, through reputation barter.
Or simply use Swift Travel to ride around everywhere. (Thankfully there are LOTRO Plugins that can help you with that!).
Tip: if you have any single-use maps from other LOTRO events, you can still use them during this one.
Another Lovely Year (Daily) and Quest Wrappers
Where’s the Daily ‘Wrapper’ Quest?
Before you pick up quests in Bree, you need to pick up the quest Another Lovely Year from Waldo Rumble at the Party Tree. You then can participate in 7 Anniversary Events and gain a bonus 3× Anniversary Tokens.
You can also earn 
Figments of Splendour by completing the various ‘wrapper quests’. These can also be picked up from Waldo Rumble.
Thanks to @knitonepurrtoo for this tip from last year:
…suggest that they log out by Waldric Rumble so the next day they don’t forget to pick it up.
Pro Tip:
Remember to turn in the daily when you complete it! Don’t “do an FJ” and forget just because the quest-giver is away from all the other Anniversary quests.
Wrapper Rewards
Another Lovely Year (Daily)
- 3 × Anniversary Tokens
Legendary Item XP (If Applicable)
A Yearly Yield (Intro)
Complete Another Lovely Year a total of 3 times.
- 400 × Figments of Splendour
1 × Scrap of Essence Reclamation Scroll
1 × Universal Optional Crafting Ingredient
1,000 Virtue XP
A Yearly Yield (Intermediate)
Complete Another Lovely Year a total of 6 times.
- 500 × Figments of Splendour
- 1 × Scrap of Essence Reclamation Scroll
- 1 × Universal Optional Crafting Ingredient
- 1,000 Virtue XP
A Yearly Yield (Final)
Complete Another Lovely Year a total of 9 times.
- Legendary Item XP (If Applicable)
- 600 × Figments of Splendour
- 1 × Scrap of Essence Reclamation Scroll
- 1 × Universal Optional Crafting Ingredient
- 1,000 Virtue XP
The Anniversary Adventure
This completes when you have finished A Yearly Yield (Final):
- Legendary Item XP (If Applicable)
- 500 × Figments of Splendour
- 1 × Scrap of Essence Reclamation Scroll
- 5 × Anniversary Tokens
- 1 × Universal Optional Crafting Ingredient
1 × Tracery Token (Incomparable)
Do Horse Races Count for the Daily?
Yes! Since 2021 the Horse Trials at Bree and in the Shire both count towards the daily.
See Horse Racing for more details.
How Do I Hit 7 Daily Quests?
I get asked this nearly every year, so I’ll finally write the answer! The full question is actually:
When the Gifts Quest Chain is on cool-down, how you complete the Daily 7-Quest wrapper?
Really, really easily! Here are a couple of approaches you can use:
Suggested Quick 7
The easiest time of day to start your wrapper is at Gloaming. You can track this on your minimap or via a LOTRO Plugin, such as TitanBar.
- Gloaming
- Evening
- Fireworks in Bree (Every ½hr at Night)
- Bree Horse Race
- Go to: Thorin’s Hall: 1 × Beer Brawling (every 9 minutes)
- Go to Michel Delving: The Shire Horse Race
- Go Back to Bree: Fireworks in Bree
If you have time left during Gloaming, go do the Horse Race then pop back to the Hill.
Also Remember: the new Seasonal Instance A Flurry of Fireworks has a daily quest called Sparkling Sparklers.
Suggested Daytime 7-Quests
Daytime is obviously achievable, but just needs more time and patience. Do remember it’s a festival and not a dungeon to grind, yes? Start during Foredawn.
- Foredawn:
Dawn Onwards
- 2. Sparking an Interest
- 3. Bree Horse Race
- 4 & 5: Thorin’s Hall: 2 × Beer Brawling
- 6. Shire Horse Race
- Possible 7th: Check the Methel-Stage to see if players are at the Shire Fireworks there. You could try recruiting some through chat too.
For the 7th Quest:
- Progress one of The Scavenger Hunt quests
- or The Mastermind’s Minion
- Alternatively, if you have more than one character, go do some of the quests with one or more of those then return to finish it off.
Due to the way a couple of the quests work you can do a “split method”, where you achieve your daily in two or three different sessions. This way is useful if you don’t have the time to invest in a Scavenger Hunt card, or find the beer brawling difficult. How you split it will depend on the time of day it is in-game. But as I just started my daily today, this is what I’m doing:
- Session 1:
- Lost Invitations
- Sparking an Interest
- Horse Race: Bree Festival Ground
- Horse Race: The Shire
- Sparkling Sparklers (the daily inside A Flurry of Fireworks)
- Session 2:
- Fireworks in Bree
- Wait until dawn, then repeat: Sparking an Interest or don’t wait and do a Beer Brawl.
If you start during the nighttime, you’ll likely swap Sparking an Interest for the Bree Fireworks.
This method also works well if you’re running the LOTRO Anniversary on multiple characters as it allows in-game time to pass without feeling like you’re waiting around. Simply do the same session on two different characters, then when the day/night cycle re-unlocks Sparking an Interest or Fireworks in Bree, you can rerun them.
- If, for some reason, you haven’t done the intro tour, then grab it from the Bree Fireworks field. It counts.
- Fireworks in the Shire, if there are enough enough people.
- Any Scavenger Hunt Card (Eriador or Main one)
- If you’ve done at least one Scavenger card for years 1-11, then The Mastermind’s Minion can be done one day. It counts towards your 7 quests, but isn’t repeatable.
- The actual storyline quests for the main or Eriador Scavenger Hunts appear to count also.
There is no shortage of things to do at this, or any festival in the LOTRO Events Calendar!
The Scavenger Hunt
The Scavenger Hunt also offers LOTRO Anniversary Tokens and counts towards your 7-quest daily.
The Scavenger Hunt is a series of quests available from The Party Tree. There is a story behind their mysterious appearance too, but the main draw is for you to visit various places in Middle-Earth in search of rewards. In fact, there are some pets and decorations you can only obtain via Scavenger (aside from Auction House).
- For Lower-Levels: there is an easier/lower-level version of this called the Eriador Scavenger Hunt. I managed to do something from years 1-11 last year so I hope my sort-of guide helps.
There is no need for me to detail the full Scavanger Hunt in this guide, as you can simply search LOTRO-Wiki for each year’s walk-through!
Earning Anniversary Tokens
Below is your guide to repeatable quests you can earn for tokens.
Fireworks in Bree
2 × , Repeatable Every ½hr At Nighttime
In the North-West of Bree at night time (from Evening until the end of Foredawn) you can participate in the fireworks show!
This quest involves listening to the Fireworks Announcer and following the instructions to send up the correct firework. Or to not send up an incorrect firework!
These can be worded “Time to send up a red firework” or “This is not the time for yellow, but any other colour will do”. So pay attention!
Fireworks in the Shire (Methel-Stage)
1 × , Repeatable Every ½hr
A really quick one this time – simply keep setting up fireworks for 3 minutes to keep those pesky local Hobbits from complaining to their neighbours! May as well do the Shire Horse Race while you’re in the area!
Weirdly this quest can be completed during day-time, unlike the Fireworks quest in Bree.
Important: the Quest text says you will need more than 1 or 2 people to impress the local Hobbits. So you’re best holding off accepting the Quest until a few people are at the Methel-Stage with you. Unless you want to disappoint a whole bunch of fickle Hobbits! You can decide!
Sparking an Interest
2 × , Repeatable Every 3hrs in the Daytime
Quest Giver: “A Young Took” (near Bree Fireworks) – From Dawn until end of Dusk.
Entrepreneurial Hobbits want you to go and find places in Bree to set off a random firework there. Their hope is that by doing so it will encourage the locals to attend the show at nighttime! I highly recommend showing floaty names (default: N Key) as these can be tricksy to spot.
They also despawn when a player puts a firework down, and they respawn later.
Where are the Ideal Locations?
If you’re not on a small device, hit the “Ideal Locations” tab above. Smaller device people should see the gallery below!
Fireworks Exploration (Non-Repeatable)
1 ×
A Few Tips
- All locations are technically accessible at any level BUT be Level 15+ to safely get up Weathertop.
- Tom Bombadil’s House is in the North of the Old Forest, so there may be some mobs around L18-20. Just be aware!
- The Fireworks in question can be purchased from the Fireworks Vendor in Bree for 6 Silver
each.
Quest Rewards
- × 1 Anniversary Token
Title: Firecracker
Master Blaster Title Deed
7 × , Once per Character
LOTRO Anniversary Tokens and the Master Blaster title once per character during the Event. The deed that grants the title only triggers once you set off fireworks purchased from a vendor. If you do Fireworks Exploration you will have received 6 separate deeds (if you didn’t start this last year, of course) – one for each colour of fireworks.How to Get the Master Blaster Title
To gain the Master Blaster title you need to set off 50 of each colour of firework.
If you’re relatively new to LOTRO and don’t have much 
Gold or Silver to your name, you could consider doing it during this years and next year’s events, to spread the cost.
- Red Fireworks: × 50 = 300 Silver
- Green Fireworks: × 50 = 300 Silver
- Blue Fireworks: × 50 = 300 Silver
- Orange Fireworks: × 50 = 300 Silver
- Yellow Fireworks: × 50 = 300 Silver
- Purple Fireworks: × 50 = 300 Silver
That makes the total cost: 1 Gold , 800 Silver . This used to be an issue for F2P-ers, when there was a low gold cap, but that was removed a long time ago now.
Quest Rewards
- Anniversary Tokens × 7 (One for each colour and one for the final Master Blaster Deed.)
- Master Blaster
Lost Invitations
2 ×
Clumsy folk have lost their invitations to LOTRO Anniversary festivities! So you need to run around Bree (seriously on-foot is easier than mounted for this one) to find the lost invitations.
For this quest, you are looking for Envelopes. Some are flying about in the breeze but many are located in fixed positions. Although you only need to find 6 lost invitations, not all envelopes contain invitations, so you’ll need to collect more than 6 (unless the dice are in your favour anyway).
Some example envelope locations are in the collapsed section below (or the next tab along on larger screens).
What Else You Can Find in Envelopes
- Reveller’s Gilded War-Steed Cosmetics
Unwanted Message: Sell to a vendor for coin- × 1 Anniversary Token
Toast Emote
How to Get the Toast Emote
One of the rewards you can get in the Envelopes is the Toast Emote.
It doesn’t drop very often, so make Lost Invitations one of your daily quests. If you want the emote, anyway!
Horse Racing
Bree and Shire Horse Tracks – 2 × Each, Once Per Day
Or, if you’re bad at the Horse Racing as I am, you can re-try every 5 minutes! Take the challenge and navigate the course. You have to avoid the boggy bits and get through each gate before the timer runs out!
- If you navigate the wooden walk-ways without falling in the bog you get a speed boost!
- If you fall in the bog you get a speed reduction (and I always fail the race if I fall in, though this is not necessarily true for others!)
The tracks can be found at Bree Festival Grounds and South-East of Michel Delving in the Shire.
Note: the Horse Trials do now count towards your 7-Quest target Another Lovely Year daily.
Beer Brawling
Thorin’s Hall Ale House, 1-3 × Repeatable Every 9 minutes
- Basic Level (1 × ): successfully whack 8 players. If you’re knocked out the arena you don’t fail the round, but you do get a ‘fall limp debuff’.
- Intermediate Level (2 × ): successfully whack 8 players. If you’re knocked out the arena you fail the round and have to wait for restart.
- Expert Level (3 × ): successfully whack 8 players and stay inside the arena. Plus you must retrieve a Glorious Beer before the round ends.
A few times I was whacked out the arena at the start of the round! On the other hand I accidentally selected Expert once and won it! So there are a lot of tokens you can earn in an hour here, but other players may stand in your way!
Do excuse the old avatar screenshots! I don’t play this very often anymore as it tenses my shoulders so it triggers some of my Fibromyalgia symptoms.
How Many Tokens Can I Get?
You can earn 18 × /hour so long as you don’t fail a round (Good Luck!).
Anniversary Gifts Quest Chain
7 × , Resets Monday/Thursday at 3am /servertime
Throughout the three Anniversary regions are people sending gifts to each other! Although you can pick up the Gifts Quest Chain at any stage, there is a logical route you can take while you deliver the gifts:
- Bree to Combe: A Delicate Bracelet – Quest Giver: Roger Hazeltwig (Bree Centre)
- Combe (to Combe!): Delicious Pastries
- Combe to Michel Delving: Wooden Carving
- Michel Delving to Hobbiton: A New Hammer
- Hobbiton to Frérin’s Court: A Dwarf Shield
- Frérin’s Court to Thorin’s Hall Ale House: A Lucky Goat’s Horn
- Thorin’s Hall Ale House to Bree: A Pint of Ale
If You Just Want the Daily
If you just want to do the Gift-Giving quest line to achieve the daily, I suggest starting from #5. This way you can pick up the daily at the Party Tree and by the time you return to Hobbiton for A New Hammer, you’ve hit seven quests. Then you just have to nip up the road to turn in the daily wrapper.
Note: apparently, occasionally you could encounter a bug at the Thorin’s Hall Inn stage of these quests. That bug could stop you from continuing the chain into Bree. I’ve never had it happen to me, but others have. So, be aware of that possibility when running it.
A Flurry of Fireworks
This is a Seasonal/Festival Instance introduced last year. In it, you’re helping Gandalf with his (in)famous fireworks. I managed to put a guide together for it, so here you go. It opens in a new window/tab so you don’t lose your place here.
Click/tap the image above to load the guide.
How Many LOTRO Anniversary Tokens Can You Earn?
On a calculation of the above, if you just did one or two Beer Brawls, you can earn 25-30 × LOTRO Anniversary Tokens in the first 2 hours you play the Event!
Beer Brawling is the quickest way to earn tokens – but a LOTRO Festival is not just about earning fast tokens. Experience the celebrations – relax and enjoy!
Newest LOTRO Anniversary Rewards
Here you will find the newest rewards for only this year. For everything else please see my Anniversary Celebration Rewards Guide.
Mounts
This Year’s Mount
Last Year’s Mount
War-Steed Cosmetics
This year, obviously, there are no war-steed cosmetics given we do not have “War Goats” in LOTRO!
You can get last year’s mount’s cosmetics for your war horse, though. The whole set costs: 125 × .
Alternatively, now you can get the whole set for 70×
. For all previous mounts, this was 70/item.
Previous Mounts/War-Steeds
To browse all the mounts from this event, see my LOTRO Anniversary Mounts Guide and Anniversary War-Steed Cosmetics.
Outfit Cosmetics
As ever, there are many outfits available for Anniversary Tokens. The last two sets are below, but you can find even more on my Anniversary Cosmetics page.
And don’t forget there are even more outfits available for Steel Tokens, too!
Enjoy
This Year’s Cosmetics
Last Year’s Cosmetics
Cosmetic Pets
Here are the non-combat pets you can get from this event – as there was the goat pet in 2023, I’ve kept the three from last year in. You can see all of the other on the Anniversary tab of my Pets from Festivals and Events page.
This Year’s Pet
Last Year’s Pets
Held Item
Last year, the Anniversary Blue Sparkler made its debut. This costs 20 × Festivity Tokens.
Housing Decorations
Don’t ask me! Instead, go give Déco du Milieu some love and enjoy their dedicated Anniversary Decorations page!
Consumables
The following fireworks-based consumables can be acquired for Steel Tokens .
You can open the video full screen after hitting the “play” button on each video.
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Also, thank you to JZ on Facebook for pointing out we can now get the reusable Mighty Ram Fireworks for ×40.
This works the same way as the Eagle Firework, so you need to keep it in your inventory/bags to (re)use it.
These are not videos. As gamers with imaginations, I assume you can figure out what a small flickering fire looks like!
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Also, the following items are available for Creeps (PvMP, thanks again @jewahe):
- Flaming Pinwheel Fireworks
- Enemy Tears Pinwheel Fireworks
Previous Rewards
To make the main guide more sane, I have moved some sections to their own dedicated pages. Check out:
- Anniversary Celebration Rewards: all current and past rewards available for tokens.
- LOTRO Anniversary Mounts: both for Anniversary Tokens and Mithril Coins
- Cosmetics: See my Anniversary Cosmetics catalogue.
TL;DR Enjoy the 16th LOTRO Anniversary Event!
There is a lot going on even if you can’t, or don’t want to, do the Scavenger Hunts. You can obtain all the rewards as a solo and/or low-level player. So enjoy beating up other players, setting off fireworks and celebrating the 2023 LOTRO Anniversary with the community!. While you can’t expect the rewards to be on the scale of a big one like last year, the list of new things is still huge. get out there and enjoy the event!
