LOTRO Spring Festival 2020 Guide – Events, Hedge-Maze, Mounts and Cosmetics!

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Borne Aloft in Spring-Time (18 Spring Leaves)

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The Bree-land Hedge Maze

This little beauty is great for people like me who get lost in real life! There are a few quests that take place in the Hedge Maze. However not all can be picked up at the same time. Repeatable Quests here are:

• Terrible Tweens (Grants a Spring Fetival Box): Catch 4 Tweens in the maze. They are running riot and must be caught! When another player catches one, you have to wait for the cheeky hobbit spawn to re-spawn. The box always has at least 2 Leaves in it.
• Misplaced Companions (2 Spring Leaves): Find some wandering Elves in the maze. These follow similar walking patterns so you can find them relatively easily.
• A Laugh at the Lost (2 Spring Leaves): place signposts in various locations to misdirect lost maze-wanderers.
• The Chicken Dash: (1 Spring Leaf) Retrieve 2 stray chickens from the maze, before they escape!
• A Fool’s Errand (1 Spring Leaf): once you unlock it, the 1 minute maze challenge is repeatable daily. To unlock it, you will first need to pass the 5-minute and 3-minute challenges.
• Disorientation (2 Spring Leaves): find and drink Dire Brews in the Maze!
  @SWForce4EU said in this tweet:

  See how many are in the maze before you accept Dire Beer quest. If there are a lot…wait until there aren’t!

The Chicken Dash

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A Fool’s Errand: 1-Minute Speed Run

Here’s my video of the route through the maze from start to finish:

Spring Festival Hedge Maze Maps

I thought I was going to have to draw this map myself but as usual lotro-wiki comes into its own and saves the day. There are two maps below, but the most recent one can be found here. It contains the most recent quests and their locations within the maze. It is on the small size so I may make a higher resolution one in the near future.

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The Green Challenge (Inn League)

If you’re a member of the Inn League, then Tob Sandyman outside the Hedge Maze has a quest for you. Though he appears too…erm, tipsy to know it!

This quest is straightforward, provided you know the route out of the Hedge Maze.

Find an “Inn League Artifact”

This is the Sinister Keg in the middle of the Maze.

Get Out of the Maze in 3 Minutes

Provided you have done a Fool’s Errand a few times, finding the exit is easy. Even drunk, and staggering!

Green Challenge Rewards

• Inn League Reputation: 700
• Legendary Item XP (If Applicable)
• Inn League Sinister Keg homestead decoration or2 × Spring Leaves

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Spring Fest Quests at Duillond

In the Festival Garden at Duillond, there are a few repeatable quests. So here they are outlined for you!

A Proper Festival -- 2 Spring Leaves

An Elf called Forlad is so offended by the Shrew-Stomping he nearly didn’t come. Instead of killing creatures of nature, he proposes that you pick flowers near Duillond then plant them in the Festival Gardens!

How The Shire Shoos Shrews -- 2 Spring Leaves

Bodo Burrows is convinced that the Hobbits have a better grasp of Shrew Control than the Elves. The Elf he sends you to speak to…doesn’t think much of Bodo! But she sends you off to the Shire to learn how to get rid of Shrews. Here are the Hobbit “Tips” you receive:

• Nibs Cotton: Nibs uses his cat to catch Shrews. At least if he can get the feline to wake up!
• Wald Sandson: Talk VERY LOUDLY about Winter being just around the corner!
• Gaffer Gamgee: Trap them or…chuck an apple at them! But aim at the head if an apple is your preferred weapon!

Boot Demand, Boot Supply (Daily) -- 2 Spring Leaves

Shrew-Stomping can only happen if people have enough boots! Santmereth, in the Duillon Festival Gardens sends you to help Deluraw with his supplies so he can make more boots. For this you’ll need

• 4 × Flax Plants
• 4 × Cherry-Wood Branches
• 4 × Elf-made Twine

Flax and Cherry-Wood Branches are found not far from the Festival Grounds. The Twine however can be picked up at Celondim Docks.

Stomp-a-Shrew at the Festival Gardens in Duillond

Enjoy a visit to the picturesque region of Ered Luin and enter the Festival Gardens (looks like a cave entrance). Here you can participate in Shrew Stomping (!) and also flower collecting for the festival gardens! This is a great piece of fun, although it is a popular event so you have some competition for your Shrew Stomping! (Click/Tap image to enlarge)

There are 3 difficulty levels with scaling rewards, along with a separate “Stomp Huge Shrew with a Huge Boot” thing. I’m pretty poor at this event so I won’t try to give you all advice!
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Other Spring Festival Activities Available

Other activities which I personally don’t do because some are timed (I’m not very good with timed quests!) are:

• Pie-Eating (Bree-land): though I am reliably informed this can also be available some in-game mornings all year around.
• Dancing: Bree-land and Duillond
• Large Shrew Stomping (Duillond): you have to use Huge Boots to stomp the Huge Shrew before other players! You then have a chance of winning the Large Shrew pet, rather than saving up Spring Leaves to get it.
• Bullroarer’s Brew (Brockenborings): two, non-repeatable quests given by Sigismond North-Took. Make a special clover-brew in honour of Bullroarer himself! (Quests: Bullroarer’s Brew, Paying Your Respects)
• Bullroarer’s Challenge (Brockenborings): aka Drunken Fence Walking! yeah, me and “sense of balance” don’t get along! The challenge is repeatable!
• Horse Races (Bree-land and the Shire): Make it around the race track before the time runs out. Avoid the mud and water!

All-in-all there are a lot of Festival Activities to earn those much-needed Spring Leaves! Pick and choose what you want to do!
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Flower Picking Like Crazy

In Bree-Town Central Square you can find Avery Crabapple. He starts a questline (which is rewarded with Spring Leaves). He sends you flower picking in Bree-land, Ered Luin and The Shire. These are special flowers for someone special. Once you get to the end of the questline, you can obtain a repeatable quest -- A Fistful of Flowers. In that quest you travel round picking flowers from Festival-activated flowerbeds. These flowers are barter items which you exchange with Gretlang Mugwart for items (and the Steed of the Jester) that can only be purchased using these barter flowers!

LOTRO-Wiki has a great walk-through and notes for where to find each kind of flower.

But you can run this daily during the Festival.

Update: you also have a chance of picking up a Tome of the Spotted Shrew from flower patches, so you can acquire these pets this way too!

Spring Lissuin War-Steed Cosmetics

You can barter the flowers from the repeatable A Fistful of Flowers with Gredlan Mugwort. here you can obtain the Spring Lissuin War-Steed Cosmetics. They are beautiful, so below you can see what I mean!

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Spring Festival Rewards

2020 Note: As always I aim to update the rewards on day 1 of the event. Until then you can see what was on offer last year!

There are a LOT of different things to pick up at this event and I can’t feature them all! From the usual cosmetic outfits and steeds, there are decoration, emotes, a cosmetic ‘weapon’ and pets. And that doesn’t cover everything! So here are some of the rewards you can pick up:

Mounts / Steeds

The steeds that are obtainable from the Barter Vendor during the 2020 Festival are: Elk of the Spring Wood and Travelling Goat of the Mountain Meadow). Click/Tap images below to enlarge. I have shown these from two angles to help you.

Elk of the Spring Wood -- 40 Leaves

Travelling Goat of the Mountain Meadow -- 30 Leaves

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Spring Fest Cosmetic Outfit Rewards

Here is a selection of the cosmetic outfit rewards available at Spring Fest.

2020’s Cosmetic Outfits

The theme for this year is The Spring Wood!

Braided Dress of the Spring Wood

18 Festival Tokens

Braided Tunic and Trousers of the Spring Wood

18 Festival Tokens

Mantle of the Spring Woods

18 Festival Tokens

Previous Year’s Cosmetic Rewards

Last year’s theme was The Mountain Meadow. Last year’s cosmetics cost 13 Tokens per Piece.

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Older Cosmetics

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Cosmetic Pets

The Spring Fest has loads of pets available! So here’s the run-down:

New Pets for 2020

Non-Shrew Creature Pets