Post Sections
- When is Spring Festival 2021?
- What’s New for 2021?
- Where Are Spring Festival Quests? Where are the Wrappers?
- A Taste of Spring
- Bustling Bloom
- Splendour of Spring
- Spring is Dandy Deed
- Bree-land Festival Quests
- Spring Fest Quests at Duillond
- Other Spring Festival Activities Available
- Flower Picking Like Crazy
- Bees Big Business – Seasonal Instance
- Spring Festival Rewards
- Where are the Festival Vendors?
- Mounts / Steeds
- Spring Fest Cosmetic Outfit Rewards
- Cosmetic Outfits
- Bullroarer’s Challenge Cosmetic
- Festivity Tokens Cosmetics
- Musical Instruments
- Cosmetic Pets
- Decorations
- Dyes
- /fishslap Emote (13 Spring Leaves)
- Cooking Recipes
- Consumables
- Essence and Legendary Item, erm, Items
- Amazeling Title
When is Spring Festival 2021?
The 2021 Spring Festival will take place from 18th March (10am /servertime) to the 7th April (3am /servertime)
This means, for many of us, the last full day of the event is the 6th April 2021.
What’s New for 2021?
Updates Done
- Steed of the Forest Spring added!
- Merry Fellow Cosmetics added.
- Spring Maid Dresses now have pictures.
- Festivity Token Rewards
- Honey Goat
- Festivity Token Cosmetics are all in now!
- Write-up all about the fab new Seasonal Instance, Bees Big Business!
- 21st March: Cooking Recipes and Consumables have been added to the Rewards section.
Per the March Producer’s Letter and Update 29 notes, there is a new Seasonal Instance. I have now added all non-deco Festivity Token rewards. I will add info on the Seasonal Instance once I have run it a few times.
Where Are Spring Festival Quests? Where are the Wrappers?
There are two ‘main’ hubs of festival event: Bree-land Festival Grounds and Duillond in Ered Luin. The main one in The Shire is the Bullroarer’s Challenge – aka Drunken-Fence-Walking! At Thorin’s Hall, you can find the Inn League/Ale Association NPCs.
How to Pick Up The “A Taste of Spring” Daily
If you want information about the Spring Festival Wrappers, you can find them in the hidden section below.
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A Taste of Spring
Rewards:
- Legendary Item XP (if Applicable)
- Spring Leaves: 3
Bustling Bloom
A Bustling Bloom
Rewards:
- Legendary Item XP (if Applicable)
- Figments of Splendour: 400
- Scrap of Essence Reclamation Scroll
- Universal Optional Crafting Ingredient × 1
- Virtue XP: 1,000
Splendour of Spring
Splendor Of Spring
The first stage requires you to just complete A Bustling Bloom once.
Rewards:
- Legendary Item XP (if Applicable)
- Figments of Splendour: 500
- Scrap of Essence Reclamation Scroll
- Spring Leaves: 5
- Universal Optional Crafting Ingredient × 1
Spring is Dandy Deed
- Bree-land Festival Run (Horse Track)
- The Shire Festival Run (Horse Track)
- Bullroarer’s Challenge (Advanced) – 21 Second Timer
- A Fool’s Errand
- Hedge Maze: A Laugh At the Lost
- Hedge Maze: Misplaced Companions
- Stomp-a-Shrew for the Leisurely Gardener
- Stomp-a-Shrew for the Practised Gardener
- The Stomp-a-Shrew Challenge
Bree-land Festival Quests
In Bree-land, you can find Festival Quests in the Festival Grounds, the Hedge Maze and near the Boar Fountain in Bree-town.
Pretty-Parched Party-Goers (2 Spring Leaves)
Quest Rewards:
- Spring Leaves: 2
- Virtue XP: 50
- Legendary Item XP (If Applicable)
Borne Aloft in Springtime
Reward: 18 ×
Borne Aloft in Spring-Time does not take long to run, but give yourself time to enjoy the story!
Cooldown is over 2 months so view this as a once-yearly questline.
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The Bree-land Hedge Maze
- 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
This Hedge Maze quest deserved a little more, to help you maximise the chance of finding those two chickens!
- The “Event Broadcast” which says The chickens are running through the Hedge Maze begins a 15 minute timer. This seems to occur at the top of each hour.
- To know what time that happened, turn on Enable Timestamps on Chat option.
- You may need 5+ minutes if the Maze is busy with players. So if the 15 minutes is nearly up, you would be better waiting until the next reset.
- Use the F10 Key which will find the nearest NPC. This may select a Wandering Elf, or Terrible Tween, but may still help you locate a chicken!
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.
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!
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
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
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)
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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: The Party Tree (The Shire), Bree-land Festival Grounds, Thorin’s Hall In and Duillond. These run every 20 minutes and, if I remember right, there are two different dances to earn per location.
- 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
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!
Bees Big Business – Seasonal Instance
What is a Seasonal Instance?
If you’re new to these, Seasonal Instances are scalable quests available during the event via Instance Finder. You can run these Solo, or in groups and can choose to run it at the minimul level if you want to. Seasonal Instances grant Festivity Tokens as well as Spring Leaves. Festivity Tokens have their own rewards to barter for, as an encouragement to run the new instance.
Bees Big Business
The giant bees need to do their pollinating work! You are their protector so they can do their precious honey-making job. But there are “so many goats” that threaten the bees and the flowers. Fend them off, make sure one of the flowers on the final fight survive and get the bees safely back to Grimbeorn.
Daily ( 6)
Make sure all the bees return safely and well fed to Grimbeorn, for an extra reward. Beornings need, and love, honey. Protect them as though your life depended on it. Or make a Beorning mad, your choice!
Beautiful Bouquet ( 6)
Collect 20 Lossarnach Flowers to decorate the Beorninghus. You can do this before you start escorting the bees, or when they stop at each checkpoint through the instance. Enjoy wandering the woods, pick the flowers, get 6 Spring Leaves. Win, win, win in my book.
Tip: Use your keybind for “Select Nearest Item” (default: Delete) to help you find them. And show floating names (Default: N) to make them more visible.
Lossarnach’s Pesky Critters
So long as you run the instance no more than 8 Levels below your own, clearing the “Pesky Critter” encounters will trigger the deed. Each time you run it 2 Critters will spawn. Clear all 6 and you earn 6 Spring Leaves and the Honey-Lover title!
Total Rewards
If you complete both the Daily and Beautiful Bouquet, the total rewards are:
- 12 × Spring Leaves
- 5 × Festivity Tokens
Plus the extra 6 × as a one-off per character for completing the deed.
Spring Festival Rewards
Where are the Festival Vendors?
Thanks to those that requested I add this information to the guide, so here you go.
Bree
Both vendors are at the Bree Festival Grounds
Leaves Vendor:
Sergeant Tom, 24.6S, 51.6W
Verbena Greenhand, 24.6S, 51.5W
Duillond
Leaves Vendor: Merellos, 24.6S, 93.1W
The Shire
You’ll find this vendor at The Party Tree.
Leaves Vendor: Sarabeth Gardner, 29.9S, 71.6W
Thorin’s Hall
Head to the Thorin’s Hall Inn.
Leaves Vendor: Hálgur
rom the usual cosmetic outfits and steeds, there are decoration, emotes, a cosmetic ‘weapon’ and pets. I have now collated all the cosmetics available at this event, to help you “window shop”. 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 Festival are: Steed of the Forest Spring and Elk of the Spring Wood. Click/Tap images below to enlarge. I have shown these from two angles to help you.
Steed of the Forest Spring – 40 Leaves
Elk of the Spring Wood – 30 Leaves
Festivity Token Mount
2021 saw a new Seasonal Instance added to the Festival. Naturally, there are now a bunch of new rewards for Festivity Tokens. This year, the mount is the Honey Goat and costs 25 Festivity Tokens.
Mithril Coin Mounts
Older mounts may be purchased for MC. See my Mithril Coins Mounts page to “window shop” before you buy!
Spring Fest Cosmetic Outfit Rewards
Here is a selection of the cosmetic outfit rewards available at Spring Fest.
Cosmetic Outfits
This year’s theme is Merry Fellows and Spring Maids. Not “Forest Spring” as you might now expect!
In the interests of speedy updates, the screenshots are all with my female human character. Once the first previews are up, I will add/switch some for different genders and/or races!
Short-sleeved Dress of the Spring Maid (15 × )
I’ve shown this dress from 3 perspectives so you can see the detail. The only difference between this one and the other Spring Maid dresses is the length of the sleeves – or lack of them!
Sleeveless Dress of the Spring Maid
Long-Sleeved Dress of the Spring Maid
Last Year’s Cosmetic Rewards
The theme for last year was The Spring Wood!
Braided Dress of the Spring Wood
Braided Tunic and Trousers of the Spring Wood
Mantle of the Spring Woods
Last year’s cosmetics cost 13 Tokens per Piece.
Older Cosmetics
To view cosmetic clothing from previous events, click/tap the button below.
Bullroarer’s Challenge Cosmetic
If you complete the advanced version of Bullroarer’s Challenge, then you will receive this hat as a quest reward:
Festivity Tokens Cosmetics
As Festivity Tokens can now also be earned during Spring Festival, LOTRO have released a bunch of new cosmetics as a reward for running the Bees Big Business Seasonal Instance (multiple times). Here you go:
Naruhel’s Vine Dress
Crown of Naruhel
Naruhel’s Shawl
Vines of Naruhel
Honeycomb Cloak
Hood of Honeycomb Cloak
Musical Instruments
There are two different fiddles available at this event. If you’re part of a LOTRO band or just want a new cosmetic weapon to spite your foes with your music, then go for it!
Cosmetic Pets
New Pets
No new pets this year, either for Spring Leaves or Festivity Tokens. But there are loads of pets, so go ape! No, there’s no ape pet. Sorry.
Non-Shrew Creature Pets
25 Tokens
25 Tokens
25 Tokens
25 Tokens
25 Tokens
25 Tokens
Kite ‘Pets’
Thanks to @delphs for providing the Kite pets and shrew images!
20 Tokens
20 Tokens
Shrew Pets
There are a number of shrew pets available at the Spring Festival. Some can be obtained through the daily reward box, though you can barter for all (I believe) with Spring Leaves. The Large Shrew has a chance of dropping if you stomp the Huge Shrew!
If you’re exchanging tokens, regular shrews cost 50 Tokens and the Large Shrew costs 250 Tokens. If you do the event even semi-regularly that total isn’t hard to hit, honestly.
Here are some of the available Shrew pets:
Decorations
2021: there are new decorations this year – both for Spring Leaves and for Festivity Tokens.
As I do on all my LOTRO Event guides, I have @decodumilieu to thank for featuring all homestead decoration rewards on their website!
- Visit Déco du Milieu (English Page) to see them all!
Dyes
Below you can see which dyes are available for Spring Leaves this year. Bear in mind that which are token and which are Mithril Coin purchases rotate each year. So if you use these colours, you’ll need enough for 2 years.
Whether you purchase these for Spring Leaves , or Mithril Coins , you receive a stack of 6 dyes. Here is an example of each colour. But bear in mind, different items of gear and cosmetics dye differently. Ensure you Ctrl+Left Click to preview the item then select your dye from the drop-down, to preview the dye before you buy.
Lavender Dye, 15 ×
Dark Purple Dye, 15 ×
Shire-Plum Dye, 10 ×
Bullroarer’s Green Dye, 10 ×
/fishslap Emote (13 Spring Leaves)
Such a satisfying sound!
Cooking Recipes
If you have the Cook crafting profession there are a number of recipes you can obtain for Spring Leaves.
Consumables
As with many events, you can also acquire consumable items, some of which have deeds and/or permanent abilities you can complete.
- (Fireworks Crafting Ingrediant) Piles of Mysterious Powder – 2/stack
- D.R.A.G.O.N. – 3/stack (Deed )(Ability )
- Doom-Shrooms – 3/stack (Deed )(Ability )
- Sack of Petals – 20/1 (buy one, use forever)
- Springfest Brew Mugs – 3/stack (No Deed, what? There’s nothing to be gained from drinking booze? Who would have thought?)
- (Earnable Titles) Extra Deliciously Tasty Biscuits – 3/stack
Essence and Legendary Item, erm, Items
As with some other festivals in the LOTRO Events Calendar, you can acquire:
- Anfalas Star-Lit Crystal (60 × ): Increase your Legendary Item’s base DPS and, for imbued LIs, unlock a tier on your your top-most legacy[2]Also per the Wiki, I didn’t know about this second bit.
- Essence Reclamation Scroll (90 × ): Reclaims an Essence from your gear. Clue’s in the name, you know?
Amazeling Title
If you complete the Hedge Maze quests and The Green Challenge, you unlock the hidden deed and title: Amazeling!
TL;DR The 2021 LOTRO Spring Festival Round-up
As always there are a variety of events for you to choose from. With the extra travel, LOTRO Spring Festival 2021 is one of the more relaxing relaxing events in LOTRO. With a little bit of Shrew-Stomping, wandering around Middle Earth and getting lost in the Hedge Maze, and now helping Grimbeorn get his fields pollinated, I hope you enjoy the Fest as much as I do!
Footnotes
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