Festival General Quests Guide
Posted on 17. Oct, 2009 by Goldenstar in Events, Festival Guides
| This guide is to assist with the general quests that appear with each festival in LOTRO. These quests are not really tied with a particular festival and are there just as little extras to pick up goodies for your character.
See the links to the right to find the guide about the quests available during a specific festival. Note that this list will be expanded as more guides are created. |
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The generic festival quests you will find center around three things.
- The Inn League
- Dancing Quests
- Travelling Farmer
This guide will be split up into these three separate headings to discuss things to do and what is rewarded for each.
THE INN LEAGUE
There are a total of 11 repeatable quests available that all gain reputation with The Inn League. These quests are centered around alcohol and having your character drink alcohol so if you are a parent of a young and impressionable LOTRO player, you may want to think about whether or not you allow your kids to participate. It really is all quite harmless but as a parent, I understand having to be sensitive to issues like this and wanted to mention it.
Getting Started
The Inn League has been around for years but if this is your first romp with these folks, you’ll first need to complete the starter quest to become a member.
This quest is found at the Shire Party Tree and given by Ailward Chubb. It is basically a pub crawl that will take you through several taverns throughout the Shire.
You have 7 stops total (including the start at the Party Tree) and must drink 6 mugs. Each stop starts a timer making it a race that gets more and more difficult as you go. It becomes more difficult do to your character getting drunk and their vision really blurring. I thought it was very fun though!
I have done this quest on several characters and while having a mount does make this a bit less stressful, I have been able to complete this on foot as well. The quest is level 5 so you can do this quest right away since you will likely be over level 5 when you land out of the introduction and into Eriador.
The first time you complete this quest you will gain 10,000 reputation and the Inn League Member title. This will open up the other reputation quests for you!
This quest is repeatable once a day (resets at midnight EST). Repeating this quest only awards 500 reputation.
Gaining Reputation
There are 11 quests (separate from the pub crawl) that will gain you reputation. They all are quests that are asking you to fetch and return with a specific beverage. The NPC will tell you which beverage they want and where you can go to purchase it. These quests are not repeatable and have a 1 hour time limit to complete.
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Rewards
There are 4 deeds available from The Inn League.
- Inn League Member
You earn this after completing the initial pub crawl event. - Senior Inn League Member
If you complete 5 of the reputation quests you will earn this deed, 1,200 additional reputation and the title Senior Inn League Member. - Inn League Notable
If you complete all 11 of the reputation quests and you will earn this deed, 1,200 additional reputation and the title Inn League Notable. This title will replace your Senior Inn League Member title. - Inn League Challenge
There are 23 beers, ales and wines throughout Eriador to earn this deed and the title Inn League Sage of Fine Spirits. The lorebook entry lists all the drinks you must find and if you click on the item, will list the NPCs that sell that particular beverage.
Once Friendly with The Inn League, you will have access to a special room in the Bird and Baby where you can pick up some decorations for your home using festival tokens. The name of the Inn League Taxidermist is Alric Banks and the Inn League Trader is Frago Sandheaver.
- Ancient Tome – Once used you earn the /dance_jig emote
- Black Bear with League Hat
- Brown Bear with Pie and Mug
- Frost-Antler Head with Pipe
- White Wolf with Mug
DANCING QUESTS
These quests will grant you new emote commands to eight new dances for your character. Each of the four races has two dances for you to learn. They will be found in the festival area where all the other festival goings-on are happening. Those are:
- Bree Festival Grounds (24.7S, 51.6W Bree-land)
- 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)
You are looking for a NPC that has the title “Dance Leader” over their head. They shouldn’t be difficult to find. They are typically right in the middle of the festival grounds. Every twenty minutes the Dance Leader will start a dance lesson.
Important things to know about doing this quest:
- The quest will become available 5 minutes before the lesson begins. The leader will have no quest ring over his head otherwise.
- You must have the quest before the lessons starts! Once the dance leader starts the quest, there is no picking it up.
- Once you have the quest, you must stay around the dance leader. Leaving the dance area will cause the quest to fail!
- You must have the Dance Leader targeted during the lesson or your steps won’t count.
The NPC will announce when the dance is to being and will walk to the dance area. They will give a series of dance moves to perform and you must perform them quickly, like within a few seconds. If you miss a step you fail the lesson (and the quest).
The lesson is broken up into 4 parts. Between parts the Dance Leader will announce a break. The Dance Leader will call out a dance move to do. The commands you use is /dance1, dance2, or /dance3. The quest will go in this order.
- /dance1
- Break
- /dance2, /dance3
- Break
- /dance2, /dance2, /dance3
- Break
- /dance3, /dance1, /dance3
The last part seems to go much faster than the rest, at least to me, so you must be prepared. Some people make shortcuts or aliases to help them. I did all these dances by pre-typing: /dance and then waiting for them to say 1, 2 or 3 and adding it to the end. However, you wish to do it is the right way if it means you complete the quest!
When finished, the Dance Leader will return to their original location and allow you to turn in the quest and select which of the two dances you wish to learn first. Your character will be granted access to a new emote slash command.
| Dances with Men | /dance_man /dance_man2 |
| Dances with Dwarves | /dance_dwarf /dance_dwarf2 |
| Dances with Elves | /dance_elf /dance_elf2 |
| Dances with Hobbits | /dance_hobbit /dance_hobbit2 |
If you fail the quest, you can try again but there will be a cool down before you can attempt the quest again. I’ve heard that if you don’t have either of the special dances from that Dance Leader, you can try again at the next lesson with no cool down.
TRAVELLING FARMER
Amabel Redfern, the travelling farmer, will appear with the summer and fall festival and is found in the Shire. You must be a farmer to get these quests.
This starts with the Summer Festival where Amabel will give you the quest “Planting the Seeds for Harvest”. She will hand you some special seeds that she wants you to plant in her nearby field.
Then you wait until the Fall Festival where Amabel will return to the Shire and will have the quest “Harvesting the Crop”. This quest simply has you talk to Amabel who will tell you how well your seeds grew. As a reward you will receive a Black Mushroom Pot, a housing decoration.





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Chris
17. Oct, 2009
@strolltomordor I am amazed by your thorough and, well, AMAZING quest guide for the fall festival! Haven't seen it? http://bit.ly/4fS4Ob
Nikki
17. Oct, 2009
Great write up guys!
Nikki Rau-Baker
17. Oct, 2009
RT @strolltomordor: Festival General Quests Guide: This guide is to assist w/quests that appear w/each fest.. http://bit.ly/3Elayu #lotro
Osiran
17. Oct, 2009
I’ve been playing since beta, and I still have yet to do the Inn League quest on ANY character. Maybe I should!
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