Reflecting Pool
Overview
A Reflecting Pool is an object that allows player characters to access Quest Instances which they have already completed. This allows them to relive past quest experiences or to assist their fellows in order to help them complete certain quests.
- Note that it also works for players wishing to join their fellowship in a quest instance that is on a quest chain they either do not have or have not advanced far enough yet, as long as someone in the fellowship has entered the instance encounter.
- In order to use the pool, stand beside it and right-click to activate it. Select the instance encounter that you would like to enter, then select "Travel Now" to be instantly brought inside.
- The pool will not work for World Instances or Raids.
- The pool does not work if you have not previously completed the quest involved.
- Reflecting Pools were extremely significant before Volumes I, II and III of the Epic Quest line were all made '"soloable." They represented the only mechanism available for players to recruit folks to assist them in a fellowship where the Instance was too difficult for solo play. There was no Inspired Greatness bonus back in the early years of LOTRO.
- Sage of Eriador: Completing certain Instances accessible through Reflecting Pools (Volume I, Book 4, Chapter 6 onwards) award Mark of Triumph. Visit the "Sage of Eriador" standing adjacent to the pool upon completing the instance to collect your Mark. The Sage also barters Marks for certain rewards. These can be bartered for Helegrod lvl 50 Armour from the class traders in The Last Homely House in Rivendell.
Note:
- The Chronicle of Events allows you to replay certain Session Play quests in the Epic Quest line, once per day.
- In Session Play, you are a "witness to history" -- a participant through the eyes and ears of another -- a contemporary of the event being related.
Reflecting Pool
Locations
Quests
Note: These quests are available at Reflecting Pools without a Sage of Eriador. See the respective Sage of Eriador for information on quests available from those with a Sage.
No Mark of Triumph is awarded for these quests.
Eriador
Regions within the Land of Eriador
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Angmar • Bree-land • Cardolan • Dunland • Enedwaith • Ered Luin • Eregion • Ettenmoors • Evendim • Forochel • Gap of Rohan • Lone-lands • Misty Mountains • Nan Curunír • North Downs • Swanfleet • The Shire • Trollshaws |
Angmar
- See Rostellen the Sage of Eriador for information on quests available here.
Bree-land
- Instance: Broken Alliance
- Instance: Unravelling the Thread (Volume I, Book 1, Chapter 2)
- Instance: Blackwold's Broken (Volume I, Book 1, Chapter 4)
- Prologue (Beorning/Man), Instance: The Hideout (Volume I, Prolog, Chapter 7)
- Prologue (Beorning/Man), Instance: To a Ranger's Aid (Volume I, Prolog, Chapter 9)
- Instance: Othrongroth (Volume I, Book 1, Chapter 11)
- Instance: A Song for the Company - Minstrel
Dunland
- Instance: The Will to Stand (Volume III, Book 4, Chapter 6)
- Instance:The Captive (Volume III, Book 4, Chapter 18)
- Instance: In the Presence of Saruman (Volume III, Book 4, Chapter 20)
- Instance: Escape from Isengard (Volume III, Book 4, Chapter 26)
- Instance: The Rescue (Volume III, Book 4, Chapter 30)
- Instance: The Daring Strike, Dawn (Volume III, Book 5, Chapter 4)
- Instance: The Daring Strike, Mid-day (Volume III, Book 5, Chapter 4)
- Instance: Battle of the Ford, Afternoon (Volume III, Book 5, Chapter 4)
- Instance: Battle of the Ford, Sunset (Volume III, Book 5, Chapter 4)
- Instance: The Prince of Rohan, Night (Volume III, Book 5, Chapter 4)
Enedwaith
Lhaid Ogo instance shows as 'Ergothorn Elf-Friend' in Reflecting Pool
- Instance: Ergothorn Elf-Friend (Volume III, Book 3, Chapter 4)
- Instance: Attack on Zudrugund (Volume III, Book 3, Chapter 7)
- Instance: Echoes of the Dead (Volume III, Book 3, Chapter 10)
- Instance: An Echo of Days Past (Volume III, Book 2, Chapter 15)
Ered Luin
Both locations, Frerin's Court and Duillond offer the same quests:
- Instance: Thrór's Hammer (Volume I, Book 7, Chapter 6)
Eregion
- Instance: The Leader of the Foul Wood
- Instance: The Doom of the North - Fellowship (Volume I, Book 14, Chapter 15)
- Instance: Before the Doors of Durin - Solo (Volume II, Book 1, Chapter 8)
- Instance: The Watcher in the Water - Solo (Volume II, Book 1, Chapter 13)
Evendim
- See Maleniel the Sage of Eriador for information on quests available here.
Forochel
- See Maedbrennil the Sage of Eriador for information on quests available here.
The Lone-lands
- Instance: Retake Weathertop (Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 6)
- Instance: Red-Pass (Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 16)
- Instance: A Burglar's Errand - Burglar
The North Downs
Both locations, Esteldín and Trestlebridge offer the same quests:
- Instance:The Defence of Trestlebridge (Volume I, Book 3, Chapter 6)
- Instance: A Guardian's Duty - Guardian
- Instance: A Minstrel's Hope - Minstrel
The Shire
Rhovanion
Regions within the Land of Rhovanion
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Azanulbizar, T.A. 2799 • Elderslade • Ered Mithrin and Withered Heath • Eryn Lasgalen and the Dale-lands • Gundabad • Iron Hills • Lothlórien • Mirkwood • Moria • Vales of Anduin • Wells of Langflood |
East Rohan
- Instance: Thane Mildrith (Volume III, Book 8, Chapter 5)
- Instance: Shield-brothers (Volume III, Book 8, Chapter 10)
- Instance: Homecoming (Volume III, Book 8, Chapter 12)
- Instance: The Stone of Wyrgende (Volume III, Book 9, Chapter 4)
Wildermore
The Great River
- Instance: Mists of Anduin (Vol. III. Book 6: Mists of Anduin, Chapter 12)
- Instance: A Journey by Boat (Vol. III. Book 7: A Fellowship Endangered, Chapter 6)
Lothlórien
- Instance: The Mirror of Galadriel (Volume II, Book 6, Chapter 9)
- Instance: Sons of Leaf and Stone (Volume II, Book 7, Chapter 3)
- Instance: The Worries of Lord Celeborn (Volume II, Book 7, Chapter 9)
- Instance: Escape from Rushdurinul (Volume II, Book 8, Chapter 1)
- Instance: Plans of the Golden Host (Volume II, Book 9, Chapter 1)
Mirkwood
- Private Instance: Hilltop Assault (Volume II, Book 9 Foreword)
- Instance: Midnight in the Drownholt (Volume II, Book 9, Chapter 3)
- Instance: Mazog in the Web (Volume II, Book 9, Chapter 8)
- Instance: The Exchange (Volume II, Book 9, Chapter 10)
- Instance: Dungeons of Dol Guldur (Volume II, Book 9, Chapter 16)
- Instance: Memories of Mithrandir (Volume II, Book 9, Chapter 17)
- Private Instance: Starlight and Shadow
- Private Instance: Death From Below
- Private Instance: A Cornered Foe
- Private Instance: The Narrow Way
Moria
- * See Rúnar the Sage of Eriador for information on quests available here.
West Rohan
- Thêoden, Son of Thengel
- Instance: Commands of the King
- Instance: The King Rides West
- Instance: The Missing
- Instance: Eyes of Edoras
- Instance: The Soothsayer
- Instance: A Need for Words
- Instance: Secret Ways
Gondor
Regions within the Land of Gondor
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Before Battle: Central Gondor • Eastern Gondor • Far Anórien • Old Anórien • Western Gondor After Battle: Anfalas • Anórien • North Ithilien • King's Gondor • Pinnath Gelin • The Wastes |
Western Gondor
Blackroot Vale - Morlad [57.1S, 67.0W]
Havens of Belfalas - Dol Amroth [74.0S, 72.1W]
- Instance: The Ruthless Dead
- Instance: The Shadow in Morthond
- Instance: Balakhôr the Scourge
- Instance: The Cursed Vale
- Instance: A Life Hangs on a Thread
- Instance: Negotiations
- Instance: A Hard-earned Meal
Central Gondor
Dor-en-Ernil - Linhir [80.9S, 45.3W]
- Instance: Sister of the Gilrain
- Instance: Farewell to Pelargir
- Instance: A Commanding Knock
- Instance: A Ruthless End
- Instance: Even In Darkness
- Instance: Blood for Blood
- Instance: A Just Burial
- Instance: Sons of the Usurper
- Instance: Legacy of Strife
- Instance: Faltharan's Confrontation
Eastern Gondor
South Ithilien - Bâr Húrin [73.4S, 11.8W]
Old Anórien
Far Anórien
Mordor
Regions within the Land of Mordor
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Mordor Besieged • Morgul Vale • The Plateau of Gorgoroth |
North Ithilien
The Wastes
Haerondir [Coordinate 0.0S is off the map (top is 26.1S)]
The Plateau of Gorgoroth
Ruins of Dingarth [Coordinate 0.0S is off the map (top is 37.1S)][Coordinate 0.0W is off the map (left edge is 5.9E)]