Bilbo's Buttons

To complete this deed perform the following objective(s)

Find the stained button

A brass button stained with something... blood perhaps?

In any case, it certainly is not a goblin-relic – it looks more like something you would find on hobbit’s waistcoat...

Find the tarnished button

This odd little brass button is heavily tarnished and worse for wear – but it seems that at some point it would have set well upon a rather fine coat or jacket. How did goblins get this?

Find the polished button

This brass button is old and worse for wear, but it looks like some curious goblin has polished it recently. He must have carried it as a keepsake of some sort.

Find the scratched button

How odd – a brass waistcoat button in the depths of Goblin-town? The face of the button appears to have been heavily scratched, perhaps against a rock face at some point in the distant past.

Find the bent button

This bit of brass finery seems out of place in the dark warrens of Goblin-town. It also seems to have been bent, perhaps in whatever incident separated it from the waistcoat it once must have secured.

Find the shiny button

This brass button looks surprisingly well-kept, and you can still faintly see the etched design on it that marks it as being of Shire manufacture – but what hobbit in his right mind would venture into the depths of Goblin-town wearing a waistcoat!?

Find the broken cufflink

Interesting – this appears to be a cufflink that might have once been in fashion among the hobbits of the Shire, but the post has snapped, and it is of little value now.

Find the blackened cufflink

This cufflink looks like it might have once been a rather fine piece of jewellery – likely of hobbit-make – but it appears to have been badly marred and blackened when some clumsy goblin dropped it into a fire pit some time ago.

Bilbo's Buttons - blue ring quest text

Conversation if visiting Bilbo in Rivendell while this deed is active:

Bilbo: 'Say now, what's that you have there? Buttons? Oh my, and here I had thought I'd seen the last of them so many years ago. Where did you find these? Ah, they do bring back the memories of my youth. Now that was a proper adventure, let me tell you. You should have seen us! Swords flashing, goblins biting! That and the most dangerous game of riddles I've ever played in my life, I daresay!

'Those were the days...and you've reminded me, I've got to get back to my book. I had quite forgotten to add that bit about my scrape at the back door! Don't let me hold you up with my rambling. We have all got important things to do!

'Oh? The buttons? Never you mind. I had given up on them for good long ago, and they do look quite the worse for wear, don't they? Can't imagine what the goblins held onto them all this time for. Keep them if you wish!'

Rewards

10 LOTRO Points

30 Marks

2000 Virtue Experience

Increased Reputation with Elves of Rivendell ( 500 )

Additional Information

• This deed contributes to the Explorer of the Misty Mountains meta-deed.== Locations ==

See Goblin-town Quests in Order for directions
Any of these items will begin this deed:

• Stained button: A distance inside the Mountain's Throat entrance to Goblin-town Tunnels. Stay to the right and look for a Debris Pile.
• Polished button: In Thundergrot, from the bottom of the stairs hug the left wall and look for a refuse pile.
• Scratched button: In the War Steadings in a battered chest at the bottom of the stairs in the western wing by Narash, Bhoghad's Champion; see directions.
• Shiny button: In the War Steadings in a discarded pouch near Dâgal the Observer; see directions.
• Broken cufflink: In a ruined bag south of Eglanúr. Next to Matuga the Torturer.

Once the deed is started, these are random drops from goblins in Goblin-town:

• Bent button
• Blackened cufflink
• Tarnished button