Spring Festival

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Overview

The Spring Festival is a celebration of nature and new growth. It features events to collect flowers, navigate a hedge maze, run along a fence while drunk, and discourage shrews from eating fresh plantings. With each new seasons the vendors often provide a new mount, cosmetic or housing items or pet.

Dates

Scheduled dates
2025: TBA
Previous Dates
2024: March 13 - April 2 -- extended to April 9
2023: March 9 - March 28
2022: March 17 - April 5
2021: March 18 - April 6
2020: June 19 - June 29
2020: March 19 - April 14
2019: March 20 - April 9
2018: March 15 - April 9
2017: March 23 - April 2 -- extended to April 9
2016: June 7 - June 21
2015: June 9 - June 23
2014: May 20 - June 3
2013: May 21 - June 4
2012: May 24 - June 11
2011: March 22 - April 11
2010: March 23 - April 19
2009: March 24 - April 7
2008: March 7 - March 27

Festival Grounds

Instances

Festivities

Dance of the Races

Festival Garden
Main article: Dance of the Races

During all seasonal Festivals, Dance Leaders will teach characters up to eight special racial dances (two from each Race) by completing dance lessons. There is one Dance Leader located in each of the festival grounds of Thorin's Hall Inn and the Festival Garden in Ered Luin, The Party Tree in the Shire, and the Festival Grounds in Bree-land.

Dance lessons take place approximately every 20 minutes, and the quests are available for about 5 minutes before the dance begins. As of U20, the quest start times are random.

When the Dance Leader starts, target the leader and follow their instructions using the commands /dance1, /dance2, or /dance3 as they instruct you. The time to perform each step decreases with the quest's progression.

At the end of the lesson, the Dance Leader returns to their original position and you are able to select your reward: either the first or second dance emote from that race. Complete the lessons again to learn all the dances! You can do one (successful) dance per day for each race.

Festival Horse Races

The stables at the Bree Derby
The Hedge Maze
Main article: Festival Horse Races

Each festival brings exciting horse races to the Shire Race-track and the Bree-land Festival Grounds. By completing a race in time, players can win festival tokens which can be exchanged for festival rewards.

Gathering Flowers

Main article: A Fistful of Flowers

The Gathering Flowers event was first added in 2008 as part of Valentine's Day. It was later removed for a couple years before being brought back as part of Spring Festival 2012. This event starts in Bree with you helping a love-struck man cultivate a budding romance and finishes with you gathering many of Eriador's signature flowers.

Item to Receive Items to Trade
 Spring Lissuin Halter 80 Violets 80 Marigolds 80 Primroses
 Spring Lissuin Saddle 80 Violets 80 Marigolds 80 Primroses
 Steed of the Jester 100 Violets 100 Marigolds 100 Primroses
 Blue Flower Gift Box 6 Violets 6 Marigolds 6 Primroses
 Green Flower Gift Box 6 Violets 6 Marigolds 6 Primroses
 Red Flower Gift Box 6 Violets 6 Marigolds 6 Primroses

Stomp-a-Shrew

Stomp-a-Shrew
Main article: Stomp-a-Shrew

The Stomp-a-Shrew event was first added during Spring Festival 2010. It is held every spring inside a cave leading to the Festival Garden at Duillond, in Ered Luin. The actual Stomp-a-Shrew event is repeated every 9 minutes. In addition, there are several optional quests available to players many of which are repeatable daily.

The Feast of the Greenfields

Main article: The Feast of the Greenfields

The Feast of the Greenfields was first added during Spring Festival 2009 and is partially an in-game tribute to St. Patrick's Day. It is held every spring just east of Brockenborings in the Greenfields. The Hobbits of the Shire pay their respects to Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took, who led the defense of the Shire the last time the goblins invaded in 2747 of the Third Age. The feast culminates in the drinking game Bullroarer's Challenge, based on how Bandobras use to run atop the fences of the Great Smials to stay in shape and hone his reflexes as the legend goes.

The Hedge Maze

The Hedge Maze at the Bree-land Festival Grounds
A map of the new Hedge Maze used since 2014, track-up (east-up)
North-up
Main article: The Hedge Maze

This maze built by tall hedges is available year round on the eastern side of the Festival Grounds with entrances on the west and east side of the maze. However during the Spring Festival, there are several Maze-masters standing at the main entrance on the west side who offer Daily quests to navigate your way through the maze. In the middle of the maze is a beer garden where many festival-goers stop to imbibe.

The Inn League vs. the Ale Association

Main articles: The Inn League and The Ale Association

The merry hobbits who love all things food and drink are back again this festival, as well as the surly dwarves who believe they know more about beer and are out to prove it one way or another. May the last man standing... drink some more!

Cosmetic Pets

A selection of cosmetic pets and kites are available during the festival from the completion of quests, by barter and from gift boxes.

Quests

Deeds

Spring Festival Deeds (1 C, 11 P)
The Ale Association Deeds (6 P)
The Inn League Deeds (5 P)

Barter Items

The following items are available from these Spring Rewards Vendors.

Region Name Location Coords
Bree-land Sergeant Tom Festival Grounds [24.6S, 51.6W]
Ered Luin Hálgur Thorin's Hall Inn [13.8S, 103.3W]
Ered Luin Merellos The Festival Garden [24.6S, 93.1W]
The Shire Sarabeth Gardner The Party Tree [29.9S, 71.6W]


Barterer: Verbena Greenhand at Festival Grounds during the Spring Festival [24.6S, 51.5W].

Gallery

Cosmetic Items

Housing Items

Emote Items

Pets

  • Adorable Sickle-fly
    Adorable Sickle-fly
  • Hedgehog
    Hedgehog
  • Moth Kite
    Moth Kite
  • Floral Kite
    Floral Kite
  • Large Shrew
    Large Shrew
  • Dusty Shrew
    Dusty Shrew
  • Perfect Curl Garden Snail
    Perfect Curl Garden Snail
  • Plain Shrew.jpg
    Plain Shrew.jpg
  • Spotted Shrew
    Spotted Shrew
  • Silly Goose
    Silly Goose
  • Male Spring Pheasant
    Male Spring Pheasant
  • Female Spring Pheasant
    Female Spring Pheasant
  • White-headed Hawk
    White-headed Hawk
  • White Puppy
    White Puppy
  • Woodland Rabbit
    Woodland Rabbit
  • Wild Spotted Donkey
    Wild Spotted Donkey

Mounts

References


Special Events

Seasonal events: Spring Festival • Midsummer Festival • Farmers Faire • Harvest Festival • Yule Festival Seasonal events:
Recurring events: Hobnanigans • Treasure Hunt Recurring events:
Annual events: April Fool's Chicken Run • Bilbo & Frodo's Birthday • Durin's Day • Ill Omens • LOTRO Anniversary Celebration • Treasure Bugan Event • The Tale of the Shipwrecked Mariners Annual events:
Crafting events: Hard Tack Crafting Event • The Combe Forester Event Crafting events:
Legendary server events: Veil of the Nine Legendary server events:
  See also Discontinued Events  
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