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The Harvest Festival in LotRO

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The 2026 Harvest Festival runs from October 8 at 4 pm until November 2 at 9 am.

This guide is meant to help you have a delightfully spooky time at the Harvest Festival (Harvestmath)! As always, the Haunted Burrow awaits you by the Party Tree, along with the eerie Wheat Maze in Wistmead. Rumour has it that more than one adventurer has gone in and never been seen again!

A trick for the Haunted Burrow: Accept Adalgrim Goodbody's quest "A Riddle in a Bottle", drink from the correct bottle right at the entrance of the burrow, and then abandon the quest. The buff remains active for 5 minutes, letting you calmly complete the other quests without being bothered by the spooky effects.
Once the buff runs out, you can repeat the trick.

Remember to check the poorly hidden chest in the basement of the Haunted Burrow once a day. It's located behind a false wall of beer barrels directly opposite the entrance. Besides festival tokens and other surprises, it can also contain the famous Painted Skeleton Steed. This isn't just a spooky story - I really did find one once!
There's also a secret door in the northwest of the burrow that leads to the cosy cellar of Bag End. Here you'll find three crates that you can loot once per hour. They contain 1-2 Fall Festival Tokens. You can also find other festival rewards in them, though you'll need more luck for that than with the poorly hidden chest.

As always: if you have tips or additions for this guide, or find any mistakes, please drop me a mail!

It's best to start each day by accepting the task "A Spirited Harvest" from Rosa Hornblower at the Party Tree or in Wistmead, for which you must complete 10 further tasks.

Here's a quick round for the 10 daily quests.

Intro and Meta-Quests

The Harvest Festival Is Here! (Automatically granted task)

Accept the task and complete it.

Reward: map to the Party Tree, 1 Fall Festival Token

Start every festival day with the following meta-quests, since they have nice rewards, and the remaining tasks help you complete them. Rosa Hornblower can be found both west of the Party Tree and by the tables in Wistmead.

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A Spirited Harvest (Rosa Hornblower)

Rosa Hornblower can be found both northwest of the Party Tree and in Wistmead.

Complete 10 Fall Festival events.

Reward: 5 Fall Festival Tokens

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A Bountiful Harvest (auto-bestowed)

• A Bountiful Harvest (Intro): Complete "A Spirited Harvest" three times*.
  Reward: 300 Glittering Piece of Amazement, 1 Scrap of an Essence Reclamation Scroll, 1 Universal optional crafting ingredient, 1000 Virtue XP
• A Bountiful Harvest (Intermediate): Complete "A Spirited Harvest" three more times*.
  Reward: 400 Glittering Piece of Amazement, 1 Scrap of an Essence Reclamation Scroll, 1 Universal optional crafting ingredient, 1000 Virtue XP
• A Bountiful Harvest (Advanced): Complete "A Spirited Harvest" three more times*.
  Reward: 500 Glittering Piece of Amazement, 1 Scrap of an Essence Reclamation Scroll, 1 Universal optional crafting ingredient, 1000 Virtue XP
• A Bountiful Harvest (Final): Complete "A Spirited Harvest" three more times*.
  Reward: 600 Glittering Piece of Amazement, 1 Scrap of an Essence Reclamation Scroll, 1 Universal optional crafting ingredient, 1000 Virtue XP

* The bestowal text says "complete ... four times"; but the quest log and the progress announcement say "three times" / "0/3". Three times is correct.

The Glittering Piece of Amazement go straight into your wallet. They are account-wide and can be exchanged at the Traveller's/Adventurer's Quartermasters in Bree, Galtrev, the 21st Hall, and Skarháld (Ered Mithrin) for cosmetics, pets, and mounts.
You can only accumulate up to 10,000 Glittering Pieces of Amazement — any more will be lost! So spend them in good time.

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A Fortune of Harvest Spirit (Rosa Hornblower)

Rosa Hornblower can be found both northwest of the Party Tree and in Wistmead.

Complete the following tasks:

• "A Bountiful Harvest (Intro)"
• "A Bountiful Harvest (Intermediate)" *
• "A Bountiful Harvest (Advanced)" *
• "A Bountiful Harvest (Final)"
  Reward: 5 Fall Festival Tokens, 500 Glittering Piece of Amazement, 1 Scrap of an Essence Reclamation Scroll, Universal optional crafting ingredient, Legendary Tracery Token

The quest text mentions "four more days". However, you only need to complete the festival tasks on four times three days.

* "Intermediate" and "Advanced" seem to be swapped in the Quest Log. As listed here, it matches the order used in "A Bountiful Harvest".

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The Haunted Burrow

INTRO

The intro quest-line can only be played once per character, ever. In subsequent Harvest Festivals, that character will find the burrow already unlocked.

Opal stands by the tables in the cooking area, near the cellar door.

A Cellar Door Appears (Opal Goodbody)

A door leading down to Bag End's cellar was discovered near the Party Tree. Perhaps Bilbo's legendary treasure lies hidden there! Opal Goodbody sends you to Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, who took possession of Bag End after Bilbo's and Frodo's disappearance. Will she allow the cellar to be investigated?
Lobelia sends you on to Gaffer Gamgee, who might know something about the key to the cellar. He can be found by his cottage below the Party Tree.

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Bilbo's Letter (Gaffer Gamgee)

Gaffer Gamgee gives you a letter from Bilbo that you are to hand over to Lobelia. The letter appears in your bag and is readable! Lobelia hesitates for a while, but greed wins out in the end.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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The Haunted Burrow (Lobelia Sackville-Baggins)

Meet Lobelia in the Haunted Burrow (a short walk clockwise from the entrance), and then Opal Goodbody outside.
You now have free access to the Burrow and can complete all the following daily quests there.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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Find some more general tips for the Haunted Burrow here.

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A quick round for the 10 dailies (about 10 minutes)

1. Accept A Spirited Harvest from Rosa Hornblower.
2. Accept A Riddle in a Bottle from Adalgrim Goodbody outside the Haunted Burrow. Enter the burrow, but only drink from the correct bottle at the first table. Then abandon the quest. The buff will now remain active for 5 minutes.
3. Now, with the buff active, complete:
   Valuables Gone Astray,
   Stroll,
   and Race Through the Haunted Burrow.
   Remember that in the Cobwebbed Wing you can click on Holfast's glove and the proof for the race from the hallway.
4. Complete the three short quests from Polo Puddifoot. For Roaring Maw, use the Recall skill to return to Polo.
5. Now take the festival horse to Wistmead and accept:
   Wayward Shadows and
   A Frightful Lack of Spirit in front of the Wheat Maze,
   and An Eerie Fog
   and Gourds and Goblins from Halinard Bunce by the tables.
6. Drink the brew on the table and perform two emotes to already shake off three levels of drunkenness - see here for details.
7. Now mount your steed! That way you avoid the effects of the fright effects.
8. Complete everything else while mounted, except the gourd quest. When you're done, dismount and knock away the gourds on your way back to the quest givers.
9. Turn in all your quests, hand in the meta-quest to Rosa.

That's exactly 10 quests. If you’re also doing Treats or Trickery, you can leave one of them out.

You'll find more details on the tricks under the individual quests.

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A Stroll / A Race Through the "Haunted Burrow" (Poppy Cotton)

Find 4 pieces of proof of Poppy's presence in the burrow (orange Bs).
Time limit: 20 minutes for the Stroll, 4 minutes for the Race.

The "proof" in the Cobwebbed Wing is located behind the secret door, but you can reach it from the hallway. The easiest way to do this is with "Select Next Item" in the options. This key is extremely handy anyway - bind it to a key you can reach easily at all times. It's also a good idea to bind "Use Selection" to another easily reachable key. That way you can combine the two.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens each

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Valuables Gone Astray (Holfast Burrows)

Find Holfast's 5 belongings in the various areas of the Burrow (blue crosses).

Holfast's glove in the Cobwebbed Wing is located behind the secret door, but you can reach it from the hallway. The easiest way to do this is with "Select Next Item" in the options. This key is extremely handy anyway — bind it to a key you can reach easily at all times. It's also a good idea to bind "Use Selection" to an easily reachable key. That way you can combine the two.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens, 50 Virtue XP

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The Great Hobbit Rescue (May Gamgee)

Find the 6 lost hobbits in the burrow (yellow dots).
One hobbit is in the Attic, one in the Cobwebbed Wing, and one in the Basement; three are in the Main Cellar. There is no hobbit in the Creeping Wing.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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Roaring Maw in the "Haunted Burrow" (Polo Puddifoot)

Search for the source of the roaring in the Cobwebbed Wing (golden ring).
Examine the honey pot in the middle chamber and wait to see what happens ...

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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Wailing in the "Haunted Burrow" (Polo Puddifoot)

Search for the source of the wailing in the Creeping Wing (pale yellow ring).
Examine the candle in the southwestern chamber and wait to see what happens ...

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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Rattling Bones in the "Haunted Burrow" (Polo Puddifoot)

Search for the source of the rattling in the Attic (silver ring).
Examine the chain hanging from the ceiling and wait to see what happens ...

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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A Riddle in a Bottle (Adalgrim Goodbody)

Choose the correct bottles at four tables. The tables stand in the Main Cellar, the Cobwebbed Wing, the Creeping Wing, and the Basement, each right by the entrance. Each table has a note with a riddle pointing to the correct bottle. Time limit: about 5 minutes.
For this task, you are not allowed to use the normal doors - only the "riddle doors".
On your first run, you won't be able to solve this task without help. I still recommend to solve the quest on your own, because it’s fun! When you fail, you can immediately accept it again. So take your time to by and by find the correct answers and the riddle doors.

Here's how to get from each table to the riddle door:

• Main Cellar: left - right - straight ahead through the bookcase
• Cobwebbed Wing: right - left - left - left to the middle room - through the hidden door in the wall
• Creeping Wing: right - left - straight ahead to the back room

You can leave the Basement by the normal route; there's no riddle door there.

Solution to the riddles: ˙ǝnlq - ǝƃuɐɹo - ǝnlq - ǝʇᴉɥʍ sᴉ ɹǝpɹo ǝꞁʇʇoq ʇɔǝɹɹoɔ ǝɥꞱ

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

Completing all of these tasks (except "Stroll") fulfils the deed "The Haunted Burrow". Reward: title "Burrower".

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Other Quests at the Party Tree

Harvesting the Crop (Amabel Redfern)

Amabel Redfern is at the mushroom tent southwest of the Party Tree.

If you sowed some seeds here at the Farmers Faire (quest "Planting the Seeds for Harvest"), you can now harvest your mushrooms!

Reward: Black Mushroom Pot (housing item).

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Bingo's Quests at the Party Tree

Bingo's quest-line can be played once per year.

I. Frightful Tales to Curl the Hair On Your Toes (Bingo Boffin)

Here begins the first quest-line about Bingo and his large extended family.

Help Prisca, Camellia, Esmeralda, and Dinodas Boffin.
Accepting this quest causes these characters to appear at the Party Tree.

Reward: 24 Fall Festival Tokens (after completing the quest-line)

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I. Scary Dreams (Prisca Boffin)

Prisca stands north of the Party Tree and asks you to find her son Berilac on a hill. He's not on the hill, though, but behind it, on the road to Hobbiton.

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I. Boffin for Apples (Camellia Boffin)

Camellia stands southwest of the Party Tree by the apple-bobbing tubs. First, she asks you to fetch a spare apple-bobbing bucket from the stable by the bridge over the river, then another one from the Appledores (the orchard meadow west of the Party Tree).
Don't get caught by greedy hobbits! They appear on the mini-map as roaming eyes if you have the filter turned on (right-click the radar - select “Filter” - make sure "Quest Failer" is checked).

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I. Fear Not To Dance! (Esmeralda Boffin)

Esmeralda stands by the dance stage and asks you to persuade a few shy hobbits to join in. Afterwards, you're allowed to freely express your feelings for a short while. It doesn't matter at all what you do during this time. Or whether you do anything at all. Just be yourself!

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I. Dinodas Does Not (Dinodas Boffin)

Dinodas stands by the cellar door and challenges you to meet him in various areas of the Haunted Burrow to prove that he doesn't find any of it the least bit spooky.

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I. A Little Spooky Research (Bingo Boffin)

Bingo thinks he needs better scary stories for Dinodas, and sends you to the librarian Donnamira Took in Great Smials in Tuckborough.

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I. A Night for Ghost Stories (Instance) (Bingo Boffin)

Join Bingo for a spooky round of campfire stories in the Green Fields, meant to finally teach Dinodas how to be afraid.
You can choose which hobbits tell their story. There are 6 stories to choose from, but only 2 will be told, after which Bingo takes over. You can still read through all the stories, as long as you don't click "Continue" but instead just close the respective window. (You will encounter reminiscences of the stories later on, in the Wistmet quest-line!)

In the end, Bingo starts to worry about Dinodas and asks you to search for him.

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I. Frightened Beyond Disbelief (Dinodas Boffin)

You've found Dinodas in Bindbole Wood, and now you learn his secret. Afterwards you go with Bingo and Dinodas to investigate a spooky apparition.

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I. An Autumnal Mystery (Bingo Boffin)

Bingo wants to learn more about the apparition.

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I. Frightful Tales to Curl the Hair On Your Toes (Bingo Boffin)

Bingo is trying to make sense of the apparition's words about the vanishing of the woods and the evil consequences, but can't quite manage it. It seems we'll have to go looking elsewhere!

Reward: 24 Fall Festival Tokens

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II. The Curse of Eerie Acres (Bingo Boffin)

Mount the horse behind Bingo and meet him in Wistmead.

Reward: 24 Fall Festival Tokens (after completing the task series)

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Bingo's Tasks in Wistmead

II. Fun and Games? (Bingo Boffin)

Here begins the second quest-line about Bingo and his family.

Bingo has a feeling that something isn't right in Wistmead. Find out how the other Boffins are enjoying the festival.
Camellia Boffin is not "at the tables", as the quest text states, but at the small stand with a single table near the southeastern corner of the Wheat Maze. The cake you're supposed to bring to Camellia is at "the centre", near Begonia Grubb.

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II. The Parting Fog (Bingo Boffin)

Bingo can't stop thinking about the curse the ghost in Bindbole Wood spoke of. Might the organiser, Walaric Goldworthy, have noticed something? He sends you to the ruin in the southwest, where you make a discovery...
Walaric appears with the name "Walaric Goldworthy" over his head.

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II. The Haunting of Wistmead (Bingo Boffin)

The old road sign "Cleary's Fields" was long ago painted over with the words "Eerie Acres". Bingo sends you to Michel Delving to find out more about the hobbit named Cleary. In the end, it's mainly Postmaster Proudfoot who can contribute a piece to solving the puzzle, though Cleary's fate remains unclear.

II. None But One (Instance) (Bingo Boffin)

Bingo is now certain that a ghost haunts old Halson Cleary's farm. He sends you off together with the supposedly fearless Dinodas to investigate the old estate. Look around carefully — ghostly images from the previously told scary stories appear in many places!
In the end, it takes a hobbit to see through the wicked game that has been played here.

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Reward: 24 Fall Festival Tokens

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Further Tasks in Wistmead

Intro

A Windy Walk Through Wistmead (Walaric Goldworthy)

Walaric has organised the festivities in Wistmead and sends you on a round to his various helpers. Only after completing this will the remaining Wistmead quests appear.

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Daily Quests

A Frightful Lack of Spirit (Walaric Goldworthy)

Get 6 hobbits into the right mood for the Harvest Festival! In other words: give them a proper scare.

Bored hobbits wear rings above their heads and can be found across the whole area. They can also be "cheered up" more than once.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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A Waste of Webs (Iris Tunnelly)

The fine cotton cobweb decorations don't look real enough to Iris Tunnelly yet. So she asks you to fetch 12 little spiderlings from Scary in the Shire to populate the webs.
"Scary" is a fitting name for a place that suits the festival particularly well.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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Wayward Shadows (Iris Tunnelly)

Chase 4 black cats back to Iris Tunnelly.
The cats wear rings above their heads and are scattered across the whole area, e.g.

• on the west side of the maze
• near the southwestern ruin
• by the pond
• at the graveyard
• in the undergrowth to the south and southeast

They don't always appear everywhere, but can be chased off from the same spot more than once.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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An Eerie Fog (Halinard Bunce)

Try a Muddled Ale (and understand why it's called that).
Once you had the drink, you'll need to perform 6 actions to clear your head again. Some of the actions carry rings, but not all of them. Possible actions are:

• drink from the steaming mug with coffee (or whatever that is) righ there on the table
• encounter bats, spiders, and squashed mice (just walk there)
• try Camellia's blackberry pie
• encounter the ghost of Old Took at the graveyard (do you remember him from questing in the Shire? :-))
• take a bath in the pond
• emote /pushups
• emote /slap - even if you target Halinard or someone else, you'll slap yourself instead because you’re drunk and wake up a little :-)

Each "wake-up remedy" can only be used once.

As soon as you've drunk the coffee and performed the emotes, mount up and finish the rest while mounted. That way you won't be incapacitated by the fright effects.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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Gourds and Goblins (Halinard Bunce)

A memorial event for the great hobbit hero "Bullroarer" Took! Knock goblin gourds flying out of Wistmead in a high arc.
The gourds are scattered all over the area, e.g.:

• along the path to Wistmead
• near Bingo
• at the southern corners of the maze
• near Berilac Boffin
• west, behind the tables
• on the two low walls south of the tables
• along the path to, and west of, the southern ruin

Each gourd can be knocked away more than once. Gourds inside the maze do not count for this task.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens, 50 Virtue XP

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Quests in Tanglecorn (the Wheat Maze)

The maze is actually 5 mazes, since the wheat walls mysteriously change position every day. Here are the 5 maps.

Click for a larger view:

And here again for black-and-white printing:

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Preventing a Murder (Ermentrude Haybank)

Shoo away 10 pesky crows from the maze.
After I painstakingly marked every crow in every maze, I found on the next run that the critters were sitting somewhere completely different. So just run through the maze and grab whatever you can get! There are 14 crows in each maze; finding 10 of them isn't hard. You can’t shoo away the same crow twice.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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Gathering Gourds (Ermentrude Haybank)

Harvest 10 ripe gourds.
As with the crows, the gourds change position, so it's not worth marking them on a map. Here too, each maze has 14 of them, of which you only need to find 10. You can’t harvest the same gourd twice.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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Challenging Wheat (Ermentrude Haybank)

Find the exit from the tangled wheat within the allotted time.
Since the mazes differ from one another, the allotted time also varies.

You may not cheat! "Cheating" means using a secret passage where you can slip through the wheat walls — marked in gold on the maps.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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Cheat of the Wheat (Ermentrude Haybank)

Find the exit from the tangled wheat within the allotted time.
Since the mazes differ from one another, the allotted time also varies.

This time you're free to cheat to your heart's content.

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

Deed: If you complete both "Challenging Wheat" and "Cheat of the Wheat" in all five mazes, you'll receive the title "Master of the Maze".

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Tasks in the Housing Neighbourhoods

Begonia Grubb can be found north of the Party Tree, by the tables in Wistmead, and at the marketplace of the housing neighbourhoods.
There's always a trader nearby selling new costume grab-bags that you can use to dress up.

A Promise of Treats and of Trickery (Begonia Grubb)

Available once per year.

Accept the first step of the quest. You receive a festival doormat to place at your house, if you have one. Doormats used to be restricted to the doormat hook directly in front of the entrance, but now you can place them on any housing hook you want.
You can place all the different doormats in the same room of your house to make life easy, or you can coordinate mats with your neighbours to adorn a whole street with mats. Whatever’s more fun!
For other players to be able to loot your doormat, you must enable the use of furniture in your house! Placing a doormat is not required to do the quest.

You can then accept Begonia's follow-up quest once per day and go around the neighbourhood's doormats to find sweet surprises.

If you already have all the doormats you need, you can stop opening doormat packages and instead pass them on or list them cheaply on the Auction House. That way other players can fill in whatever they're still missing in their neighbourhoods.

Reward: 5 Fall Festival Tokens, a doormat, two costume grab-bags, title: "the Hospitable"

Treats or Trickery (Begonia Grubb)

Dress up in costume to find six different sweet surprises under the neighbourhood's doormats. The costume lasts 3 hours.
There are 8 different sweets that you can loot from the corresponding doormats, but for the quest, you only need six - different ones though.
You need to be in costume to loot the doormats, not to place them. Thanks, Alithia, for the tip!
You can search in any neighbourhood, including those of other races.
If a doormat "doesn't work", this can mean:

• You're not in costume.
• You've already collected that particular sweet recently.
• The homeowner hasn't enabled the use of furniture.
• You've already found all 6 sweets for this round.
• You've already completed all the food deeds (see below). In this case, a success message for the "Treats or Trickery" task still appears, but you won't receive any sweet. Exception: Marshmallow, which is surely a bug; you also can't eat it anymore.

These were some convenient neighbourhoods in 2025. I’ll update this section for 2026 as soon as possible.

• GLAMDRING:
  Rohan, Eastfold, Stapledell, 3 Peak Way
  Thanks, Sorvad!
• MERIADOC:
  Shire, Flaxenfoot, 3 Wending Way and Muckwell, 6 Brookbank Street
  Rohan, Eastfold, Holmstow, 1 Ridge Road
  Thanks, Sealana, Thoribald, and Gwenryth!
• MORDOR:
  Shire, Goatbottle, 2 Wending Way and Lyndelby, Munglad, Edgemere Road
  Many thanks, Aeliren and Saphire!
• ORCRIST:
  Thorin's Hall, Losstath, 1 Roaring Road
  Thank you, Uroc!
• PEREGRIN:
  Bree-land, Withymere, 3 Garden Street
  Thanks, Ealle!

Reward: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

Repeating this quest and eating additional sweets earns you the following deeds:
"Treats or Trickery: First Harvest": Complete the quest once. Reward: title "the Taster"
"Treats or Trickery: Sevenfold Sortie": Complete the quest 7 times. Reward: title "the Ravenous"
"Treats or Trickery: Bottom of the Barrel" Complete the quest 20 times. Reward: title "the Toothless". The 7 previous times count towards this.
"Treats or Trickery: Sampling": Taste each of the 8 sweets. Reward: title "Sweet Tooth".
"Treats or Trickery: Second Helping": Eat 20 sweets (any kind). Reward: title "Trickery Fan".
"Treats or Trickery: Clean Sweep": Eat each of the 8 sweets 20 times. Reward: title "Sweet Mouth". After completing this deed you can no longer eat or collect any of the sweets (except Marshmallow, which is surely a bug). The quests can, however, still be played afterwards.

The doormats can be looted every three minutes without the quest active. Each doormat has its own cooldown. This makes it much easier to stockpile the many sweets needed for the deeds!

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Quests for All Festival Areas

Troves and Trickery ("Games Master")

In each festival area, a "Games Master" will ask you to entertain four townspeople. To do this, you must perform an emote that matches what the townsperson says to you. The residents wear blue rings above their heads.

You have 20-30 minutes. The timer only runs until you've performed all the emotes correctly. So you can take your time before turning the task in.
You must target the townsfolk for your emotes to count. However, you can usually perform them from quite a large distance - give it a try.

Listen carefully to what the townsfolk say to you. Some of it is a bit of a stretch, but with a little trial and error you can usually work most of it out. Clicking the small speech-bubble icon under your chat window lets you search through your emotes.

Hobbiton

Egbert Took, east of the Party Tree, sends you to these townsfolk:

On the fence along the road to Bag End:

“Well, your clothes, around the back ... backside, they're not quite fitting right.”

At the stable by the bridge:

“I saw a spider, and now I am shuddering all over!” - Do exactly what the hobbit says.

On a small dock east of the bridge:

“I'm about to lose my temper!” - This hobbit is getting properly angry. He's about to have a ...

In the gazebo above the post office:

"I'd love to eat more, but I'm not sure there's room. What should I do?”

Duillond

Gloreniel, hidden a little behind the Games Master Malenfas, sends you to these townsfolk:

In the kitchen, a little north of the stable master:

“It was just a taste! You will not tell anyone, will you?” You've caught him red-handed and now he's embarrassed. Become his accomplice, and he'll surely feel better!

From there, a little east at the well pavilion (musician):

"Music can be so inspiring, NAME; do you not agree? We are missing something, though, if this is to be a true party ...” - What could you do?

On the northern, high viewing platform (guard):

“I greet you, and give salute to your great valour. We warriors are as kin!” - It’s not /salute he expects though (that would be too easy), but something similar ...

On the southern, low viewing platform:

“What do you see out yonder? I stand here often, and watch.”

Thorin's Hall

Guthlág at the inn sends you to these townsfolk:

In the western passage leading to the inn:

"It certainly gets very dull down here, working as much as I do, with only the sound of water and chattering dwarves to distract me. If only there was something else.” - What nice sound could you make to cheer him up?

In the central hall, by the western of the two middle pillars:

He destroyed one of Dwalin’s best tankards with a botched bow-shot. "All the dwarves who saw made fun of me so ...”

In the east of the Maker’s Hall:

“I would give anything for just a sip. Just a little taste!”

On the west side of the Forging Hall:

“What do you think of these great limbs of mine, wanderer?” - Show him yours!

Bree Festival Grounds

Bryony Elmwood, north of the pool, sends you to these townsfolk:

In the centre of Bree, north of the vegetable market, under a house's overhang:

“My mother will give me an earful when I wander home stinking of beer. Alas, alas!” She’s right, why not help her a bit?

In the Slums, just before the steps up to the town wall:

"They tell me I'm mad, but they will not think so when their legs turn to trees.” - Your opinion?

Between the Boar Fountain and the Pony, east of the road:

“I am quite content with my eight dresses. What do you say to that?” - You could give a pointedly weary round of applause ... or maybe overdo it? Will she even notice?

In front of the north entrance of the Auction House:

He's gambled away all his money and now wants some of yours to keep going. "What do you say to that: yes or no?”

Choice of reward for each regional quest: 1 Mask Token or 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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Reward for a successful race: 3 Fall Festival Tokens

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Grab-Bags

In each festival area you can draw grab-bag prizes:

• at the Party Tree in the Shire: apples from apple bobbing, from Games Master Sawlo Puddifoot, southwest of the Party Tree
• in Duillond: scrolls from Games Master Malenfas
• in Thorin's Hall: geodes from Games Master Dýri
• at the Bree Festival Grounds: pumpkins from Games Master Bess Forester

These items go straight into your wallet. They are character-bound and can be exchanged with the Games Masters for Fall Festival Tokens.

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Inn League and Ale Association

Here you'll find separate guides for the quests and deeds of the Inn League and the Ale Association.

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Rewards

The Games Masters are:

• at the Party Tree in the Shire: Sawlo Puddifoot at the apple bobbing, southwest of the Party Tree
• in Duillond: Malenfas
• in Thorin's Hall: Dýri
• at the Bree Festival Grounds: Bess Forester

Here you can exchange grab-bag prizes (apples, geodes, scrolls, pumpkins) and festival masks from the "Troves and Trickery" task.

The bartering traders for Fall Festival Tokens are:

• at the Party Tree in the Shire: Rosa Hornblower, northwest of the Party Tree
• in Duillond: Torelleth, by the dance stage
• in Thorin's Hall: Kylfa, at the bar
• at the Bree Festival Grounds: Alf Mossman, north of the pool

You can also exchange currencies from all the festivals with each other at Becca Burrs at the Party Tree, a few steps north of Rosa Hornblower.

Dyes

In odd-numbered years, Fall Festival Tokens can be exchanged for the dyes Autumn Leaf and Twilight Purple, and Mithril Coins for the dyes Fallen Leaf of Lorien and Ashen Fen Green.
In even-numbered years, the currencies are swapped. So grab them if you want to build up a small stockpile!

Maps

During the Harvest Festival, the map deed maps for Rivendell, Eregion, Enedwaith, and Mirkwood are available for purchase.

Cosmetics

Outfit pieces cost 24 Fall Festival Tokens; some older ones only 18 Tokens.
Cosmetic pets cost 40 Fall Festival Tokens.

Cosmetics 2025

This year there's a genuinely spooky costume, the Cobweb Garments. They consist of a robe, a cloak (with or without hood), a hat, and a wearable cauldron in which a green soup bubbles away (yes, with bubbles!) The dark grey parts, including the trousers, can be dyed.
In daylight the web is bright white. I have adjusted the tone in the pictures slightly, because the light in Wistmead as a whole is a bit yellowish.
The cloak's hood is not transparent and doesn't sit close to the head, so it’s unfortunately not quite suited for a Frodo-and-Shelob costume.

The cauldron is a one-handed item and therefore cannot, as a cosmetic, override a two-handed weapon. Wardens can place it over their sword hand.

The hat has a giant buckle and is quite the sight.

Instead of a horse, there's the only vehicle that could possibly suit this outfit: an Autumn Leisure Broom (just the name alone :-)). Just like every hobby-horse, it can now be used all over the world, not just in settlements, and also like other hobby-horses lets you visually, but not factually, dismount when hit. You continue at the same speed, just on foot, with a broom in your hand :-)

And finally, two cosmetic companions: a Pumpkin Huorn with scrawny branch-arms and a cute little Autumn Aurochs. What the latter has to do with the Harvest Festival, I don't know — it's a thoroughly friendly fellow and not the least bit spooky.

As always, you'll find the housing items at D&Co du Milieu.

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Cosmetics 2024

The Garments of Masked Wisdom consist of a Robe, Boots, and a Mask. They appear to be owl-inspired. I have to admit I'm not a fan of the colour scheme. The pale brown has a similar brightness level to the pretty floral pattern, so it's only clearly visible in the lighter section at the bottom of the hem. However, the brown parts can be dyed. With a darker base colour (black, Ered Luin blue, Rivendell green ...) the patterns really stand out better!

As a cosmetic companion, there's a Ghostly Cat:

and the Windfell Owl, who makes quite an effort to look dangerous!

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Cosmetics 2023

This time we got the Garments of the Forest-spirit, consisting of a Tunic, Boots, a Cloak with or without a hood, a Mantle, and a Mask.

Here are the Mask and the Mantle:

The Boots have feathers along the shaft; you can see them a bit better against a light background:

As a mount, we got the Elk of the Forest-spirit, which also pairs nicely with the Autumn Sage's robes (see 2020!):

The cosmetic companion is the little Forest-spirit Goat, which doesn't really match anything, but is adorable :)

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Cosmetics 2021 and 2022

To my knowledge, there was no cosmetic set in 2021, but 2022 brought three new companions at once: a Black Marble Wolf-dog, a Night Sky Craban, and a Lantern Gourd-lurker. There's no end to what you'll find.

The pictures of the WEolf and the Gourd-lurker are from the LOTRO Wiki.

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Cosmetics 2020

If you want to gift this cosmetic set, you need to choose the Harvestmath Garments Gift-wrapped Selection Box.

The absolute eye-catcher of 2020 is called Robes of the Autumn Sage: a spectacular black dress with golden leaf trim. It has two shading variants and can be dyed.

There's also a splendid golden-brown Tunic of the Leaf-turner, which can also be dyed.

Then there are further accessories. First the Cloak of the Autumn Sage, which goes with both outfits and can be obtained with or without a hood. Here's the hoodless version paired with the dress:

Then two fun gimmicks: a pair of raven wings and bee wings!

And finally, two stylish headwear pieces. A hat (technically a shoulder item) called Hood and Hat of the Autumn Sage:

and the Mask of the Leaf-turner:

All the pieces of clothing can be combined with one another. I think the fashion designers of Middle-earth outdid themselves!

Mount

The 2020 steed is the Steed of the Autumn Sage. It's decorated with elements from both new outfits, so it goes wonderfully with either one. Cost: 60 Fall Festival Tokens.

Cosmetic Companions

This year there are three lovely crows as companions! They cost 40 Fall Festival Tokens each.

An Spooky Jackdaw with a spooky skull:

The bright orange Harbinger of the Sage’s Storm:

And a gloriously scruffy Soot-feathered Crow:

Housing

Pictures of the housing items can be found at D&Co du Milieu.

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Cosmetics 2019

2019 brought the lovely Tunic, Trousers, and Cloak of the Autumn Traveller cosmetic set. All pieces can be dyed.

The 2019 Harvest steed is called the Steed of the Autumn Traveller, even though it's actually an elk :-)

The 2019 cosmetic companion was a handsome Badger:

You'll find the housing items at D&Co du Milieu.

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Cosmetics 2018

This year's cosmetic set has a surprising colour for autumn — a deep midnight blue: the Travelling Robes of the Autumn Wanderer. It's also excellent for dyeing, if you'd like, for example, a truly jet-black robe.

The outfit is completed with the Mask of the Autumn Wanderer:

The matching cosmetic companion is the Black Cat:

You'll find the housing items at D&Co du Milieu.

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Cosmetics 2017

This year's cosmetic set doesn't really look autumnal, but it does look incredibly Elvish! Forgive me for showing it off on a hobbit lady here — she just couldn't resist. This is the Autumn Leafmail Set, which includes a Dress, a Hauberk, Shoulders, a Shield, and a Cloak with or without a hood.

Heare are the Hooded Cloak and the Shield of Eldar Autumn. In these pictures I'm also wearing the barely visible Shoulders; they are really wafer-thin:

The cosmetic companion is a small Gourd-lurker. It really is quite small — it doesn't even reach an Elf's hip.

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Cosmetics 2016

This year there was no complete outfit, just the Mantle and Cloak of Gloaming Autumn. The cloak’s colours are radiant! Here, I paired it with the Simple Hauberk from the Anniversary Celebration.

And we got three companions: the Leaf-fall Kite, the Oaken Kite, and a Brown Bat:

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Cosmetics 2015

Just a simple dress, but one of the most elegant in the game: the Dress of the Anórien Autumn:

That year there was also an Anórien-themed shield, though technically it’s a back-item: the Pack of the Anórien Autumn. It has absolutely nothing to do with the dress, but it’s beautiful!

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Cosmetics 2014

This time the autumn garb is a bright yellow-orange: the Robe of the Autumn Sun with a matching Cloak, with or without hood.

And to go with it, there's the Cloak of the Autumn Sun:

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Cosmetics 2013

This year there was the Spooky Robe of the Bat, which is just about the least spooky cosmetic of the whole Harvest Festival, and really pretty:

It has a matching cloak with or without hood:

The Spooky Steed of the Bat is only available for 70 Mithril, so here’s the picture from the LotRO Wiki:

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Cosmetics 2012

A nice addition to last year's set is the Harvest-brew Dress with the matching circlet. The Wiki says the Harvest-brew Circlet was already added in 2011. I'm listing it here anyway, since I'm not so sure about the year, and it also obviously matches this dress.

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Cosmetics 2011

This year was clearly all about Oktoberfest with the Harvest Brew Garb. Beer and Pretzels!

The Harvest Brew Cloak (left) clearly belongs to this set and comes with and without a hood. The Wrap of the Turning Leaves (right) is also from this year. There's no hooded version of this second cloak.

And four hand-held items: apple basket, pretzel, beer mug, and autumn gourd:

The Garments of Autumn Night will be added soon!

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Cosmetics 2010

This year there were four Festival Masks: the Crow Festival Mask, the Goblin Festival Mask, the Boar Festival Mask, and the Pipe Festival Mask. I dyed the Crow Festival Mask red, to give an impression of which parts are dyeable.
All of these masks can also be found in the chests in the Haunted Burrow. So if you don't urgently need them, you can wait and see whether you get them for free.

Plus three cloaks, namely the Cloak of Falling Leaves, the Cloak of the Crow, and the Cloak of the Boar:

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And now we wish you lots of fun and pleasant shivers at the Harvest Festival
Berrie the Fearless and
the Ghost of the Old Took!

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