By order of the Shirriff, we are temporarily disabling the Spring Festival's new Inn League quest following an unfortunate accident involving a keg, a pine tree, a Moor Cowbell, and a Mad Bristlehide. We'll bring it back in an upcoming patch. As consolation to those who haven't yet had a chance to complete the questline, we'll extend the Spring Festival for a week! Sorry for any inconvenience - party on!

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This means we will be extending the Spring Festival up to 31st March.

Players should visit the festival grounds for some spring-themed celebration.  The most wanted item this spring is the Inn League Keg. We made this guide with detailed instructions on how to get the Inn League Keg, and to find out what other quests you can expect during this festival. There are some tips and tricks and where this keg can teleport you. We hope you will find this guide useful.
Spring festival - How to get Inn League Keg

Another guide is about Gift Boxes and very interesting items you could get.
Spring festival - How to get Gift Box

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To enter, all you have to do is send an e-mail to lotrocompetition@codemasters.com with why you deserve this ticket in 10 words or less!

Please also include your name, date of birth and your e-mail address with your entry.

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This was really great adventure, and I think everyone should try to find this secret place, because of the gorgeous landscape in "upper Lone Lands" , invisible  walls and unexpected obstacles you come across in this puzzle, totally different from usual quests.

We hope you will enjoy in this adventure as much as we did. We made
a small guide with directions and screenshots that will help you to find this place. Trust me you won't regret.

I am not an avid YouTube watcher. I guess it has something to do with my distorted sense of humor. I only have a couple of "tubers" (is that a valid term? - I just made it up in this context) that I am subscribed to. Danny's "Gradual Report" show is one of them. He makes daily videos and has a completely wacky sense of humor. Not all of his shows are great but there are some gems that just keep me laughing. The latest one is about gamers so I thought I share it with you. I just find it incredibly funny the way he loves petting that pussy and of course that he pwns n00bs.

 

Spring is in the Air!

CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR NEW GUIDES:
1. SPRING FESTIVAL GUIDE - HOW TO GET INN LEAGUE KEG
2. SPRING FESTIVAL GUIDE - HOW TO GET GIFT BOX

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The Free Peoples of Middle-earth have been eagerly awaiting Spring’s balmy kiss, and at last it has arrived! This can mean only one thing: time for LOTRO’s first Spring Festival! Players should visit the festival grounds beginning March 7 for some spring-themed celebration.

• Love is in bloom! Head to Bree to help with affairs of the heart.
• Get into the spirits! The Tavern League is back for another round with new shenanigans.
• Send a note of affection to that special someone… or maybe even catch the attention of a secret admirer!

So enjoy a respite from battling the encroaching Shadow, and take time to pick some flowers. Heroes picking flowers? Well yes, someone has to do it!

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What can you expect?

• New Housing Keg that ports you to random places!
• A great deal of other cosmetic items coming with Spring Festival

This time no Spring Festival horse 🙁

The Fall Festival horse will make a comeback this fall and hopefully we will have another Festival Horse make an appearance later this year. If you are curious about previous Fall Festival tokens and their usability in the next Fall Festival, the answer is YES you will be able to reuse the Tokens!

Have you seen this secret place? There are only a few people who have discovered it so far. If you are ready for a new adventure follow up our road signs...

"The place is not in Shire or Evendim it's in Lone Lands. And it's not a part of a quest . At Ost Guruth, at the back left of the town there is a wall that has crumbled and its possible to jump up at it and from there onto the slope behind.Once you make the "jump to the upper Lone Lands" go northwest-ish and then north to Dol Dinen along the ridge.

The jump only make while on horseback, feet alone will not do the job. This is NOT a glitch or warp bug - the area you need to climb/jump up looks doable, you just need to persevere. As to whether you need a horse... well, no - but you will need some buff. A captain's sprint buff is doable, but not sure about the Hunter's run boost. It can also be done on a level 25 horse, and... as a CHICKEN!!"

Check out our Forum for more information

Have you found the secret place?

Will the Auction House search problem be fixed any time soon?

We're currently looking to put a fix to the auction house in place between the first or second week of March. We understand the severity and the issues its causing for players.  So we want to get this out as soon as possible but we dont want to run into additional problems on the way, so we want to make sure the fix is tried and tested before we throw it out the door 🙂

Liquilla
LOTRO Community Officer

A few days ago we wrote about some major Lotro problems and one of those problems was character transfer. Unfortunately this problem hasn't been solved yet.

There is no news, no, sorry. We're seeing what can be done from a database aspect (as we have control over that) and have managed to resurrect a few people. We believe the few others that remain irretrievable are so due to some problem with the code, which is being looked at by Turbine.

Satine
Senior Community Liaison Manager

Following up our yesterday’s news about  MAJOR LOTRO RELATED ANNOUNCEMENT at CONNECT 08, we start to wonder what it could be.

- First paid-for expansion pack?
- Turbine's developing a console iteration ?
- New region Forochel? Mirkwood? Rohan? Moria?
- More PvE content?
- Fishing?


What do you think? Tell us your opinion.