Autumn has come to Middle Earth! Along with another bumper Harvest comes the 2025 LOTRO Fall Festival! This event is jam-packed (hmm, jam) with activities, jokes to play and a scary, haunted burrow which has mysteriously appeared under Bag End. And don’t forget the creepy story behind Wistmead and the extra quests you can do there for those precioussss tokens. The LOTRO Fall, Halloween and Harvest Festival is back! (Or Fallharveenmath, as I call it!).
Fall Festival 2025 Dates
The 2025 Fall / Harvestmath Festival runs from 3pm/servertime on 9th October until 3am on the 4th November.
Looking for Wistmead Quests?
As there are a lot of quests in that zone, I have a separate Guide to Wistmead Quests.
Wrapper Quests
A Spirited Harvest
Similar to other LOTRO Festivals, if you take part in 10 Fall Festival activities, you get:
× 5 Fall Fest Tokens
Legendary Item XP (if applicable)
The Hobbit who has the wrapper quests is Rosa Hornblower (Not Opal Goodbody).
Wrappers can be picked up in The Shire and Wistmead. Both zones have Fall Festival rewards vendors too.
A Bountiful Harvest
A Bountiful Harvest rewards you for completing a number of A Spirited Harvest. So, the (intro) level grants the rewards for completing it three times. I say “three” because the quest you get says “four” but in the quest tracker it shows (1/3) for example.
- Legendary Item XP (if applicable)
300 Figments of Splendour
× 1 Scrap of an Essence Reclamation Scroll
× 1 Universal Optional Crafting Ingredient
1,000 Virtue XP
A Fortune of Harvest Spirit
This Harvestmath wrapper is a bonus for completing a level of A Bountiful Harvest. The rewards for the (intro) level are:
- Legendary Item XP (if applicable)
Tracery Token, Incomparable (if applicable)- × 1 Scrap of an Essence Reclamation Scroll
- × 5 Fall Fest Tokens
- 500 Figments of Splendour
- × 1 Universal Optional Crafting Ingredient
How Many Figments Can You Earn at the Harvest Festival?
Each character can earn 2,300 Figments of Splendour if they complete all wrappers:
- Intro: 300 Figments
- Intermediate: 400 Figments
- Advanced: 500 Figments
- Final: 600 Figments
- A Fortune of Harvest Spirit: 500 Figments
Fall Festival Quests!
Here are as many Festival quests I could find that don’t relate to Bingo Boffin’s questline.
As per usual, you can also partake in the Shire and Bree-land Horse Races, and they are worth 3 × Tokens each!
Troves and Trickery
What’s a “Trick”?
Troves and Trickery is a quest whereby you find NPCs in the regions and perform emotes (or “tricks”) on them! For greater clarity I’ve added the screenshots of each of these so you can easily find them.
Hint: if you want to work these out for yourself, then you’re looking for NPCs with blue rings over their heads. Right click them for dialogue then decipher which emote is most appropriate.
How to Perform a Trick Emote
If you’re new to LOTRO or MMOs in general, Emoting will not be obvious to you. While you can use Collections and drag an emote to your ability bar, Troves and Trickery uses a lot of emotes. So the easiest way is to use the /<emotename> command in the chat box. I’ve put each one below to help you.
Note: the NPC must be selected to count as a trick. Performing the emote near the NPC won’t work.
Tricks in the Shire
Emote: /pick
Emote: /shiver
/burp
Emote: /tantrum
Quest Reward
Hobbit Mask Token (for a Pumpkin Festival Mask) or- × 3
Tricks in Thorin’s Hall
The Quest-giver is in the Thorin’s Hall Inn. And here are your target dwarves for Troves and Trickery who are in various places inside Thorin’s Hall!
Emote: /whistle
Emote: /mock
Emote: /drink
Emote: /flex
Quest Reward
- Dwarf Mask Token (for a Bucket Festival Mask) or
- × 3
Tricks in Duillond
Quest-giver: Gloreniel in Duillond (Near the dancing area).
Here are the Elves you are keeping an eye out for:
Emote: /look
Emote: /hail
Emote: /eat
Emote: /dance
Quest Rewards
- Elf Mask Token (for a Rabbit Festival Mask) or
- × 3
Tricks in Bree
Quest-Giver: Bryony Elmwood (Bree Festival Grounds)
Emote: /whippitydo
Emote: /crazy
Emote: /scold
Emote: /no
Quest Rewards
- Man Mask Token (for a Beaver Festival Mask) or
- × 3
Item-Picking Quests
At the main festival areas there are quick pick-a-box style “quests”. They aren’t real quests so don’t count towards the Daily wrapper. But you get a random number of Festival Tokens. These can be done easily alongside Troves and Trickery.
Festival Mask Tokens
As well as Tokens, you can barter for a Mask Scroll. These can be exchanged at the locations below for head cosmetics you can’t get anywhere else. See Fall Festival Cosmetics in the “Mask Tokens” tab or section.
Apple Bobbing
Location: The Party Tree
At the Party Tree you will find a couple of buckets of water, in which are apples! Even if you don’t like apples (I’m looking at you Mr Bingo Boffin), you can bob and retrieve a random apple. This can be traded with the nearby Barter Vendor for 1, 2 or 3 Tokens.
Box of Geodes
Location: Thorin’s Hall Inn
Look for a chest called a Box of Geodes. You can loot this for a random Geode which can be immediately traded with the nearby Barter Vendor. The geode you find will be worth 1, 2 or 3 Fall Festival Tokens.
Pumpkin Patch Picking
Location: Bree Festival Grounds.
Same principle as the Box of Geodes, but this time you pick from a pumpkin patch and receive barter items to exchange for goodies at the vendor!
The Scroll Chest
Location: Duillond
Near the Trickster is a Scroll Chest which grants a barter item which you can exchange for Fall Festival Tokens at the vendor right next to it! Again, it’s 1, 2 or 3 Tokens, depending on the quality of the scroll.
Haunted Burrow Quests at Fall Festival
Gaining Access to the Haunted Burrow
If you’re new to the LOTRO Fall Festival then, you can’t open up the quests in the Haunted Burrow straight away.
To do that you need to pick up A Cellar Door Appears
to begin a quest chain. Follow the story and enjoy prodding Lobelia Sackville-Baggins over and over and over, until she finally lets you in!
There are a lot of quests in the Haunted Burrow, but note you can only do one at once. Here are the quests, along with some useful links for you!
Things to be Aware of in the Haunted Burrow
- Not all doors go anywhere: some put you back in the room you were trying to leave!
- You can’t often go back through a door you just entered through.
- There are various traps that you can’t avoid.
- There is an entire wing of freebies! Head for the Mystery Door for 3 lootable chests. These chests have a 1-hour cooldown before they can be re-looted. Check your buffs.
- The “Poorly Hidden Chest” – behind a moveable “wall of barrels” in the Basement. It has a 24-hour cooldown (Not aligned with the daily 3am reset).
Map of the Haunted Burrow
I have found a very useful map of the Haunted Burrow for you to learn to navigate your way around! This came from ifynet.com. So all credit etc belongs to them. I am simply sharing it. Other maps are available elsewhere on the web, so find one you like!
→ Click/tap the map to fully open it.
Haunted Burrow Deed
You can earn the “Burrower” title by completing all the deeds around the ghouls and ghosts! To clarify, in order to complete A Race Through the Haunted Burrow you have to first pick up A Stroll Through the Haunted Barrow from Poppy Cotton. (Click/tap the image to enlarge it).
The Great Hobbit Rescue
Quest: Find 6 Lost Hobbits
In the Haunted Burrow are six very lost, Very Scared Hobbits! You can see them on the map I linked, but here’s the rooms they are in and what they look like when you find them!
The Main Cellar (3 Hobbits)
Other Rooms (3 Hobbits)
Rattling in the Haunted Burrow
This is one of three quests from Polo Puddifoot. If you speak to this Hobbit at the entrance to the Burrow he recounts having encountered several scary creatures in there! He wants you to confront them all! The first one can be found in the Attic:
Pull the chain and the “scary creature” emerges! Fight the creature and discover it’s just a fancy-dressed Hobbit!
Roaring Maw in the Haunted Burrow
This time Polo thinks he found a really hungry bear in the Cobwebbed Wing. Better lure it out with a jar of honey!
Oh no, we just shot, stabbed, clawed or yelled at a Hobbit again!
Wailing in the Haunted Burrow
Our not-so-brave Polo is convinced he saw “a real ghost” while in the Burrow! This time you need to find the candle in the Creeping Wing to summon the ghost.
Well that’s a third Hobbit who now has a fear of dressing up. Maybe.
Valuables Gone Astray
Welcome to probably the most gross quest of the LOTRO Fall Festival! Holfast Burrows got so terrified that, in his escape from the Haunted Burrow, he lost several of his valuables in there!
You have to search in various….things, for his items. From barrels of “meat”, to gurgling puddles to piles of bones! Thankfully, the items are in the same place each time you run this, so feel free to use the screenshots below instead to minimise the awfulness!
Button in the Attic
Ring in the Creeping Wing
Pocket-watch in the Main Cellar
Monocle in the Basement
Glove in the Cobwebbed Wing
Bonus Fall Festival Tokens
You can pick up at least 3 bonus tokens if you enter the Mystery Door from the Main Cellar.
The Out-of-Place Lockbox, Strongbox and Chest each contain at least 1 Token, sometimes 2. And there is a chance you’ll get other goodies too:
- Consumables
- Cosmetics (such as Cloak of the Boar/Boar-Head Festival Mask, among others)
- Housing Decorations
As I mentioned earlier, these can be looted once per hour if you wish.
A Stroll/Race Through the Haunted Burrow
Poppy Cotton wants to see how quickly you can make it through the Haunted Barrow. To prove you’ve visited the main areas, you have to bring back a trophy! The are trophies are below. You need to complete a Stroll Through… (20 minutes) to unlock a Race Through… (4 Minutes) needed for the deed!
I don’t know if there’s a “perfect” route, but the quickest one I found is: Attic > Cobwebbed Wing > Creeping Wing > Basement.
Remember you have to have turned the quest in before the time runs out, not just make it out the Burrow! Here’s me doing this race to help you (and yes I make a couple of mistakes!).
Cobwebbed Wing Trophy
pointed out you can actually ‘retrieve’ the Cobwebbed Wing Trophy through the wall. Turn floaty names on (Default Key: N) to make it easier. Saves a few seconds and stops you being ambushed (again) by the spider when you come back through the moving wall.
Riddle in a Bottle
If you want a lot of detail about this quest then please use LOTRO-Wiki. It’s another timed quest, so here is the correct bottle order!
- Main Basement Riddle: Tree (White Bottle)
- Cobwebbed Wing Riddle: Bee (Blue Bottle)
- Creeping Wing: Paper (Orange Bottle)
- Basement: Blue Bottle
Notes:
- You have to pass through specific doors between wings. Look for those labeled as requiring Riddle in a Bottle in the hover tooltip. Only the exit to the cellar is the same as the one you took for A Race through the Haunted Burrow.
- If you pick an incorrect drink you get a speed debuff AND you can be slowed by spiders/ghouls etc. If you pick the correct bottle you get a shield from being hampered by traps in the Burrow!
Inn League/Ale Association
Aside from the initiation quests and the pub-crawls, there are two reputation-granting quests near the Party Tree.
There is one for each faction, so if you are a member of both, you can increase your reputation with them by 
400 per day. This is because each grants +900 for their faction and 
-500 for the opposing one. Here are the quests:
Inn League Excavation
Requires: Inn League Membership (Not a Member?)
Cora Brownlock (the Hobbit sat at the table outside the Haunted Burrow) is feeling a bit worse for wear. However, she remembers seeing a rare, expensive bottle of wine while she was in the Burrow. She would like more of it, but after *mumbles* of drinks, she’s tired. You need to go fetch it for her – and make sure you drink some on the way!
Find the Wine
Bilbo’s Wine can be found in the attic, on the left as you enter it.
Once you have sampled some, you have to carry it back to Cora.
Leave the Burrow
Leave by the quickest route – it is a timed quest. And you are tipsy. If you drop it, or miss the timer, you’ll have to go fetch (and sample) it again. Maybe you should drop it??
The Wine is auto-delivered, so you won’t lose time trying to click Cora! You may need floaty names to bring up the quest hand-in dialogue though!
- +900 Inn League Reputation
- -500 Ale Association Reputation
- Legendary Item XP (if applicable)
× 1 Badge of Taste
Not an Inn League Member?
You can do the seven Inn League initiation quests from the Party Tree. See the Wiki for more information.
The Ale Association: A Game of Hobbit-Harrying
Requires: Ale Association Membership (Not a Member?)
Hiding behind a barrel near the Haunted Burrow is a Dwarf called Ráthgeir. He wants to use the spooky part of Harvestmath to play scary pranks on Hobbits in the Burrow. Naturally, he’ll send you to do the deed.
Where are the Hobbits?
You’re simply finding those from The Great Hobbit Rescue. So long as you remember their locations, you can complete this quest easily.
Play the Pranks
Near each Hobbit is a usable item with the label Bucket of Tricks. There are a few different “tricks” you play, so do take time to have a chuckle.
- +900 Ale Association Reputation
- -500 Inn League Reputation
- Legendary Item XP (if applicable)
× 1 Badge of Dishonour
See the Wiki
for the list of initiation quests. Fall Festival Rewards
Here is a summary of the rewards from the Harvestmath festival. I have also integrated my Fall Festival Cosmetics and mounts system so you can see more information and find specific rewards using my site’s search box.
See my Fall Festival Mounts for the full run-down of outfit items.
Fall Festival Steeds / Mounts
2025 Steed
This year we have a Fall Hobby-Broom … steed? It’s a mount that’s for sure. You can have a chuckle at you slapping your leg to be make it “giddy-up”. It’s based on the functionality of one of the Hobby-horse mounts!
Previous Steeds Available for Tokens
Elk of the Forest-spirit 60×
→ Fall Festival
→ Elk
The LOTRO Elk of the Forest-spirit is a beautiful, dark Elk mount with graceful antlers and autumnal leaves and flowers decorating it. →
Steed of the Autumn Sage 60×
→ Fall Festival
→ Horse/Pony
With plenty of golden leaves and a few more reserved to decorate the mane, the LOTRO Steed of the Autumn Sage is a lovely Fall Festival mount →
Steed of the Autumn Traveller 60×
→ Fall Festival
→ Elk
The Steed of the Autumn Traveller is a beautiful Elk mount with minimal barding and simple, but elegant decor →
Want to Browse All Fall Festival Mounts?
Click/tap the image above to get started.
Past Fall Mounts for Mithril Coins
If you want a mount that’s from a few years ago, then you may only find them available for 
Mithril Coins. It depends on which year they were introduced and whether that was before or after LOTRO stopped phasing mounts to MC.
If you want to see screenshots of them before deciding to buy, then see my Mithril Coins Mounts page, on the Fall Festival tab.
Cosmetic Outfit Rewards
2025 Cosmetics
This year, we have a set of Cobweb-themed Outfit Items. You just need to find your own footwear, or go barefoot.
2024 Cosmetics
Last year was a set dedicated to the wisdom of Owls.
Want to See All of this Event’s Cosmetics?
To view a comprehensive collection of all the outfit items, head to my Fall Festival Cosmetics page! There you can see the most recent, the previous outfit rewards and a full A-Z listing to help you find specific items:
Guises
Guises are temporary appearance changes, making you look like someone else. They have unlimited uses, though, so you only pay once per guise. Also the Guise of Galadriel and the Battle-ready version have different prices.
Why Can’t I Preview Guises at the Fall Festival Vendor?
Because they are not equippable. Instead they are usable items that sit in your inventory (I need to check is Guises have now been moved to Baubles). The downside is, of course, there’s no easy way to get a good preview, except by pictures. Or encountering the NPCs in-game.
Previous Years’ Guises
I haven’t created detailed listings for each of the Harvestmath guises. Instead, I have put the older ones into a grid, so I can show you their appearance and their prices. I’ve put them in Alphabetical order so you can more easily match them to items in-game.
×50Tooltip: “To think some folk thought you would not pass for a Wizard!” 
×75Tooltip: “Although you look the part, you ought to think twice before you try to tame one of the mearas!” 
×25Tooltip: “You wouldn’t be the first to wear such a costume!” 
×125Tooltip: “Never have you felt so compelled to hop along and speak in accentual verse!”
×100Tooltip: “Be careful not to bump into any daggers of Westernesse!”
What’s in a Basic Costume Grab-bag?
One of five costumes chosen at random when you put the costume on. The five are: Mordor Orc, Nurnhoth Wanderer, Ragged Orc, Silent One, Traveller from Rhûn.
How Do I Get a Basic Costume Grab-bag?
If you had hoped for a guise but didn’t want to pay Mithril Coins, then you can get cheapo options from Mogo Bracegirdle. You can find him just outside the Haunted Burrow.
It costs 1× (for 3 uses) and they’re not bad considering the price. I would prefer the grab bag to operate like a selection box, even if the price were higher.
What do the Basic Costumes Look Like?
It only took me 13 grab-bags to get all five, so here you go:
Cosmetic Pets
As these are delivered as tomes, you can earn them on one character and mail to another. All pets cost 40 × Fall Festival Tokens
This Year’s Fall Festival Pets
This year we have a Pumpkin Huorn and an Autumn Aurochs pets.
Note: You can purchase the Autumn Aurochs with Festival Tokens or Mithril Coins.
Last Year’s Pets
Previous Years’ Pets
You can now find these on my LOTRO Festival Pets Library. Please do check it out!
Festival Dyes
You can obtain the following dyes at the Fall Festival:
- Ashenslades Green Dye: 10 × Mithril Coins
- Imladris Fallen Leaf Dye: 10 × Mithril Coins
- Autumn Leaf Dye: 20 ×
- Twilight Purple Dye: 20 ×
Preview of Dye Colours
Decorations
As I have for other festivals, instead of featuring decorations available during the Harvest Festival here, I will instead refer to you Déco du Milieu‘s excellent archive.
The only note I would give is that some decorations can drop from the chests inside the Haunted Burrow, as well as being available from the Barter Vendor. So maybe leave swapping tokens for decorations until later on in the festival?
TL;DR Come Enjoy the LOTRO Fall Festival 2025! Or Harvestmath if you prefer it!
There is a lot going on at the Fall Festival in The Lord of the Rings Online! You can earn a lot of tokens even without the Bingo Boffin questline and there are many rewards to choose from. So get on down to the Party Tree and enjoy Harvestmath in LOTRO! Or Fallharveenmath.
PS: there is an official guide too.
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