LOTRO Yule Festival 2025 Guide

For the December 2025 Yule Festival, the Rotating Figments of Splendour Vendor is Filbert Fig.

Yule Festival is really easy to “grind” if you want Figments. So check out their stock and see what gifts you want to get yourself!

Last year, LOTRO also reduced the “wrapper” requirements, so you can complete all of them in 12 days, rather than 16.

During the Yule Festival, LOTRO include extra goodies into the Gold and Silver Hobbit Gifts. For example, there are two mounts:

Elk of Festive Spirit

Elk of Festive Spirit

Mount Details Here →

Goat of Winter Cheer

Goat of Winter Cheer

Mount Details Here →

You can find some of the possible items in the links below.

• Decorations in Yule Presents (Déco du Milieu)
• Other Items (LOTRO-Wiki)

The Hobbit Gifts UI also becomes more festive:

Yule Hobbit Gifts - a special red and gold design during the Winter festival.

• Spirit of Yule Daily gives 2 × and some Essence Fragments
• Most Yule Festival Quests give 4 × Yule Festival Tokens.
• The staged Deed also grants tokens and/or Golden Festival Tokens.

There is a daily, cunningly called “Yule Festival” – that gives 2 × Tokens and a Sack Of Presents (when you hand the quest in to Mara Sandydowns) for completing any quest in Frost-Bluff.

The Sack of Presents can yield all sorts of things: Tokens, Marks, Medallions, decorations, cosmetics and the odd Essence Fragment. 4 × Fragments can be traded for an Essence Box in Winter-Home.

For a full list, including the percentage chance of receiving each item, head to the Wiki.

Yule Festival

• Sack of Presents
• ×2 Yule Tokens

In the Spirit of Yule

• Legendary Item XP
• ×5 Yule Tokens

A Fortune of Festive Spirit

• Legendary Item XP
• ×500 Figments of Splendour
• Scrap of an Essence Reclamation Scroll
• ×5 Yule Tokens
• ×1 Universal Optional Crafting Ingrediant
• Tracery Token, Incomparable

Please Note: completing this is only possible if you have gained access to Missions. If you haven't, do not pick up the A Mission to Bring Good Cheer from Mara Sandydowns.

1. Make sure you’ve done the intro quest to Unlock Missions. Most characters will have had an auto-bestowed quest when they were first introduced. You can take the special stable-masters from various locations. The easiest one for most players is near the normal Stable-Master near Thorin’s Hall.
2. Once that’s unlocked, pick up the new quest from Mara Sandydowns called A Mission to Bring Good Cheer.
3. Go back to the Missions area.
4. Complete a mission (and hand in the relevant quest). You only need one for the Yuletide quest.
5. Hand in Mara’s quest at Winter-home.

How Quickly Can You Progress Bringer of Good Cheer?

The Bringer of Good Cheer deed can be incremented once a day and requires 40 Dailies.

A Mission to Bring Good Cheer - Quest from Mara Sandydowns

Getting from Winter-home to Missions

• Non Further Adventures Missions
  As far as I can tell, the quickest way is to take the Winter-home Stable to Thorin’s Gate. There you can reach the Dwarven Missions and Trestlebridge.
• Further Adventures Missions
  For The Further Adventures of Bilbo Baggins and The Further Adventures of Elladan and Elrohir, you can get to Rivendell from Bree among other places. But not from Thorin’s Gate.

Sweets destined for the Poor Children of Winter-Home have been stolen by various snow-dwelling creatures and carried away across Eriador. You must retrieve them and then deliver them to the children to brighten up their Yule-tide!

Note: the creatures you need are in areas up to around L45, so if you want to do this quest under level, get the help of another player.

I’m not doing a guide to this quest as The Wiki has an excellent walk-through already!

But, once you complete it, you receive:

• Title: Bringer of Sweets
• Pet Tome: Yule Rabbit which has a snowflake animation.

Moving them Off

I stopped doing this quest a few years ago. It goes against the spirit of the season, and there are tons of other options for completing the daily.

According to the Mayor’s attitude, these beggars diminish people’s experience of the festivities (even though he caused the situation). So Guard Kember asks you to tell them to move away (there are 5). Not a joyous task!

Beggar Bill Hyde

Beggar Jack Judson

Beggar Barrett Nowell

Note: all the beggars of Winter-home are marked with quest rings on your map.

A Charitable Spirit (Deducts 5 Tokens)

The complete polar opposite of this is the quest A Charitable Spirit from Quest-Giver Daley Utteridge. This time you go to the same 5 Beggars in Winter-Home and donate a Yule Festival token to each of them, and maybe an apology for being forced to treat them harshly!

Beggar Regina Judson

Beggar Ted Ives

Hidden Deed Completes

There is a Hidden Deed for this Quest. When you have completed A Charitable Spirit 10 times, it completes the deed Such Generosity. This deed awards you:

• × 50 Yule Fest Tokens
• Title: The Openhanded

It took me years and years to actually run The Biggest Stomach of Them All. I have been avoiding it because of the time limit and racing aspect. But I have made it to – and finished – Table 5. And for those of you who use mounts between tables – I did it on foot, and so can you!

However, gave me these couple of tips:

• Swifty & Hammo have some ways to maximise your stomach’s capacity!
• As always LOTRO Wiki has an excellent guide
• Teriadwyn also pointed out: “there is no timer at the first table, so you can wait out the debuffs. You can also wait out your competition, since there is a limited amount of food available.”

While the longest way to earn just 4× Yule Festival Tokens, you can go and watch a showing of “The Disapperance of Mad Baggins” at the GLOBE Theatre. There is also a random chance of you being selected to play a part in the production!

• As an actor/actress, you need to target the audience then perform an emote when told to (e.g. dance, belch…anything off the chat panel list!). If you are appreciated, the crowd may throw flower petals at you. If you act badly (or don’t perform an emote, or don’t have the audience targeted when you do), rotten fruit will come your way!
• Flower Petals and Rotten Fruit are available at the Concessions stand, tended by the ingeniously-named ‘Hobbit’.
• There are Deeds (and therefore Tokens) available for throwing the petals/rotten fruit. And for receiving a certain number of those.
• So long as you arrive in the Theatre before the production ends, you’ll be credited at having ‘Attended a Performance’ and get your 4 Festival Tokens

Players taking part in The Disappearance of Mad Baggins at the GLOBE Theatre

I occasionally hear people say “Please do the emotes badly!”. While getting pelted with squishy gone-off fruit isn’t pleasant, allowing players to do this is helpful to them. You may have the deed outstanding yourself and wish for bad acting one day.

As the show progresses, actors/actresses are required to perform emotes. You should quick-slot your petals and rotten fruit to make this easier.

• If they perform an appropriate one, then you can throw Petals at them.
• If you hear a ‘boo’ then the bad actor/actress is indicated. Select them and throw the rotten fruit!

Both throwing Flower-Petals and rotten fruits have deeds, and from Tier 2, Titles!

• Fruit Hucker title
• Petal-Pusher title

There are also a few LOTRO Points up for grabs as well!

If you don’t like the prospect of a career in acting, then you can buy the titles for 10 Yule Festival Tokens.

You can earn these titles by playing different roles on-stage and performing well (or badly!). Click/Tap the image to see the available titles for purchase!

What Yule-Tide Celebration would be complete without building a snowman or…five? To build your snowman, you’ll have to gather materials from Winter-Home and also around the Frostbluff region as a whole. Only when you have all the components can you build and dress-up your Snowman!

Tips

• Turn on Floaty Names to see snowman-building materials easier
• There is a cluster of acorns nearby the Quest-Giver, so you don’t need to roam far. Other components are in the screenshots below!

There is a Cool Reception Deed, which grants two things:

1. Broken Snowman Decoration for your Homestead. Other snowman types (e.g. Mitten-Wearing Snowman) are available from the Barter Vendor.
2. Title: Gatherer of Cool Company

To get the title, you must build the 5 Different Types of Snowmen available.

The Cap is in the workers' corner. There are steps but you can 'reach' it from the ground.

The cap is in the workers corner of Winter-home.

Pipe location for Filling the Field - He won't miss it, right?

This Hobbit doesn’t need his pipe anymore, right?

The Scarf is on the lowest level near Keg with a Dwarf sat on it.

The Scarf is on the lowest level near the keg with a Dwarf laid on it.

The Top Hat in Winter-home is on top of this Lamppost.

The Top Hat is on this lamppost, not far from Guard Kember.

The Mittens are by the entrance to GLOBE Theatre in Winter-home.

These are near the entrance to the GLOBE Theatre.

You can find acorns under the trees near Winter-home.

You can find acorns under the trees near Winter-home.

Coal is next to the Servants Oven

In the huge bag next to the oven.

Collect sticks from white bushes

Look for the flashing bushes. You can take more than one stick from the same bush.

You will find Carrots in Cluckland, a bit further away from the Snowball Fight area.

Carrots are in Cluckland, which is not far from the Snowball area. There are at least 3 carrots here.

You have a quest to go and defeat the cold. These are grims that are called Wintry Weather and you’ll need to defeat four to complete the quest.

Ranged users will have no problem here. Melée Classes may get blinded! If your melée class has a ranged attack (Guardians and Champs have bow-use after a certain level), then use those instead.

Empty Keg Emergency requires you to steal a full keg of ale and get it to the patrons before the guards (Watchers) spot you.

Having watched other players (in a non-creepy way), the quickest way is per the video (left/above). The Keg itself was redesigned a few years back, but the quest and route have stayed the same since it was first built.

Turn on floaty names to help you avoid the Watchers!

The workers of Winter-Home are not happy with the way they are being treated, and how little food they get during the “festive” period. So it’s time to get one over the on Mayor and set off his fireworks early!

While wealthier patrons are distracted by the impromptu firework display, you need to pick their pockets and return some coin to the poor folk of Winter-Home.

Apparently, the firewood the Mayor demands has to be the ‘best’. However the best wood comes from Angry Trees.

Well, given you are about to turn them into kindling I think they have a right to be angry! And the Mayor won’t go and face these trees, so you have to! Here’s one of these beauties – click/tap if you really want a close-up!

Venture out into Frostbluff and defeat nine to keep Winter-Home warm!

Festivals in Middle-Earth attract a lot of party-goers. And where there are people and food, mess is made!

It’s time to do your bit in keeping Winter-Home tidy, and clear up all those unsightly messes left around the village! You can find spills and dirty plates throughout Winter-Home (click/tap image for larger one).

To complete the quest you will need to clear:

• Dirty Dishes × 10
• Reeking Garbage × 10 (niiiice!)
• Liquid Spills × 10

There are slightly more dishes than you need for the quest. And don’t get annoyed when the ones you just cleaned come back dirty. As the one who washes the dishes in our family, that’s a bit too close to reality for me!

Frostbluff is home to more than just people and snowmen! Out in the countryside around Winter-Home live Abominable Snow-Beasts. You are tasked with trying to cheer them up in the spirit of Yule!

To do this simply head up to the Snow-Beasts and hit the “Cheer” emote button in the Quest Tracker.

• Technically you need to try to cheer up 3 Snow-Beasts.
• Buuuut if it’s busy, and to reduce annoying other players, if you hit the button quickly 3 times you can complete the quest.

Bake bread at this Servants Oven in Winter-home. It's on the upper level.

Bake some delicious food for anyone other than yourself.

Raid chicken nests in Cluckland for the Stuffing the Stuffed Quest.

Raid chicken nests for eggs. Easiest. Raid. Ever.

Inside the Mushroom Tent for Stuffing the Stuffed.

Mushrooms can be pampered? I hope they appreciate it, then.

An Example Winterberry Bush from the quest Stuffing the Stuffed

(near to the quest for Cold as Ice)

South of Winter-home is a snowball-fighting field. There you can amass snowballs from the snow piles and throw them at other players.

The event only runs for a few minutes each time, so make sure that you have at least one other player in the field before it starts!

You may need to recruit people to take part in this. I don't very often see people playing it.

Snow-Beast Title Deed

Raining Snowballs / Snow-Beast Deed

If you complete the Raining Snowballs deed, you will be awarded them Snow-Beast Title.

As with other Festivals in the LOTRO Events Calendar, there are other quests dotted around Middle-Earth that grant tokens.

The main locations for this are: Bree-land Festival Grounds, the Party Tree, Thorin’s Hall Inn and Duillond.

These quests are repeatable daily, which grant an additional 16× Tokens a Day if you complete them all.

Important Note

These quests do not appear to count towards the daily wrapper, nor The More the Merrier Deeds

There are a couple of quests in Bree-land which grant Festival Tokens, as well as the Horse Race. But be warned if you are under Level 15, there are some mobs of L18 in the area.

The Quest-Givers are in the Bree Festival Grounds and are Wim Wheatsheaf and Sally Threshing.

How Many Tokens?

If you do both, then you will earn:

• 4 ×
• Legendary Item XP (if applicable)

Note: for some reason these do not count towards In the Spirit of Yule wrapper, nor The More the Merrier deed.

An Ailing Tradition of Ale

I’ll let the quest-giver do the talking here, so click/tap the screenshots below for more details! In short you need to head to the water near Thornley’s Work Site (approximately 26.8S, 54W) and grab an Ale-Cask to take back with you.

You don’t have to run back to the Festival Grounds with it. It just fits into your enormous pocketses!

The ale cask is near this cart.

More Boar for Bree

Festivals can never have too much food which means you need to go pick up Boar meat. Thankfully you don’t have to kill boars, however there are some roughly L18 Wolves and Boars en route to the area marked on the map.

You need to pick your way around those (if you’re below level) and retrieve 5 slabs of ex-Boar. They look like this:

Boar Meat for More Boar for Bree

The Season of Merry-Making

If you’re an Elf or High Elf, ignore Saervereth’s poorly-veiled insult to you being a “child”! She wants you to go find mistletoe as part of the traditional reminder of Spring’s rebirth.

You’ll find trees bearing Mistletoe North of Duillond, towards Thrasi’s Lodge. You need to collect Mistletoe from 5 Trees. Hendrovail and Bears wander around here, so if you’re a low-ish level, just be aware you may need to fight for your mistletoe!

Take Mistletoe from Trees like this one | A Season of Merry-making

Wreathed in Fir

The Elf Anglalaith wants help to make wreaths of fir to give as gifts to others. You can find Fir bushes near to Tham Gelair.

Note, Wolves and Boars roam in this area. You need to collect branches from 5 different Fir bushes. You cannot collect branches from a bush you’ve looted already, even after it respawns.

Take Fir branches from bushes for Wreathed in Fir

Inside the Thorin’s Hall Inn are two Dwarves ready for you to show Festive cheer and run errands for them!

These also grant 2× and Legendary Item XP where applicable to your character(s).

Snow for a White Yule

Glói, the poor Dwarf, has decided Bree-land deserves some snow sent from the Blue Mountains. All so they can truely embrace Yule. Bless him.

You need to pick up 8 × Snow Piles for him to load on his cart! Oh and these seem to fit in your pockets too!

Snow Piles needed for Snow For a White Yule Quest

Dwarf-Ice

Imi wants help to make a special dessert! All he needs are 3 × special berries and for some ice chipped from the nearby frozen waterfall. The berries are easy to spot:

Berry Bushes for the Dwarf Ice Quest

Using this waterfall is a little tricky, so I suggest putting floaty names on (N-key is the default) and right-clicking that instead of trying to find the clickable bits.

You don't need to climb the waterfall for Dwarf Ice. But you can still use the floaty name to retrieve it.

There are two Quest-givers at the Party Tree.

There’s also a separate Yuletide Woes story where Lobelia Sackville-Baggins has decided she is the Yule Party planner! This does not grant tokens but does give a Yule Tree decoration reward. See the Wiki for full details.

5 × Boxes of Ribbon

The boxes of ribbon are these huge crates and lie just off the road.

These are by the road on the way to Overhill.

5 × Blue Flowers

An example of the Blue Flowers you need for Ribbons and Bows

In the bit of Bindbole Wood near the Party Tree.

5 × Red Berries

An example of the Red Berry plants you need to find. Some may be uncovered like this one, many are in the grass, though.

In the same area as the Blue Flowers (see your map).

Use Floaty Names

With quests like this, it’s better to have Floaty Names on (Default Keybind: N), especially when some items may be in the long grass.

Combine that with “select nearest item” and it becomes much quicker to clear.

Use floaty names to easily find Blue Flowers and Red Berries.

Good Cheer and Warm Cider

Samfast Longburrow, clearly distracted at the Party Tree, has run out of apples to make his annual special cider. You need to simply hop over to Appledores and pick up 5 × Apples.

Yes, they’re in piles of 3 or 4 but you have to loot 5 piles of apples!

Apples in Appledores for Good Cheer and Warm Cider.

A Mission to Bring Good Cheer

Pick this quest up from Mara Sandydowns. Go complete a Mission. Earn Yule Fest tokens! Doing this also progresses the Bringer of Good Cheer Deed.

And, if you like a challenge, doing this progresses the daily and weekly Missions wrappers too.

A Final Act

Once you’ve played a certain number of event quests, you can opt to run A Final Act. This once-a-year quest lets you choose whether to ally with the Rich or with the Poor in Winter-home.

I have a separate run-down of that story and how it works, along with the cosmetics you can earn here:

A Final Act →

Battle at Frostbluff is a Seasonal Instance (Skirmish-like) only available during Yule Festival.

The children of Winter-home have built snow forts but these have been overrun by winter spirits and vicious creatures. Your job is to clear the forts and reclaim Frostbluff for them!

Although you can only complete the deed (for the Encounters during the Skirmish) if mobs are not grey/trivial, you can still earn 5× Festivity Tokens and 6× Yule tokens if you run the Seasonal Instance at Level 10.

The Daily gives 6 YuleFest tokens.

Note: the 6 Yule tokens can only be earned once a day per character (it’s a daily quest from inside the instance.

Frostbluff’s Frosty Beasts Deed

Once you have defeated each of the (randomly chosen) beasts you can earn The Frosted title. Two Encounters spawn on each run.

Note: mobs need to be at least green strength to count (i.e. 8 levels or less below you when you set the instance level).

Frostbluff's Frosty Beasts Deed - Battle at Frostbluff

Battle at Frostbluff Cloak

10 ×

More Info →

Carrot Nose (and Ear Muffs)

20 ×

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Knitted Cozy Frostbluff Cap

20 ×

More Info →

Knitted Frostbluff Mitts of Comfort

20 ×

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Knitted Frostbluff Tunic of Snowball Resistance

20 ×

More Info →

Marshmallow Roasting Stick

20 ×

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Storvâgûn's Mace

20 ×

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Storvagun's Spare Boots

10 ×

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Storvagun's Spare Gloves

10 ×

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Storvâgûn's Spare Helm

10 ×

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Storvâgûn's Spare Shoulderguards

10 ×

More Info →

Alabaster Donkey 20×

Pet Details Here →

Jingle Turtle 30×

Pet Details Here →

Snow Not-So-Grim 20×

Pet Details Here →

Snowy Evening Pig 30×

Pet Details Here →

This Year’s Mount

Cozy Jingle Steed 80×

Cozy Jingle Steed

Mount Details Here →

Snow-dusted Draught Steed

Snow-dusted Draught Steed

Mount Details Here →

Last Year’s Mount

Snowy Evening Steed 80×

Snowy Evening Steed

Mount Details Here →

Previous Mounts

There are more mounts than this available during the event. Some are still for Festival Tokens, others for Mithril Coins. Hit the image below to browse them all!

Cozy Jingle Boots

Cozy Jingle Boots

35 ×

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Cozy Jingle Cloak

Cozy Jingle Cloak

35 ×

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Cozy Jingle Hat

Cozy Jingle Hat

35 ×

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Cozy Jingle Mitts

Cozy Jingle Mitts

35 ×

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Cozy Jingle Overclothes

Cozy Jingle Overclothes (Front)

35 ×

More Info →

Cozy Jingle Scarf

Cozy Jingle Scarf (per-pixel off)

35 ×

More Info →

Boots of a Snowy Evening

Boots of a Snowy Evening

35 ×

More Info →

Cloaks and Hoods of a Snowy Evening

Cloak of a Snowy Evening

35 ×

More Info →

Jacket of a Snowy Evening

Jacket of a Snowy Evening

35 ×

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Scarf of a Snowy Evening

Scarf of a Snowy Evening

35 ×

More Info →

Tis the season for giving! Normally festival rewards – certainly those released in the last few years – are Bound to Account.

If you want to purchase outfit cosmetics for another player, then look for the Gift-wrapped Selection Boxes.

These cost 35× and the player can choose which item from that set they receive. This is the same token price as you pay per item, so there’s no extra wrapping and packaging surcharge!

Token Dyes

You can obtain the following dyes for 30 Yule Fest Tokens per stack:

• Moria Silver Dyes × 6
• Belegaer Blue Dyes × 6

MC Dyes

The folowing dyes can be purchased for 10 Mithril Coins per stack:

• Dark Mossy Green Dyes × 6
• Lórien Gold Dyes × 6

Emotes

There’s one Emote available:

Frost Breath Emote

See the Frost Breath Emote!

Decorations

Déco du Milieu features the decorations available at this event on their website!

As such, I don’t put them here. So browse their site before choosing your festive décor! Keep an eye on their BlueSky Feed for when they update the rewards.

See Festival Decos →

What Are Golden Festival Tokens?

Yule Festival has a unique barter currency: Golden Festival Tokens. These can be used, alongside normal tokens, to buy certain cosmetics – namely the Horned Snow-Beast Cloak and the accompanying Snow-beast boots.

Snow-beast Boots

Snow-Beast Boots

50 ×

More Info →

Horned Snow-Beast Cloak

Spiral-Horned Snow-Beast Cloak

50 ×

More Info →

You can obtain Golden Festival Tokens either by exchanging 75× Yule Fest Tokens or by completing various stages of The More the Merrier deed.

No other event has this currency, and you can’t use them to buy boxes of tokens for future festivals. So ensure any unused ones are converted back to Yule ones before the event ends!

Why Can’t I Buy Certain Items? Why are they Greyed Out?

The latest rewards no longer require any deed to be completed first.

However, for some older rewards, having enough Yule Fest tokens is not sufficient to buy them. You have to have completed Tier 1 of The More The Merrier deed.

All you have to do is complete 20 Yule Quests. For that you get

• × 1 Golden Festival Token (which normally costs 75 × standard tokens).
  NB: If you wish to exchange for , you will only get 25×, not 75. (Thank you to RH on for this amendment).
• Ability to barter tokens for mounts.
• Extra cosmetics from the barter vendor under “The More the Merrier Rewards”.

And your Summer ones this year…ha.

Fun, slightly addictive and with some attractive cosmetic gear from the Barter Vendors the LOTRO Yule Festival 2025 is great to attend, even if you just go a couple of times. Have fun and have a happy Christmas/Holiday/season/December!

• LOTRO have an official overview for you, too. So it’s worth checking out, as well.