When the festival is taking place there are four main areas where you can participate: Bree Land’s Festival Grounds, The Shire’s Party Tree, Duillond in Erid Luin, and in Thorin’s Hall. Each area has a variety of events to take part in, and some events will require you to travel to every location. Participation in these events will earn you tokens that you can exchange for prizes, or some other type of award.
All four festival areas have a Dance Leader who leads a dancing event every twenty minutes. To successfully complete this event you must follow the commands that they give you. They will call out a series of dance steps, and you must perform the correct emote to succeed. To do this, make sure you have the dance leader selected, and then type either /dance1, /dance2 or /dance3 into the chat window, depending on which step is called for. If you miss any of the steps you’ll be forced to repeat the quest, but the pace is pretty slow so as long as you’re careful it should be simple to complete. Just be certain not to stray too far from the dancing area or you’ll fail the quest.
Your reward for completion is a new dance emote. Each of the four Dance Leaders offers two unique emotes, which means that if you want to earn them all you’ll need to travel to all four festival hubs and complete every dance twice.
In every festival area except Bree Land you can find an NPC who will send you on a quest to find five missing items. They’ll give you hints as to where the items are and the search area is small, making the quest fairly simple. Make sure to use the delete key to highlight nearby objects, which will make the hunt easier. If you’re having trouble, here are the precise locations of the items.
First, the Shire hunt. The book can be found on a rock just east of the Party Tree. The wine is on a table just behind the character that gives you the quest. The twine is resting at the base of the Party Tree. The teapot is on a table near the stoves, and finally the parasol is just down the hill from the Party Tree.
Next is the Elf hunt in Duillond. The goblet is on a table near the ovens. The jewellery box is on the steps of the northernmost building. The blue book is on the edge of the fountain, while the brown book is by a flowerbed at the top of the south stairs. Lastly, the bundle of books can be found across from the vendors.
Finally, the Thorin’s Hall hunt. The blue bottle is near the minstrel trainer. The green jar is by the vault-keepers. The note can be found by taking a right turn out of the tavern. The pack is just outside of the Blue Stone Garrison. The red jar is next to the auctioneers.
Your reward for completing these scavenger hunts is some special pipeweed, as well as recipes for this pipeweed which you can learn if you are a farmer.