LOTRO Guides

What do Hobbits love more than full dinner plate and a smoking bowl of pipe-weed? A good-sized tankard of beer, that’s what!

One of the more sought-after titles in LOTRO, “Shire Brew-Master,” is a lot easier to get than most people think. Well, it’s not that easy … but at least you don’t have to dodge any Hungry Hobbits.

In order to gain this title you must complete a quest at each of the Shire’s five pubs:

• The Bird and Baby - Collect the Yellowed Recipe for Carlo Blagrove, innkeeper of The Bird and Baby. The Yellowed Recipe is located on a shelf in the library of the Great Smials in Tuckborough.

• The Floating Log - Ponto Hopsbloom has asked you to pick 12 Frog Hops for his famous beer. Frog Hops grow all over the marsh north of Frogmorton and look like white flowers. Simply pick 12 of them and return to Hopsbloom.

• The Golden Perch - Gunderic Grubb has sent you to search the brigand camp Narrowcleeve for his missing package of yeast. Narrowcleeve is located in the hills south of Woodhall, about mid-way between Tuckborough and Farmer Maggot’s farm. The yeast is located in the second encampment on the right-hand side near a lone Brigand Boss (35.1S, 66.9W).

• The Green Dragon - Barmy Rootknot, the assistant innkeeper at The Green Dragon Inn, has sent you off in search of a lost brandy-barrel. It is located in Lob’s Grove at the base of a pillar (26.8S, 71.8W).

• The Plough and Stars - Halson Tubwort has asked you to collect his powdered gypsum from a cart waylaid by goblins north of Brockenborings. After leaving the pub you must speak to Wilcome Tunnelly (27.6S, 66.4W) at the quarry. The gypsum is in a cart (24.8S, 66.9W) just inside the goblin area in the northeast corner of Greenfields.

Once you have completed these five tasks you will be able to let everyone know that just because you like your beer, you’re no lazy Hobbit!

Fresh from the trials and tribulations of working your way up through the Shire Postal Service’s food chain and you still want more grab-and-dash quests? Well take a run over to Holly Hornblower in Hobbiton (31.2S, 71.1W).

She sets you off on a mad dash to distribute her pies across the Shire. In return you will receive the Virtue Trait Patience +1, along with Hornblower’s Pie Recipe, a sample Hornblower’s Pie and the title “Pie-runner” which will let everyone know that you are Holly’s b… est friend.

The Spoiled Pie Quests run along the same lines as the Postal Quests: pick up spoiled pies at the 12 locations below and run back to Holly, all the while avoiding water, dangerous beasts and Hungry Hobbits.

The Quests:

• Pie for the Green Dragon (ending at 31.8S, 69.4W) Deliver Holly Hornblower’s pie to Gerd Whitfoot in the Green Dragon Inn in Bywater.

• Lobelia’s Pie (ending at 29.4S, 71.3W) Holly Hornblower wants you to take Lobelia’s pie to Opal at the Party Field then speak to Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.

• No Place for Spoiled Pies (with starting locs) Holly Hornblower wants you bring all the spoiled pies back to her in Hobbiton-Bywater.
  1. Spoiled Pie from Little Delving (32.0S, 76.6W)
  2. Spoiled Pie from Michel Delving (34.1S, 75.1W)
  3. Spoiled Pie from Bywater (31.8S, 69.4W)
  4. Spoiled Pie from the Party Field (29.6S, 71.6W)
  5. Spoiled Pie from Needlehole (28.1S, 75.9W)
  6. Spoiled Pie from Tuckborough (33.5S, 70.9W)
  7. Spoiled Pie from Budgeford (31.1S, 65.4W)
  8. Spoiled Pie from Frogmorton (31.2S, 52.5W)
  9. Spoiled Pie from Stock (32.1S, 63.7W)
  10. Spoiled Pie from Woodhall (33.3S, 65.6W)
  11. Spoiled Pie from Brockenborings (31.2S, 52.5W)
  12. Spoiled Pie from Scary (27.8S, 66.4W)

• A True Friend of Holly Hornblower (31.2S, 71.1W) You have run all over the Shire helping to return spoiled pies to Holly Hornblower - no small feat! Talk to her for your reward.

These quests are another of Turbine’s awesome Hobbit quest chains which take skill and luck but don’t require you to kill anything. A bonus for parents who want to play LOTRO with their children, but are afraid of the constant kill-kill-kill action typical to RPGs and for players who are just a little tired of killing rats for fun.