LOTRO Guides

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.

The Shire’s Postmen need your help! It seems that with all the gossip flying around the Shire about Lobelia Sackville-Baggins’ party the daily post has fallen behind.

There are 13(+1) Postal Quests that comprise Restoring the Quick Post. They are all essentially the same quest, but because of the Shire’s geography they all take different amounts of skill and luck. To complete them you must grab a satchel of mail from the table of the Postman you just accepted the quest from. Then RUN!

As soon as you pick up the bag, a you will see a timer on your screen - you must carry the bag of mail to the next Postman within that time. And you can’t take damage or fall in the water along the way. Did I mention to watch out for the Nosey Hobbits? Fortunately they show up on your mini-map so you can easily avoid them.

So what do you get for completing these quests other than a 90 copper tip? By completing the main 13 quests you will earn the Virtue Trait Patience +1. And by capping those 13 quests off with a trip to Postmaster Proudfoot in Michel Delving you will also get the Postmaster’s Cloak and the title “of the Quick Post” so you can let everyone know you are an official Postman or Postwoman of the Shire.

After you grab the mail from the Postman’s table I suggest staying on the road unless you see a Nosey Hobbit’s eye near you on your mini-map. Then simply head off the road for a bit - their range of sight isn’t that large. But because you’re on a timer make sure not to stop. Just keep running. To plan out your route ahead of time, take a look at the MEHQ dynamic map.

The Quests (with beginning loc):

• Bundle for Michel Delving (28.1S, 75.9W) Postman Redsmith of Needlehole has asked you to deliver a satchel to Postmaster Proudfoot in Michel Delving.

• Bundle for Waymeet (33.4S, 75.0W) Postmaster Proudfoot of Michel Delving has asked you to deliver a satchel to Postman Twofoot in Waymeet.

• Bundle for Needlehole (32.8S, 73.0W) Postman Twofoot of Waymeet has asked you to deliver a satchel to Postman Redsmith in Needlehole.

• Bundle for Hobbiton (33.0S, 71.0W) Postman Took of Tuckborough has asked you to deliver a satchel to Postman Grubb in Hobbiton.

• Bundle for Michel Delving (31.8S, 76.7W) Postman Newbuck of Little Delving has asked you to deliver a satchel to Postmaster Proudfoot in Michel Delving.

• Bundle for Tuckborough (33.4S, 75.0W) Postmaster Proudfoot of Michel Delving has asked you to deliver a satchel to Postman Took in Tuckborough.

• Bundle for Bywater (28.1S, 70.1W) Postman Boffin of Overhill has asked you to deliver a satchel to Postman Cotton in Bywater.

• Bundle for Overhill (31.2S, 71.3W) Postman Grubb of Hobbiton has asked you to deliver a satchel to Postman Boffin in Overhill.

• Bundle for Budgeford (31.9S, 63.8W) Postman Smallburrow of Stock has asked you to deliver a satchel to Postman Bolger in Budgeford.

• Bundle for Stock (33.3S, 65.7W) Postman Spinner of Woodhall has asked you to deliver a satchel to Postman Smallburrow in Stock.

• Bundle for Woodhall (32.1S, 68.2W) Postman Oddfoot of Frogmorton has asked you to deliver a mail satchel to Postman Spinner in Woodhall.

• Bundle for Scary (31.2S, 65.4W) Postman Bolger of Budgeford has asked you to deliver a satchel of mail to Postman Digswell in Scary.

• Bundle for Brockenborings (27.8S, 66.5W) Postman Digswell of Scary has asked you to deliver a satchel to Postman Moresby in Brockenborings.
• A True Friend to the Quick Post (33.4S, 75W) You have helped to restore the good name of the Quick Post, and Postmaster Proudfoot is delighted at what you have done.

With these quests (along with a few others), Turbine has taken a decided step toward offering MMORPG players quest-lines that require both real skill and in-game awareness of your surroundings without relying on the general murder/mayhem that is par for the course in this genre.