Anniversary scavenger hunt guide – year 11

Just when you thought they were done, they throw you one more, and these may be some of the most difficult and most widespread hunts we’ve seen. This set takes us back to many of the locations that Gollum visited on his journeys. We also take a round trip tour of the ruins of Middle-earth and have a cryptic epic entish poem to decipher.

As this is the second year the anniversary scavenger hunt is offered, all of the previous ten years are already available. No waiting around for one a week like last year. The devs have even said that the scavenger hunt portion of the festival will remain available for some time after the main anniversary festival to give people time to finish it off. And while the meta-riddle (paper scraps) does not continue with year 11, we still get some rewards to revel in for our efforts.

This article is part of a series on the Anniversary scavenger hunt. Find out more here.

Year 11 rewards

Gollum Festival Mask

Emote: Ent_horn (makes two different ent noises)

Year 11 tales: Gollum (recommended level: 105)

You only need to complete ten of these eleven objectives to finish this card. There is an erroneous quest mark in the Silvertine Lodes of Moria. Also, there’s a portal between the Noman-lands and the Dead Marshes!

Objective	Location
Search for the Precious in Gollum’s Cave	Goblin-town 21.8S, 6.2E
Remembrances in Gollum’s Cave (3)	Goblin-town 21.8S, 6.2E
Open shackles west of Barad-dûr	Dor Amarth, Mordor 46.5S, 22.6E
Gollum’s Cell in Felegoth	Dungeons of Felegoth 47.3N, 125.3W
Quest instance: ‘A Trap for the Creature’	Garbert’s Cottage, Trollshaws 38.3S, 14.5W
Base of a tree in Lothlórien	Haldir’s Flet 16.2S, 73.5W
Swim in the Anduin southeast of Floodwend	The Wold, East Rohan 46.4S, 46.3W
Remembrances in the Dead Marshes and Noman-lands (2)	Dead Marshes: 30.2S, 11.3W Noman-lands: 36.9S, 15.7W
Session Play: ‘The Precious, At Last’	North Ithilien 41.7S, 10.3W
Swim in the Forbidden Pool	Henneth Annun, North Ithilien 48.3S, 8.5W
/Listen to a gossip in one of the markets of Dale	Dale 24.2N, 24.9W

Year 11 travels: Ruins of Middle-earth (recommended level: 100; Mirkwood access)

Collect 24 remembrances across these twelve ruins.

Objective	Location	Rems.
Midgewater Marsh	Bree-land 31.0S, 44.8W	3
Iskeld’s Lookout	Misty Mountains 21.5S, 4.6W	3
Gwaelband, Annúminas	Evendim 17.8S, 70.2W	3
Ost Gorthad, Barrow-downs	Bree-land 35.5S, 53.9W	3
Ost Galadh, Emyn Lûm	Mirkwood 14.5S, 51.1W	3
Bâr Húrin	South Ithilien 73.2S, 12.3W	3
Haerondir	The Wastes 36.6S, 8.9W	3
Brangobel	South Ithilien 71.5S, 9.1W	3
Ethillorn	Lebennin 84.0S, 45.6W	3
Ost Dúrgonn	South Trollshaws 31.8S, 20.7W	3
Echad Guaradan	Trollshaws 38.3S, 16.1W	3
Ost Lagoros, Kingsfell	North Downs 9.6S, 47.6W	3

Year 11 trifles: Long List of the Ents (recommended level: 100)

These objectives are extracted from a longer poem which is written in its entirety here.

Objective	Location
Eldest of all, the elf-children	Caras Galadhon, Lothlórien 15.4S, 67.0W
Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses	Endless Stairs, Foundations of Stone 14.7S, 99.0W
Ent the earthborn, old as the mountains	Wellinghall, Entwood 38.3W, 85.3W
Man the mortal, master of horses	Edoras, West Rohan 62.1S, 72.8W
Beaver the builder	The Dale-lands 26.3N, 25.0W
Buck the leaper	High Moor, Trollshaws 33.3S, 8.8W
Bear the bee-hunter	Buckland, Bree-land 30.9S, 60.7W
Boar the fighter	The Greenway, North Downs 14.3S, 52.0W
Hound is hungry	Bree Mess Hall 30.5S, 51.2W
Hare is fearful	Field of Cormallen, North Ithilien 47.7S, 13.3W
Eagle in Eyrie	Dómstoll, Misty Mountains 21.9S, 8.6E
Ox in pasture	Starkmoor, Dunland 81.9S, 20.1W
Hart horn-crownéd	Eryn Lasgalen 16.7N, 39.0W
Hawk is swiftest	Torech Andraug, Eregion 50.5S, 8.9W
Swan the whitest	Rushgore, Great River 28.2S, 55.0W
Serpent coldest	Tyrn Fornech, Evendim (on the path to Forochel) 1.0S, 62.3W
The Hobbit children, the laughing folk	The Party Tree 29.6S, 71.8W

Additional resources

• Unofficial LOTRO community on Google+
• Kurgan Nazzir’s blog
  • Year 11 tales
  • Year 11 travels
  • Year 11 trifles