Adventures and Deeds in the Yondershire

The Yondershire area is a very good alternative for hobbitplayers (lvls 20-25) who do not want to play the man quests in the North-downs. Just go to Needlehole in the Shire and pick up your first two quests for the Yondershire!

Quests in the Yondershire
The quests in the Yondershire have a very typical 'hobbit' theme. As usual, there are quests that let you run from postoffice to postoffice, avoiding nosey hobbits. And there are also 'search' quests for missing hobbits and objects. Of course there is some mushroom and strawberry hunting, you can feed all kind of animals and at some places you can help with the beer or breakfast preparation. 

You can play a hide-and-seek game with an Gildor Inglorion and the kids, 

Sometimes your quests looks like a job of social worker: you have to calm offended hobbits, must resolve a bullying incident or collect signatures for a petition. 

Some quests are typical slayer-orientated, but most are friendly hobbit quest to help hobbits in need or in distress. If you don't mind slow levelling, than the Yondershire is a great area to have fun with Lotro!

Mischief in the Yondershire with Dinodas Boffin
One of the most funniest quests  (lvl 20) are the quests which let you do some mischief with a very playful hobbit kid: the famous Dinodas Boffin. With him, you will enter a quite hilarious questchain with several quest-assignments! It actually starts with the quest 'A Visit to Yondershire', which was given to you by Bingo Boffin near Needlehole. One of the tasks that you will get, is to find Dinodas Boffin in the settlement of Gamwich. 

At some point, Dinodas Boffin will ask you to help you with a housewarming present, and from than on all the mischief will begin! If you follow the questchain, you will meet up with Dinodas Boffin during the following three quests: 9 Honeymead Lane, followed by Dinodas in Distress and finally with A Caper on Honeymead Lane. After resolvong these quests, you have to do some other tasks, starting with the quest 'Boffins on the Loose'. Please, do all the tasks of this quest, since it will ends with one of the most funniest instances in the Lotro game, called 'A Very Boffin Housewarming'. As you can see, I don't give clues, since it will spoil all the fun of the Dinodas Boffin quests. If you do them, you will remember him forever.

A meeting with Dinodas Boffin, somewhere in Nobottle, to do some mischief...

Sites of Yondershire (Deed)
One of the Deeds in the Yondershire is to visit the Sites of Yondershire. First, you can pay a visit to the hobbit-settlements of Nobottle, Gamwich, Long Cleeve and Tighfield. If you ride quickly along the roads to these places, there are no noteworthy enemies you will meet. If you do it early in the Yondershire area, don't forget to visit the stables, since that will open the travel routes to these settlements.

After visiting the hobbit-settlements, it is time to do some ruins exploration. Troughout the Yondershite area there are 5 named ruins, which are inhabited by quite large groups of unfriendly ruffians, goblins or half-orcs. A rough location of these ruins are given on the map below. I dont give coordinates, since it will spoil all the fun by finding them. The map is accurate enough to find the ruins, althoug sometimes you have to look carefully where the entrance is situaties. Ruins along the road are: Bâr Faroth, north of Long Cleeve, and Tham Amothir, west of Tighfield. The entrance of Bâr Faroth is on the eastside, just circle the stonewall in an eastwards direction and you will find it.The entrance to Tham Amothir is also a bit hidden. Just follow the road westwards until you pass the ruin, which is build high on a hill. After you have passed the ruin, look for a small path going uphill (left of the road, at the southside of the road).

The other three ruins are situated in the wilds, they are Lhúngobel, in the outer northwest, Ost Lagorath above Gamwich and Taerhad, east of Long Cleeve and north of Bullroar's Way. As soon as you have visited these 8 sites, you have completed the Sites of Yondershire Deed. As you can see, I don't give coordinates, just try to find these sites with help of the map below. It is way more fun!

Deeds in the Yondershire: visiting settlements and ruins

Hunting insects: the Insect Slayer Deed of the Yondershire

There are two kinds of insects that will contribute to your Insect Slayer deed in the Yondershire. These are Kneekerbreekers (kind of swamp crickets) and Harvest-flies (kind of sickle-flies). These insect species will remind you of your adventures in the Shire, in Rushock Bog east of Needlehole. Kneekers and Swampflies are also common in Bree-land, especially in the Midgewater Marshes, east of the village of Staddle (near Bree). You can find Kneekerbreekers and Harvest-flies near streams and especially in boggy areas of the Yondershire. On the map below I have added some, but not all, locations where you can find them. Just look at clusters of green squares (Neekers) and lilac diamonds (Flies) on the map. A very good place to go for kneeker-hunting is the bog in the east of the Yondershire, at 35.3S, 88.1W. Lots of Harvest-flies can be found east of Thâm Amothir, at 27.3S, 83.9W. The fly around a stone circle with five ruined pillars.

Many harvest-flies can be found around the stone circle near Tighfield (27.3S, 83.9S)

Note: harvest-flies in the Lotro game do not have a good resemblance to the harvestflies of our human world (real life), which are big cicadas. In the Lotro game they are unique fly-like insects with a sting like a wasp. In the game the harvest-flies are huge and they look a bit like a genetic cross-experiment between a cicada (body, legs and head), a wasp (sting) and a caddis fly (wings and flight behavior). 

Hunting mammals: the Beast Slayer Deed of the Yondershire
Three kinds of mammals will contribute to your Beast Slayer deed in the Yondershire. These are bears, Wolves and Shrews. Wolves and Bears dwell mainly in woods and along forest edges, while shrews can be found in the grassy open fields or along grassy roads. All these mammals can befound scattered throughout the Yondershire. There are two bear-dens and one wolf den with 15-20 animals of these species. They will contribute hugely to the Beast Slayer Deed of the Yondershire if you can locate them. The Wolf den is in the woods northeast of Gamwich, around 23.4S, 81.2W. Just look at your radar if you are level 20-25, and as soon as you see a cluster of red dots you have found the den. The bear den in the West, at 23.3S, 85.6W, can be located using the same technique. However, you have to go into the wilds and cross one of the streams to reach the den. Is is at a somewhat higher location, with trees and boulders. The other bear den is harder to find. It is located at the south side of the road from Nobottle to Bullroarer's Way. Look for a gap in the stone wall, along the road. This gap is is located at 25.5S, 76.1W. Cross the gap in the wall southwards, walk a little bit higher, to the southeast and look for a narrow valley between two rocky outcrops. Around 25.7S, 75.4W, many red dots on your radar will appear: you have found te well hidden Bear den of Bullroarer's Way!

Deeds in the Yondershire: Beast Slayer Deed

Pass the stone wall and go up between the rocks to find the Bear Den of Bullroarer's Way

The hidden Bear Den of Bullroarer's Way: look at the red dots in the radar!

Hunting for the bad guys & girls: the Enemies of Yondershire (Slayer Deed)
Enemies of the Yondershire can be easily found by using your rader (at level 20-25): if you sea many read dots around the below depicted places on the map, you have found them! The bad guys and girls of the Yondershire are thieves and ruffians, and they live in derelict places like the elven ruin of Ost Lagorath, north of Gamwich. Another concentration of thieves and ruffians lives east of Tighfield, just west of a straight and low stone wall, with some ruined pillars. This ruined place with no name, I call it 'The Straight Wall'), is around 26.6S 84.5N. It lies a bit west of the harvest-fly concentration at the pillared stone circle (see pictures below). To enter this place, you have to go uphill at the road between Tham Amochir and Tighfield. Just look for a straight stone wall with an arched stone gate. You can see the straight wall as a thin black line in your radar, with lots of red dots behind the wall (see picture below). The wall can even be seen on the map, if you look careful you see a very thin and straight line, pointing northwards. 

The other baddies are goblins and halforcs. Lots of halforcs live in the elven ruins of Tham Amothir, in the southwest, and also in the ruins of Tearhead, north of Bullroarer's Way. Goblins dwell in two other elven ruins. One is situated in the far northwest, and is called Lhûngobel. The other goblin infested ruin is Bâr Faroth and lies north of Long Cleeve. 

Deeds in the Yondershire: the Enemies of the Yondershire

Thieves and ruffians at the Straight Wall. Look at the radar and you see the wall.

Cowardly Boggarts
Throughout the Yondershire, there are also small roaming bands of Cowardly Boggarts. These small goblins comes in groups of 4-6, and they run like madman through the countryside - even along the road from Nobottle to Bullroarer's Way. I have not included all of these roaming Boggarts, the map depict just some of them I have met on my travels. You can recognise these mad goblins in your radar: look for a small moving cluster of 2 or 3 red dots. Just point your mouse above such a red dot, and you will find out if it is a group of Boggarts. They are usually level 20-21, but can be a nuisance if they popup screaming while you are fighting other creatures in the Yondershire.

Four Cowardly Boggarts attack with their pointy spears