Ten years ago this site started with one promise: if you saw it in someone else's house, we'd help you put a name to it. Let's test that. Somewhere in our database sits a very old decoration. Here is everything we'll give you about it:

"A hobbit-made painting of a green dragon."

Name it. Answer format: the decoration's exact name, as listed on this site.

When Rohan brought its meadhalls to Middle-earth, it brought a brand-new kind of hook along with them: the fire pit. How many decorations does our database list in the fire pit category? Answer format: a number, digits only.

Our database would be nothing without the world it documents. This one takes you outside our walls. In August 2020, the official LOTRO site published a guide unveiling a brand-new flavour of premium housing. Which land? Answer format: one word.

While you're off saving Middle-earth, some folk have rather more pressing matters on their minds. In the Shire, a young hobbit who moved up from Hobbiton is working up the courage to ask a very big question. What is his name? Answer format: the NPC's name as displayed in the English client. 

Ten years spent writing about everyone else's houses. Time you saw one of mine.

I've written something on the floor of my kinship house, among the flowers, the trees and the waterfalls. One letter per room. They're all indoors, and you just have to go in and look down.

Put them in the right order and you have your answer.

Address: 1 High Road, Arwich — Bree-land homesteads Server: Sting

 

Not on Sting? Rolling a character there takes three minutes and costs nothing.

Answer format: one word.

Not every hobbit adventure ends in song. Somewhere in the Shire, one very determined fellow has set out on the journey of a lifetime: downriver, all the way to a cousin's house in Buckland. His boat has a hole in the bottom of it. A watcher on the bank is doing his level best to talk him out of drowning himself, and getting nowhere. Name him. Full name, please. Answer format: the NPC's full name as displayed in the English client. 

Some decorations you will simply never own. This one hasn't been obtainable since ages. Back then, pre-ordering the expansion earned you a coin, and that coin could be traded for a small bright thing that sings. Name it, and mind the spelling. Answer format: the decoration's exact name, as listed on this site.

Every neighbourhood has that one resident. In the Shire Homesteads, someone only comes out once the sun goes down. What do they call him? Answer format: the NPC's name.

Just near Bree's North Gate, someone has had a very bad morning. A cart is on its side, and a hobbit is thoroughly stuck in the hedge. What is his name? Answer format: the NPC's name.

Ten riddles. Ten fragments. Ten years. For the final piece we're handing the keys to the other side of the screen: Scenario, from the LOTRO team, is giving out the last hint on September 10 at 3pm (EST) during the We Have A Cave Troll stream on Twitch. Missed it? The VOD will carry it, same as always. Once you have all ten fragments: put the message back together in the right order and submit it below. Submissions close on September 17. Winners announced on September 19. Thank you for ten years. Now go build something. Answer format: name of the item.