Lord of the Rings Online welcomes you back to Winter-home with a new elk mount

It’s time to decamp from Mordor and return to the pristine pocket wonderland of Winter-home in Lord of the Rings Online. As of yesterday, the 2017 Yule Festival was in high swing, bringing players together for snowball fights, theater performances, eating contests, and snow sculptures.

While there doesn’t appear to be any new quests this year, the buzz around the town concerns this year’s festival mount. It’s a splendid Winter Elk, a striking mount that offers a change from the horses, ponies, and goats that dominate the mount scene. The mount isn’t too hard to get, requiring perhaps two days of running dailies in order to save up enough tokens to purchase.

You have plenty of time to see the sights and chase those rewards, as the Yule Festival is scheduled to run through January 8th. LOTRO is also selling its Eriador bundle (the entire base game, essentially) for 75% off through December 21st.