Yuletide Woes  

'Why hullo there! I am guessing you have come about the rumours? Well, I am afraid they are true: Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is the official Yule-planner for the Hobbiton Yule-feast! It's dreadful, simply dreadful, I tell you! She has already announced that we will be getting nothing more than harvest-vegetables at the feast. The nerve of some folk!

'Lobelia also told us that we ought to end the festival early this year, what with all the roustabouts that have been coming in...says it isn't safe for decent folk to stay up late outdoors. Naught but vegetables and an early bed...what is a respectable hobbit to do!

'What's more, no one in Hobbiton is rightly sure how she came by the title. For years, old Mad Baggins held the position, and in turn Frodo Baggins took it after his disappearance. Something isn't right about the whole affair. Do you think you would be able to help us set things to rights?'

It appears that Lobelia Sackville-Baggins in the Hobbiton Yule-planner.

Objective 1

have been asked to inquire among the Hobbiton-folk for an explanation of Lobelia's post as Yule-planner.

Talk to Ted Sandyman.

Objective 2

Sandyman's Mill is north of the bridge over the Water in Hobbiton.

Ted Sandyman's unusual behaviour might suggest a need to search Sandyman's Mill for anything out of the ordinary.

Objective 3

Will Whitfoot is at the Town Hole in Michel Delving, far to the west of Hobbiton.

You should report your findings to Will Whitfoot, the Mayor of the Shire.

Almost any Hobbit in the Shire can grant this quest, i got mine from Hal Hornblower.