During some construction efforts to place a fourth oven at the Party Tree, a shovel scraped against something wooden buried in the hillside. The oven was quickly forgotten, and an excavation of a door came to pass instead.
NOTE: This quest will be removed from your quest log when the event it is associated with ends.
'Speak with Lobelia if you're really curious about that door. I don't know which is more frightening -- a cellar hidden away for fifty years, or Lobelia Sackville-Baggins.'1/1
'Are you here about that door as well? You listen here: that mad fool of a Baggins never said anything about a secret cellar, and neither did that awful nephew of his, Frodo. I could not be more angry!
'I've scoured the whole burrow and not found a thing that could be used as a key to a hidden larder. They meant all along to leave Bag End to me with none of its proper fixings.
'If you want to see so much as a doorknob inside that cellar, you must find me that key! That gardener down on Bagshot Row surely knows something, but he won't speak a word to me. You look like a big, ominous sort; you ought to wrangle the truth out of him!'1/1
2 Speak toGaffer Gamgee (Show dialog)
'I'll wager Lobelia sent you to inquire after that new door going to the Baggins' lovely burrow. If you ask me, the whole affair smells of trouble. I tell my young ones, and I'll tell you too: best to mind your own matters, and no harm will come of aught.'1/1