With a guide, Song of the Elves (SOTE) can take 2 hours and 40 minutes to complete. Without one, it may take you over 4 hours. It’s one of the longest quests in the game and requires a lot of backtracking. Getting to SOTE is also a grind. Not counting the 14 years it took for this questline to conclude, it could take you 200+ hours of gameplay to reach SOTE.