'You are deserving of equipment that reflects your well-honed skill, ${PLAYER}, and I would be delighted to help you fashion it. Be advised, however, that no path worth following is an easy one. The things I can help you prepare will only be as good as the story behind them, and the story behind these implements and articles will be one of fell dangers and the ultimate triumph over evil.

'A hunter of lesser stature would despair of this road into the dark, but you, I know, will come again into the light of the sun. Speak with me if you are ready to set upon this path.'

Fenton Marshley is outside the Hunting Lodge east of the town of Archet and north of Bree, in Bree-land.

Objectives

• Talk to Fenton Marshley

Legolas may still be in Rivendell, in one of the guest rooms of Elrond's House.

Fenton Marshley encountered a party of Elves on his journey through the Mirkwood and believes that one of that company might still have things to teach even a skilled hunter such as yourself.

Objectives

• Talk to Legolas