'You were right to bring this to my attention, ${PLAYER}. Not only are there brigands at our very doorstep, nor are they simply taking our forest, they are part of a larger plan at work that we do not yet understand. Undoubtedly they are providing wood for the craftsmen of Saruman, but to what goal, I do not know.

'It is not for me to surmise the greater purpose behind these matters. For now let us deal with the problem at hand. Go back to the Dunlendings' lumber-camp, south-east of Gwingris, and take their axes from them.

'Return to me when you have finished. Without the proper tools, their butchery of the wood will end.'