'All of these Orcs around the Dale concern me. Were they all still in Khazad-dûm, I would feel better, but out here, they can inflict great damage. They have dug countless new tunnels into the depths from which they can launch attacks nearly anywhere at anytime. We can cripple their ability to do that if we control this place.

'I have seen the stockade of a great camp to the south-west. I do not know what is going on in there, but smoke rises from it almost constantly. It is clear that they are up to something which will cause us great trouble if we allow it to continue unchecked.

'Head south-west, to Drû-garmadh and investigate the camp. Thin out some of the Orcs there as well... that will make a second strike go more smoothly.'

Alrekur is at Mekhem-bizru, north-west of Drû-garmadh.

Alrekur will want to know the Orcs at Drû-garmadh have been thinned.

Objectives

• Talk to Alrekur