'Word of your renown has spread far and wide throughout these long tunnels, ${CLASS}. Aye, don't be modest -- I can see in your eyes the bright look of a valiant adventurer. I would know your ilk even without reinforcement from the rumours.

'Are you up for a small challenge? South-west of this hall stands a great host of Orcs, and they have claimed the Forges of Khazad-dûm for their own. We have learned that they are using the dwarf-forges to craft weapons, and are working fast to arm themselves in an assault against our neighbours in Lothlórien! We are doing all that we can to stop them, but I bet you would like to be involved, outsider though you are.

'An adventurer such as yourself would look forward to a little dare such as the one I am about to propose: go into the Forges of Khazad-dûm and slay as many Orcs as you can. They are many; ever do their numbers swell, and ever does their threat increase.'

The dwarf Geirr is in the Twenty-first hall, north-east of the Forges where the Orcs hold their camp.

Geirr will wish to hear if you have been brave enough to enter the Forges of Khazad-dûm and face the Orcs in battle.

Objectives

• Talk to Geirr