'Rumour has reached me here of many dark things that dwell in Moria. The place has an ill reputation, but there is supposedly a creature the dwarves dredged up there that is particularly vile. I'm quite surprised Sadreda did not send you after it himself.

'You should travel back to the Foundations of Stone and seek out the creature known as The Dark Warden. I can't promise it actually exists -- rumours are rumours, after all -- but if it does, it should be defeated.

'If it does indeed exist, bring its head to Sadreda as evidence of your victory.'