'You should next bring your message to Saeradan, in Bree-land. He is more settled than some others of my kin, but no less a vital part of the Grey Company. We will have need of Saeradan's calming wisdom on the road south, for though we have need of haste, so too do we need to keep our wits about us. Too often can the hasty road lead to carelessness. Saeradan will help prevent this.

'Look for him at his cabin near the town of Bree, in Bree-land. He lives east of Thornley's Work-site, in the Northern Bree-fields.'

Candaith gives you a wistful smile.

'It is true, we don't know what we will find as we ride south. I look out over these Lone-lands and wonder what will happen to them when we have gone. But this is something we must do. Each of us has sworn an oath to Aragorn our chief, and none of us will break that oath. We know the risks. None of us would join the Grey Company if we felt its errand was not important enough to brave those risks. For my part, I will not give in to fear of the unknown. We all have our role to play, and I hope only that when I have played mine, the world will have been better for my having been in it.'

Barliman Butterbur is the proprietor of The Prancing Pony and can be found by its bar, in the town of Bree.

Saeradan has agreed to travel south with the Grey Company, but he wants you to ask Barliman Butterbur to be careful while the Rangers are gone.

Objectives

• Talk to Barliman Butterbur

Crates of foodstuffs are waiting in one of the parlours of The Prancing Pony.

Barliman has heard the warning you brought from Saeradan, but he seems to have already forgotten it, and has asked you to carry foodstuffs out to the main room of the Pony.

Objectives

• Retrieve foodstuffs from a crate in the Pony

Crates of foodstuffs are waiting in one of the parlours of The Prancing Pony.

Barliman has heard the warning you brought from Saeradan, but he seems to have already forgotten it, and has asked you to carry foodstuffs out to the main room of the Pony.

Objectives

• Retrieve foodstuffs from a crate in the Pony

Crates of foodstuffs are waiting in one of the parlours of The Prancing Pony.

Barliman has heard the warning you brought from Saeradan, but he seems to have already forgotten it, and has asked you to carry foodstuffs out to the main room of the Pony.

Objectives

• Retrieve foodstuffs from a crate in the Pony

Barliman Butterbur is in the main room of The Prancing Pony.

You have carried several loads of foodstuffs from one of the Pony's parlours out to the main room and should speak now to Barliman.

Objectives

• Talk to Barliman Butterbur

Uchdrud is sitting at a table in the main room of The Prancing Pony.

Barliman Butterbur has asked you to encourage Uchdrud, an unruly and coarse sort, to vacate the premises.

Objectives

• Talk to Uchdrud

Uchdrud is waiting somewhere by the North-gate of Bree for you to answer his challenge.

You did as Butterbur asked and told Uchdrud to finish his beer and leave the Pony, and he reacted angrily, challenging you to meet him outside the North Gate of Bree.

Objectives

• Meet Uchdrud outside the North-gate of Bree
• Uchdrud is waiting somewhere by the North-gate of Bree for you to answer his challenge. You did as Butterbur asked and told Uchdrud to finish his beer and leave the Pony, and he reacted angrily, challenging you to meet him outside the North Gate of Bree.

Saeradan is at his cabin outside the town of Bree.

You have done as Saeradan asked and should now return to him at his cabin.

Objectives

• Talk to Saeradan