Long ago, many hobbits dwelt in Tûn Melen, the Yellowbank, but none suffered such a fate as one named Sméagol.
In the ruined tunnels of Tûn Melen, you have discovered an old, brass button. It has been marked with several shallow and uneven notches... perhaps by a blade or a particularly formidable set of teeth. It is lightly corroded, but much less so than the rest of the objects left behind by the hól-budlan.
Indeed, it seems unlike anything else the hól-budlan left behind in Tûn Melen. How did it come to be here?
You have discovered an old, brass button in the ruined tunnels of Tûn Melen.
You wonder how it came to be here.