'You there! Do you think you might help me with a most exhausting task? My friends were helping me with it until a few minutes ago, but they all gave up and went home. They'll be sorry, they will, when I find the treasure! Vexed Meldis told me she lost a golden needle in this haystack... somehow... and if I found it she'd allow me to keep it!'

You ask Little Pip how someone could come to lose a needle in something like a haystack, and he rolls his eyes.

'You might as well ask why she's called Vexed Meldis, stranger!'

As it seems to be expected of you, you ask why she's called Vexed Meldis.

'Because she's always upset about something... usually about how loud me and my friends are being! Are you going to help me look for this needle?'

There is no needle in that haystack after all.

Objectives

• Wait...

Little Pip stands by the haystack in question at the northern entrance of Tadrent, in King's Gondor.

Objectives

• Talk to Little Pip