((I am anxious, I am ashamed, I am afraid. We have all felt the changes, unsettling changes with this age. Now these changes have required that I make a long and arduous journey to lands beyond my beloved woodland kingdom. The King sends me to the Iaurmenel, for what purpose, I did not question. It is his will so it is my duty. My instructions are to return to the glass lake at Nanduhirion in eight days time where I am to wait. There, one of the Order of the Seven will appear at the location to escort me Westward. I am to look for the sign of which I was told he or she would bear. We are to pass through Moria, the black chasm, it chills me to my very core, the very thought of it, the hadhodrim. It is said that to conquer fear is the source of wisdom. If this is true, then I will be as wise as Galadriel when my service to the Iaurmenel is through. Penned the fifteenth day of the fourth month during the late watches...))
