'Turmoil threatens our Golden Wood for the first time in many a year, (your name); the ravages of Orc-kind to the north-west, the unusually aggressive river creatures to the south-east...I worry that fear may be taking more of a toll upon us than we might admit to.

'I have an idea, and if you will help me see it to completion, it may aid in staving off the insidious dread that is the Enemy's weapon. Now, the golden flower we call elanor and its pale counterpart, niphredil, are nearly as much in the heart of every Elf as is Cerin Amroth itself, the hill upon which they grow. Their smell revives us; their gentle colours rest our eyes. Please, pick some and bring them to my friends elsewhere in Lothlórien.

'Maliriel is the Feast-mistress at Imlad Lalaith: follow the road east and south until you reach the Hythe, by the river. Ambendel is at Echad Andestel -- you may already have met him. Retrace your steps back to northern Nimrodel, south-west of here. Talan Fanuidhol is west of Cerin Amroth; there you will find Bahanneth, the quartermaster.'