The Dunadain are slowly diminishing,scattered across the far reaches of Eriador and I,by no chance,have come across one at the inn of the Prancing Pony who goes by the name of Strider.He told me and my companions,Ehudd and Denfare,of the sorry state his fellow ranger Amdir was in.He had been stabbed by a morgul blade while trying to rescue two hobbits who had been captured by the blackwold and was passing into the realm of shadow,becoming as terrible as the nine themselves.We had no choice but to end his misery and put a stop to his rampage.Strider then informed us that the cause of all of these troubles was that the One Ring had passed into the hands of a Hobbit named Frodo Baggins and that the dark lord Souron is seeking out his treasure.In all of our quests and adventures we had eventualy come to the Old Forest and to the house of Tom Bombadil Master of the Forest.He then took us into the Barrow Downs,a place of great evil where the bones and corpses are now the bodies of evil spirits called the Barrow Wights.We then discovered that the Witch-King and Scorgrimm the leader of the Dourhands had been planning there next move in one of the tunnels there,however we were not able to stop them,for they had been gaurded by the king of the wights and his army of dead.Over powerd and out numbered we were forced to retreat and fled back to the Forsaken inn to replenish our streangth.Now our only hope is to cause a distraction long enough to give Frodo time to get to safety,for the fate of Middle-Earth is now in his hands.