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The Giver of Gifts
"I can still see this city as it was, during the height of its beauty. So much was lost."
Background
Bregoleth has agreed to speak to you of the years she lived in Eregion, and of the Enemy that came to threaten her people and all of Middle-earth.
Objective 1
Bregoleth weaves a tale of Caras Gelebren as it appeared during the years she lived there during the Second Age of Middle-earth.
- Bregoleth: 'The Silver Bastion became a shining jewel itself, a beacon of art an dmusic and culture that drew the attention and the love of many from distant lands. Caras Gelebren became places of such beauty they recalled the fabled Elf-halls of old, and trade with Lindon thrived.
- 'But not all who watched this from afar watched with friendly eyes. In the land of Mordor, to which he fled following the defeat of his master Morgoth, Sauron seethed. He feared the rising might of Númenor, an despite having drawn Orcs and other fell creatures to his service, he knew he did not possess the overwhelming number with which his master had dominated the world in past days of triumph. He devised a scheme by which he would use his enemies' weaknesses against them.
- 'And so he came to Eregion in fair guise, masking his true nature.'
Objective 2
- Follow Bregoleth and listen as she weaves her tale
Bregoleth weaves a tale of Caras Gelebren in the Second Age of Middle-earth.
- Bregoleth says, "He called himself Antheron."
- Antheron says, "Word of your craft-skill has spread far and wide, my lord Celebrimbor."
- Antheron says, "Even into the Uttermost West."
- Celebrimbor says, "I am humbled by your presence here, Antheron."
- Celebrimbor says, "I see in your arrival an omen of good fortune."
- Celebrimbor says, "Accept my greetings and my welcome! You will be my honoured guest."
Objective 3
- Talk to Bregoleth in her memory of Caras Gelebren
Bregoleth weaves a tale of Caras Gelebren as it appeared during the years she lived there during the Second Age of Middle-earth.
- Bregoleth: 'Antheron had gone first to Lindon, but Gil-galad mistrusted him and refused to treat with the strange newcomer.
- 'It was in Caras Gelebren that the Lord of Gifts found one whose lineage and whose hunger for secret knowledge made him the perfect target for Antheron's promises. Celebrimbor could not resist, and before long the new arrival became a mentor to him and to the jewel-smiths of Eregion.'
Objective 4
- Follow Bregoleth and listen as she weaves her tale
Bregoleth weaves a tale of Caras Gelebren as it appeared during the years she lived there during the Second Age of Middle-earth.
- Bregoleth says, "Not all who dwelled at Caras Gelebren trusted this new arrival."
- Bregoleth says, "Celeborn saw something in the Lord of Gifts that troubled him."
- Celeborn says, "I cannot say why I am so disquieted, Oranoril."
- Oranoril says, "I share your unease, my lord."
- Oranoril says, "The Bright Company will go wherever you lead."
- Oranoril says, "Show us this threat, and we will end it."
- Celeborn says, "But that is the heart of the problem, my friend."
- Celeborn says, "What is the threat?"
Objective 5
- Talk to Bregoleth in her memory of Caras Gelebren
Bregoleth weaves a tale of Caras Gelebren as it appeared during the years she lived there during the Second Age of Middle-earth.
- Bregoleth: 'Though Galadriel had gone, Celeborn remained at Caras Gelebren. As Eregion's chief defender, he refused to abandon these lands, and sought instead to protect them against the stranger who had seized Celebrimbor's ear.
- 'Antheron hated the Bright Company and its deeds, and summoned one threat after another to trouble them; Celeborn and his warriors were often drawn away from the city, and many a noble Elf was slain in these engagements. But still the Lord of the Bright Company could not connect these rising threats with the newcomer Antheron and his too-ready smiles.'
Objective 6
- Follow Bregoleth and listen as she weaves her tale
Bregoleth weaves a tale of Caras Gelebren as it appeared during the years she lived there during the Second Age of Middle-earth.
- Bregoleth says, "Despite the mistrust of some at Celebrimbor's city, Antheron did not remain idle."
- Bregoleth says, "He gathered to himself promising students, and gave to them secret knowledge."
- Bregoleth says, "But whatever he taught them, always he held something in reserve."
- Bregoleth says, "Always there was more to be learned, more instruction to be given."
- Elf-student says, "How will we know we have mastered what thou hast taught us?"
- Antheron says, "The most promising among you will know, Narmeleth."
Objective 7
- Talk to Bregoleth in her memory of Caras Gelebren
Bregoleth weaves a tale of Caras Gelebren as it appeared during the years she lived there during the Second Age of Middle-earth.
- Bregoleth: 'The students were not his only pupils. As the years passed, Antheron grew more and more brazen. Celebrimbor and his jewel-smiths fell further beneath his thumb, ensnared by his promises of secret knowledge and the working of crafts both beautiful and powerful.'
Objective 8
- Talk to Bregoleth in her memory of Caras Gelebren
Bregoleth weaves a tale of Caras Gelebren as it appeared during the years she lived there during the Second Age of Middle-earth.
- Bregoleth: 'The Jewel-town and the Silver Bastion thrived, and the glory of Celebrimbor and his jewel-smiths only increased, year after year.
- 'But the true masterpiece of Caras Gelebren was its ring-forge.'
Objective 9
- Follow Bregoleth and listen as she weaves her tale
Bregoleth weaves a tale of Caras Gelebren as it appeared during the years she lived there during the Second Age of Middle-earth.
- Bregoleth says, "Antheron convinced the jewel-smiths to forge Great Rings of Power."
- Bregoleth says, "Long they toiled, until at last their work was complete."
- Celebrimbor says, "A set of seven, and a set of nine."
- Celebrimbor says, "You are certain these Great Rings will help preserve the land?"
- Antheron says, "They will help protect the lands of those who wear them, my lord."
- Antheron says, "Give them to the hole-diggers, and the fellers of trees."
- Antheron says, "The degradations they cause will be slowed."
- Celebrimbor says, "I called your arrival an omen of good fortune, Lord of Gifts."
- Celebrimbor says, "And yet I undervalued the help you would provide!"
- Antheron says, "I serve the Powers, my lord."
- Celebrimbor says, "As do I, in all things."
Objective 10
- Talk to Bregoleth in her memory of Caras Gelebren
Bregoleth weaves a tale of Caras Gelebren as it appeared during the years she lived there during the Second Age of Middle-earth.
- Bregoleth: 'Celebrimbor gave to the kings of dwarves and Men the rings he had made, and for a time he knew peace, not knowing he had been deceived, not knowing that what he had done would nearly undo the world.
- 'Shortly afterwards, Antheron departed. He would return to Eregion only once more, and when he did he would bring death and destruction with him. But after he was gone, Celebrimbor began to doubt. In time, suspicion awakened in his heart, and he began to worry that Antheron had ensnared him by his own greed in some devious scheme.
- 'He decided to use the art he had learned to forge three more Great Rings, unknown to the treacherous Lord of Gifts. He believed he and his kinfolk could use these three rings for protection, should matters go ill.'
Objective 11
- Talk to Bregoleth in a place of unimaginable evil
Bregoleth weaves a tale of Caras Gelebren as it appeared during the years she lived there during the Second Age of Middle-earth.
- Bregoleth: 'Antheron returned to Mordor, and in the heart of his kingdom he cast aside his fair guise. He had no more need for deception.
- 'In Mordor, the Dark Lord Sauron sought the fulfillment of the scheme for which he had planned, walking unnoticed among his hated enemies for so many years.'
Objective 12
- Leave Bregoleth behind to hear the end of her tale, which lies ahead within the Mountain of Fire
Bregoleth speaks of a place she has never seen, a place of unimaginable evil: the inside of Orodruin, the Mountain of Fire in the Black Land of Mordor.
- Bregoleth says, "You go on ahead. My words will guide you, but I go no further than this."
- 'In the fiery heat of Orodruin, Mount Doom, Sauron forged the Ruling Ring.'
- 'One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them.'
- 'One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.'
- 'In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.'
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