This barrel is lying just off the road that runs through Tâl Bruinen, but most curiously, it is full of pipe-weed! It is already a rare thing to see waggons pass this way, but waggons carrying pipe-weed are even more rare.

You take a pouch of pipe-weed from the barrel and resolve to bring it to nearby Rivendell. Perhaps someone there will know what caused this barrel to come here.