The following story can be experienced by starting the quest "Turn East, Never North" in Trestlebridge at the North Downs

Music Accompaniment: Lord of the Rings Online - The Creeping Gloom

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Further Reading: Fallen to the Wargs

and the hobbits had crossed theand were on the road towards. ‘Who lives in this land?’asked. ‘And who built these towers? Is this troll-country?’ ‘No!’ said Strider. ‘Trolls do not build. No one lives in this land. Men once dwelt here, ages ago; but none remain now. They became an evil people, as legends tell, for they fell under the shadow of. But all were destroyed in the war that brought the North Kingdom to its end. But that is now so long ago that the hills have forgotten them, though a shadow still lies on the land.’The heroes reached thecrossroads shortly after departingwarning still rung in their ears; turn east and never north. They looked to the north, however, and saw a great barren field where an imposing ruin stood at the end of it. As they were about to turn east on the road as warned, they spotted the flicker of a campfire on the edge of the fields. Their curiosity getting the best of them, the heroes went to investigate where they came upon a ranger and his companions camped upon a small ruin.The heroes introduced themselves to the rangerand his companions. The ranger told of the evil that walked upon the fields and of the great fortress. Fornost had once been the capital of, one of the three kingdoms of splintered. Thehad made Fornost his own in the early ages of the Third Age and had been reclaimed by an alliance of Elves and Men at, what has since been called, The. While discussing this, the heroes began to hear eerie singing coming from the fields., the elf companion, said little but warned that the source of the song surely led to death.The heroes were not so easily deterred. They set to investigate the source of the singing within the fields of. To their surprise, they came upon a young girl nameddancing and singing a dire song. As they approached her, she suddenly attacked the heroes. They managed to subdue her when an evil spirit left her body, naming themselvesbefore disappearing.retreated back tocamp. She had little memory of what had occurred and was driven with fear. The heroes, atbehest, sought the whereabouts ofdeep within the fields in hopes of stemming the evil in the field. They made for the graves upon the western fields for any sign of the evil spirit. Many twisted spirits roamed the fields that whispered Olnathron’s name.The heroes toldof what they had seen. He believed thatmust be within, a ruins to the west. Mincham had heard tales of the evil that stirred within the ruins and urged caution entering it. The heroes found the ruins full of vicious spirits and it did not take them long to find Olnathron.The heroes managed to slay the fell-spirit and bring the darkness on the ruins to heel. Upon their return to his camp,thanked the heroes for their efforts in quelling the evil upon the fields and bringing peace of mind to. Mincham told the heroes that she had come from the east in, a stretch of farmland that had been overrun by wargs. Mincham asked the heroes to go toupon, a hillock on the east road to Esteldin, to help the exiles of Annundir recover their lands...