The Wild Ruins mark the remains of an ancient Silvan settlement, founded not long after Lothlórien itself. While the Malledhrim have retaken the large structure at the centre of the ruins, they have had neither the time nor the resources to spare to explore the remaining ruins on its outskirts.
'There are a few among the Malledhrim -- Agorin among them, I believe -- who once called Ost Galadh home. How it must confound them now to return at last and stand within these ancient walls, remembering times of song and laughter long ago swallowed by darkness.
'I do not envy them this bittersweet return.'1/1
1.2) Enter areaScout the south-east ruins1/1
1.3) Enter areaScout the southern ruins1/1
1 ObjectiveWTF1/1
2 Speak toFuirgam (Show dialog)
'So, the ruins are overrun with cruel and evil beasts, but little sign of goblins or Orcs? Good.
'These solitary footprints you mention, though...those are of considerable interest to me. When Lord Celeborn dispatched me across the Anduin, he bade me keep watch for a strange creature he named 'Gollum'. More than once he was nearly captured on the outskirts of Lothlórien, but he slipped away each time. Celeborn suspected he may have crossed the river to avoid capture, and it appears he was right.
'My sentinels claimed to have spotted a strange creature in the wild a few days ago -- they thought it a goblin, but were unable to capture it before it fled into the twisting ways of the Scuttledells. Your discovery tells me that our mysterious interloper was likely this Gollum creature. Would that we had laid hands upon him then!'1/1
Malledhrim Bronze Feather (3)