Missing the Meeting  

'Well now, you have been helpful haven't you? If you could, I do have one last task for you to assist me with. Among the Hobbits of the Shire, a love of languages and written works is quite uncommon. A few of my fellow colleagues and I have formed a small informal gathering of sorts for those of us who revel in such art as the writing and listening of fictional stories.

'We usually meet in the evenings, down at the Bird -- that is, The Bird and Baby Inn in Michel Delving. With the return of my lost paper, I really should get started on my new book, but I haven't an inkling* how I should reach my friends in time to tell them of my absence.

'If you would, go quickly and visit Jack Lewisdown at The Bird and Baby before the meeting starts and let him know that I will not be making it tonight.'

Ronald Dwale is indisposed and will be unable to attend the next meeting of his writing society.

Objective 1

Talk to Ronald Dwale's friends at The Brd and Baby Inn

Ronald Dwale has asked you to speak with his friends at The Bird and Baby Inn and let them know that he will not be able to make their next meeting. The Bird and Baby Inn is in Michel Delving, west across the road from Town Hole.

Objective 2
Talk to Ronald Dwale at the Bullroarer's Sward

Ronald Dwale is at Hob Hillbrow's home at the Bullroarer's Sward in Dwaling.

You should return to Ronald Dwale and inform him that you completed his task.

*For those of you that do not know, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were both members of a writer's "support group" that met at the Eagle and Child pub (commonly known as The Bird and Baby or just The Bird) in Oxford to read new chapters of their books to each other and critique each other's work. This group was called The Inklings.

In the back room of The Bird and Baby Inn, in Michel Delving, you will find Owen Fairfield, Carlo Williams and Jack Lewsdown (references to Owen Barfield, Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis, respectively). Ronald Dwale is, of course, a reference to the full name of Tolkien himself, which was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. [1]