An ancient record, unearthed by farmers: The journal of Lady Eren of Rivendell, and her previously unknown story as royal scribe to Thranduil, Elvenking of Mirkwood, as a spy for her father, Lord Elrond of Rivendell, and as a witness to the encroaching sickness of Shelob's offspring and the Necromancer of Dol Guldur.