Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:00:00 +0100

Harry Goatleaf

With the increased brigand activity around Bree-land, Chief Watcher Grimbriar has established a more rigid watch-schedule on the gates of Bree-town. Guarding the West-gate stands old Harry Goatleaf, an ill-favored and sour-tempered man with a penchant for prying into other people's business.



There are rumors around Bree that Harry has been consorting with strangers out of the South; he is also often seen drinking with Bill Ferny, who is alleged to have connections with at least one brigand band. Harry has done his job well, however, and as no one has been able to prove any criminal intent on his part, Grimbriar has left him on his post.

In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Harry Goatleaf is the watcher who let Frodo and his companions into Bree-town after they escaped from the Barrow-downs with the aid of Tom Bombadil. In The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™, it remains to be seen if any of the rumors about him are true . . . .



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Harry was in the Prancing Pony and witnessed Frodo's disappearance when the Ring slipped onto Frodo's finger. Also two noteable celebrities, Maddux and the Lovely Eowyna were present in the Prancing Pony. Harry left the Prancing Pony after Bill Ferny and a squint-eyed Southerner. Aragorn later told Frodo that he suspected that the Black Riders might use Bill Ferny and Harry Goatleaf and others for evil work. Later that night the inn was attacked and the Hobbits' empty room was ransacked. Maddux and Eowyna managed to get the Hobits out.

Early in the New Year of 3019, fighting broke out between the Southerners and the Bree-folk. Harry Goatleaf and Bill Ferny sided with a group of brigands from the south, and participated in trouble that caused the death of five Men of Bree. He left Bree with the group, presumably to join Sharkey's Men in the Shire. His fate is unknown. Maddux and Eowyna did manage to catch up with Sharkey's men later, and extract justice.