Thorin nodded and held up the key which he wore on a cord around his neck, to show Gandalf that it was indeed still in his possession. "Yes, it is here."

"But it is, Gandalf!" insisted Radagast. "And it is not abandoned any longer either! I saw him, Gandalf, coming out of the darkness. A Necromancer...a sorcerer who can summon the Dead." the Brown wizard shuddered as he recounted his tale of the encounter with the wraith, who he had barely defended himself against, and the bats that had quickly followed it and chased him and his rabbits from the ancient ruins that had once belonged to the Elves of Thranduil's realm.