Exploring Middle-earth: Golfimbul’s Hole

Today the Shire is a peaceful little country, generally free from the strife and turmoil of the outside world, but it was not always so. There was a time when goblins from Mount Gram, led by the great goblin-king Golfimbul, marched west across Eriador until they reached the Shire. The hobbits met Golfimbul’s army upon the Greenfields, where Bandobras Took, called the Bullroarer, slew the goblin-king by beheading him with a mighty club-stroke. In so doing, he invented a new game, called “golf.”

Golfimbul's Hole

Now, rumors abound that Golfimbul’s ghost has returned and is summoning goblins to the Shire once more. In the Bindbole Wood, between the Greenfields and Overhill is a place called Golfimbul’s Hole. There Golfimbul’s army first encamped, and some believe it is where the goblins are gathering once again.

Golfimbul's Hole

Golfimbul’s Hole is one of many locations created by Turbine for The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™, drawing from the lore of the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. What the truth of the rumors are behind the return of Golfimbul and his goblins will be up to the players of LOTRO to uncover.

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