He nodded at Glorfindel as well, and made a strange gesture with his right hand, that might have been a greeting of some kind.

"Jura?" He shook his head, "Just the same old, some noble or other will have made a dark pact, got bored of terrorising their own people and poked their head over the border. But there have been a lot of magical attacks down there and rumours of an army thousands of people strong with a wizard to every hundred."