IC Story Thread: Ch.1, Ad.3 - Black Hand

The man pauses as the crowbar clunks down next to him, but says nothing. However he also doesn't touch the implement, as commanded, and just continues to chip away at the hard and rocky soil with the rope-splitter.

The paper of Black Speech is as inscrutable as ever, and the tome is indecipherable for all (however the contents of both could likely be understood by scholars in Gondor), the only thing at this point which is understandable to your group is the map these travelers carried...