This cache is placed in Pace Bend Park, a Travis County Park located approximately 30 miles west of Austin on Lake Travis. The park is open 7 days a week from sunrise to 9pm for day-use visitors with overnight camping available. There is a fee to enter the park. Please be respectful of the posted signs and the other people using the park. This cache is placed in accordance with the guidelines for geocaches by the Travis County Park system.
For as many good guys there are in our story, there are an equal number of bad guys. But every bad guy has his weapon. We learn about many of the weapons of Middle Earth during our story. One of the most instrumental is the Morgul Blade the weapon of The Nazgul. It is this weapon that Frodo is stabbed with on Weathertop. It is only the healing powers of Elrond Half-Elven that Frodo survives and thus is one of the keys for finding your way through Rivendell.
History of the Morgul Blade
A magical poisoned dagger used by the Nazgûl. At Weathertop, during his journey to Rivendell with the One Ring, the Hobbit Frodo Baggins was stabbed with a Morgul-blade by the Witch-king. A fragment of the blade remained within the wound, working its way toward his heart and threatening to turn Frodo into a wraith. Elrond was able to remove the shard and heal the wound, but each year on the anniversary of his stabbing Frodo became seriously ill. Only his eventual departure to Eldamar offered a permanent cure. Athelas (or kingsfoil) is known to slow the poisonous effect of Morgul-blades. Another victim of a Morgul-blade was Boromir, the eleventh Steward of Gondor (not the Boromir of Frodo's company). He eventually died of his wound but did not become a wraith.