Targon was a provisioner of the Guards of the Citadel in Minas Tirith who kept the stores for that company. He worked from behind a hatchway in an alley wall within the northern parts of the White Tower on Minas Tirith's seventh and highest tier. After Peregrin Took was accepted into Denethor's service, he was led to Targon by his escort, the guard Beregond (who evidently knew Targon well). With the city facing an imminent siege, supplies were limited, but nonetheless Targon was able to provide bread, butter, cheese and small wrinkled apples, as well as drawing ale for the newest member of the Guard of the Tower.