I was trying to pick up J'Zhargo since Lydia was killed, and I found the fort where I have to get his Moon Amulet EXTREMELY challenging! Is this always a tough dungeon, or am I at that awkward stage where I maybe leveled too fast and now the enemies are very tough?

You mean Kharjo

have never had any problem with that, always is in some sort of cave for me.

Woops! Haha so funny

I can't remember the name of the fort off-hand, but it's full of bandits doing "dogfighting" (with wolves obviously). It was an extremely tough run

Must mean Kjaro

I've done that dungeon as a sneak-type. I've gotta say it's really hard to do without a follower. Pick up a temporary follower like Faendal or J'zargo for this. It's much easier when a follower is doing some crowd control and holding off their pipeline at the little stairway.

Funny you should mention that, because that is *why* I'm doing this little pit-stop - to get Kharjo haha

Just did this last night on my sneak character. And I have to admit I took the wrong approach. You have lots of options as a sneaky character for the choke points:

1) Throw voice to distract patrols and sneak past

2) Invisibility potions for sneaking past choke points

3) Setting off traps on top of bandit heads

4) Take the secret entrance!

5) You don't need to kill every single person!

6) Illusion Magic - FURY on a Bandit Marauder in Steel Armor = game over.

LOL At first i thought op meant Jzargo, but JZhargo sounded a tad familiar to Kharjo as well. I was confused for a while