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J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.
Return to Moria is a survival video game, set within a procedurally generated version of the mines of Moria from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth setting. The game emphasizes survival mechanics, requiring players to navigate environments that are often engulfed in darkness.
[T 4] The Dwarf-realm of Moria was built in the First Age beneath the midpoint of the mountain range. The two major passes across the mountains were the High Pass or Pass of Imladris near Rivendell, with a higher and a lower route, [T 5] [T 6] and the all-year Redhorn Pass further south near Moria. [6]
This is a list of Middle-earth video games.It includes both video games based directly on J. R. R. Tolkien's books about Middle-earth, and those derived from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films by New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. which in turn were based on Tolkien's novels of the same name.
The name "Moria" means "the Black Chasm" or "the Black Pit", from Sindarin mor, "dark, black" and iâ, "void, abyss". [T 1] The element mor had the sense "sinister, evil", especially by association with infamous names such as Morgoth and Mordor; indeed Moria itself had an evil reputation by the times in which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set.
The messenger asks for assistance in finding Bilbo Baggins and retrieving a stolen ring, and in return offers Moria and three of the seven Dwarf rings to Dáin, who declines to reply. [T 9] Sauron's northern army, including many Easterlings, then attacks; Dale is overrun, and many Dwarves and Men take refuge in Erebor, which is promptly ...
Some of the Lothlórien scenes were shot on locations in Paradise Valley near Glenorchy, New Zealand. [15] In The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria, Lorien was a region introduced to the game in March 2009, which allows players to visit Caras Galadhon and other places, and complete quests from the elves. [16]
These include the industrial hells of Saruman's Isengard with its underground furnaces and labouring Orcs; the dark tunnels of Moria; Sauron's evil land of Mordor; and Morgoth's subterranean fortress of Angband. The gates to some of these realms, like the guarded West Door of Moria, and the Black Gate to Mordor, too, carry echoes of the gates ...