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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Moria is a
roguelike computer game based heavily on J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The
Lord of the Rings. The game's objective is to kill a Balrog, presumably
Durin's Bane, deep within the Mines of Moria. A later port of Moria
called Umoria (UNIX Moria) inspired the Angband roguelike game. This
game influenced the preliminary design of Blizzard Entertainment's
Diablo.he original version was written at the University of Oklahoma by
Robert Alan Koeneke and Jimmey Wayne Todd, after they became hooked on
Rogue but could not run it on the VAX-11/780 minicomputer to which they
had access.
