![]() ![]() She *loves* to eat, and can consume several meals within seconds. She's crass, loudmouthed, opinionated, and doesn't allow anything to get in her way. Lina Inverse is not your typical scantily clad sorceress babe. Oh, there's Sir Physt, whoever that is! Let's look at his pokedex entry! Not because I deliberately want to get high. Which is an arena, and I encounter a bowel cramps trap - I must have triggered one in real life, because that's the reason why I drank in the first place. The library offers a randart demonshield with lightning immunity, which I refuse of course and then it's on to the next level. ![]() And people sometimes get the assumption that I'm always drunk when designing roguelike games I can assure you that this is not the case! Anyway, let's play while high, and see whether I will encounter a glorious YASD! Yeah, it's true, the last time I did was so many years ago that I can't even remember when it was, or why. At this point I took a short break from playing and drank some 79 vol% alcohol, which is noticeable because I usually never drink. It's one of the weird markets though, and I don't really feel like searching the entire map for some useless shops the rare footwear shop I stumble across is not selling anything good. Only a climbing kit or items with the "it allows you to climb mountains" flag allow you to pass them, but flying monsters (which are very common in this dungeon) can easily pass over them. ![]() At this point the story of Beren and LĂșthien was already well established, so it seems that the idea of the long arc of the Mountains (and the tunnel this would make necessary) arose as part of a later phase of The Silmarillion.The Land of Mountains is an annoying place, with mountain terrain everywhere. Evidence for this is found on a map from the 1930s (in volume V of The History of Middle-earth) on which the Iron Mountains are not shown as a range, but instead the peaks of Thangorodrim emerge directly from a simple circle of hills, so that Angband can be approached directly. It must be granted that this is not perhaps the most natural reading of the text, and more likely these variants represent different conceptions of Angband within Tolkien's writing. These accounts can be reconciled if we imagine that the stairs behind the Doors led down into the tunnel beneath the Iron Mountains, and then onwards and downwards into Angband itself at the tunnel's farther end, under the Northern Wastes. For example, in Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad ( ibid 20), we're told that the Elves of Nargothrond '.burst through the Gate and slew the guards upon the very stairs of Angband.' without any mention of an intervening tunnel, and the account of Beren and LĂșthien ( ibid 19) describes a similar arrangement of 'labyrinthine stairs' immediately behind the Gate. Other descriptions, however, have the Doors opening directly onto stairs that lead down into Angband itself. The description above comes from a detailed and explicit account in Quenta Silmarillion 14 that leaves little room for interpretation. This great southern gate is the only real candidate to be the portal known as the Doors of Angband, but it should be noted that there are some mild inconsistencies between various sources. The Doors were guarded by the immense Wolf Carcharoth, set there by Morgoth to defend his realm against the Hound of Valinor. At the southern end of this tunnel he made a great gate, an archway in the sheer cliff-face that opened into a dark valley, that in turn led out into the dark land of Dor Daedeloth. When Morgoth returned to Middle-earth after the Darkening of Valinor, he raised up the three peaks of Thangorodrim to strengthen these defences even further, and made a long tunnel running southwards through the Mountains. The ancient fortress of Angband stood to the North of the Iron Mountains, defended by them from the West and from Beleriand.
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