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 Angband in the Silmarillion
Angband- 'Iron Prison, Hell of Iron.' The greatest dungeon-fortress of Morgoth/Melkor in the Northwest of Middle-earth.
Anfauglith is another name for him; it translates to, 'Jaws of Thirst.' OOCly, he is NOT taken by a feature character.
OOCly, he is a Royal, and a taken character.
http://www.angelfire.com/ab/angband/book.html   (474 words)

  
 ANGBAND
Now, you may be wondering, "What is Angband?" Well, Angband was the fortress of Morgoth/Melkor in a book by JRR Tolkien called The Silmarillion.
The Book: A lists of characters and places from The Silmarillion related to Angband.
Links: A list of links related to Angband, JRR Tolkien, and MUSHing.
http://www.angelfire.com/ab/angband/homepage.html   (229 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Arda: Angband
Angband re-entered history when Melkor escaped Valinor with the stolen Silmarils: he chose the ruined fortress as his new capital, and rebuilt the Hells of Iron as a base for the dark reign he intended for the lands of Middle-earth.
So, Morgoth could produce poisonous clouds and vapours, as indeed he sent against the Noldor in Mithrim during the first days after their Return.
Sauron was one of these, and the Balrogs lay hid with him in Angband's deepest vaults.
http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/a/angband.html   (666 words)

  
 The Unofficial Angband Glossary
Strange hybrid creatures with a body of a female human but with a snake's tail in stead of legs.
An early Angband variant (loosely) based on Roger Zelazny's Amber books.
Thanks for all the people who have been making these games and all the people at #angband for their help.
http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~ottietav/angband   (2088 words)

  
 Open Directory - Games:Video Games:Roleplaying:Rogue-like:Angband
Please submit only sites relating to the Angband variant Tales of Middle Earth.
The variant is alternatively known as Troubles of Middle Earth, and the name is generally shortened to ToME.
Angband variant which expands on Tolkienian theme, based on Zangband 2.2.0.
http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Roleplaying/Rogue-like/Angband/desc.html   (422 words)

  
 Angband FAQ Part Two
This is the best way to deal with those pesky hounds.
Angband Frequently Asked Questions - Part 2 (Spoilers)
For Angband version 2.8.3 - May be inaccurate with other versions.
http://www.phial.com/angband/angfaq2.html   (4491 words)

  
 Angband - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After three ages of imprisonment, Morgoth returned to Middle-earth and set himself up in Angband, raising the volcanic Thangorodrim over the Fortress as protection.
Nonetheless, the Valar's attack succeeded in capturing Morgoth (then called 'Melkor') and destroying his other stronghold Utumno.
Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Angband (Sindarin for 'Hells of Iron', although the literal meaning is 'iron prison') is the name of the fortress of Morgoth, constructed before the First Age, located in the Iron Mountains north of Beleriand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband   (159 words)

  
 OS/2 e-Zine! - Angband 2.8.3 for OS/2
Angband and its ancestors are part of this proud tradition; basically, Angband is about delving ever deeper in a strange and dangerous dungeon, collecting treasure, weapons and magical items...
Unlike games such as Doom or Duke Nukem, Angband is not a real time adventure.
Later, a man named Robert Alan Koeneke, while working at the University of Oklahoma, created a Rogue-like game on the VAX VMS called Moria.
http://www.os2ezine.com/v3n07/angband.htm   (1560 words)

  
 MacGamer - Get In The Game
Let's all get down on one knee and acknowledge that Peter Jackson (director of the Lord of the Rings movies, as any geek worth his/her salt knows) is God and his Balrog was absolutely terrifying; don't forget, however, that the Balrog was every bit as terrifying in your own imagination when you read the book.
Angband's distinction from the other roguelike games is its focus on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien; Angband was the name of the fortress created by Morgoth and later used as his seat of power when he ruled Middle-Earth.
Angband is a game of tremendous scope, and this article is leaving a lot out by necessity (detail for you to revel in discovering if you are foolish enough to actually download and play this game).
http://www.macgamer.com/features?id=1016   (1410 words)

  
 Angband 3.0.5 - MacUpdate
The original name "Angband" was created by J.R.R. Tolkien in the stories about "Middle Earth".
Angband was a mighty fortified citadel originally constructed by Morgoth (Melkor) in the earliest days of the world as an outlying fortress to his northern stronghold of Utumno.
The details of the story can be found in J.R.R. Tolkien's book "The Silmarillion".
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15184   (676 words)

  
 Games Video Games Genres Zoleplaying Zogue-like Angband Polish Yellow Pages - Polska - Poland - Polen
Angband FAQ Part Two- Spoilers section of the Angband FAQ.
The Pits of Angband- A history and description of Angband and Zangband.
Angband FAQ Part One- Non-spoilers section of the Angband FAQ.
http://www.yp.pl/ca/7080/Games/Video_Games/Genres/Roleplaying/Rogue-like/Angband   (1031 words)

  
 Acorn Arcade - Gamesupport: Angband
It is (loosely) set in Tolkein's Middle Earth, although trying to pinpoint quite when is difficult.
There are different variants of Angband, each of which has taken the basic Angband game and added to it, or changed it.
Zangband is (loosely) based around the Amber series of books and adds a lot to the basic Angband game.
http://www.acornarcade.com/gamesupport/angband   (672 words)

  
 Angband (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tolkien, in which Angband was the fortress of Morgoth.
Penance is a new Angband webcomic, but drawn in a more traditional style.
A veritable family tree of around sixty (around a dozen of which are active) variants of Angband exist, each often greatly differing in purpose and depth of changes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(game)   (622 words)

  
 Angband Variants Page
This is my bit for Angband and its wonderful variants.
Angband is loosely based on the works of JRR Tolkien, and had the game Rogue as an ancestor, hence the term 'roguelike' that is encountered in this page and many others relating to the game.
Angband is constantly under development, and has been since it came out in its most basic form back in 1985.
http://www.angband.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk   (279 words)

  
 Angband FAQ Part One
However, not releasing the sources is frowned upon by the Angband community, and it is likely that a large portion would not run it, either on principle or because they need the sources to compile for their particular system.
Also, Angband and its variants have many things that are a matter of personal opinion, and so there is no often no "right" way that a particular feature should be.
LAngband is a reimplementation of Angband in Common Lisp.
http://tartarus.uwa.edu.au/~trs80/angfaq1.html   (7935 words)

  
 RISC OS ports -The Isparp Angband Pages
Description: Steamband is a steampunk, Victoriana themed variant of Angband.
Description: Angband is a "graphical" dungeon adventure game using textual characters to represent the walls and floors of a dungeon and the inhabitants therein, in the vein of "rogue", "hack", "nethack", and "moria".
Description: Quickband is a cut-down Angband, 12 levels of NPP-style accelerated dungeon.
http://ajps.mine.nu/angband/ports   (972 words)

  
 The Pits of Angband
The core of Angband is written in C programming language, but the the monsters, magic and normal items, artifacts and vaults are described in separate text files, so even people who don't know how to program can modify these and add new creatures, objects and such to Angband.
GSNband - GSNband is named by it's author.
Angband is an extended version of Moria, with much more influence from the writings of J.R.R.Tolkien than its predecessor.
http://users.tkk.fi/~eye/roguelike/angband.html   (1100 words)

  
 Unangband: The Unnamed Angband
Andrew Sidwell is acting as a caretaker during this period; he is developing his own Angband variant, Nangband, so his primary focus is elsewhere.
This page is here primarily as a place-holder: I'm going to be in Europe on a working holiday until the end of 2003, so it's best to contact me in the forums at this website for all Unangband related questions.
Angband has a long history of development: I recommend you check out the excellent resources of www.thangorodrim.net and angband.oook.cz if you are interested in the history and current state of the play for this game.
http://unangband.berlios.de   (249 words)

  
 Greg's GW-Angband Page
This was necessary because of the way Angband save files are version-stamped.
I may have omitted some of the changes in the earlier versions, or mixed up exactly when a change was made; this is being written after the fact.
These do not grant poison resistance to the player; I think that would be too powerful.
http://wooledge.org/~greg/angband.html   (2279 words)

  
 Angband OpenSource Initiative
Angband and it's predecessor Moria have been written before the OpenSource concept had gained widespread popularity.
Moving Angband to the GPL would also force all variant maintainers to switch to the new license if they want to use parts of Angband in their variant.
The traditional Angband license as it appears in Angband 2.9.0 is:
http://www.thangorodrim.net/development/opensource.html   (503 words)

  
 Angband
You're probably best to become acquainted with Angband before embarking upon any of it's variants.
The game is now saved before printing the tombstone, not after.
Updated the DOS version to compile with the latest version of the Allegro library.
http://www.angband.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ang.html   (1812 words)

  
 Angband Links Page
First you translate the Angband source into Aramaic, then read every fifth letter...
The Poet's Unofficial Angband Page A mac-oriented site that also has some general cheats and hints.
The original quest-based Angband by Heino Vander Sanden.
http://www2.thecia.net/users/takemoto/anglinks.html   (436 words)

  
 RISC OS Angband Utilities
The biggest drawback with SaveMung at the moment is that it only works for Vanilla Angband (ie.
If, on the other hand, you do know what Angband is, then you might just be interested in one or more of these little utilities designed to make life easier.
This patch is only for the Zangband 2.0.1 (as available from the "Angband Bonanza!" site in the links section below).
http://www.zen22994.zen.co.uk/musus/amhd   (1030 words)

  
 Angband
As time passed some more, we realized that Angband had a great deal of potential.
The Grimstari and Angband do have many crossovers.
Angband exists within the realm of Georgia Tech, but it also goes far beyond.
http://awards.angband.org/about.html   (687 words)

  
 Angband
There are many Angband variants, of which the most notorious is probably the rather whimsical Zangband.
Zangband also allows the player to kill Santa Claus (who has some really good stuff, but also has a lot of friends), “Bull Gates”, and Barney the Dinosaur (but be watchful; Barney has a nasty case of halitosis).
There is an official angband home page at http://thangorodrim.angband.org/ and a zangband one at http://www.zangband.org/.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/Angband.html   (182 words)

  
 Dan's Angband Portal
Alas, they don't seem to be working on it much anymore...
There's something for everyone from people thinking about playing, to newbies, to 30's level characters, to people who've only played single-player Angband, to admins!
Beej's Moria homepage - see some more of Angband's precursor!
http://www.rit.edu/~djl5698/angband   (541 words)

  
 Iso-Angband - Overview
This page shows an example of the traditional ASCII view of the Angband world and as a comparison an example of the isometric view.
The next releases will be based on vanilla Angband 2.9.1 again.
It should cleanly integrate into all Angband variants.
http://www.simugraph.com/simutrans/iso_angband   (248 words)

  
 Lumpy Angband
Which is just as well, really, since I only got as far as writing the base classes for my own before I started fudging around with gcl.
This is pretty much the official angband site now.
Some info, spoilers, instructions on compiling, and a tonne (in metric, even!) of angband links, including one to the site you're viewing right now (I have to admit, I laughed when I saw 'the crappy angband page' listed.
http://home.thezone.net/~gharvey/angband.html   (728 words)

  
 Angband/64 beta-7
All sources are freely available, but some parts of them are copyrighted by the original authors of Angband.
Other compilers may work, however, I develop these sources using gcc, so you are on your own using other compilers.
This site is for downloading Angband/64, a variant of Angband, a character-based roguelike game.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~thunder7/angband/ang64.html   (608 words)

  
 The Official Angband Home Page
Note that in 2000, Robert Ruhlmann became the Angband maintainer, and is not only the author of Angband 2.9.0 and beyond, but is also the maintainer of the http://www.thangorodrim.net website, which is by far the most useful, and important, Angband site in existence.
This Angband Home Page is maintained by Ben Harrison, the maintainer of the game Angband until 2000, the author of Angband 2.7.0 through Angband 2.8.5, and the designer of the Angband Borg.
Angband is a rather addictive freeware computer role playing game based loosely on the world of J.R.R.Tolkien, in which the player explores the complex dungeon of Angband, killing monsters and collecting treasure, and eventually defeating Morgoth, the Master of the Pits of Angband.
http://www.phial.com/angband   (153 words)

  
 Peter Ammon's Software
There is also a Usenet newsgroup devoted to Angband: rec.games.roguelike.angband.
The Angband open-source situation is somewhat confusing: this page explains it.
The code demonstrates some interesting Cocoa techniques, such as short-circuiting the main run loop and a customized image view.
http://homepage.mac.com/gershwin/software.html   (522 words)

  
 Angband with SDL
This is turned on by default if graphics are not enabled on the command line.
This will replace main.c and everything in lib/pref/.
main-sdl.c can also be used with older versions of Angband and with MAngband.
http://bumba.net/~hmaon/angband-sdl/readme.html   (466 words)

  
 Angband Variants
If you have written a new variant, compiled one or know of a version not in my list, please send me an e-mail.
This variants are a nice change if you need a break after your 34th hobbit-rogue dies in a horrible (and stupid) way.
Some Angband programmers aren't satisfied with the standard version and make changes to the source code.
http://www.thangorodrim.net/variants.html   (181 words)

  
 The Grey Havens - URLs
The Angband Page and the Moria Page, two Rogue-like Games based on the works of JRRT.
Connect to the Narnia MUSH, for you C.S. Lewis fans out there.
http://tolkien.cro.net/urls.html   (912 words)

  
 Cat-and-the-Hack Angband
CatH-Angband was started in 1997 as an attempt to balance out the classes a bit, make certain classes fit their idioms a bit better, and tweak the user interface to make life a little bit easier.
Three new races were added, a few tweaks were made, and a few items were invented.
Cat-and-the-Hack Angband is a variant of the old yet still popular and actively maintained roguelike game Angband.
http://cath-angband.sourceforge.net   (206 words)

  
 Angband.oook.cz
Robert Rühlmann announced his decision to quit maintaining Vanilla Angband, due losing the enthusiasm.
The debate sprouted on newsgroup about who should take over, top suggestions being Timo Pietilä and Leon Marrick.
Robert is also running main Angband website Thangorodrim since late 1997.
http://angband.oook.cz   (211 words)

  
 Yet Another Hackish Angband Variant
Because of its skill-based experience system and multitude of magical disciplines, it's a lot more addictive than either Angband or Zangband (or, sadly, Myband).
But I don't expect skills to suddenly appear in Myband; they're too much of a departure from the Zangband base.
http://www.geocities.com/arthur_odwyer/myband   (209 words)

  
 Links to Mac Angband Binaries
Angband a2.9.1b (lib folder needed for both version)
Note it only has binaries that are in the Variant directory.
If you are not from Europe be considerate and use it at night Swedish time please.
http://www2.thecia.net/users/takemoto/macangbin.html   (133 words)

  
 Jon Lin's Homepage on Comet
I am the one who plays or Everquest, Omega and Angband but not Final Fantasy.
I am the one who threw all the wax on the kitchen ceiling.
I am the one who plays too much Everquest.
http://buzzy.tesuji.org   (4336 words)

  
 Angband
For the latest status on Angband's future please see the
In addition to basic shell account service, Angband offers e-mail, dns hosting, and web hosting (both secure and normal).
Angband is a Linux server that provides some basic shell account services to various people, mostly Georgia Tech alumni.
http://www.angband.org/index2.html   (71 words)

  
 Cheat Codes Club - Angband Cheat Codes
Someone there can probably answer Angband game, cheat, or strategy questions and pretty much everything else related to gaming.
If none of these sites have decent Angband cheats, it probably means that Angband is either a very new game or that it just doesn't have any cheats.
If you have difficulty using any of the cheats found on these sites, we recommend discussing Angband cheat codes on Game Score's Game Forums.
http://www.cheatcodesclub.com/search.php?gamename=Angband&system=all   (114 words)

  
 Angband and Zangband's Journal
None of my Angband characters have ever been lucky enough to stumble across a suit of Power Dragon Scale Mail.
Below are the 30 most recent journal entries recorded in Angband and Zangband's LiveJournal:
Thaurern IV just picked up some Boots of Speed [+4] and a suit of PDSM in a small vault on dlvl34.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/angband_game   (2259 words)

  
 Angband
This game has a long history, a descendant of Moria by Robert Alan Koenige.
Andy Astrand and Sean Cutler hacked it into Angband.
Chuck Swiger cleaned up the code a lot.
http://www.boutell.com/lsm/lsmbyid.cgi/000482   (160 words)

  
 freshmeat.net: Project details for Angband
Users who subscribed to this project also subscribed to:
Angband is a single-player rogue-like dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/angband   (102 words)

  
 World of Sulerin - Links - 3.5E & 3E monsters, spells, magic items and D&D resources
Khoras - A great fantasy world of similar porportions to Sulerin.
Dungeons and Dragons Files - Formerly Angband, this Netherlands gaming site offers much in all aspects of D&D. Karanblade - Wonderfully detailed world.
http://www.sulerin.com/links.asp   (712 words)

  
 Angband Cheats, codes, hints, tips, reviews, faqs and more cheats
While playing press CTRL + M to get a wizard mode then press SHIFT + H for the options available to you
Angband Cheats, codes, hints, tips, reviews, faqs and more cheats
http://www.cheatplanet.com/pccheats/angband.htm   (48 words)

  
 Tolkien computer games - Angband / The Pits of Angband
Ben Harrison et al., based on an original by Robert Alan Koeneke et al.
Tolkien computer games - Angband / The Pits of Angband
http://www.lysator.liu.se/tolkien-games/entry/angband.html   (114 words)

  
 Isometric view for Angband
An integrated, graphical isometric view for the roguelike game Angband.
http://isoband.cjb.net   (20 words)

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