FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Angband (Sindarin for 'Hells of Iron') is the name of the fortress of Morgoth, constructed before the First Age of the Sun, located in the Iron Mountains north of Beleriand. Morgoth built it to guard against a possible attack by the Valar, and put Sauron in charge of it. Nonetheless, the Valar's attack succeeded in capturing Morgoth (then called 'Melkor') and destroying his other stronghold Utumno. 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. He reigned there until the end of the First Age, when it was destroyed in the War of Wrath.
In earlier versions of Tolkien's mythology (see: The History of Middle_earth) it was called Angamandi.
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.
Angband is a program for many platforms including Windows, Linux and the other ones that no one has ever heard of.
Forged in the dark computer pits of Mount Doom, Angband was created by a team of aliens who had picked up a transmission of Peter Jackson's live-action version of The Lord of the Rings and were so incensed by it that they decided that the race who created it must die.
The game challenges you to descend into the pits of Angband (actually the seperate floors of the U.N. building) and destroy various evil creatures (actually the entirety of the human race who are in the U.N. building for some reason).
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