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Elendor is a free text based multiuser roleplaying game meant to simulate an environment set in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as expressed in The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion. The game is run on a MUSH (Multi-User Shared Hallucination) server using a variant of PennMUSH. Users create characters according to the theme of the books, depending on culture and species. Established in October 1991, Elendor is the oldest and most popular Tolkien-based MUSH on the Internet. As of May 2005, the number of registered users in the game is over 2,000. Elendor was chosen as "Best Tolkien Community Site" by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine.[1] John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. ...
A map of the Northwestern part of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age, courtesy of the Encyclopedia of Arda. ...
The login screen from M*U*S*H, the centre of development for PennMUSH. A MUSH (sometimes said to be an abbreviation for Multi-User Shared Hack, Habitat, Holodeck, or Hallucination, though these are backronyms) is a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected at the...
Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. ...
Denizens of Elendor
Within Elendor there are 21 different cultures. Each covers a different faction written about by Tolkien in his writings about Middle-earth. For example, a player can play an Orc from Moria, an Elf from Mirkwood, a mortal human from Dunland, or a Hobbit from the Shire, to name but a few choices. However, not all cultures can be played by new players. These cultures include the Ents, Trolls, and Dúnedain, as well as many other special or powerful species. "Feature" Characters (FC), and "Book Feature" Characters (BFC) are rewards given for dedicated work for a culture, good roleplaying ability and seniority. A map of the Northwestern part of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age, courtesy of the Encyclopedia of Arda. ...
This Tolkien article or section may need to be cleaned up and rewritten because it describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe perspective. ...
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria was an ominous name given by the Eldar to what had once been an enormous underground complex in north-western Middle-earth, comprising a vast network of tunnels, chambers, mines and huge halls or mansions, that ran under and ultimately through...
Celeborn (portrayed by Marton Csokas), an Elf in Peter Jacksons adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring. ...
For the game Mirkwood, see Mirkwood (mud). ...
The race of Men in J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth books, such as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, refers to humanity and does not denote gender. ...
location of Dunland in Middle-earth marked in red In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Dunland was a place in north-west Middle-earth: the land of the Dunlendings. ...
In J. R. R. Tolkiens legendarium, Hobbits are a diminutive race that inhabit the lands of Arda. ...
The fields of the Shire in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. ...
An Ash Ent in the Lord of the Rings movie series Ents are a fictional race from J. R. R. Tolkiens fantasy world of Middle-earth. ...
In J. R. R. Tolkiens world of Middle-earth, Trolls are very large (twelve feet tall or more) humanoids of great strength and poor intellect. ...
In J. R. R. Tolkiens legendarium, the Dúnedain (singular: Dúnadan) were a fictional race of Men descended from the Númenóreans that survived the fall of their island kingdom and came to Eriador in Middle-earth, led by Elendil and his sons, Isildur and Anárion. ...
The cultures are each run by a "Ruler" (an out of character rank) and a council of local administrators (Local Admins or LAs). These players are responsible for the theme and daily running of their respective cultures. Above the Rulers is a council of "Wizards", or MUSH-wide administrators, who have wide ranging responsibilities that involve the daily running of the MUSH. Out of Character (OOC) is a roleplaying term, referring to the world of the players, rather than the world of the characters. ...
While Elendor is focused on role-playing, it also allows for creative effort in designing the world itself, as is typical of a MUSH. Players may build regions, enhance the descriptions of areas, design quests, program commands both locally and globally.
References - ^ Yahoo! Internet Life, Lord of the Rings on the Net Contest, December 2001
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