Multi-Users in Middle-earth

MUME, Multi-Users in Middle-earth, is a DikuMUD based on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth that has been continuously expanded and revised since the fall of 1991. In MUME, players are encouraged to role-play in this carefully crafted world and explore the conflict leading up to the War of the Ring in the late Third Age. The action takes place nearly 100 years before The Hobbit, but long after the loss of the One Ring by Sauron. The Key to Erebor has just been found by Gandalf in Dol Guldur and all the epic stories told in The Lord of the Rings can take place. MUME includes 28,000+ original rooms from the mighty dwarven halls beyond the Gulf of Lhûn in the west to the mountains of Mirkwood in the east, and from the ruins of Fornost Erain in the north to the fortress of Isengard in the south. Players can choose between different races, each of which has some unique characteristics. The races are divided into three striving factions. Dwarves, Elves, Half-Elves, Hobbits and Humans - among them the shape-shifting Beornings - are at eternal war with the Orcs, Trolls and Black Númenóreans. In addition, the orcish tribe of Zaugurz is trying to expand its territory at the expense of the Tarkhnarb orcs of Goblin Gate. Most of these conflicts take place east and south of the city of Bree, but rare raids or individual agents of the Red Eye have made it as far west as the dwarven houses in the Blue Mountains.