Middle Earth (Longplay/Lore) - 0071: The Foundations of Stone - Part 2 (Mines of Moria)

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Published on June 8, 2017 2:06:17 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWYFOFJif8A

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The Lord of the Rings Online (2007)

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The place is a surreal maze of enormous, spiking rock and strange fungal bulbs. Marbled stone the color of bone and blood bends and juts into walls and spears. Low caves lure explorers into the lairs of bloodthirsty things that have never been seen by the sun above. It is another world.

Between the fog and the bending tunnels, the true size and distance of things become difficult to read. Beware of shadows obscuring hidden cliffs and of stony spurs disguising side passages and lurking beasts. What may seem to be a gently sloping floor may become a slippery drop into some stinking tributary.

At the heart of the Foundations of Stone lies a great green lake, nameless and strange. Fed by the seepage of numerous small waterfalls, the lake is a grotesque and lifeless cistern, gathering filth at the bottom of the world.

A bizarre sky of haze and thorns obscures patches of the distant roof. Enormous hooks of wicked stone grope into the gloom, reaching to snare whatever falls from the world above. It is like an awful, fanged mouth, and if that is true, then all that sits below it serves as the baleful guts and stomach of a giant and evil beast.

Yet, somehow, there is beauty here. There is light. Patches of glowing moss cling to the surface of the lake like skin on a bucket of milk, giving off an eerie iridescence that is peculiarly comforting. The reflection of shimmering mushrooms in the green water is oddly lovely. The vast stillness of the water and its frozen, rocky sky are somehow enchanting. The Foundations of Stone grant visitors a glimpse of a rare and terrible aspect of Middle-earth.

There are also remnants of the Dwarves who delved so deeply here so long ago - their camp, The Shadowed Refuge. The base of the Endless Stair sits here, spiraling upwards towards the pinnacle of the mountain's peak far above in Zirakzigil. A piece of the Arch of the Bridge of Khazad-dûm juts upward from the island in the middle of the lake where it fell from far above...

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