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Throughout Middle-earth you will find many different types of enemies, ranging the gamut from humans to creatures and even monsters.

A full listing of creatures organized by area can be found at the Creature locations page.

Difficulty Indicators

Name Color / Con Level

Creatures that you can fight have their names in specific colors to indicate their difficulty relative to your own level. This color coded designation is often referred to in the gaming community as con or con level (which is a shortened form of either constitution [health] or of consider, implying that the player must consider the creature's level before deciding whether or not to attack).[[1]] [[2]] The con level color will change as your character grows.

As an example, you will find that a level 15 bear appears purple and is practically impossible to defeat when your character is level 7. That bear will also be extremely aggressive toward you, and will offer a significant amount of Experience points, or XP. Once you have gained level 15 yourself, the bear's name will appear in white and be much less of a challenge to defeat; it will also offer a lesser amount of XP. When your character is level 30, the bear's name will appear in grey and will offer no challenge whatsoever; for this reason, you will no longer receive any XP for defeating this level 15 foe.

Incidentally, creature names of any level may also appear grey if they have already been attacked by another person. This condition is simple to identify because the creature's morale bar will also appear grey, rather than yellow or orange.

From easiest to hardest:

• Grey - 9 or more levels below - yields no XP / Was attacked by another person.
• Green - 6 - 8 levels below
• Turquoise - 3 - 5 levels below
• Blue - 1 - 2 levels below
• White - (creature has the same level as yourself)
• Yellow - 1 - 2 levels above
• Orange - 3 - 4 levels above
• Red - 5 - 7 levels above
• Purple - 8 levels above (creature is far greater than yourself)

Grey creature.	Green creature.
Turquoise creature.	Blue creature.
White creature.	Yellow creature.

In general it is possible to defeat all "normal" creatures up to the difficulty level "orange", while "red" and "purple" enemies are impossible to kill alone, because they are too hard to damage.

Difficulty Rank

Creatures also have a colored ring surrounding the icon attached to their stat bar. The color of this ring indicates their status as a solo or fellowship creature, called "rank" by the developers.

• Swarm
  • green ring
  • has decreased morale relative to its level and can be easily defeated one at a time, but in groups they may offer a greater challenge than a normal creature
• Normal
  • blue ring
  • can be "soloed" (defeated by a character playing solo)
• Signature
  • red ring
  • can be soloed, but will be challenging
• Elite (Defender for creeps)
  • glowing red ring
  • may require several players to defeat
• Elite Master (Master Defender for creeps)
  • burning red ring with 4 spikes
  • may require a full fellowship to defeat
• Nemesis (Avenger for creeps)
  • burning red ring with 6 spikes
  • may require a raid of two or more fellowships to defeat)
• Arch-nemesis (Hero for creeps)
  • burning red ring with big flames around the eye
  • may require a raid of three or four fellowships to defeat)

Swarm creature.
Normal creature.	Signature creature.
Elite creature.	Elite Master creature.
Nemesis creature.	Arch-nemesis creature.

A complete listing of creatures organized by difficulty rank can be found at the Category:Creature_difficulty page.

Creature Catalog

A list of all the species you will encounter.‎ This section is currently under reconstruction. A complete listing of creatures organized by species can be found at the Category:Creature_types page.

Bestiary

Beasts Birds and mammals.	Spiders and Insects Eight-legged menaces.	Critters The harmless, idyllic animals...
Creatures of Nature Living Trees and Ent-wannabees.	Dragon-kind Fire and flame!

Humanoids

Evil Dwarves Dourhands and co.	Evil Men Not all Men are Free.	Giant-kind No one at home will believe this.
Orc-kind Servants of the Dark Lord.	Troll-kind All kind of trolling.	Ancient Evil Lords of the Dead.
The Dead Rotten flesh and bones.

Adding new Creatures

• See Create new Creatures.