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'''Moria''' {{Lang|Sindarin|Black Abyss/Chasm/Pit}} was the name given by the [[Elf|Eldar]] to the [[Dwarf|Dwarven]] kingdom which was properly called '''Khazad-dûm''' {{Lang|Khuzdul|Dwarves' Delvings/Mansions}}. The [[Sindar]] adapted the Dwarvish name as ''Hadhodrond'', and the [[Noldor]] as ''Cassarondo''. [[Race of Man|Men]] called it the '''Dwarrowdelf''' {{Lang|Archaic Westron|Dwarf-delving}}.

<blockquote>It is 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 the [[Misty Mountains]]. There, for many thousands of years, lived the Dwarf clan known as the Longbeards in this city and one-time centre of dwarven industry. For over a thousand years of the [[Third Age]] it was widely known by the name Moria. It is located in [[Rhovanion]], between [[Eregion]] and [[Lothlórien]].</blockquote>

* '''Level:''' 50-60
* '''Factions:''' [[Iron Garrison Guards]] and [[Iron Garrison Miners]]
* '''Crafting:'''  Supreme (T6)
* '''Introduced:''' [[File:Mines of Moria logo.png|64px]] [[The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria]], November 18th, 2008
* '''Area Restrictions:''' Horse and elk [[mounts]] cannot be summoned in this area. Only specially trained goat or boar mounts can be used.
<includeonly>::''See [[Moria]] for more details'' </includeonly><noinclude>
== Moria Locations ==
[[Location]]s found within the region of '''Moria''' are listed below.
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| <div><ul><li style="display: inline-block;"> [[File:Zelem-melek.jpg|thumb|none|[[Zelem-melek]]]]</li></ul></div>
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| <h3> [[File:Settlements-icon.png|32px]] [[Settlements]] </h3>
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| <categorytree depth="0" hideprefix="always">Moria Settlements</categorytree>
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| <div><ul><li style="display: inline-block;"> [[File:The Orc-watch.jpg|thumb|none|[[The Orc-watch]]]]</li></ul></div>
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| <h3> [[File:Point of Interest-icon.png|32px]] [[Landmark]]s </h3>
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| <categorytree depth="0" hideprefix="always">Moria Landmarks</categorytree>
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| <div><ul><li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:The Endless Stair.jpg|thumb|none|[[The Endless Stair]]]]</li></ul></div>
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| <h3> [[File:Interiors-icon.png|32px]] [[Interiors]] </h3>
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| <categorytree depth="0" hideprefix="always">Moria Interiors</categorytree>
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| <div><ul><li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:The Peaceful Path.jpg|thumb|none|[[The Peaceful Path]]]]</li></ul></div>
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| <categorytree depth="0" hideprefix="always">Moria Dungeons</categorytree>
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| <div><ul><li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Nud-heden.jpg|thumb|none|[[Nud-heden]]]]</li></ul></div>
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| <categorytree depth="0" hideprefix="always">Moria Instances</categorytree>
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| <div><ul><li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:The Vile Maw Instance.jpg|thumb|none|[[The Vile Maw]]]]</li></ul></div>
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== [[File:Quest-icon.png|32px]] [[Quests]] ==
For more detail, see [[Moria Quests]]
<categorytree depth="0" hideprefix="always" showcount="on">Moria Quests</categorytree>

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== [[File:Admin-title-icon.png]] [[Deeds]] ==
For more detail, see [[Moria Deeds]] <categorytree depth="0" hideprefix="always" showcount="on">Moria Deeds</categorytree>

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== [[File:Explorer-title-icon.png]] [[Title]]s ==
For more detail, see [[:Category:Moria Titles|Moria Titles]] <categorytree depth="0" hideprefix="always" showcount="on">Moria Titles</categorytree>
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== [[File:Reputation-icon.png]] Moria [[Reputation]] ==
<categorytree depth="0" hideprefix="always" showcount="on">Moria Reputation Factions</categorytree>
<gallery mode=nolines widths="300px">
File:The Twenty-first Hall.jpg|[[The Twenty-first Hall]] - Main base of the [[Iron Garrison Guards]] 
File:The Dolven-view.jpg|[[The Dolven-view]] - Main base of the [[Iron Garrison Miners]] 
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== Connected to ==
* [[Eregion]]
* [[Lothlórien]]

== Creatures ==
<categorytree depth="0" hideprefix="always">Moria Creatures</categorytree>

=== Named Creatures Flake Collectors List ===
Each of these creatures is the rare, signature, tougher, named version and all have a high change to drop a rare shard used in crafting.

{{Questbox| [[Durin's Way]] :| collapsed | {{:Durin's Way Named Creatures Mithril Flake}} }}
 
{{Questbox| [[The Flaming Deeps]] :| collapsed | {{:The Flaming Deeps Named Creatures Mithril Flake}} }}

{{Questbox| [[Foundations of Stone]] :| collapsed | {{:Foundations of Stone Named Creatures Mithril Flake}} }}

{{Questbox| [[Great Delving]] :| collapsed | {{:Great Delving Named Creatures Mithril Flake}} }}   

{{Questbox| [[Nud-melek]] :| collapsed | {{:Nud-melek Named Creatures Mithril Flake}} }}

{{Questbox| [[Redhorn Lodes]] :| collapsed | {{:Redhorn Lodes Named Creatures Mithril Flake}} }}

{{Questbox| [[Silvertine Lodes]] :| collapsed | {{:Silvertine Lodes Named Creatures Mithril Flake}} }}

{{Questbox| [[The Water-works]] :| collapsed | {{:The Water-works Named Creatures Mithril Flake}} }}

{{Questbox| [[Zelem-melek]] :| collapsed | {{:Zelem-melek Named Creatures Mithril Flake}} }}

{{Questbox| [[Zirakzigil]] :| collapsed | {{:Zirakzigil Named Creatures Mithril Flake}} }}

== [[File:Icon lore.png|32px]] Lore ==
[[File:Durin's Bane-1.jpg|300px|right]]<blockquote>
''The '''Dwarrowdelf''' was founded by Durin 'the Deathless' in the far distant past, long before the creation of the Sun and Moon. Durin had awoken at Mount Gundabad not long after the Elves first awoke, and as eldest amongst the Fathers of the Dwarves was acknowledged as preeminent amongst them, a status subsequently inherited by his descendants, the kings of the Longbeards.''

''From Gundabad, Durin's growing clan spread southward down the vales of the [[Anduin]], all the while under attack from the [[Orc]]s of Morgoth. According to legend, Durin ultimately found "a glen of shadows between two great arms of the mountains, above which three white peaks were shining". Within this heavily wooded valley, a long series of short water falls led down to a long, oval lake, which appeared to have a magical quality: "There, like jewels sunk in the deep shone glinting stars, though sunlight was in the sky above". Perceiving these stars as a crown glittering above his head, Durin took this as an auspicious sign, and named the lake Kheled-zâram, the [[Mirrormere]].''

''The three peaks overshadowing the lake he named [[Caradhras|Barazinbar]] 'the [[Redhorn Lodes|Redhorn]]', [[Zirakzigil]] 'the Silvertine' and [[Fanuidhol|Bundushathûr]], 'Cloudyhead'. The icy cold springs feeding it he called 'Kibil-Nâla', of unknown meaning, although to the valley itself he gave the name '[[Azanulbizar]]', '''The Dimrill Dale'''. Durin chose the caves above Kheled-zâram as the earliest beginnings of his stronghold: '''Khazad-dûm''', 'the Dwarrowdelf'.''

''All of these places became revered amongst Durin's people in later days. His descendants erected a rune-carved [[Uruk-gashan|stone monolith]] at the site whereupon he had first looked into the Mirrormere, and although it had become indecipherably weatherworn by the end of the Third Age — broken, cracked and faded — the influence of Durin I, the founding king of [[Khazad-dûm]], was never forgotten.''
'' '''Khazad-dûm''' waxed continuously in size and population in Durin's long lifetime, until it became the "greatest of all the mansions of the Dwarves", even before the return of the Noldor to Middle-earth. By that time, Khazad-dûm was already "a name and a rumour from the words of the Dwarves of the [[Ered Luin|Blue Mountains]]" to all the Eldar of Beleriand.''

''After his death, the reputation of Durin's realm continued to grow, not merely due to his spiritual ascendancy over the other Fathers of the Dwarves as the eldest amongst them, or the Dwarrowdelf's growing size, but to its great wealth, which was founded upon the uniquely precious metal mithril, which was universally prized yet found nowhere else in Middle-earth.''</blockquote>

== Maps ==  
[[File:Moria_map.jpg|400px|Map of Moria]]
[[File:Rv8ggupcvmi11.jpg|420px|Map of Moria from Reddit]]
=== Directions ===
:''From: [[Moria Directions]]''
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{{:Moria Directions}}
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== Category Overview ==
List of everything in region:
<categorytree mode="all" depth="1" showcount="off">Moria</categorytree>
*See also [[Moria Quests]].
*See also [[:Category:Crafting Instances|Crafting Instances]] - For some Info about the Moria Crafting Instances.

{{Moria}}
{{Instance Cluster: Moria}}
{{Rhovanion}}

== Trivia ==
* '''Snowlock:''' ''Berephon once said that the dwarven expedition to Moria in LOTRO was a temporary endeavor that would one day be resolved... Still true?''

: A post by MadeOfLions on 15 January 2015 explains:

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| I don't think you should expect the Iron Garrison to get wiped out, if that's what you mean. Rather, I'd say that the excursion into Moria is a pretty tenuous one, and they can't rightly be said to have reclaimed it yet -- and won't for many, many years. They'll have successes and they'll have failures, but I wouldn't expect a version of Moria free of dwarves.
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| MoL
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::* [https://forums-old.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7301445#post7301445 https://forums-old.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7301445#post7301445]

* '''Snowlock:''' ''Bummer. Understandable, but I always wanted to see how Berephon was going to pull off that trick. Iirc, and maybe I don't, but I seem to remember him being fairly specific, that the expedition would fail and it was a story they'd tell.''
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| I'm of two minds about this subject.
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| Here's the first: 'in the Professor's Middle-earth, of course the Iron Garrison didn't exist. Moria remained closed-off after the passage of the Fellowship, and the dwarves didn't try to go back until well after the War of the Ring.' In this world, if we *do* allow players into Moria with the Iron Garrison, it only makes sense for the dwarves to fail utterly, because that's how we restore the status quo. This story is likely quite depressing, but it does let us hit the Undo button on sending players into Moria. This is the Strict Constructionist approach.
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| Here's the second: 'A Middle-earth game that doesn't let you into Moria is leaving out not just one of the most iconic locations in all of literature, but also one of the most crucial parts of the narrative. Of course we need to find a way to allow players to experience it.' The creation of the Iron Garrison allows us a fairly reasonable way to see inside Moria without stepping all over the Fellowship on their way through. Since dwarves will eventually reclaim Moria, it makes a certain amount of sense to say that the Iron Garrison will serve as the baby-steps foundation of this effort. This is the Loose Constructionist approach.
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| As you might expect, our team was divided on which approach was best, which I think is healthy -- it means we really had to debate the finer points of each in order to come up with a solution. Nothing goes into the game without thought. 
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MoL
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::* [https://forums-old.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7301543#post7301543 https://forums-old.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=7301543#post7301543]

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