Crossword clues for moria
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moria \Mo"ri*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? folly.] Idiocy; imbecility; fatuity; foolishness.
Wiktionary
n. Excess frivolity, and an inability to be serious
Wikipedia
Moria is a roguelike computer game based heavily on J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. The game's objective is to kill a Balrog, presumably Durin's Bane, deep within the Mines of Moria. A later port of Moria called Umoria (UNIX Moria) inspired the Angband roguelike game. This game influenced the preliminary design of Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo.
In ancient Greece, a moria was an olive tree considered to be the property of the state.
From Attic Orators, vol. I. p. 289:
Moria was a short-lived one-man political party in Israel between 1990 and 1992.
Moria is a dungeon crawl style role-playing video game first developed for the PLATO system around 1975, with copyright dates listed as 1978 and 1984. It was a pioneering game, allowing parties of up to ten players to travel as a group and message each other, dynamically generating dungeons (instead of pre-computing them), and featuring a wireframe first-person perspective display. One of its authors, Kevet Duncombe, claims not to have read the works of J. R. R. Tolkien or heard of Dungeons & Dragons at the time development started, but he was aware of the PLATO game, dnd.
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria was the name given at the beginning of the late Third Age to an enormous and by then very ancient 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 prior to that time, had lived the Dwarf clan known as the Longbeards. Moria's original name, that given it by the dwarves in their own language, was Khazad-dûm, which translates as The Dwarrow Delf, "dwarrows" being an archaic English plural of "dwarf", and "Delf" an archaic alternative to "Delving", from the verb "Delve", to dig.
Such was its size and fame that throughout its long history Khazad-dûm was well known by many peoples of North-western Middle-Earth, who translated its name into their own languages; Hadhodrond (pronounced HATH-o-drond, with "th" as in this) by the Sindar, Casarrondo by the Noldor and Phurunargian in the Common Speech,
Khazad-dûm earned its later sobriquet Moria, meaning "Black Chasm" or "Black Pit", from Sindarin mor="black" and iâ="void, abyss, pit", after it was abandoned by the Dwarves following the emergence in its depths of a demonic entity of great power, The Balrog.
It has been suggested that Tolkien—an ardent Catholic—may have used this name as a reference to the mountains of Moriah, where (according to the book of Genesis) Abraham was to sacrifice his son, Isaac. However, Tolkien categorically denied such derivations, saying that "As to Moria…it means…Black Chasm [in Sindarin]. …As for the 'land of Morīah' (note stress): that has no connection (even 'externally') whatsoever."
Moria may refer to:
- Moria (Middle-earth), a location in author J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy book, The Lord of the Rings
- Moria (political party), a defunct political party in Israel
- Moria, a village about northeast of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, Greece
- Moria Casán (born 1946), Argentine actress, television host, media personality and vedette
- Moria (tree), a type of public olive tree in ancient Greece
- Moria (nymph), a Naiad mentioned in Dionysiaca by Nonnus
- Moria (video game), a 1983 roguelike computer game
- Moria (PLATO), a multiplayer graphical dungeon crawl written for the PLATO system
In Greek mythology, Moria was a Naiad nymph dwelling by the river Hermus; she makes an appearance in Nonnus' Dionysiaca, in an episode that is as follows.
Moria's brother Tylus accidentally touched a serpent, which then attacked Tylus, coiled round his body and suffocated him; Tylus was not his first victim. Moria only could helplessly watch her brother die, but then Damasen, a Giant son of Gaia, arrived on the spot; Moria implored him to help and he killed the serpent, hitting it with the trunk of a tree he tore out of the ground. Then a female serpent, the slain monster's mate, appeared and used a magical herb, referred to as " Zeus' flower", to bring the dead serpent back to life. Moria then used the same herb to revive her brother.
It has been speculated that the myth of Moria, Tylus and Damasen may be rooted in Lydian mythology.
Usage examples of "moria".
Having marshaled her young charges into the water until they were exhausted with their exercise, Moria stripped to allow the sun full access to her already tanned skin.
While Moria chattered away about the merits of various tanning preparations, Lusena was positive that the Rowan must be making some bizarre internal adjustments for in the space of about fifteen minutes, she acquired a nice sun-burnishing.
When the Rowan began the metamorphic massage which Lusena had taught her as being useful in reducing shock, Moria complained that the Rowan was deliberately bruising her feet.
Unfortunately, Moria noticed, and affected a little squeal as Turian, his expression worried, rubbed lotion on the long, thin sting welts.
Also unfortunately, Moria proved to be one of the nine out of a thousand who had an allergic reaction to sting toxins and Turian cranked up the engine to get the girl to hospital with all dispatch.
Rowan confided to Purza that evening after Moria had been treated and then sedated.
If Moria won she avidly wished to continue but once she started losing, she wanted to try something else.
But, after lunch, in a partnered computer game which Moria and Emer lost to the Rowan and Talba, Moria accused the Rowan of cheating!
Lusena recognized that as a suggestion out of her own book but she decided to deal with Moria now, and comfort Emer, who was as upset as her sister.
It was possible, Lusena thought optimistically, that the drugs had had an adverse effect on Moria to make her act in such a volatile manner.
Rowan did lean on Moria the next morning at the first note of petulance.
Purza appeared, not the remains that Moria had vandalized, but the comfort creature that had been her mainstay.
An official air carrier whisked Lusena, her ecstatic nieces - Moria, Emer, and Talba - and a subdued Rowan to the resort.
The Rowan accepted - unfortunately almost too casually, for Moria hated to admit she might be in the wrong to a younger person - and appeared far more interested in the dinner menu.
The Rowan did lean on Moria the next morning at the first note of petulance.