I kinda wish that JRR Tolkien wrote a book completely about the Mines of Moria..

[BlueTsunami]

I'm rereading The Fellowship (I've never read the two books after which I will be doing).

But I wish there was a book either about a new character traversing the depths of Moria or telling of Gandalf's or Aragorn's experience with Moria (of which they had bad experiences). I love this part of the book, its so dark and alludes to "other things" in its depths. Hopefully its not just alluding to Balrog and the Kraken like monster. It just seems like it would be a good read.

Anyone have any suggestions as far as a book equivalent of a dungeon crawler?

[Van Cruncheon]

have you read any lovecraft, bt?

[Cheebs]

has anyone read tolkien's "new" book? It's selling insanely well so it must be decent I guess.

[BlueTsunami]

have you read any lovecraft, bt?

Nope, LOTR is the only book I've really touched on the genre.

has anyone read tolkien's "new" book? It's selling insanely well so it must be decent I guess.

I've read one or two bad review about it (I think one in the paper and possibly one on this board). I know a guy a work thats reading it though.

[Himu]

Mines of Moria are godly.

[Ecrofirt]

What new book?

[Himu]

A new Tolkien book?!

[BlueTsunami]

The imagery of the "Dark and unwholesome" Lake at the West end of Moria is some of the cooler things I've read in a book. The image in my head is of some really large rust colored murky water where you can tell its looks bottomless from the pitch black area of the lake (reaching the bottom of the Mine). Its so awesome.

Knowing that Kraken monster which originated from the bottom of the mine is the only living thing in the lake makes it more menacing

[Van Cruncheon]

lovecraft has a number of stories that are about as close to a "dungeon crawler" as you'll get, with nameless horrors deep in the earth and old gods waiting to fuck humanity's collective butthole. his prose is florid, but it has a sort of cadence that sucks you in -- it's one of the few times that the purple pulp-victorian style actually accentuates the experience.

[BlueTsunami]

Nice

Next time I go out for a book I'll probably pick up one of his

[Ichirou]

I will second Drinky's Lovecraft recommendation and I'll recommend a specific Lovecraft story that has what you're looking for: At The Mountains of Madness.