Moria is an old Roguelike computer game, based on a story from The Lord of the Rings. The goal in the game is to reach the bottom of the maze of mines of Moria and kill the Balrog. Robert Alan Koeneke wrote the original version at the University of Oklahoma after he became hooked on the first roguelike game, Rogue, but could not run it on the VAX 11/780 computer running VMS to which he had access.