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BOOKS, LIBRARIES, LIBRARY
Libraries can be found in most towns of Arda and in some other places of lore.
To read a book in a library, go to a library and try
look books. If you get a list of books then you may
read their contents. For instance in
Fornost, the current list reads:
> l books
Since the rebuilding of Fornost, the Librarian in charge has done her best to gather books from near and far to resupply the once splendid library. Some of those obtained are:
Combat ======
'MUME Combat'
by Radorac II (TA 2853)
'An Introduction to MUME Combat'
by Petrel
History =======
'Of the Fall of the Northern Kingdom of Arnor and the Successor States'
by Quenaire of Imladris
To read a book, you need to either
read
<title> or
view
<title>, where
<title> is given above in quotes. You need
specify only the initial part of the title which makes it
unique in the library; e.g.,
If there's more than one book beginning with the same word, you need to specify some entire words; e.g.,read m[reads the 1st Book 'MUME Combat', not case sensitive]read a[reads the 2nd Book 'An Introduction...' etc.]
read the stones [and not 'read the st']
Certain books are divided into chapters: for these book, you can:
Note that books are written in a script based on the language used by the author, so a book written by a man will probably be in Westron, while one writen by an elf would be Sindarin or Quenya. If you have less than 100% skill in that language, you will only be able to decipher some of the text.read <title> all- Read the entire bookread <title> contents- Read the book's introduction and indexread <title> chapter <N>- Only read chapter <N>; e.g.,read t chapter 5
If you want to add a book of yours to a library, please contact Vala in order to receive writing guidelines.
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