What was this game?

["Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@semanticedge.com>]

For some reason, I started thinking about a game I used to play a lot
right after my father got an Apple //e in 1983, and I'd like to know
what it was...

The game was some kind of adventure, or RPG, that had some
features in common with what are usually called "roguelike" games.

That is, the game displayed a level as 40-col text screen, and
the player could move around on the screen. I vaguely remember it being
based on Tolkien. I vaguely remember that there was a ring (maybe you
were supposed to find the ring), and that Gollum was in the game.

I vaguely remember that the screen looked somewhat jumbled with a lot of
characters all over the place (representing walls? floors? items?) and
that there were a lot of inverse and/or flashing characters used.

I vaguely remember that the level could collapse on you if you did
something you weren't supposed to. I don't remember there being any
graphics of any kind. The game was not, as far as I remember, a "text
adventure" like Zork, Eamon games, etc. The game might have been
written in BASIC.

Does anyone know what this game was?

Thanks...

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