Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27200931-20170607203736/@comment-26322120-20170607231236

AlteOgre wrote: Chests scattered around the place would not fit the picture. Utumno needs nutrition and material resources to sustain itself and prevent the creatures from feasting on each other, otherwise they would long be extinct before third age explorers venture in its depths. Think heat, carbon, minerals and sulfur to feed mushrooms, algae and deep water filled and magma heated cavern dwelling shrimps, clam and crabs. Bats and rats would be on the next branch of the tree of Utumno life, followed by spiders and wargs. Topping the food chain will be the sentient creatures, except balrogs, who might simply feed on heat and minerals. Smitties will be operational to forge metal for picks and hunting gear. Hunts will also be needed, out in the cold of Forodwaith packs of Utumno orcs and elves on wargback would go out hunting for furry meats and icy blubber. No way they leave unguarded chests scattered about the place. They skirmish too, a lot, and skirmishes between any type of higher creature shouldbe frequent. Each has and guards its own and orcs and elves dont mingle, but pack together, suspicious as they should be for the ferocity of their fellow Utumno dwellers. Please start seeing Utumno as a lost world of its own, hostile to all not from there, but with its own logic developed after thousands of years in perfect isolation.

Wait, do Balrogs even need to eat?