Reception
The game module was positively received. It placed 25th on a 2004 list of the "The 30 Greatest D&D adventures of All Time", the only Dragonlance module to make the list.
Steve Hampshire reviewed the scenario for Imagine magazine. He "enjoyed this module a lot" and felt it was "well-detailed and original, and plays well". Hampshire found it "good value", his only problem having been reading "the rather flowery prose without being laughed down by the players".
A review by Graham Staplehurst in White Dwarf magazine, issue #60, gave the module an 8 out of 10 overall, and noted that the lack of things such as gold and clerics in the adventure world "don't destroy the feel of the scenario, whilst creating a very novel atmosphere". Staplehurst felt that the adventure was "...very much taken off from Lord of the Rings with a powerful magic item to be taken at all costs to the aggressor's innermost defences and through them. The characters will have to get past a nice new race of humanoids as well as a couple of other monster-concepts. The artwork (aside from the cover) is good and usable in the adventure. Another good product." In his 1991 book Heroic Worlds, Lawrence Schick described the scenarios as "heavy-handed in channelling the players to follow the plot".
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