Jewels of Darkness

Jewels of Darkness (formerly the Middle-Earth Trilogy) is a trilogy of text adventure games by Level 9. The individual games were initially released separately in 1983. They featured some themes inspired by the books of J. R. R. Tolkien and so became known as the "Middle-Earth Trilogy". The individual releases were available for the BBC Micro unlike the compilation.
In 1986 the three games were revised, expanded and rereleased together as a compilation. For legal reasons the references to Middle-earth were removed and the trilogy was retitled "Jewels of Darkness". The games include simple static graphics.
The games.
"Colossal Adventure".
An expanded version of the original "Adventure" by Will Crowther and Don Woods
"Adventure Quest".
Similar in structure to the previous game; the player must defeat the Dark Lord.
"Dungeon Adventure".
A continuation of the previous game; following the defeat of the Dark Lord, the player must explore his tower looking for treasure.
Reception.
"Computer Gaming World" stated that the compilation's claim that the games had been "significantly revised to incorporate the latest innovative techniques" was false. It described the puzzles as illogical, the Commodore version's graphics as "crude", and, like the parser, below the standard of previous Firebird text adventures.
"[The graphics are] colourful but they're not great works of art. And the location descriptions and scenarios have always struck me as being good enough on their own."<br>
Zzap! issue sept. 1986