Every object that is not a character, with its starting position and values, from the object records at C00B. 'Places' lists the room (or rooms, for doors and rivers that belong to two or more places) the object is in; 'Held by' is the object or character holding it. The last column lists the actions the object has its own handlers for; anything else falls back on the default handlers (C61F).

What the numbers mean

Size (byte 2) is how much room the object takes up in a container (91B9) or a room, or when passing through a doorway; for a container it is also how much it can hold. Weight (byte 3) decides whether it can be lifted (8C86). A size and weight of 255 marks a fixture - doors, the cupboard, the curtain - that can never be picked up. The stone (254) is too heavy for anyone except the wood elf (capacity 255).

Strength and defence matter when the object is used as a weapon or is broken (90DB, 9257): the sword (64/128) is the best weapon; the bow and arrow are weak as clubs (16/16) but deadly when SHOT (8FE0); doors with a defence of 0 cannot be broken at all.

Flags (byte 7): locked, pours (a liquid: it can be drunk or poured, and evaporates if dropped), full, broken, on (the sword glows, 954D; the torches burn), open. Every object starts visible except the side door of the Lonely Mountain, which only appears now and then (A985).

Byte 4 (not shown) says how an object's contents are described (9F89): in (0), on (1), behind (2), under (3) or tied to (4) - 'behind the heavy curtain there is a wall', 'under the trap door there is the goblins cache'. Bit 7 is set for the window, which Bilbo cannot climb through unaided (A678).

Notes

Objects 21, 22 and 38 start at location 0, which is nowhere: they are spares. The water and black water are brought into play when a container is filled from a river (8ED3), and the lunch when Elrond hands it over (A8D9).

The small curious key is hidden three deep in the goblins' dungeon: inside the goblins' cache, which is under a trap door, which is buried in the sand. DIG opens the sand (8FCF). The trap door is locked, and its UNLOCK handler (at A288 in A26A) always answers 'the key does not fit this lock', so the only way in is to break it.

The round green door's LOCK and UNLOCK handlers give the same 'does not fit' reply: Bag End's front door cannot be locked or unlocked with any key.

The golden key (object 43) lies in the deep misty valley (room 79), at the end of a dead-end path. No lock in the game accepts it - the key check (A26A) only knows the small curious key, the large key and the red key - so it opens nothing.