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Trollshaws

Kjell Arne Brudvik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:56:32 +0000

The upland woods, consisting at least partly of beech trees, that lay to the west of Rivendell between the Rivers Hoarwell and Loudwater. They were the haunt of trolls, three of which famously waylayed Bilbo and his companions during the Quest of Erebor.

Taur-nu-Fuin (Mirkwood)

Kjell Arne Brudvik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:54:12 +0000

At the beginning of the second millennium of the Third Age, a mysterious being came to Amon Lanc in the south of Greenwood the Great, and there built the stronghold known as Dol Guldur. This was the magician known as the Necromancer, who was later revealed to be none other than Sauron himself, and from his fortress tower a shadow of nightshade began to spread across the woodlands. From that time on, the Elves came to refer to the Greenwood as Taur-nu-Fuin, the Forest under Nightshade, rendered into the Mannish tongue as ‘Mirkwood’.

The story of Sauron’s darkening of Greenwood the Great mirrors events in the First Age, when he occupied the highland forests of Dorthonion, north of Beleriand. That region, too, fell under his shadow, and was also known as Taur-nu-Fuin.

Region

Kjell Arne Brudvik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:47:35 +0000

The forest on the banks of the River Esgalduin that formed the southern and greater part of the Kingdom of Doriath, and within which lay the halls of Menegroth.

Old Forest

Kjell Arne Brudvik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:44:19 +0000

A remnant of the great forests of Middle-earth in the Second Age; most of these forests were felled by the Númenóreans, but two isolated woodlands remained. The Old Forest was the northern of these two (the other being Fangorn in the south), on the eastern borders of the Shire.

Núath

Kjell Arne Brudvik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:43:50 +0000

A wooded region running along the southern feet of the Ered Wethrin, to the south of Nevrast. The woods of Núath extended to the east of the sources of Nenning, as far as the springs and upper waters of the Ginglith and Narog. Tuor and Voronwë passed through these woods as they journeyed east from Vinyamar to Gondolin. Though the location of the woods of Núath is well established, they are not to be found on the map that accompanies The Silmarillion.

Nivrim

Kjell Arne Brudvik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:43:15 +0000

The small wood that lay to the north of the Aelin-uial; the only part of the kingdom of Doriath to the west of the River Sirion, it was encompassed within the Girdle of Melian.

Neldoreth

Kjell Arne Brudvik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:42:32 +0000

The beech-forest on the banks of the River Esgalduin that formed the northern and lesser part of the Kingdom of Doriath.

Nan Elmoth

Kjell Arne Brudvik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:41:58 +0000

The dark and ancient woods on the banks of the River Celon in East Beleriand. It was here that Thingol met with Melian, and many years later the forest became the home of Eöl the Dark Elf.

Mirkwood

Kjell Arne Brudvik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:40:33 +0000

A name of Greenwood the Great, the mighty forest that lay in the lands east of the River Anduin. The name ‘Mirkwood’was used of this forest after Sauron, in his guise as the Necromancer, took up his abode at Dol Guldur in its southern regions.

Greenwood the Great

Kjell Arne Brudvik — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:25:52 +0000

The ancient name for the mighty forest known as Mirkwood throughout most of the Third Age.