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The tale tells that in times long past there was a dwelling of men beside a great wood. Before it lay a plain, not very great, but which was, as it were, an isle in the sea of woodland, since even when you stood on the flat ground, you could see trees everywhere in the offing, though as for hills,
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during the Second Age, only to fall into ruin when Númenór's power waned. Adrián Maldonado of AlmostArchaeology speculates that the derelict castle could be interpreted by viewers as the ruins of Oropher's halls, erected during the Second Age when he ruled Greenwood the Great from Amon Lanc.
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a rude and contracted path through the cliffy and woody pass called Mirkwood Dingle, and opened suddenly upon a deep, dark, and small lake, named, from the same cause, Mirkwood-Mere. There stood, in former times, a solitary tower upon a rock almost surrounded by the
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Tolkien stated in a 1966 letter that he had not invented the name Mirkwood, but that it was "a very ancient name, weighted with legendary associations", and summarized its "Primitive Germanic" origins, its appearance in "very early German" and in Old English,
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play a major role in the invented history of Tolkien's Middle-earth and are important in the heroic quests of his characters. The forest device is used as a mysterious transition from one part of the story to another.
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In such wise that Folk had made an island amidst of the Mirkwood, and established a home there, and upheld it with manifold toil too long to tell of. And from the beginning this clearing in the wood they called the
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you could scarce say that there were any; only swellings-up of the earth here and there, like the upheavings of the water that one sees at whiles going on amidst the eddies of a swift but deep stream.
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was formed in 1971; their first album in 1973 had the same name. A different band in California used the name in 2005. Tolkien's forests were the subject of a programme on
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through this forest in the several accounts of Túrin's tale. Along with the rest of Beleriand, this forest was lost in the cataclysm of the
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and brought as a prisoner to Thranduil's realm. Out of pity, they allow him to roam the forest under close guard, but he escapes during an
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calls it "the greatest forest of the Northern world." Before it was darkened by evil, it had been called Greenwood the Great.
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On either side, to right and left the tree-girdle reached out toward the blue distance, thick close and unsundered...
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Chieftain, and their respective armies. Giant Bats are also included in the game. In 1996, the black metal band
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have been sold on the basis that the area inspired Tolkien, who often went there, to create Mirkwood and
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in the fourth century. A Mirkwood was used by the novelist Sir Walter Scott in his 1814 novel
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states that it is 400–500 miles (640–800 km) long and 200 miles (320 km) wide.
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explains that the name evoked the excitement of the wildness of Europe's ancient North.
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Nelson, Charles W. (2000). "6: The sins of Middle-earth, Tolkien's use of Allegory".
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Architecture, space and gameplay in World of Warcraft and Battle for Middle Earth 2
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are set – the expansive forest of "Greenwood the Great" was renamed "Mirkwood",
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states explicitly in the same passage that the Mirkwood was in Gothland. The
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lived at Rhosgobel on the western eaves of Mirkwood, as depicted in the film
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becomes the sole survivor of the men who once lived there as subjects of the
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Pritsak, Omeljan (1981). The origin of Rus'. Harvard University Press. p.199
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in the borderlands between the Goths and the Huns of the 4th century. The
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raid. After the downfall of Sauron, Mirkwood is cleansed by the elf-queen
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flushes Sauron out of his forest tower at Dol Guldur, and as he flees to
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19th-century writers interested in philology, including the folklorist
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The trees were large and densely packed. In the north they were mainly
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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ed. Andreas Haarder et al. Odense University Press, 1982. pp. 51–69.
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noted that Norse legend yields two placenames which would place the
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legendarium, where it appears as two distinct forests, one in the
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for both atmosphere and plot. It was renamed when "the shadow of
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forests that suggest those of William Morris's prose romances
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and the folk singer Mark Atherton. Literary holidays in the
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with what would later be called the "dark blue forest" (
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Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since. In Three Volumes
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forests
Sir Walter Scott
William Morris
J. R. R. Tolkien
Tom Shippey
Middle-earth
Tolkien's legendarium
First Age
Beleriand
Morgoth
the Necromancer
The Hobbit
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Myrkviðr
Norse mythology
Goths
Huns
Waverley
William Morris
The House of the Wolfings
Forests
Walter Scott
Waverley
William Morris
The Roots of the Mountains
The House of the Wolfings
Forests in Middle-earth
Tolkien and the Norse
J. R. R. Tolkien
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