Old Forest
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In J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Old Forest was a daunting and ancient woodland just beyond the eastern borders of the Shire. Its first and main appearance in print was in
An old oak in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, England. English oak woods provided the inspiration for the Old Forest
Old Man Willow, drawn by Tolkien while he was writing the chapter on the Old Forest. A face can just be made out on the right-hand side of the tree above the arm-like branch.
Geography of Middle-earth
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The geography of Middle-earth encompasses the physical, political, and moral geography of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional continent Middle-earth on the planet Arda, but widely taken to mean all of creati
Old Forest
…likening it to "Old England", and, given that the protagonist Frodo Baggins calls it "the shadowed land", to Death. The Old Forest lay near the centre of Eriador, a large region of north-west Middle-earth. It was one of the few survivors of the primordial forests which had covered much of Eriador before the…
Tolkien borrowed the Arthurian place-name Brocéliande for an early version of Beleriand. 1868 illustration by Gustave Doré