| • Science | • People | • Locations | • Timeline |
Mirkwood was the forest dwelling of a Silvan Elven kingdom, ruled by King Thranduil. It had been called Greenwood the Great until around the year 1050 in the Second Age of the Years of the Sun, when a shadow of the dark lord Sauron fell upon it, and men began to call it Mirkwood, or Taur-nu-Fuin and Taur-e-Ndaedelos in the Sindarin tongue. Sauron established himself at the hill-fortress of Dol Guldur on Amon Lanc, and drove Thranduil and his people ever northward, so that by the end of the Third Age they were a diminished and wary people, who had entrenched themselves beyond the Mountains of Mirkwood (Emyn Fuin, formerly the Emyn Duir or "Dark Mountains"). The Old Forest Road or Old Dwarf Road crossed the forest east to west, but due to its relative proximity to Dol Guldur, the road was mostly unusable. The Elves made a path farther to the north, which ended somewhere in the marshes south of the Long Lake of Esgaroth.
In The HobbitThe Hobbit is a fantasy novel written by J. Tolkien originally as a children's story in the tradition of the fairy tale. It was first published on September 21, 1937 and serves as a preface to The Lord of the Rings (published many years later in 1954 and, BilboBilbo Baggins is the central character of J. Tolkien's The Hobbit''. He is the first in the history of Middle-earth to give up the One Ring voluntarily (see Ringbearer). He was born on September 22, 2890 of the Third Age, son of Bungo Baggins and Belladon and the dwarves came across many great spiders, the breed of ShelobShelob is a fictional character from J. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth. In the original story she appears in the last-but-one chapter of The Two Towers the second volume of The Lord of the Rings''. In Peter Jackson's movie trilogy based on the books Shel. Shortly after the Dwarves's escape, they were captured by the Elves. After or during these events the White CouncilIn the fiction of J. Tolkien, the White Council or Council of the Wise was a group of Elves and Wizards of Middle-earth, formed during the Third Age to contest the growing power of Dol Guldur. The Council's head was the Wizard Saruman. External links Othe attacked Dol Guldur, and Sauron fled to MordorTolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Mordor is the dwelling place of Sauron, in the southeast of Middle-earth. Frodo and Sam went there to destroy the One Ring. Mordor was unique because of the three enormous mountain ridges surrounding it, from. Mirkwood became less evil after that for a while.
GollumGollum is a fictional character from J. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth. Originally known as Smeagol he was later named Gollum after the curious noise he made in his throat. His birth can be estimated to have happened c. the year 2430 of the Third Age., after his release from Mordor, was captured by AragornAragorn is a fictional character from J. Tolkien's fantasy universe of Middle-earth. Aragorn was born on March 1st in the year 2931 of the Third Age, as the son of Arathorn II and his wife Gilraen. Aragorn was a direct descendant of Elendil and Isildur, w and brought a prisoner to Thranduil's halls. He escaped during an OrcOrc or Ork an Old English word ('orc-neas' from Beowulf) for the zombie-like monsters of Grendel's race was revived by J. Tolkien in his Middle-earth legendarium. For the origin of the word and its usage in other fantasy works, see: Orc. In Tolkien's writ raid, and fled south to Moria.After Sauron was reduced to a powerless "spirit of malice" at the conclusion of the Third Age, the darkness was lifted from Mirkwood, and it became known again by its old name of Eryn Lasgalen, Sindarin for the Wood of Greenleaves.
The name "Mirkwood" was not invented by Tolkien — it originates in old Norse and German folklore, wherein it was used to refer to a number of anonymous magical forests. It has been speculated that the Black Forest of Germany derived its name from this title.
Realms of Middle-earth