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==Portrayal in Adaptions==
==Portrayal in Adaptions==
'''2013: ''[[The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug]]'':'''
'''2013: ''[[The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug]]'':'''
:Forest Gate appears in the third Hobbit film.In the film the gate has a small statue of Thranduil's wife, which is covered by the woods.There is also as a symbol the Eye of Sauron in Black Speech. Coinciding with a telepathic message from [[Galadriel]] imploring him to investigate the tombs of the [[Nazgûl]], he leaves the Company in oprder to investigate it.
:The Forest Gate has a small statue of Thranduil's wife, which is covered by the woods. There is also as a symbol the [[Eye of Sauron]] in [[Black Speech]]. [[Gandalf]] leaves the company to investigate the tombs of the [[Nazgûl]].


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Revision as of 09:54, 4 January 2017

The Forest Gate was the western entrance to the Elf-path that led across Mirkwood to the Elvenking's Halls. It was formed as a sort of arch made by two great trees leaning together that were old, ivy-strangled, hung with lichen, and bearing but a few blackened leaves. Beyond the gate the path became a gloomy tunnel, such that from within the forest the gate appeared as a small bright hole.[1]

It was a four-day ride by horse from Beorn's house directly north to the Forest Gate, which was also to the northeast of the confluence of the Rhimdath and Anduin Rivers. When Thorin and company came to the gate, they camped there overnight before entering the forest. It was at this point that Gandalf left the party, to the consternation of the dwarves and Bilbo Baggins.[2]

Portrayal in Adaptions

2013: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug:

The Forest Gate has a small statue of Thranduil's wife, which is covered by the woods. There is also as a symbol the Eye of Sauron in Black Speech. Gandalf leaves the company to investigate the tombs of the Nazgûl.

References

Route of Thorin and Company
Bag End · Green Dragon · The Shire · Lone-lands · Last Bridge · Trollshaws · Trolls' cave · Rivendell · High Pass · Front Porch · Goblin-town · Goblin-gate · Eagle's Eyrie · Carrock · Beorn's Hall · Wilderland · Forest Gate · Elf-path · Mirkwood · Elvenking's Halls · Forest River · Lake-town · Long Lake · River Running · Desolation of the Dragon · Ravenhill · Back Door · Lonely Mountain · Great Hall of Thráin