Fangorn Forest

2019-10-23T16:41:22Z

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| name=Fangorn Forest
| image=[[File:Ted Nasmith - Fangorn Forest.jpg|250px]]
| caption="Fangorn Forest" by [[Ted Nasmith]]
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| othernames="Entwood" "Tauremorna" "Ambaróna" "Aldalómë"
| location=North of Rohan, east of the southern tip of the [[Misty Mountains]]
| type=Forest
| description=Dense, dark woodland
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| inhabitants=[[Ents]], [[Huorns]], [[Trees]]
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{{quote|All that lies north of [[Rohan]] is now to us so far away that fancy can wander freely there|[[Boromir]]<ref name="Farewell">{{FR|II8}}</ref>}}

'''Fangorn Forest''' was a deep, dark woodland that grew beneath the southern [[Misty Mountains]], under the eastern flanks of that range. It gained notoriety as the habitat of the [[Ents]] in the [[Third Age]]. The forest, known as '''Entwood''' in [[Rohan]], was named after the oldest Ent, [[Treebeard|Fangorn]]. Fangorn Forest was the oldest part of Treebeard's realm, and here the Ents retreated. Fangorn was within the borders of [[Gondor]], but centuries passed without any [[Gondorians|Gondorian]] visiting it to prove or disprove the legends around it.

==Description==
[[Legolas]] described Fangorn as "tense" and "old, very old...and full of memory",<ref>{{TT|White}}</ref> and the [[Dwarves|Dwarf]] [[Gimli]] said that "the air is stuffy... lighter than Mirkwood, but it is musty and shabby." [[Peregrin Took]] described it as "very dim, and stuffy", comparing it to the [[Old Took|Old Took's]] room in the [[Great Smials]]. [[Meriadoc Brandybuck]] contrasted the forest with [[Bilbo Baggins|Bilbo's]] description of the pitch-dark [[Mirkwood]], saying, "This is just dim, and frightfully tree-ish."<ref name="Treebeard">{{TT|III4}}</ref>

==History==
During the books it is mentioned by many characters that Fanghorn is a dangerous and cursed place, similer to [[Mirkwood]]. This idea is is most likely brought upon by the fact that any people going in to Fanghorn to cut down trees or wander far in might have been killed by [[Ents]]. Along with the old and ominous feel of the forest, this most likely would have lead people to believe that the forest would have been cursed, giving it it's bad name.

===First and Second Age===
Fangorn Forest was the easternmost survivor of the immense forest that spanned all of [[Eriador]] and [[Calenardhon]] in the [[First Age]] and early [[Second Age]], but which was destroyed by the [[Númenóreans]] and [[Sauron]]. Before the deforestation of these regions by Númenórean shipbuilders, Fangorn Forest was much larger, and was connected to the Old Forest.

By the end of the Second Age all the [[Entwives]] had moved away from Fangorn, passing East over the Anduin never to return.

===Third Age===
[[Saruman]] often used to walk in Fangorn and talk with Treebeard, if he met him, and was always eager to listen to anything the old Ent told him about the forest. However, he never repaid Treebeard in the same way.<ref name="Treebeard"/> Saruman used this knowledge of the forest's secrets for his own advantage.

Beginning in {{TA|2953}} Saruman started fortifying [[Isengard]]<ref>{{App|TA}}</ref> and eventually his [[Orcs]] started abusing and harassing the forest, its trees and Ents, for his fortifications and war machines.

====War of the Ring====
On [[28 February]] of {{TA|3019}}, [[Éomer]]'s [[Éored]] attacked and slaughtered the band of [[Uruk-hai]] of [[Uglúk]] under the eaves of Fangorn.<ref>{{TT|Riders}}</ref> This allowed [[Meriadoc Brandybuck]] and [[Peregrin Took]] to escape the [[Orcs]] and pass into the forest. There they met Treebeard and informed him of the danger that [[Saruman]] posed to the Ents and their forest. Following the [[Entmoot]] the rest of the Ents finally agreed to march against [[Isengard]], taking Merry and Pippin with them and sending [[Huorns]] to [[Helm's Deep]] to deal with the [[Orcs]] there. Treebeard was angered by [[Saruman]]'s Orcs chopping down parts of the forest. This was one of the reasons the Ents decided to attack Isengard.

On [[1 March|March 1]], {{TA|3019}}, [[Aragorn]], [[Gimli]] and [[Legolas]] entered the forest in search of Merry and Pippin. Rather than the two young hobbits, they encountered the White Wizard. At first they believed it to be [[Saruman]] before realising that it was [[Gandalf]], returned from death.

==Etymology==
''Fangorn'' is a [[Sindarin]] word that translates as "Treebeard" (from ''[[fang]]'' = "beard" and ''[[orn]]'' = "tree"). Entwood is a modernization of [[Old English]] ''Entwudu'' (''wudu'' "wood"), so modernised because it was recognisable by speakers of [[Westron]]. [[Gondorians]] used that name, assimilated to their own language.<ref name="Nomen">{{HM|N}}, pp. 769-70</ref>

==See also==
*[[:Category:Images of Fangorn Forest|Images of Fangorn Forest]]

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[[Category:Entish realms]]
[[Category:Forests]]
[[de:Fangorn (Wald)]]
[[fi:Fangornin Metsä]]
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Spiders of Mirkwood

2019-10-23T14:52:47Z

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The Spiders of Mirkwood are a species of spider found in the forest of Mirkwood that are encountered by Bilbo and Thorin's company of dwarves.

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