Light peering through the thick trees of Mirkwood When Oropher was killed in the War of the Last Alliance, the kingship passed to his son Thranduil. It was around this time that Men, possibly ancestors of the Northmen, began making permanent settlements in and around the forest. The Sindarin Elf Oropher, who was the grandfather of Legolas, established the Woodland RealmВ proper, and it become the primary settlement of the Elves from the Second Age onward. Thereafter, Greenwood the Great was the dwelling of the Wood-elves (the Nandor, Elves descending from the wandering Teleri Elf LenwГ«) for many thousands of years. Elves passed through it on their Great Journey from CuiviГ©nen into the Far WestВ -В it was where they made their first long stop before continuing.

This forest existed since the earliest days of Arda. During the events of The Hobbit it was home to giant spiders, and the kingdom of King Thranduil and his Wood-elves the Woodmen of Mirkwood also inhabited a small part of the forest. Mirkwood was approximately 600 miles long from north to south, and 250 miles across at its width. Except for ways through the thickets of the forest, there were very few common routes through Mirkwood save for the Old Forest Road and the Forest Path. This smaller river was enchanted (or polluted) to such an extent that it caused slumber and forgetfulness to anyone who fell into it. Its natural land features included (in the northern part of the forest) the Mountains of Mirkwood, a sizable river referred to in Tolkien's map as the Forest River, that ran from the Grey Mountains down to Long Lake, and a smaller river that ran from the Mountains of Mirkwood to join with the Forest River west of the Elven-king's Halls. Greenwoods was a dense and heavy woodland that made up much of the eastern portion of Rhovanion or Wilderland, that maintained its borders and relative shape for many ages. Map of Greenwood in Wilderland, from The Hobbit. 3.1 Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy.

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