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Location
Rhovanion, to the east of the Vales of Anduin
Races
Occupied by Elves and Men, and latterly by members of the Ainur
Divisions
The Elves of the Wood belonged the Silvan branch of their people; the Woodmen were Northmen akin to the Edain; Sauron and Wizard Radagast were both Maiar
Cultures
Settlements
Dol Guldur, The Elvenking's Halls, Rhosgobel; settlements of Woodmen were found especially along the forest's western edge
Source
Outflow
The Enchanted River emptied into the Forest River that flowed through the Great Wood and on into the Long Lake
Important peaks
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Great Wood

A name for Mirkwood

A rare title used for the vast shadow-shrouded forest known in the later Third Age as Mirkwood. In its northeastern reaches lived the Silvan people of Thranduil, the Elves of the Wood, and it was one of these, Legolas, who referred to his people as the folk of the Great Wood. In the times before the coming of the Necromancer, before the corruption of Dol Guldur had spread among the trees, Mirkwood had been known as Eryn Galen, 'Greenwood the Great', and Legolas' reference to it as the Great Wood is probably derived from this earlier name.


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