11 Facts About Mirkwood

Mirkwood is a name used for a great dark fictional forest in novels by Sir Walter Scott and William Morris in the 19th century, and by JR R Tolkien in the 20th century.

Term Mirkwood derives from the forest Myrkviðr of Norse mythology; that forest has been identified by scholars as representing a wooded region of Ukraine at the time of the wars between the Goths and the Huns in the fourth century.

Name Mirkwood was used by Walter Scott in his 1814 novel Waverley, which had.

Mirkwood appears in several places in JR R Tolkien's writings, among several forests that play important roles in his storytelling.

Mirkwood used the name Mirkwood in another unfinished work, The Fall of Arthur.

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Mirkwood is a vast temperate broadleaf and mixed forest in the Middle-earth region of Rhovanion, east of the great river Anduin.

The wizard Radagast lived at Rhosgobel on the western eaves of Mirkwood, as depicted in the film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Mirkwood was added to the MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar in the 2009 expansion pack Siege of Mirkwood.

Morris's Mirkwood is named in his 1899 fantasy novel House of the Wolfings, and a similar large dark forest is the setting in The Roots of the Mountains, again marking a dark and dangerous forest.

The Atlakviða and the Hloðskviða both mention that the Mirkwood was beside the Danpar, the River Dnieper, which runs through Ukraine to the Black Sea.

Rock music group named Mirkwood was formed in 1971; their first album in 1973 had the same name.