In JR R Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Old Forest was a daunting and ancient woodland just beyond the eastern borders of the Shire.
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11 Facts About Old Forest
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Old Forest lay near the centre of Eriador, a large region of north-west Middle-earth.
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Vicinity of the Old Forest was the domain of three nature-spirits: Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, and Old Man Willow.
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Old Forest was a type of woodland nowadays described as temperate broadleaf and mixed forest.
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Deep within the Old Forest was the Withywindle Valley, which was the root of all the terrors of the forest; it could be a dark, evil and malevolent place.
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Old Forest had been into the Old Forest "several times", and he had a key to the gate.
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Old Man Willow is a malign tree-spirit of great age in Tom Bombadil's Old Forest, appearing physically as a large willow tree beside the River Withywindle, but spreading his influence throughout the forest.
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Old Forest writes that the Bucklanders cutting and burning of hundreds of trees along the Hedge is not different from the destruction caused by Saruman's orcs in the woods around Orthanc.
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Matthew Dickerson notes in the JR R Tolkien Encyclopedia that Old Man Willow is a prime example.
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Tolkien's Old Forest has been compared to "Old England" in John Buchan's 1931 The Blanket of the Dark, where the protagonist Peter Bohun disappears in the English Midlands around Evesham.
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Old Forest appears in the video game The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
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