Mirkwood

Mirkwood
   The great forest east of the Misty Mountains, earlier called Eryn Galen, 'Greenwood the Great', and lately Taur-nu-Fuin, 'Forest under Night'.
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   Greatest of the forests of Middle-earth.
   A name of Greenwood the Great, the mighty forest that lay in the lands east of the River Anduin. The name 'Mirkwood' was used of this forest after Sauron, in his guise as the Necromancer, took up his abode at Dol Guldur in its southern regions.
   The name means simply 'Murky Wood'.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary. . 2003.

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