A Trek Through The Forest

[Marroc Underhill]

Which Forest would you want to trek through?
Any Forest, it doesn't have to be one of the main famous ones like Fangorn or Mirkwood,
but it can be.

[Corwyn Celesil]

To go through Fangorn with Treebeard, Legolas, and Gimli would be a rare treat. I should also like to see the transformation of Mirkwood into Emyn Lasgalen. But most delightful would probably be to go into Lothlorien, to step through Nimrodel, to experience the mallorn trees and their vibrant life as Frodo did.

[Marroc Underhill]

It would be cool to meet Treebeard. He's wise.

[Ophelia]

I would simply love to dash trough Lothlorien on a horse back ... smilies/tongue.gif Now that is a dream...

[Meela]

Druadan Forest. The name has me hooked.

[Eruwen]

I would probably like to go through the Old Forest. I know, it's supposed to be haunted and all, but I'd like to meet Old Man Willow.

I think I'd also like to go through Mirkwood though. Too many exciting things can happen there. Or, like in the RPG I'm in right now {The Fall of Greenwood the Great}, I would have liked to walk through it when there was an evil threat still dwelling in the forest. Maybe I'm just weird, but these things fascinate me.

[Lord of Angmar]

If I could trek through any forest of Middle Earth, it would be Nan Elmoth. It is so magical and dark, mysterious and ancient. From the days of its beauty when Melian and Thingol stood there together at their first meeting, to the days of its darkness and gloom when Eol dwelt there, it was always a place of fascination for me.

[Tarien Ithil]

I'd vist either Fangorn or Lothlorien.
Just not Mirkwood......*shiver shiver*

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

If I wanted to relax it would have to be Lothlorien. However, for adventure, it would Mirkwood during the time of 'The Hobbit'.

[Marroc Underhill]

The Old Forest for me, now that would be great. I would also like to go to Fangorn, meet Treebeard... well my thirst for Adventure. I love walking through the woods.

[Tarien Ithil]

it would Mirkwood during the time of 'The Hobbit'. smilies/eek.gif smilies/eek.gif smilies/wink.gif

Mirkwood? No thanks!

(amazing how smilies say it all)

~Tarien

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

But I felt the need for adventure and danger. That's why I pick Mirkwood. smilies/wink.gif

[Novberaid]

I live in Mirkwood. If you haven't visited it, you need to. Fangorn for me. I want to meet the Ents. Can a wight do so?

[Tarien Ithil]

But I felt the need for adventure and danger.

smilies/biggrin.gif That's OK with you, but I'm an elf who prefers safety and security, thanks very much! smilies/smile.gif smilies/wink.gif

Best,
Tarien

[Olorin]

Definitely Lorien. *Sigh* Those Mallorn trees sound so beautiful. smilies/smile.gif

[Lord of Angmar]

*Sigh* Nobody else would choose to visit Nan Elmoth? For me, it holds far more mystique and beauty than even Lothlorien. It is dark and perilous, and yet beautiful with the memory of the days before the Sun. The way I hear it described in the Silmarillion sounds so enchanting. I guess there are few others who share this view. smilies/frown.gif

[Marroc Underhill]

I'm not that smart when it comes to names. Where is it Lord of Angmar?

[nPiLL]

I would want to trek through Fangorn Forest, just to see the Ents. Seemed like a cool place from descriptions in the books and looks cool in the movie.

[Lord of Angmar]

I'm not that smart when it comes to names. Where is it Lord of Angmar?

Nan Elmoth was a relativly small but beautiful and mysterious wood in the old days, before the War of Wrath. It was beside the path of the River Aros, in East Beleriand, between the realms of Celegorm and Curufin in the North and Amrod and Amras in the South.

Elwe Singollo came upon it during the long walk of the Elves from Cuivenen.

...it chanced on a time that he came alone to the starlit wood of Nan Elmoth, and there suddenly he heard the song of nightingales. Then an enchantment fell upon him, and he stood still; and afar off beyond the voices of the lomelindi he heard the voice of Melian, and it filled all his heart with wonder and desire. He forgot then utterly all his people and all the purposes of his mind, and following the birds under the shadow of the trees he passed deep into Nan Elmoth and was lost.

That passage was always particularly moving, and I pictured Elwe there, an Elven-prince wandering deep in a dark wood that glowed magically with starlight from far above, listening to the haunting music of Melian and the songs of nightingales. Elwe Singollo became known as Thingol, and took Melian to wife. They ruled the realm of Beleriand until Thingol was slain by the Naugrim. Many years after Thingol met Melian he gave watch of Nan Elmoth to Eol, who in turn paid him a tribute. Aredhel ar-Feiniel, the White Lady of the Noldor, came upon it and Eol, and it was described again in one of my favorite passages of the Silmarillion:

In that wood in ages past Melian walked in the twilight of Middle Earth when the trees were young, and enchantment lay upon it still. But now the trees of Nan Elmoth were the tallest and darkest in all Beleriand, and there the sun never came; and there Eol dwelt, who was named the Dark Elf... when the Girdle of Melian was set about the forest of Region where he dwelt he fled thence to Nan Elmoth. There he lived in deep shadow, loving the night and the twilight under the stars.

In the War of Wrath, the world was changed. Region and Neldoreth were no more after the First Age, and thus the wood of Nan Elmoth was lost too. I would love to travel through Nan Elmoth in the early days, before Eol dwelt there and before the Sun and the Moon, when it was lit ever and anon by starlight and when Melian and the nightingales dwelt there. I think that truly the greatest tragedy of Middle Earth was the War of Wrath and the changing of the world, when all of the beautiful realm of Beleriand was changed forever.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Well put Angmar. You could sway a lot of people with writing like that!

[Daisy Brambleburr]

Druadan Forest. The name has me hooked.

It *is* a great name but I'd have to choose Lothlorien in all its splendor. The way it is described makes it sound so beautiful and it would be unlike anywhere else you could go. But it would be good to visit Mirkwood after the war of the ring, when it's been returned to it's former glory. That would be a sight. But no, it's Lothlorien all the way for me.

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

I would have to choose Fangorn, because it is just so beautiful. Fangorn and Lorien, for the same reason.

[Marroc Underhill]

This topic is pretty popular! I thought it was only going to have like 4 replies!

[Lathriel]

Of course I would like to see Lothlorien. Than maybe walk through the old forest. Also meet the ents in Fangorn forest.
And what about the forest where Beren meets Luthien(I think its in Doriath). I would like to see the glade where they meet.

[seremela]

I would most likely want to stroll through the Old Forest, and see some of the peculiar things or perhaps even meet Tom Bombadil and hear him sing his joyful tune. Or even better stay in the house of Tom Bombadil and meet his lovely lady Goldberry! Wouldn’t that be a treat?

~ Séreméla ~