Mirkwood Forest

The sheer size of Mirkwood is almost beyond imagining for the people who live along its borders or under its boughs. From its northern border facing the steep slopes of the Grey Mountains, to its southern edge near the Brown Lands is a distance of more than four hundred miles.
At its greatest width, this sea of trees is some two hundred miles wide. A traveller foolish enough to try crossing the forest lengthwise would take six months or more to make such a journey — assuming he survives, which is unlikely even for a seasoned wanderer. Mirkwood is the dark heart of the Wild.
Mirkwood is a wild wood, much more changeable than other forests like Fangorn or Lothlórien. The first Elves passed through the oldest sections of Mirkwood in the First Age of the World, long before the Sun and Moon climbed into the heavens, but other parts of Mirkwood are fresh, new growth that encroaches on what was once farmland. The forest is ever-shifting, unpredictable; it is new and old at the same time.

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Rhovanion