The Forest of Green Leaves as it is now called, is the remains of a vast, largely coniferous forest that covered much of Northern Middle-earth in ancient times. Dense with pine, oak and beech, the forest is over 400 miles long and 250 miles across at its widest point, where the Old Forest Road cuts west to east from the Anduin to the River Running (Celduin). The woods provide shelter to man and beast, and stand as a natural barrier to incursions from the East. The land rolls gently here, in the heart of the Greenwood, the hollows and wide valleys are lined with oaks standing almost trunk to trunk. The great Taurduin (the Forest River) flows through the northern half of the forest.
The Mountains of Mirkwood (as they were once named) are vast range of hills in northern part of the Greenwood, now named the Emyn-nu-Fuin. These mountains are a series of limestone hills with no peak over 2,000 feet high. The range is bounded on the south by the Men-i-Naugrim (S."Dwarven Road"), to the East by the Fens of the Celduin River, to the North East by the territory of the Lake-men, and to the North West by the North-south running Enchanted River.
Three independent realms co-exist beneath the eaves of the Greenwood's trees. The Silvan Elves of King Thranduil wander the northernmost reaches of the forest (the Woodland Realm), while the rustic Woodmen occupy the regions bordering the Men-i-Naugrim. The southernmost portion of the Greenwood is ruled by Celeborn, who has renamed it East Lorien.
Although Queen Galadriel cleansed the Necromancer's Tower on Dol Guldur at the end of the War of the Ring, many evil things still make their homes in the primeval wood, hiding away in the darkest places to occasionally trouble the inhabitants of the Greenwood still.
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