Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A Mirkwood appears in several places in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, among several forests that play important roles in his storytelling. [2] Projected into Old English, it appears as Myrcwudu in his The Lost Road, as a poem sung by Ælfwine. [T 1] He used the name Mirkwood in another unfinished work, The Fall of Arthur.
Beorn: Skin-changer who resides in the region of Mirkwood and takes the form of a great bear. Bilbo Baggins: Title character of The Hobbit. Discovered the One Ring after its loss by Gollum. Cousin of younger Frodo Baggins, who calls Bilbo "Uncle". Boromir: Member of the Fellowship of the Ring, son and heir to Denethor II of Gondor.
Mirkwood were a British psychedelic rock band formed in early 1971 by guitarists Mick Morris and Jack Castle. The band's ancestry can be traced to the original Dover-based, Rolling Stones, [ 1 ] a skiffle and blues band formed in 1956.
Tolkien makes use of forests across Middle-earth, from the Trollshaws and Mirkwood in The Hobbit, reappearing in The Lord of the Rings, to the Old Forest, Lothlórien, Fangorn, and the Mediterranean forest in Ithilien, all of which feature in chapters of The Lord of the Rings, and the great forests of Beleriand, a region of the west of Middle-earth, lost at the end of the First Age, and ...
The Elvenking, king of the Mirkwood Elves. He held the dwarves captive. They were eventually freed by Bilbo. [T 10] (In The Hobbit he is only called "the Elvenking"; his name "Thranduil" is given in The Lord of the Rings. [T 11]) Galion, the butler of the Elvenking's halls, whose fondness for wine enables Bilbo and the dwarves to escape. [T 12]
The name Mirkwood derives from the forest Myrkviðr of Norse mythology. 19th-century writers interested in philology, including the folklorist Jacob Grimm and the artist and fantasy writer William Morris, speculated romantically about the wild, primitive Northern forest, the Myrkviðr inn ókunni ("the pathless Mirkwood") and the secret roads across it, in the hope of reconstructing supposed ...
Mirkwood is not an invention of mine, but a very ancient name, weighted with legendary associations. It was probably the Primitive Germanic name for the great mountainous forest regions that anciently formed a barrier to the south of the lands of Germanic expansion. In some traditions it became used especially of the boundary between Goths and ...
[T 8] Mirkwood is based on Myrkviðr, the romantic vision of the dark forests of the North. [34] Scholars have likened Gondor to Byzantium (medieval Istanbul), [35] while Tolkien connected it to Venice. [T 9] The Corsairs of Umbar have been linked to the Barbary corsairs of the late Middle Ages. [36] Númenor echoes the mythical Atlantis ...