Dates

Immensely old; originally part of a vast forest that covered most of western Middle-earth, but much of this was cut down by the Númenóreans in the middle and later Second Age

Location

To the east of the Shire, between Buckland and the Barrow-downs

Settlements

The Hobbit settlement of Breredon lay on the western edge of the forest; the house of Tom Bombadil stood near its eastern eaves

Source

The river Withywindle rose in the Barrow-downs to the east, and flowing westward and southward through the Old Forest

Outflow

The Withywindle flowed into the Brandywine on the western fringes of the forest

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Old Forest

A strange northern remnant of the great forest of the Second Age

A remnant of the great forests of Middle-earth in the Second Age; most of these forests were felled by the Númenóreans, but two isolated woodlands remained. The Old Forest was the northern of these two (the other being Fangorn in the south), on the eastern borders of the Shire.

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Updated 21 August 2014
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Old Forest

A strange northern remnant of the great forest of the Second Age

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