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
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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