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Location
The eastern slopes of the southern Misty Mountains, to the north of Rohan
Race
Settlements
Sources
The rivers Limlaith and Onodló both flowed out of this forest
Pronunciation
ambaroa'na
Meaning
'Eastern land' or 'towards the sunrise' (describing the forest as the eastern outlier of the great western forests of earlier Ages)
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Ambaróna

An ancient name for Fangorn Forest

Map of Ambaróna
A map of Ambaróna or Fangorn Forest (somewhat conjectural)
A map of Ambaróna or Fangorn Forest (somewhat conjectural)

One of the many names Treebeard gave to the Forest of Fangorn. Ambaróna was an ancient name, referring back to the time when forests filled Eriador, and trees stretched from the foothills of Ered Luin east to the Misty Mountains. In those times, Fangorn was merely the easternmost part (the 'East End', in Treebeard's words1) of that immense forest, and the name Ambaróna (meaning 'eastern land' or 'towards the sunrise') signifies this.


Notes

1

From The Two Towers III 4, Treebeard: 'Aye, aye, there was all one wood once upon a time: from here to the Mountains of Lune, and this was just the East End.'

See also...

Fangorn Forest

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