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Remnant of the primeval woods that once covered Middle-earth, lying in the shadow of the southern Misty Mountains.
History
Home of Treebeard and the Ents, who rouse in the War of the Ring to destroy Isengard.
People & inhabitants
Ents, Huorns and the trees themselves.
Significance
Fangorn is the counterweight to Saruman’s industry: nature not as resource but as memory and power.
Events here
Figures of this place
CharacterMeriadoc Brandybuck
A clever Brandybuck who rode to war with Rohan and helped slay the Witch-king at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
CharacterPeregrin Took
The youngest hobbit of the Fellowship, who became a knight and guard of Gondor and saved Faramir from Denethor’s pyre.
CharacterGandalf
A Wizard of the Istari, keeper of the Elven-ring Narya, and the chief architect of the resistance to Sauron.
CharacterSaruman
The chief of the Wizards, whose study of Sauron’s power corrupted him into a would-be rival lord.
Sources
The Lord of the Rings · 1954–55
Three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.
