Also known as: Greenwood The Great, Eryn Lasgalen
The vast forest east of the Anduin, once Greenwood the Great, where Oropher and then Thranduil ruled the Silvan Elves. When the Necromancer settled at Dol Guldur a shadow crept over it, and Men renamed it Mirkwood: its air grew heavy, its squirrels black, and giant spiders — spawn of Shelob's brood — webbed its southern reaches. Bilbo crossed it with Thorin's company, and barrel-rode out of Thranduil's halls. After the fall of Sauron, Thranduil and Celeborn renamed the cleansed wood Eryn Lasgalen, the Wood of Greenleaves.