The dark, ill-tempered wood on the eastern border of Buckland, a survivor — like Fangorn — of the great forests of the Elder Days, and the only place where trees still move and hate walkers openly. Old Man Willow nearly made an end of the hobbits' journey three days out from Hobbiton, until an improbable figure in yellow boots came singing down the path. Tom Bombadil is its master, though he has never owned it.