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Mirkwood is a name used for two distinct fictional forests on the continent of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. One of these occurred in the First Age of Middle-earth, when the highlands of Dorthonion north of Beleriand were known as Mirkwood after falling under Morgoth's control. The other Mirkwood, and the more famous of the two, was the large forest in Rhovanion, east of the Anduin. This had acquired the name Mirkwood during the Third Age, after it fell under the influence of the Necromancer; before that it had been known as Greenwood the Great. This Mirkwood features significantly in ''The Hobbit'' and in the film ''The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug''. The term ''Mirkwood'' is taken from William Morris, influenced by the forest Myrkviðr of Norse mythology. Projected into Old English, it appears as ''Myrcwudu'' in Tolkien's ''The Lost Road'', as a poem sung by Ælfwine.〔''King Sheave'', ''The Lost Road and Other Writings'', 91 ()〕 Tolkien also used the term Mirkwood in another unfinished work, ''The Fall of Arthur''.〔Tolkien, J. R. R., ''The Fall of Arthur'', HarperCollins 2013, pp.19 & 22, ISBN 978 0 00 748994 7.〕 Forests play an enormous role throughout the invented history of Tolkien's Middle-earth and are inevitably an important episode on the heroic quests of his characters.〔New York Times Book Review, ''The Hobbit'', by Anne T. Eaton, March 13, 1938, "After the dwarves and Bilbo have passed ...over the Misty Mountains and through ''forests that suggest those of William Morris's prose romances''." (emphasis added)〕 The forest device is used as a mysterious transition from one part of the story to another.〔Lobdell, Jared (). ''A Tolkien Compass''. La Salle, IL: Open Court. ISBN 0-87548-316-X. p. 84, "only look at The Lord of the Rings for the briefest of times to catch a vision of ancient forests, of trees like men walking, of leaves and sunlight, and of deep shadows."〕 ==Middle-earth narrative== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mirkwood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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