A Mirkwood was used by the novelist Sir Walter Scott in his 1814 novel Waverley, and then by William Morris in his 1889 fantasy novel The House of the Wolfings.
The term Mirkwood derives from the forest Myrkviðr of Norse mythology that forest has been identified by scholars as representing a wooded region of Ukraine at the time of the wars between the Goths and the Huns in the fourth century. This Mirkwood features significantly in The Hobbit and in the film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. It had acquired the name Mirkwood after it fell under the influence of the Necromancer before that it had been known as Greenwood the Great. The more famous Mirkwood was in Wilderland, east of the river Anduin. One is in the First Age, when the highlands of Dorthonion north of Beleriand became known as Mirkwood after falling under Morgoth's control. Īt least two distinct Middle-earth forests are named Mirkwood in Tolkien's legendarium. The critic Tom Shippey explains that the name evoked the excitement of the wildness of Europe's ancient North. Mirkwood is a name used for a great dark fictional forest in novels by Sir Walter Scott and William Morris in the 19th century, and by J. Fictional forest in 19th and 20th century novels, including Tolkien's Middle-earth
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