The Iron Forest in the Center of the World
The Iron Forest (SE Av. "Angâtawi";Ib. "Kímbozá") was a legendary deep forest in the center of the World. It was Sauron's refuge after his fall when he had been driven out of the WestlandsThe Iron Forest was most likely named after the tropical Ironwood of the east.
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The Iron forest was briefly mentioned in writings published in the History of Middle-Earth, Christopher Tolkien speculated that it was a precursor of later Mirkwood.Though in the cited text the Forest is mentioned as Sauron's refuge, it's location is at or near the "center of the world", which is nowhere near later Mirkwood, also "ironwood" is applied to a number of woods or plants, but usually tropical ones.
| Boromir: "Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing!" - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring II:10 |