Tolkien’s forests – Mirkwood, Nan Elmoth, Doriath, the Old Forest, Lórien, Fangorn – are some of the most recent in a long and distinguished line of descent. Tolkien used the name Broceliand, soon altering the spelling to Broseliand, in his Lay of Leithian. By September of 1931 it had become, as it subsequently remained in his mythology, Beleriand. While the Broceliande connection seems clear, we should not overlook an earlier connection of which Tolkien might well have been aware, the notion of Belerion, the term used by Diodorus Siculus in the first century BCE for that corner of Britain now
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Very interesting
