around the same time in the great forest of Rhovanion was a refuge for those Sindar who stayed in Middle-earth after the first age. As the tale tells the Woodland Realm is made up mostly of Silvan elves but is ruled by the remnants of the inhabitants of Doriath looking for a home similar to the one that they left behind. “In the early part of the Second Age, the Woodland Realm was established in Greenwood the Great by a lord of the Sindarin Elves who had migrated eastward from Lindon. The Woodland Realm was a mingling of two types of elves, Sindar coming from the ruin of Doriath, and the Silvan or Wood elves who had already been settled there. Oropher, who had chosen not to departtrees is smooth and grey” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.

Lothlorien – Allen Brockbank

Through Galadrial’s power as a high member of the Noldor, and her wielding of one of the three elven magic rings, she is able to recreate the undying lands of which she inhabited long ago. Therefore the realm of Lothlorien is the preservation of light and good, and the suspension of time and space. It is the complete recreation of Valinor in Middle-earth. Its geography is also important; Tolkien chose to put the preservation of the west the closest of all the hidden realms to Mordor, the sworn enemy of the west being shrouded, much like Doriath before it (in which Galadril spent many years) in a girdle of magical protection. Lothlorien is the