What does Mirkwood represent in The Hobbit?

Mirkwood illustrates the corrupting power of Sauron’s evil. It doesn’t have any deep allegorical meaning, if that’s what you mean. Tolkien disliked allegory in any form. Mirkwood illustrates the corrupting power of Sauron’s evil.

What is Mirkwood based on?

Tolkien was known to spend a lot of time in the Forest of Dean in general and Puzzlewood in particular. According to Atlas Obscura, the wood served as inspiration for the Mirkwood landscape in Tolkien’s books. The Forest of Dean may have inspired several other locations as well, such as Lothlorien.

What was Mirkwood covered with and what did it look like?

Sauron’s arrival caused a darkening of Greenwood, and at this point it became known as Mirkwood. The children of Shelob, giant spiders, as well as bats and orcs in Dol Guldur’s service occupied the forest and it became thicker, darker and covered in cobwebs.

What happens to Mirkwood after LOTR?

What happened to the individual elves of Mirkwood or in Ithilien is not known; they probably either sailed West or kind of faded. Mirkwood were gradually abandoned as the population either immigrate to Ithilien or sail west to Valinor.

Where is Mirkwood located in The Hobbit?

Rhovanion
Mirkwood was a great forest in Middle-earth located in the eastern region of Rhovanion between the Grey Mountains and Gondor. It was also known as Greenwood the Great, Eryn Galen or Taur-e-Ndaedelos, and was later re-named Eryn Lasgalen, the Wood of Greenleaves.

What is Mirkwood in Stranger things?

Mirkwood was the nickname given to a road in Hawkins that went past the Hawkins National Laboratory.

What happened to the Elves of Mirkwood after the Hobbit?

Where do Mirkwood Elves live?

Woodland Realm
The Elves of Mirkwood were Silvan Elves that lived in the Woodland Realm of northern Mirkwood, under the rule of Thranduil.

What happened Mirkwood?

Quest of Erebor Bilbo Baggins, along with Thorin Oakenshield and his band of Dwarves, ventured into Mirkwood during their quest to regain the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug, taking the Elven path. There, the Dwarf Bombur fell into the Enchanted river (causing him to fall asleep).