The Old Forest.

Buckwood. ( This was the first name given to the Old Forest at the time where Buckland was called Wood Eaton.)

People ( Hobbits ) did not know much about the Old Forest, and especialy the country up to it ( Buckland ), was considered a dubious region. The Old Forest was an old forest, going way back into the gloomy shade of the creation of the world. In the F.A. and S.A it was a little Northern part of the huge forests covering Eriador, stretching from the East of Ered Nimrais and Southern Hithaeglir including Fangorn-Forest, up over Eriador to the Barrow-Downs and crossing Baranduin to Ered Luin and down the Eastern side of that mountain-range. Around it in the South and into Southern Ossiriand and Dor-firn-i-Guinar South of river Adurant, crossing Gelion and was named Taur-im-Duinath. The part of this gigantic forest lying East of Ered Luin was named the Southern Forest and the Old Forest was one of the few remnecents of the Southern Forest. In the Old Forest lives Old Man Willow.

At the time of the Ring-war it covered from East to West 25 Miles and 40 Miles from North to South. At the North end of it ran the Great East Road from the Bridge of Stonebows to Bree-Land and Bree and at the East eaves was the Barrow-Downs. West was the High-Hay protecting Buckland and in the South was plains and hills with scattered trees. Through the Old Forest from East to west ran Withywindle and between the eaves and the Barrow-Downs was Tom Bombardils house.

The Old Forest was as told old but it had some dark magic lying over it, it was not without reason people people were frightend of it. Treebeard in Fangorn Forest told about how in the dark days something went wrong in the Old Forest, that some old shadow of the Great Dark lay there over the area and even when men came out of the sea some were caught in it and fell into the Shadow. In my opinion Treebeard is talking about the time before the Sun and Moon and by the Great Dark he means Melkor.