Talk:Old Forest

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Adaptions

Under Adaptions, I added that the Old Forest appears in the Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.19.62.179 (talk) 23:48, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not so evil

I agree with the Clean-up note that the article is a little repetitive.

The article also over-emphasises the evil aspects of the Withywindle Valley. The author of the article appears not to have read The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

I have run off a copy of the article with the intention of rewriting it over the holidays. However I would like to request / suggest that the Withywindle be merged with this article (from Middle-earth rivers). 203.6.146.5 (talk) 05:52, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have now essentially completed my re-write referred to above. I've retained as much of the original article as possible. By the way I've also paid attention to the Withywindle, and am now content to leave it where it is. Regards.111.220.250.229 (talk) 03:22, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Original Research?

The article has a "multiple issues" flag, including that it "possibly contains original research".

I have tried to iron out most of these, providing citations or modifying the wording, but I'm still learning.

Could the actual instances of possible original research be flagged with "citation required", or a least listed on this talk page? Cheers, 203.6.146.5 (talk) 08:02, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

inevitable!

Forests play an enormous role throughout the invented history of Tolkien's Middle-earth and are inevitably an important episode on the heroic quests of his characters.

I'm guessing that inevitably here means invariably, but either way, such a strong assertion needs some support. Did Tuor have a forest episode? Did Fëanor? —Tamfang (talk) 08:02, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Old Man Willow here

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was Merge. Jack Upland (talk) 02:45, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I propose Old Man Willow be merged here. There is considerable overlap between the two articles.--Jack Upland (talk) 05:18, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merge The tree is not distinct enough to merit a seperate article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:41, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Timeline

This section seems massively original research. For example, this claim:

The kingdom of Arnor was founded, and the forest became a nominal part of its realm. There was a royal prerogative of swan upping in the forest's river.

The source for this is given as the lighthearted poem, "Bombadil Goes Boating" in which Bombadil tells a swan:

If one day the King returns, in upping he may take you,

brand your yellow bill, and less lordly make you!'

That really is a stretch.--Jack Upland (talk) 03:54, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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