I would not venture there except in great need." Yet Mirkwood was not always this way; it was once a safe and beautiful forest known as Greenwood or Eryn Galen in the Elvish language of Sindarin.

The dark, dreary, and dangerous forest of Mirkwood and its enigmatic leader, Thranduil the Elvenking (Lee Pace), play a pivotal role in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit book and a significantly ...

En route, Gandalf tells Bilbo to avoid an evil sorcerer called the Necromancer who lives in Mirkwood Forest. Bilbo also meets the slimy, lisping Gollum, who has lost a super cool ring.

"Do not think I won't kill a dwarf," he threatens. The preview also offers brief glimpses of Beorn the bear, the dangerous Mirkwood Forest, as well as new characters played by and , who's suddenly ...

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