Literary legend
The Old Forest
The trees are watching.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Wet woodland with boardwalks and twisted trees
- Legend from
- Tolkien tradition
- Tone
- Eerie
Where the trees learned to whisper.
Moseley Bog, near Sarehole Mill, is a remnant of old woodland. Wikipedia says Tolkien knew it as a child and named the site as inspiration for the ancient forests in his books. Visit Warwickshire calls it the Old Forest on the borders of the Shire.