Firien Wood

The Firien Wood (also called Firienholt by the Rohirrim, or Wood of Anwar) was an oak forest below Halifirien, the westernmost of the Warning beacons of Gondor, on the fringes of Gondor and Rohan. a section of the wood was called Everholt.
The forest was located at the northern feet of the White Mountains, bordering the Mering Stream and the Eastfold of Rohan in the land of Anórien. It spanned twenty or twenty-five miles from west to east, and covered some of the slopes of Amon Anwar. The Great West Road passed through it.
Save for beasts and birds, its only inhabitants by the War of the Ring were the Beacon-wardens, living near Halifirien's summit. A path marked by standing stones led from the road to the summit of Halifirien.
== History ==
In the Second Age, this forest was first named Eryn Fuir (Sindarin for 'North Wood'), and the Great West Road was blazed through it by the Dúnedain exiles from Númenor, to facilitate travel that avoided the wetlands to the north. It is told that after the departure of Isildur some time before TA 2, no tree was ever felled in the woods again except by the eventual Beacon-wardens, suggesting that the Dúnedain had used the forest substantially for its timber.
After the coming of Eorl the Young and his people to Calenardhon in TA 2510 and the Battle of the Field of Celebrant, the woods were named Firienholt (Rohirric for "Firien Wood") upon the founding of Rohan. In TA 2864, the giant Boar of Everholt was hunted in these woods by Folca, thirteenth King of Rohan, resulting in his death.
When the Kingdom of Gondor established seven warning beacons along Ered Nimrais, for the calling of aid from the Rohirrim, the westmost and highest beacon was beside the Firien Wood upon a slope of Amon Anwar or "Halifirien". Since the early Third Age, Beacon-wardens dwelt in the woods, living in tree-lodges and maintaining the road.