Old Forest Road

The Old Forest Road also known as Men-i-Naugrim in Sindarin, was the remnant of the Dwarf Road that originally ran from Khazad-dûm to the Iron Hills. Starting at Khazad-dûm, the road went north, passing over a causeway in the Gladden Fields and then turned east where a bridge crossed the Anduin river at the Old Ford. Passing through Greenwood the Great, the road crossed another bridge over the River Running and turned northeast to the Iron Hills
The surviving section through Mirkwood was around three hundred miles in length.
== History ==
It was laid out during the First Age to connect the Dwarves of the Iron Hills with their kin in the Misty Mountains. The road was completed early in the Second Age and saw its greatest use in that time due to the increase of Khazad-dûm's population with refugees from the Blue Mountains.
After Sauron's occupation of Dol Guldur in the Third Age, the forest of Mirkwood became more and more dark and dangerous, so most chose not to travel upon it for fear of being attacked. The fall of Khazad-dûm to the Balrog also decreased traffic, with the result that by the end of the Third Age large stretches of the road had fallen out of use and did not appear on maps.