Firien Wood

The Firien Wood (also called Firienholt by the Rohirrim, or Wood of Anwar, and also the Whispering Wood) 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,The Atlas of Middle-earth, pg. 89 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 FuirVinyar Tengwar, No. 42, July 2001, "The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter), pg. 20 (Sindarin for 'North Wood'), and the Great West Road was blazed through it by the Dúnedain exiles from Númenor,Unfinished Tales, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", Note 32 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.
Around the early twenty-sixth century of the Third Age, the old path to Amon Anwar that had run through here had become overgrown, but was still marked by a standing-stone. Cirion, the Ruling Steward of Gondor ordered the path to be reopened to aid in movements of friends and allies, but with stealth in mind and only wide enough for a few men to pass upwards. No trees were cut down and the entrance to the path shrouded, to hid it from being clearly seen from the main road. 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 (Rohanese for "Firien Wood") upon the founding of Rohan. In TA 2864, the great boar of Everholt was hunted in these woods by Folca, thirteenth King of Rohan, resulting in his death.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Kings of the Mark"
When the Kingdom of Gondor established seven warning beacons along White Mountains, 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.Unfinished Tales, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", iii., pgs. 300-2 & 314
==Etymology==
The Firien Wood was named after Halifirien, the 'holy mountain' at its south where Isildur had established the Tomb of Elendil.
The word firien is from Old English firgen, meaning 'wood'.J.R.R. Tolkien, "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull's The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, pg. 770
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Firien Woud
Albanian 	Pylli i Firienit
Amharic 	የፊሪያን ደን
Arabic 	غابة الفيرين
Armenian 	Ֆիրիեն Անտառ
Assamese 	ফিৰিয়েন অৰণ্য
Azerbaijani 	Firien Meşəsi
Basque 	Firien Basoa
Belarusian Cyrillic	Фірыен Лес
Bengali 	ফিরিয়েন বন
Bosnian 	Firien Šuma
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Фириен Гора
Catalan 	Bosc de Firien
Chinese 	菲瑞恩森林
Croatian 	Šuma Firien
Czech 	Firien Les
Danish 	Firien Skov
Dutch 	Firien Bos
Esperanto 	Arbaro de Firien
Estonian 	Firieni Mets
Faroese 	Firien Skógurin
Filipino 	Gubat ng Firien
Finnish 	Firienin metsä
French 	Bois de Firien
Frisian 	Firien Bosk (Western)
Friulian 	Bosc dai Firien
Galician 	Bosque de Firien
German 	Firienwald
Greek 	Δάσος της Φιριεν
Gujarati 	ફિરિયન ફોરેસ્ટ
Hawaiian 	Nahele Firen
Hebrew 	פיריה יַעַר
Hindi 	फ़िरिएन वन
Hungarian 	Firien Erdő
Icelandic 	Firien Skógur
Indonesian 	Hutan Firien
Irish Gaelic 	Foraois Firien
Italian 	Foresta di Firien
Japanese 	フィリエンの森
Javanese 	Alas Firien
Kannada 	ಫಿರಿಯನ್ ಅರಣ್ಯ
Konkani 	फिरिएन रान
Korean 	피리엔 숲
Latvian 	Fīriena Mežs
Lithuanian 	Firieno Miškas
Luxembourgish 	Firien Bësch
Macedonian Cyrillic	Шума Фириен
Malayalam 	ഫിരിയൻ ഫോറസ്റ്റ്
Malaysian 	Hutan Firien
Maltese 	Foresti Firien
Marathi 	फिरेन वन
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Фириен Ой
Nepalese 	फेरीन वन
Norwegian 	Firien Skog
Occitan 	Bòsc de Firien
Persian 	جنگل فایرین
Pashto 	د فیرین ځنګل
Portuguese 	Floresta Firien
Punjabi 	ਫਿਰੀਅਨ ਜੰਗਲ
Romanian 	Pădurea Firien
Russian 	Лес Фериен
Sardinian 	Bòscu de Firien
Scottish Gaelic 	Coille Firien
Serbian 	Фириен Шума (Cyrillic) Firien Šuma (Latin)
Sicilian 	Boscu di Firien
Sinhalese 	ෆිරියන් වනාන්තරය
Slovak 	Firien Les
Slovenian 	Firien Gozd
Spanish 	Bosque de Firien
Swedish 	Firien Skog
Tajik Cyrillic 	Ҷангали Фириен
Tamil 	ஃபிரியன் காடு
Telugu 	ఫైరియన్ ఫారెస్ట్
Turkish 	Firien Ormanı
Turkmen 	Firien Tokaýy
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Ліс Фірієн
Urdu 	فیریئن جنگل
Uzbek 	Фириен Ўрмони (Cyrillic) Firien Oʻrmoni (Latin)
Venetian 	Foresta de Firien
Vietnamese 	Rừng Firien
Welsh 	Coedwig Firien
Yiddish 	פֿירען וואַלד
==References==
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fr:Bois de Firien
es:Bosque de Firien
pl:Firienholt
Category:Forests and woods
Category:Gondor