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Personal logo Extra Crispy Sponsoring Member of TMP04 Sep 2026 1:51 p.m. PST

I'm looking for fantasy novels where trees or forests are more than just a gloom place for heroes to visit. LoTR is the grand daddy of course. Every forest is really a character.

Looking for that kind of vibe where a forest is….a portal to the past? or the faerie world? …or where a tree(s) is a character (like the Shrike in SciFi) …or something else really cool?

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Personal logo Parzival Supporting Member of TMP04 Sep 2026 2:49 p.m. PST

The woods that contain the lamppost in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. They're just a conifer forest, but very evocative in the book.

The Hobbit's Mirkwood is definitely a contender— it may not be either The Old Forest or Fangorn, but it's got a character all its own.

The Children of Green Knowe— not so much a forest as a very singular and terrifying tree.

Sherwood forest has its own special presence (despite being otherwise simply a real forest).

The Hundred Acre Wood holds a certain magic! wink

Does the wilderness around the Green Chapel count? (Sir Gawain & the Green Knight.)

Still thinking… I seem to recall a story where Central Park is itself a fantasy wood. That's just a vague notion; however I did find Diane Duane's So You Want to be a Wizard (1983) and a series called The Wizards of Central Park West. I have read neither, but apparently a magical Central Park are elements of both. (Kinda fits, too.)

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