Eryn Galen

noun. green forest

eryn (“wood”), calen (“green”)

eryn galen

place name. Greenwood

The name of the great eastern forest before it became Mirkwood, translated “Greenwood” (UT/281). This name is a combination of eryn “woods” and the lenited form galen of calen “green”. With its restoration after the War of the Ring, Mirkwood was renamed to Eryn Lasgalen “Wood of Greenleaves”.