- Cities and buildings
- Fields, plains and deserts
- Forests
- Hills and mountains
- Islands and promontories
- Lands, realms and regions
- Rivers and lakes
- Seas and oceans
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Location
Widespread in Middle-earth and beyond; specifically recorded in Nan-tathren (the 'Land of Willows'), along many rivers and streams, and in the Old Forest; silver willows grew beyond the Sea in the garden of Lórien in Valinor
Species
Many varieties within the genus Salix
Meaning
Probably from an ancient root *wel- meaning 'turn', in reference to the inward-curving branches of many types
Other names
Commonly known in Old English as 'withy' (hence the river name Withywindle); The Elvish root referring to willows was tathar-, from which Nan-tathren and related names for the 'Land of Willows' derive
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WillowsWeeping trees of the watersideWaterside trees that grew throughout Middle-earth. The most famous of these was the ancient tree known as Old Man Willow, on the banks of the Withywindle in the Old Forest. See also...Butterflies, Great Willow, Land of Willows, Nan-tasarion, Nan-tathren, Old Man Willow, Tasarinan, The Pool, Thistle Brook, Willow-man, Willowbottom, Withy-path Indexes: About this entry:
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