Adaptations
The Old Forest does not appear in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, neither the animated nor the live action version, but it is mentioned by Merry in a conversation with Pippin while they were held hostage by the Uruk-hai in The Two Towers. It appears in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game), but the game adds a bit of Mirkwood taste by adding on large spiders that lurk in the labyrinth and on the banks of the Withywindle. This is probably to make it more of an action game atmosphere, but nowhere in The Lord of the Rings did Tolkien describe spiders in the Old Forest. Morgoth's creatures did not really darken the Old Forest, but they did enter Mirkwood and darken it. Mirkwood was also not inhabited by moving trees. The Old Forest also appears in Turbine Inc's "The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar" MMORPG. In this game, before a fairly recent patch, there was no map in The Old Forest, and it was like a literal hedge maze. A map was added later on, though it is still a very dark and mysterious place to visit.
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