Interesting, never really noticed that - thanks Inzil.
Maybe... but the Elves and the Rangers (who also lived in the Angle later) must have had some degree of cultivation...Rivndell may have been protected by the powers that dwellt there. Maybe some sort of acid rain?
Where I live is called a Forest but in the sense of a hunting forest so apart from the plantations(Enclosures we call em) they aren't so densly forested - woods separated by heathland which is maintained by grazing animals....
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace
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