Name your forest

Arden

Thieves' Forest.

Arden

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Where have I read that before?

Sunkissed27f said:

Where have I read that before?

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Dunno, it's the name of my snake. And possibly, given it's meaning, has been used as the name of a forest before. *shrugs*

Edit: Name of the forest in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." I looked it up. I'm still keeping it though, because I love the name.

Ziljon said:

I may be wrong, but I think in the last "Camelot" movie, the one with Sean Connery, Arden was the name of Lady Gueneviere's village.

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Very well could be. The word means "forest realm," after all. I'm not the sneakiest place-namer in the end, as my spartanesque military capital is named Gwahir, and my immortal refuge is named Salus.

Mine is called....


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The Forest.

Good, yeah?

Yes yes....NOW I know.... I watched As You Like It a few weeks ago!!
Keep it...I loved that story/movie!

If I had a fictional forest, it would be named "Deathwood."

Unfortunately my story is urban fantasy and so I can't make up cool names like that for places in southern Missouri. It doesn't work. As for the foresty area surrounding the Lake of the Ozarks, the locals just refer to it as "the Ozarks."

Morn Forest

Shadow_Ferret said:

Morn Forest

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Not the Morning Woods?

I've been trying to think of a good name for mine. What have I come up with? Merkinwood. I suck.

If I ever name a forest, I shall call it "James Woods".

MattW said:

Not the Morning Woods?

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"Here there be tigers," quavered the old man, pointing at the forest. "That's why we calls them the Tiger Woods."

The St. Steven's Spielberg was bordered on one side by the old and gnarly "James Woods", and on the other by the lithe, young timbers full of tigers - thusly named "Tiger Woods"

"Them trees ain't right," quavered the old man, pointing at the forest. "That's why we calls them the Forest Gump."


(thanks Queen of Swords for the great line set-up)




-Michelle

Whittershins 'twas known to romp 'round the merry paths of yon Forest Whittaker.

MattW said:

Not the Morning Woods?

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Actually, I wasn't even thinking that. They aren't happy woods. I was thinking mourn.

Guess I'll go back to The Forest of Lost Parna.

Unless Parna means something.

Why do the woods need a name?

They don't. I've never named woods in my life. Not once. Not ever.

badducky said:

Why do the woods need a name?

They don't. I've never named woods in my life. Not once. Not ever.

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Walnut? Oak? Pine?


Great fantasy forest name that's already taken - NJ's own Pine Barrens. It's foreboding and creepy, and that's even before you drive through it.

If you were writing a story set in the NJ Pine Barrens, then that's the only time I would. If it were a real world story set in NJ, in the Pine Barrens.

But, in a fantasy world, it's too easy to fall over oneself naming everything when ultimately the tone of your story is set by the activities that are done in the woods.

Maybe if you named the woods something really inappropriate... "We've always called these the Cheese-Smasher Woods. Don't really know why. 'Tis the way has always been since before our grandfathers. I always thought it 'twould have been better to call it Horrible-Stinking-Toads' woods on account of the man-eating Horrible-Stinking-Toads, but Cheese-Smasher Woods it is."

As always, my opinion and a buck fifty net you one cup of coffee.