Forests; Fables, Folk Stories, and Fairytales
Most of our woodland here is of the evergreen variety; Fir, Cedar, and Spruce. Real fairytale forests, where the light is dim and the ground is soft and velvety with mosses and deep, deep layers of dropped needles. There’s a kind of silence that’s very particular to a Coniferous forest. The low boughs and thick carpeting deadening any outside noise. All you’ll hear is the odd crack of a breaking branch or the call of a bird. There’s an atmosphere very specific to this type of woodland. For those who spent time alone in a forest such as these they have seen what I've seen. Thus these truths were created into story's. Stories that are centered in forests are those where adventures unfold amongst the trees:
The Wind in the Willows springs to mind. Who could resist the beautifully - illustrated storybooks of childhood ; Jill Barklem’s - Brambly Hedge books, Winnie the Pooh, or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,lets not forget Beatrice Potter.
My favorite forest in a story, Mid Summer Nights Dream, By William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935 ‧ Romance/Comedy ‧ 2h 25m
watch it if you get a chance its magical.
Narnia
Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later (Lucy) found she was standing in the middle of a wood at night time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air.
C.S. Lewis (1950)
The Enchanted Wood
Loomed up big and dark. The trees spoke to one another softly. Wisha, wisha, wisha," they said.
Enid Blyton "The Magical Faraway Tree (1943)
The Forbidden Forest
They walked for nearly and hour, deeper and deeper into the forest, until the path almost impossible to follow because the trees were so thick.
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (1997)
The forests of Middle Earth
There was a silence, for suddenly the dark and unknown forest, so near at hand, made its self felt as a great brooding presence full of secret purpose.
JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers (1954)
Red Riding Hoods, wolf infested forest
She ran off the path into the woods looking for flowers. each time she picked one
she thought she saw a more beautiful one a little ways away off and ran after it, going farther and farther into woods.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1812)
The Forest of Wonderland
"Curious and Curiouser"
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (1865)
