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Lothlórien was a kingdom of Silvan Elves on the eastern side of the Hithaeglir. It was considered one of the most beautiful and "elvish" places in Middle-earth during the Third Age, and had the only mallorn -trees east of the sea.. Tolkien loved trees, especially this black pine in the Oxford Botanic Garden, and was often photographed with them. [1][2] His grandson Michael took the last known photograph of him with this tree, which he named Laocoön. [3] Trees play multiple roles in J. R. R. Tolkien 's fantasy world of Middle-earth, some such as Old Man Willow actually serving as characters in the plot. Both for Tolkien.

The mallorn (pl. mellyrn:342) was a kind of large tree growing in Valinor, Númenor and the Westlands.. Lothlórien's social organization was notably decentralized, lacking a formal king or hierarchical court typical of other Elven realms; instead, communities lived in scattered tree-dwellings known as flets or telain, elevated platforms woven into the branches of mallorn trees to minimize disturbance to the forest floor.