Tauremorna

Tauremorna is one of the names of the Fangorn Forest, used by Treebeard in his song In the willow-meads of Tasarinan I walked in the Spring (LoTR II, Ch. 4). The other names mentioned by Treebeard are Ambaróna and Aldalómë.

J.R.R. Tolkien notes in his Unfinished Index that tauremorna means 'black forest' (quoted in Scull - Hammond, Reader's Companion, p. 385). Cf. the Quenya words taurë '(great) wood, forest', and morna 'dark, black'. See also: Letters, p. 308 (Letter 230) and pp. 382-383 (Letter 297).