The Dark Forests of the South (Av."Tauri Moretan") were a far woodland region in southern Middle-Earth of the second Age.According to númenórean Explorers as Aldarion the Area exceeded the size of the entire Island Númenor several times.With númenórean expansion, the great cataclysm and the fires of the great wars many of the southern woodlands were destroyed and the southern continents face was severely changed.Many smaller woodlands of the third Age were remnants of the ancient dark forests of the south, including the Suza Sumar, Gaj, Sara Bask and most of the jungles of the Utter South such as Mighty Green, Tathom, Tauri Kalan, Tontauri, Usakal Forest and the jungles of Mûmakan.