have been found to harbor more biodiversity than surrounding areas. In fiction J. R. R. Tolkien included many magical trees and woods in his fictional writings which he based on English and Norse mythology. George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire features "godswoods", sacred groves containing sacred trees, notably "weirwood" trees but also oaks, et al. In The Legend of Zelda video game series there is a location called the Sacred Grove in Hyrule, usually depicted as a gateway to the Temple of Time and thus the Sacred Realm, one of the most important locations in the series' backstory. In MTV's Teen Wolf, a sacred tree known as a nemeton serves as a beacon for supernatural creatures and retained some of its power even after being cut down. In the Hayao Miyazaki animated film My Neighbor Totoro the large tree in which the Totoros live is modeled after a 2000-year-old sacred camphor tree in Japan. James Cameron's Avatar, the natives of Pandora, the Na'vi, live in a massive tree called Hometree and at the center of their sacred grove is the Tree of Souls. See also Sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology Sacred related Sacred trees Bodhi Tree Largest Banyan trees Sacred groves of India Trees in mythology Tree worship Sacred mountains Sacred natural site Sacred rivers Sacred site General List of types of formally designated forests Superlative trees Tree hugger (disambiguation) References Citations Further reading Taylor, Isaac (1864). Words and places: or, etymological illustrations of history, ethnology, and geography. New York: Macmillan. . External links M. D. Subash Chandran Madhav Gadgil, "Sacred Groves and Sacred Trees of Uttara Kannada"