It's Mirkwood. Also, it and Rivendell are two separate entities. In the Third Age, Elves barely fought at all; in the First Age, you would have wanted to fight if you were a Noldorin Elf, because you got pwned by Melkor like, 19357032975 times.
LotR. Forgot impossible childbirths and emo fathers. How about a father that had seven sons and burst into flames by himself at his death, after what took a supernatural entity and a gang of his lesser, buddy supernatural entities to take him down, and for that same supernatural entity to die shortly thereafter of hypothermia? Yeah, Ecthelion, I'm lookin' at you. Don't tell me you didn't hypothermize Gothmog.