#fangorn
thinking about how Gimli says that he respects the trees for their worth but doesn’t love them but he started off respecting Legolas for his worth and now he loves him and that’s not the same because the love Gimli feels for Legolas is REAL love and Tolkien knew that when he wrote the parallels god
Middle-earth March - Day 17
“Don’t be hasty!” Good advice for a Sunday! It is also @tolkientribe’s suggestion for today’s Middle-earth March topic. So, what better character to choose for our picture than Treebeard! We’d love to sit on his shoulder and wander through Fangorn Forest – after the War of the Ring, of course! We wouldn’t really want to be caught in the Ents’ march on Isengard… What an amazing scene Tolkien wrote there! Nature rebelling against its own destruction through the power hunger of a single person. Still very much up to date!
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Not so hasty!
I think when I first read The Two Towers, I thought of Treebeard as a tree with eyes, in spite of the nice description that suggests otherwise. This is more along the lines of my thinking now - a tree with eyes, AND HILARIOUS HUMANOID ARMS.
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Game night! Fangorn (Chris Baker), illustration from Fiend Folio (TSR, 1981).
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