What are ents made of? Flesh and bone, or of wood?
I've been discussing this with https://sauropods.win/@AdamStuartSmith and we don't know whether they are animals that LOOK like trees — like stick insects — or trees that are alive.
It occurred to me that maybe we have some proper Tolkien scholars who know a […]
I've been discussing this with https://sauropods.win/@AdamStuartSmith and we don't know whether they are animals that LOOK like trees — like stick insects — or trees that are alive.
It occurred to me that maybe we have some proper Tolkien scholars who know a […]
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in _The Fellowship of the Ring_, when the four hobbits get into trouble in the Old Forest, the trees which trap them demonstrate considerably more mobility than the trees of our world, and Tom Bombadill needs to rescue them. So even when Ents are not around, Tolkien's […]
As I recall, Treebeard suggests that some trees in the forest are ents that took root, but maybe I am misremembering. That would make them wood. I always imagined them as mobile wood, for sure.