![]() “The woods were like the woods of Lothlórien, only thicker, stronger, younger. “Broad days,” he calls them when there was room and time just for breathing. Treebeard is able to look back to a time when “there was all one wood… from here to the Mountains of Lune, and this was just the East End.” He ponders the sense of spaciousness that he enjoyed in former days. Like trees themselves Ents are patient creatures. He has not gone to war for thousands of years until the arrival of two young hobbits who come among the Ents as they seek to escape from orcs. His motto of “Do not be hasty” may have been made in those unhappy days and he has kept it. The Ents fought alongside the Elves in this war and it is quite possible that Treebeard was one of those who fought. It was through the tragic greed of Thingol that led to his death and war with the Dwarves of Nogrod and led to so much destruction of that which had been so beautiful. It was Melian who through her magic arts made Doriath a secret place and it was in that land that Luthien was born and nurtured and where Galadriel learned much from Melian so that the land of Lothlórien in many ways resembled Doriath. ![]() Menegroth lay at the heart of Doriath, a forest kingdom ruled over for long years by Thingol and by his wife, Melian the Maiar. Indeed the only other recorded occasion apart from these events at the end of the Third Age in which Ents became involved in the affairs of the wider world was when the Dwarves of Nogrod went to war with the Elves of Doriath and sacked their stronghold of Menegroth. Her main concern then was with Dwarves and their axes, which rather puts into context the advice that Aragorn gave to Gimli about being careful how he used his. She prayed to Eru to provide for the care of trees. His long life of service to the trees began with a prayer of Yavanna, the member of the Valar for whom the care of things that live and grow upon the earth was most dear. Treebeard, the shepherd of trees, by Alan Lee This does not just mean that the shepherd will die for the sheep although they are always prepared to do so if required but that they give their lives for their welfare from day to day and Treebeard has been doing this for a very long time indeed. As that ancient source of wisdom, the Bible, puts it, “the shepherd lays down his life for the sheep”. Of course, sometimes a sheep, or perhaps a tree, might do something that takes the shepherd by surprise and if that happens then they will do all that they can to put things right. 607-611Įnts are shepherds of trees, tree-herds as Treebeard puts it, and it is in the nature of shepherds to live so closely to the creatures they care for that they can anticipate any action that those creatures might perform. It has forsaken these lands.The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien (Harper Collins 1991, 2007) pp. Hasufel! Arod! May these horses bear you to better fortune than their former masters. We slaughtered them during the night.īut there were two Hobbits! Did you see two Hobbits with 'em? ![]() They have taken two of our friends captive. We track a party of Uruk-Hai, westward across the plain. And everywhere his spies slip past our nets. He walks here and there, they say, as an old man hooded and cloaked. My company are those loyal to Rohan, and for that we are banished. Saruman has poisoned the mind of the king and claimed lordship over these lands. Théoden no longer recognizes friend from foe. We are friends of Rohan, and of Théoden, your King. This is Gimli, son of Glóin, and Legolas of the Woodland Realm. I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground. Give me your name, Horse-master, and I shall give you mine. What business does an Elf, a Man, and a Dwarf have in the Riddermark? Speak quickly!
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