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Like the roots of trees, but far more rapidly, Tolkien's Ents could break stone. [T 3] Ents are somewhat treelike, with extraordinarily tough skin; they can erode stone rapidly, but are vulnerable to fire and axe-strokes. They are patient and cautious, with a long sense of time; they considered a three-day deliberation "hasty". [T 2]
Ents were created in the Elder Days to be the "Shepherds of the Trees" and protect trees from the anticipated destruction that Dwarves would cause. In The Lord of the Rings, Treebeard recounts to the hobbits Merry and Pippin how the Ents were "awakened" and taught to speak by the Elves. He says that only three Ents remain from the Elder Days ...
Highest listing price on eBay: $750 Released as part of Swarovski’s limited-edition collection in 1985, the Gold Bumble Bee in Flight, Lotus Flower figurine by Swarovski is a delicate and ...
Ents, their history and culture; The forest of Fangorn and other creatures of the forest; Sites of interest, including the Derndingle of the Ents, a hold occupied by bandits, and a mine and cave system used by orcs; The Ents' relationships with neighboring races — humans, elves, and orcs — who inhabit the borders of the forest
The Riders' names for the cunningly-built tower of Isengard, Orthanc, and for the Ents, the tree-giants of Fangorn forest, are similarly Old English, both being found in the phrase orþanc enta geweorc, "cunning work of giants" in the poem The Ruin, [21] though Shippey suggests that Tolkien may have chosen to read the phrase also as "Orthanc ...
A 76-year-old patient sitter has been sentenced for assaulting a 68-year-old man with the remote control for a hospital bed. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, Eleanor Flowers, of Washington, D.C., was ...
People admire the 18th century Trevi Fountain, one of Rome's most iconic landmarks, as it reopens to the public after undergoing maintenance, just on time for the start of the Jubilee Year, an ...
Important sacred trees are also the object of pilgrimage, one of the most noteworthy being the branch of the Bo tree at Sri Lanka brought thither before the Christian era. The tree spirits will hold sway over the surrounding forest or district, and the animals in the locality are often sacred and must not be harmed. [1]