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The word "Ent" is from the Old English ent or eoten, meaning "giant". Tolkien borrowed the word from a phrase in the Anglo-Saxon poems The Ruin and Maxims II, orþanc enta geweorc ("cunning work of giants"), [1] which describes Roman ruins. [T 11] [2] In Sindarin, one of Tolkien's invented Elvish languages, the word for Ent is Onod (plural Enyd).
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Treebeard, or Fangorn in Sindarin, is a tree-giant character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He is an Ent and is said by Gandalf to be "the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-earth." [T 1] He lives in the ancient Forest of Fangorn, to which he has given his name.
The statue was inaugurated by Ricardo Monreal on 2 December 2017 behind the San Carlos National Museum, [2] a few blocks from where they met. [3] A few weeks later, the bench was removed as it was placed without authorization of the Committee for Monuments and Artistic Works in Public Spaces ( Comité de Monumentos y Obras Artísticas en ...
The statue is very likely the same one that was praised in the highest terms by Pliny the Elder, the main Roman writer on art, who attributed it to Greek sculptors but did not say when it was created. [3] The figures in the statue are nearly life-sized, with the entire group measuring just over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in height.
[5] [6] In an interview with the A&T Register, the University's newspaper, Barnhill stated that a stronger visual impact would be achieved by showing the four marching as opposed to sitting, and would better capture the essence of the men. [5] The statue's base, which stands at 5 feet (1.5 m) tall, bears the names of each of the four men, and ...
The sculpture was unveiled and dedicated in Wabash on May 31, 1932 (Memorial Day), a year after Alexander New's death. A photograph [2] in the Indiana Historical Society collections [ 7 ] from the day of the unveiling depicts the courthouse lawn with onlookers packed around the sculpture and even seated on one of the porch roofs of the Wabash ...