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- From: lewchuk@cs.UAlberta.CA (Michael Lewchuk)
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- Subject: Re: Orcs in the Last Alliance
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 04:49:32 GMT
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- Michael.P.Colburn@dartmouth.edu (Michael P. Colburn) writes:
- >Well, how about the Ents/Alliance against the Huorns/Sauron...some
- >Huorns were known to be 'black-hearted' and 'rotten' (Old Man Willow),
- >so it wouldn't be hard to imagine them fighting for Sauron. I realize
- >Ents and Huorns are two different races, but perhaps they had the same
- >roots. (ooo, terrible pun) ;-)
-
- I think you're mixing up things here. Ents were the intelligent trees, and
- Huorns were the animal-like trees. Huorns were not evil, just either
- awakening into sentience or fading from sentience to mere tree (I'm sure
- Fangorn could argue about the sentience of trees but I'm not going to).
-
- Old Man Willow was probably somewhere between Ent and Huorn. He clearly
- had enough cunning to trap the hobbits, and so was not of animal intelligence
- like a Huorn (which basically followed the nearest Ent's orders and probably
- defended itself a bit if attacked).
-
- Ents and Huorns are NOT two different "races". They are both sentient
- trees of the same nature. Ents are becoming Huornish and Huorns are becoming
- Entish as they "awaken" or "go to sleep", and this is happening all the time,
- at least according to Fangorn.
-
- But I agree with you that there were probably evil Ents and Huorns in the
- first War against Sauron.
-
- Michael Lewchuk
- lewchuk@cs.UAlberta.CA
-