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- From: bafta@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (dragon-monster)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: Orcs in the Last Alliance
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 05:09:56 GMT
- Organization: University of California - Santa Cruz
- Lines: 29
- Message-ID: <1htvb4INN2sa@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- References: <1992Dec30.223324.23629@netcom.com> <1992Dec31.000525.22216@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <lewchuk.725777372@therien>
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- Summary: Ents are not trees
- Keywords: Ents, trees, dwarves, Silmarillion
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- In article <lewchuk.725777372@therien> lewchuk@cs.UAlberta.CA (Michael Lewchuk)
- writes:
-
- >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) ;-)
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >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.
- >
- You are incorrect in assuming that Ents are trees. They were no more
- trees than dwarves were rocks. This is outlined in the Silmarillion
- where it states that Aule made the dwarves, and Yavanna made the
- "shepherds of the trees", and proclaimed that they would never get along.
-
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