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- From: nightsng@anarky.tch.org (Nightsong)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: Orcs in the Last Alliance
- Keywords: Ents, trees, dwarves, Silmarillion
- Message-ID: <q7TqwB2w165w@anarky.tch.org>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 01:43:13 PST
- References: <1htvb4INN2sa@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- > 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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- Well actually, as I remember, the term used was "tree-herders" at least
- in The Lord of the Rings trilogy somewhere.
-
- -Nightsong
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