[HCIsland]

I don't have a problem with this bit. Let's face it, there is no easy way from Fangorn back to The Shire without using the Gap of Rohan. Once the decision was made to have the Entmoot decision be to not get involved in the war, then describing the direction to take the hobbits as west (to the north-west corner of the forest) isn't any worse than any other alternative. For what PJ wanted to do, it was more important to establish that Pippin wanted to get Treebeard to turn around than to put in what would esentially be more unnecessary dialogue about finding a path home for the hobbits.<P>Feel free to disagree with the decision to change the outcome of Entmoot, but once that decision was made I think the decision as to Treebeard's initial direction becomes somewhat forced.<P>H.C.