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Iarwain · 08-15-2003, 05:43 PM

You'll find that many, if not most, BDers will not consider the movies as an accurate source. However, I do agree with you. At the beginning of the FotR (book), Sam is having a discussion/debate with Ted Sandyman, his nemisis (of sorts). Sam brings up a sighting his cousin had of a walking Willow. Thick-headed Ted rebukes it, and the conversation continues to other things, like the sale of Bag-End, and Frodo's purchase at Crickhollow. It's a very small bit, but if one remembers by the time Treebeard starts singing, then it can provide you with a warm tingly feeling of "I know something that most people probably missed", that is, until you come onto the Downs and meet all of us other crazy Tolkien fanatics. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I personally believe that they do live in the Old Forest and the other forests of the Shire, if they are alive at all. It seems right. Treebeard even says that they would like the Shire.

Iarwain

08-15-2003, 05:43 PM	#9
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	You'll find that many, if not most, BDers will not consider the movies as an accurate source. However, I do agree with you. At the beginning of the FotR (book), Sam is having a discussion/debate with Ted Sandyman, his nemisis (of sorts). Sam brings up a sighting his cousin had of a walking Willow. Thick-headed Ted rebukes it, and the conversation continues to other things, like the sale of Bag-End, and Frodo's purchase at Crickhollow. It's a very small bit, but if one remembers by the time Treebeard starts singing, then it can provide you with a warm tingly feeling of "I know something that most people probably missed", that is, until you come onto the Downs and meet all of us other crazy Tolkien fanatics. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I personally believe that they do live in the Old Forest and the other forests of the Shire, if they are alive at all. It seems right. Treebeard even says that they would like the Shire. Iarwain __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"