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Old 03-31-2011, 09:22 AM   #49
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Wouldn't Yew know it

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Originally Posted by Alfirin View Post
I was reading another post and much talk was made of longbows. This leads me to a new question to post does Middle Earth contain yew trees? We know that it has beeches, ashes, willows, oaks, hollys etc. along with a lot of trees now long gone (mallorn, lebethron, etc.) But the question is can one assume that all trees native to Great Britan and europe in or times were present in Middle earth whether mentioned (implcitly or not), or are there actually trees we have that they didn't?
Yews are named directly in the poem "Kortirion Among the Trees", from "Cottage of Lost Play", BoLT 1.
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