Old Man Willow could also be bitter towards all intruders in the forest because his "dominion" over those lands was taken away. Especially when the Brandybucks burned a path into the forest and a clearing, many trees (under Old Man Willow) probably hated them.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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