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Birdland · 08-18-2002, 06:53 PM

I actually found a line in the Silmarillion that made me laugh.

The set-up: Yavanna is miffed at her husband, Aulë because his creation, the Dwarves, liked to chop down trees. So Yavanna asks for, and gets, "The Shepherd of the Trees". In other words, the Ents.

She goes tripping back to Aulë and says: "Now let thy children (dwarves) beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril (Ents)."

Aulë just looks at her and says: "Nonetheless, they will have need of wood."

(Dead silence. Someone coughs.)

...OK, I guess you had to be there.

08-18-2002, 06:53 PM	#49
Birdland Ghastly Neekerbreeker Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the banks of the mighty Scioto Posts: 1,751	I actually found a line in the Silmarillion that made me laugh. The set-up: Yavanna is miffed at her husband, Aulë because his creation, the Dwarves, liked to chop down trees. So Yavanna asks for, and gets, "The Shepherd of the Trees". In other words, the Ents. She goes tripping back to Aulë and says: "Now let thy children (dwarves) beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril (Ents)." Aulë just looks at her and says: "Nonetheless, they will have need of wood." (Dead silence. Someone coughs.) ...OK, I guess you had to be there.