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Originally Posted by Huinesoron
Ents remains the best guess. And there is a very strong Ent connection with couplet 3.
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And one strode swift through gentle hills,
Great gait drawing the gaze of passer-by.
Yes, this very much evokes the walking tree giant or whatnot that the hobbits gossip about in the beginning of LOTR.
Actually, let me look up that passage.
Oh.
Oooh.
Maybe.
I have a plausible idea, though can't fit it well into all the stanzas, or maybe lack the pre-Silm lore to make the connections. But I gotta ask:
ELMS? As in Elm trees?
But Neldoreth forests are beech... unless Beren happened to prop himself up on the one elm he could find in that forest, lol. Yeah, not sure how it fits, but I was ruminating on Ents and trees for a bit now, and this actually makes sense. Who cut then down in the end? Was it the chopped tree alleyway in the Scouring (or even in Galadriel's mirror)? But Sam and Frodo know about it, so the final line doesn't make sense.