Posted: June 25, 2000 at 15:27:17: by Mordomin
In an earlier post, someone pointed out the likelihood that Old Man Willow was related to the Ents. A sort of very bad and unsheperded Huorn, one could say.But if this is so, why did he try to 'eat' the hobbits? Ents and huorns are not noted as being carnivorous. Or are we to assume that he merely intended to murder them, for malice sake alone? If so, his method seems strangely dissimilar to the Huorns, who killed by whipping their branches about, not by enveloping an enemy into their trunks.
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