: 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.

If that was true what did the Hurons do with all the Dead Orcs at Helms deep?