("They always wished to talk to everything, the old Elves did.") Simba listens to a talking tree and goes to save his father to the Hyena Valley. Simba climbs up the hill, but the hyenas claim he'll never reach the top of the hill. On the morning after the long night of battle, both armies saw that a forest of angry, tree-like Huorns now filled the valley, trapping Saruman's army of Orcs. Rafiki begins telling Simba about the tree, and claims it is a "magic tree" that warns the Pridelanders of danger. Banzai believes they have trapped Simba, and Ed (who speaks in this comic) tells Simba to surrender and that he can't get away from them. The lower part of the long face was covered with a sweeping grey beard, bushy, almost twiggy at the roots, thin and mossy at the ends. The character returns in Zombie Lover and Swell Foop. The Talking Tree is a comic inspired by The Lion King.. Synopsis. [T 14]) Saruman is trapped in the tower of Orthanc. [T 5], Ents share some of the strengths and weaknesses of trees. page 16 of 1097, Yaqui leader Anselmo Valencia story of the talking tree, Yaqui Myths and Legends. [T 5], Tolkien has Treebeard say that "Trolls are only counterfeits, made by the Enemy in the Great Darkness, in mockery of Ents, as orcs were of elves". Written for children grades K-4, Talking with Trees books include supersize pictures that engage children emotionally, helping them learn how to use their hearts and minds to guide them toward building good character traits. "[T 5], In The Two Towers, the second volume of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the Ents – usually a very patient, deliberate people – become roused with their long simmering anger at Saruman, whose armies are cutting down large numbers of their trees. After the Dwarves were put to sleep by Eru to await the coming of the Elves, the Vala Aulë told his wife Yavanna, "the lover of all things that grow in the earth,"[T 6] of the Dwarves. [T 1], Tolkien noted in a letter that he had created Ents in response to his "bitter disappointment and disgust from schooldays with the shabby use made in Shakespeare's Macbeth of the coming of 'Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane hill': I longed to devise a setting in which the trees might really march to war". However, Treebeard lamented that forests may spread but the Ents would not, and he predicted that the few remaining Ents would remain in Fangorn forest until they slowly dwindled in number or became "treeish", saying: "Sheep get like shepherds, and shepherds get like sheep. [1], The rustling of the leaves on an oak tree was regarded as the voice of Zeus. They have the appearance of tall, robed figures wearing masks and covered in branches. The Orcs fled into the Huorn forest and were destroyed. In the Third Age of Middle-earth, the forest of Fangorn was the only place still inhabited by Ents. Quickbeam, for example, guarded rowan trees and bore some resemblance to rowans: tall and slender, smooth-skinned, with ruddy lips and grey-green hair. Simba listens to a talking tree and goes to save his father to the Hyena Valley. [T 5], Treebeard says that the Entwives began to move farther away from the Ents because they liked to plant and control things, while the Ents preferred forests and liked to let things take their natural course. The Ents looked for them but never found them. But at the moment the hobbits noted little but the eyes. Treebeard's statement is corroborated by Elrond: "Time was when a squirrel could go from tree to tree from what is now the Shire to Dunland west of Isengard. [11] In 1975, Elan Merchandising, which owned the game license to the Tolkien estate, issued a cease-and-desist order regarding the use of the word "ent", so the Dungeons & Dragons creatures were renamed "treants". Inspired by Tolkien and similar traditions, animated or anthropomorphic tree creatures appear in a variety of media and works of fantasy. Rafiki, with his stick, drops a bee hive inside the tree, and Shenzi runs away. Some recalled the chestnut: brown-skinned Ents with large splayfingered hands, and short thick legs. [7] This, combined with the giant-sighting by Sam's cousin Hal mentioned above, has led to some speculation by readers that the Entwives may have lived near the Shire. Book 3 in the Talking with Trees Series. The Three are as a whole a single NPC that shows up at the hideout every morning, in Chapter 2. Ents are a race of beings in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world Middle-earth who closely resemble trees. A nearby firepit will mark his location. Narrators and interviewers are capable of speaking clear English, while other characters can only speak garbled words. Shenzi follows Scar's plans, and goes inside the tree. He has lost his legs from the knee down. The novel A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony includes the character Justin Tree, a talking tree. These deep eyes were now surveying them, slow and solemn, but very penetrating.