Perhaps Tolkien gives us a clue to this something as the young hobbits first enter the forest. It is Merry and Pippin’s voices that save their lives and their voices that remind Treebeard of something. But if I had seen you, before I heard your voices – I liked them: nice little voices they reminded me of something I cannot remember – if I had seen you before I heard you, I should just have trodden on you, taking you for little Orcs, and found out my mistake afterwards.” The hobbits are like elf-children peering out of the Wild Wood in the deeps of time. “Very odd indeed! Do not be hasty, that is my motto. Except that, for Treebeard at least, there was the possibility that he might have killed the hobbits first. It all feels like they have met at a party and have begun that process of getting to know each other. Although the first part of their conversation is an enquiry that asks about the identity of the other it is as if both the Hobbits and the Ent are asking one another whether they might have met on some previous occasion. In last week’s post I noted the complete lack of tension in the first moments of the encounter between Merry, Pippin and Treebeard on the hill top in the Forest of Fangorn. The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien (Harper Collins 1991, 2007) pp.
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