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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 6:25
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Subject: Re: Fw: New
Story time:
The Two Towers
Book III
Chapter 4 ~ Treebeard
p87 (2nd Edition, 1965)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The
two Hobbits Merry and Pippen have just escaped from the orcs of Isengard and
found their way into Fangorn Forest where they have met Treebeard, chief of
the Ents...talking trees...The hobbits trigger a council of the Ents from
which they wander off with Bregalad, a young enting who has already made up
his mind about how to deal with Saruman...here's why...
"There were rowan-trees in my home,' said Bregalad, softly and sadly, 'rowan
trees that took root when I was an Enting, many many years ago in the quiet of
the world. The oldest were planted by the Ents to try and please the Entwives;
but they looked at them and smiled and said that they knew where whiter
blossom and richer fruit were growing. Yet there are no trees of all that
race, the people of the Rose, that are so beautiful to me. And these trees
grew and grew, till the shadow of each was like a green hall, and their red
berries in the autumn were a burden, and a beauty and a wonder. Birds used to
flock there. I like birds, even when they chatter; and the rowan has enough to
spare. But the birds became unfriendly and greedy and tore at the trees, and
threw the fruit down and did not eat it. Then orcs came with axes and cut down
my trees. I came and called them by their long names, but they did not quiver,
they did not hear or answer: they lay dead.
O Orofarne, Lassemista, Carnimiriee!
O rowan fair, upon your hair how white the blossom lay!
O rowan mine, I saw you shine upon a summer's day,
Your rind so bright, your leaves so light, your voice so cool and
soft:
Upon your head how golden-red the crown you core aloft!
O rowan dead, upon your head your hair is dry and grey;
Your crown is spilled, your voice is stilled for ever and a day.
O Orofarne, Lassemista, Carnimiriee!
"
The hobbits soon fell asleep to the sound of the soft singing of Bregalad,
that seemed to lament in many tongues the fall of trees that he had
loved..."
Spirit One Email wrote:
> The
discussion about chanticleer happens to conincide with information
about
> the proper use of our Earl's and the
clansmen's crests. It is
enlightening.
>
> www.clansinclairusa.org to
history links then look in bottom of the
right
> column. Ladies look in "For the
Ladies" and men "for the Lads" There
> will be other information for the Ladies
and Lads in their respective
areas.
>
> Can someone tell us about the Sinclair
plant called a "whin". It seems to
> have thorns and can be worn in the men's
bonnets? Will we be able to
see
> whin in Caithness? Also want
to see the Rowan tree planted by the Queen
> mother at Wick in 1989. Is
there another name for a Rowan tree? Were
> there Rowan trees in the Tolkein's
books?
>
> Laurel
>
>
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