Whether the trees of the Old Forest can be classified as huorns is open for debate. That having been said, it is certain that the trees of the Old Forest had a life-force and a will of their own, as shown unambiguously when the hobbits trekked through in the Fellowship of the Ring, and the trees altered their course and seemed to shift and move closer or farther away.
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...where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defence.
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