Treebeard said that some of the Huorns wanted revenge because of all the wood-cutting and tree-burning that was going on. The Brandybucks had done that exact thing in the Old Forest, so the trees' hostility is understandable. Cutting and burning a path through a forest isn't exactly going to endear you to the trees, now, will it?
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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