[Child of the 7th Age]

Grounds Keeper Willie,

Couldn't the behavior in the Old Forest that you're describing be the Huorn rather than the Ents or Entwives? Especially if the Ents/Entwives weren't there to shepherd them, the huorn's behavior might have turned bad

Does it say anything about the Old Forest in the letters?

The only references I found in Letters to the Old Forest were these. Letter 212 makes a brief reference to "Trees may 'go bad' as in the Old Forest."

In Letter 339, weitten to the newspaper the Daily Telelgraph, Tolkien says this:

The Old Forest was hostile to two legged creatures because of the memory of many injuries.

Those are the only references I could find on the Old Forest.

sharon

[ April 13, 2003: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ]