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Old 03-18-2008, 04:11 PM   #2
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Tolkien A tree by any other name

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Originally Posted by BBC news
The photograph - which was expected to fetch up to Ł600 - shows the author in the Oxford Botanical Gardens leaning against his favourite tree, the Black Pine he named Laocoon.
Now that is an absolutely fascinating piece of information. What is the source for this claim that Tolkien named that tree Laocoon? I cannot recall seeing this in Carpenter and I don't have the book at hand.

Oh how full of tempting possibilities that name suggests. It is, after all, Classical rather than Northern.
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