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Very early on, Tolkien envisioned explaining Gandalf's disappearance by having him held prisoner by the evil Giant Treebeard in the "topl;ess forest." There is also a scrap of narrative where Bilbo(!) meets this large person; and a somewhat later note suggests that maybe Giant Fangorn is in actuality good- and his thanes look like young trees....
In short, the early idea of a "giant" morphed into the Ents.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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