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Quick point. I always have a sadness for Treebeard in this Chapter, not for his farewlls to the hobbits, but because HOW CLOSE he got to picking up a clue that entwives might be in the Shire.
Why oh why did he have to take Merry and Pippin aside when he asked them to pass on news of any entwives that might be around the Shire? If only Sam was within earshot - he would have no doubt told Treebeard about the 'Tree men...seen up away beyond the North Moors' he mentioned to Ted Sandyman in the Green Dragon.
This just adds to the melancholy of Treebeard. He was THAT CLOSE to perhaps finding his Entwives again............
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