Old man willow

[Liriodendron]

Tom Bombadill never uses the word Ent. He just says OMW was the most arrogant of "the fathers of the fathers of trees". (aging no quicker than the hills) There was a time they were lords, the countless years filled them with pride and rooted ( [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]) wisdom, and with malice. Willow's heart was rotton (so were huorns!)Sure sounds like a lesser Ent gone bad, or a rotten Huorn , more powerfull than most. The trees experience with creatures that moved probably colors their attitude. Tom's words "laid bare the hearts of trees and their thoughts, which were often dark and strange, and filled with a hatred of things that go free upon the earth, gnawing, biting,breaking, hacking, burning: destroyers and usurpers." [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]