“But the forest is queer. Everything in it is very much more alive, more aware of what is going on… I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language…”
Merry’s description of the Old Forest, in JRR Tolkien’s extraordinarily prescient passage…
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