Patrick marvels at Tolkien’s playful imagination of what it would be like for a tree to wake up while still being a tree, and confesses that he now looks at trees differently. Treebeard gives us a new look at Elves and Men and invites us to look more deeply inside other creatures. Andrew highlights the wise warnings implicit in the sad story of the Entwives.

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