Treebeard and his non-hastiness made me chuckle, and tbh I wrote an article for work about an ancient tree in Surrey called the Crowhurst Yew because I was in that whole vibe. It works as a thematic way to read the LOTR, much like Dune can be read as an anti-imperial / anti-colonial work. You have champions of good, the elves, the men and the hobbits etc., who live in harmony with nature and then you have Saruman and Sauron agents of darkness whose dwellings are the foul centres of industry. Tolkien’s whole love affair with nature and trees speaks to my soul, and I feel like the whole story could be read as a fable on climate change. The way he describes everything in such rich detail, except maybe Shelob, that description did make me gag slightly! Lol, at this point, I am such a Tolkien fangirl.
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