Mike Taylor 🦕<p>What are ents made of? Flesh and bone, or of wood?</p><p>I've been discussing this with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@AdamStuartSmith" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AdamStuartSmith</span></a></span> and we don't know whether they are animals that LOOK like trees — like stick insects — or trees that are alive, sentient and motile.</p><p>It occurred to me that maybe we have some proper Tolkien scholars who know a definitive answer, maybe from a footnote in History of Middle-earth, or even from unpublished correspondence.</p><p>(Please boost for coverage.)</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tolkien</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/LotR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LotR</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/LordOfTheRings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LordOfTheRings</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/MiddleEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEarth</span></a></p>