![]() And of course these wild-man fantasies would be accompanied by loads of sex (Often with buxom wood nymphs, and sometimes with other bearded wild-men but such occasions were rare because I was still in that awkward phase when I pretended that browser histories weren’t a thing and that I wouldn’t wind up gay if I jerked off to two dudes having sex “just that one time”). It was a beautiful time in my life when the word metal was an adjective rather than a noun, and the soundtrack to my life was Corey Taylor screaming while Clown banged on beer kegs with an aluminum bat. This fantasy would often accompany an honest desire to be a woodland dwelling forrest god with taut, bulging muscles and hair down to my ass. There was a time in my life when I believed that I too could grow an incredible beard that might one day house families of squirrels and field mice who would tickle me as they burrowed into my beard making a safe space for themselves. The Huorns storming Isengard are the literal representation of this concept within the Lord of the Rings.I hate Treebeard, only because he has a better beard than I do. Tolkien believed very strongly that nature would one day rise up and overthrow the mechanized world that humans have been increasingly building over the last century. Overall, the Huorns represent Tolkien's warning about the dangers of the natural world, and the consequences that happen when it's not shown proper respect. I should be terrified of meeting them, if there were no true Ents about to look after them.” They still have voices, and can speak with the Ents, but they have become queer and wild. “There is a great power in them, and they seem able to wrap themselves in shadow: it is difficult to see them moving. Still, the Huorns are not too picky about who they choose to squash, and Pippin wisely warns the others: They are on the side of the forest, and against the likes of Saruman, who chooses to chop the trees down. Luckily, this often works in the favor of the fellowship. The Huorns will stop at nothing to protect their own. He turns his anger on the hobbits, even though they mean his land no harm, because he distrusts all those who look like them. He has lorded over his woodland bitterly, and become vicious and violent over the years in order to protect his creatures from the burning and destruction they are subjected to. The Two Towers is also not their first appearance - it is thought by many fans that Old Man Willow, who traps the four hobbits trying to make their way out of the Shire and nearly kills them in the Old Forest near Bree, is probably also a Huorn. As such, they are symptomatic of the much larger signs of evil going on in Middle Earth at the time. ![]() These tree-creatures of Tolkein's world have become twisted and corrupted over centuries of wrong-doing. Voices they heard, whisperings and groanings and an endless rustling sigh, the earth shook under them.’ ‘Above them a few stars still glimmered faintly, but on either side there arose walls of impenetrable gloom, they were in a narrow lane between moving towers of shadows. Aragorn, Theoden, and a march of other riders overhear them in the night: During the attack on Isengard, they storm through the Wizards’ Vale, trampling an entire host of orcs and then burying them where they lay. The Huorns are strong both individually and in great numbers.
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