Ents singing with joy to Autumn.
Or just ancient beech trees - although the far one has a different bark, perhaps oak?
The famous pollarded beech trees of Burnham Beeches are mostly between 450 and 550 years old. Pollarding, the cutting back of new growth at about head height for varied domestic use, stopped about 200 years ago, but in that time new trees have been planted and some are being pollarded for the pleasure of future generations.
Ents, for the uninitiated, are ancient tree people in Lord of the Rings. If I remember the book correctly they are of great age and as the Age of Man dawns they are becoming older and stiffer until they stop moving at all and become trees and are forgotten. I suspect Tolkien, no stranger to this area, must have known these trees, and perhaps was inspired by them.
Ents singing with joy to Autumn.
Or just ancient beech trees - although the far one has a different bark, perhaps oak?
The famous pollarded beech trees of Burnham Beeches are mostly between 450 and 550 years old. Pollarding, the cutting back of new growth at about head height for varied domestic use, stopped about 200 years ago, but in that time new trees have been planted and some are being pollarded for the pleasure of future generations.
Ents, for the uninitiated, are ancient tree people in Lord of the Rings. If I remember the book correctly they are of great age and as the Age of Man dawns they are becoming older and stiffer until they stop moving at all and become trees and are forgotten. I suspect Tolkien, no stranger to this area, must have known these trees, and perhaps was inspired by them.