Treebeard Tolkien Ensemble) compact disc, Treebeard is voiced by Christopher Lee. Treebeard Treebeard (Sindarin: "Fangorn") is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings. The eldest of the species of Ents, he is said to live in the ancient Forest of Fangorn and stands fourteen feet (4 m) in height. He is treelike in appearance – reminiscent of "beech-trees or oaks" – with leafy hair and a rigid structure. His home of Fangorn Forest lies close to Isengard, where Saruman the White resides. In "The Two Towers" he meets with Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took, two Hobbits of
Samwise Gamgee and packing... Tolkien maps the gradual breakdown of restraint [through prolonged peril] until Sam can take Frodo in his arms and call him "Mr Frodo, my dear." " Tolkien wrote in a private letter: "My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself". and elsewhere: "Sam was cocksure, and deep down a little conceited; but his conceit had been transformed by his devotion to Frodo. He did not think of himself as heroic or even brave, or in any