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
Red Book of Westmarch gardener Samwise Gamgee. Tolkien provides a "title page" inscribed with various titles that had been subsequently rejected; the final title is Frodo's: Bilbo had translated material from Elvish lore from the Elder Days. This work, "Translations from the Elvish, by B.B.", comprised three volumes, also bound in red leather. After the defeat of Sauron (the Lord of the Rings) Bilbo gives these volumes to Frodo. These four volumes were "probably" (according to Tolkien) kept in a single red case. The volumes then pass into the keeping of Samwise Gamgee, Frodo's servant and later mayor of the Shire. In time, the