I've always viewed Treebeard and the Ents attacking Saruman's industrialised Isengard as…

…uch violent and peculiarly hideous change,” having become a suburban sprawl of red brick buildings. Today it is simply a suburb of Birmingham and all that remains is the mill and a small tatty, poorly maintained green ironically named “The Shire Country Park.”
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I've always viewed Treebeard and the Ents attacking Saruman's industrialised Isengard as essentially Tolkien's revenge on Birmingham for ruining the countryside of his childhood. I can't say I blame him.
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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