LOTR: What Are Huorns?
It is well known that Tolkien had a deep love of trees, from his early days growing up in the woodlands around Worchestershire right through to his adult life. He found that the natural world and its plethora of woodland species were the only things that could calm him after the trauma of serving in World War I, and many of his literary works center around trees and their healing powers. The Lord of the Rings is no exception. The quaint rural life of the Shire, and the beautiful gold and silver starlight seen in the forests of Lothlorien, clearly demonstrate the peaceful quality of nature. But Tolkien’s trees also reflect the troubles of a world at war with the growing human population and the modern mechanized world, full of pollution, destruction and climate change.
The themes surrounding Saruman and his hideous destruction of the once beautiful Isengard, is Tolkien’s way of setting down in words his grief at the state of the world’s woodlands and wildernesses. These once-wild places have all but been tamed, ordered, or chopped down completely. He poured all of these feelings into the Ents, the mythical creatures who are tree-herders of Middle Earth. The Ents have existed since the beginning of time to protect the woods, and raise the trees that the elves woke and taught to speak. But within the Lord of the Rings, the peaceful Ents have a less than genial counterpart. These similar creatures exist to show the anger and the violence of a natural spirit or being whose home is under threat: the Huorns.
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The Huorns are a warning to Mankind of the wrath of nature, and the power that can be unleashed when the environment is not shown the proper respect and care. They are, in
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