11 Facts About Treebeard

Treebeard, or Fangorn in Sindarin, is a tree-giant character in JR R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Treebeard says that only three Ents remain from the Elder Days: himself, Finglas and Fladrif.

Treebeard tells the hobbits of the time when he could walk through the woods of Middle-earth for days.

Treebeard then takes them to a place that he says might be called "Wellinghall" in the Common Speech.

Treebeard realizes now that Saruman is plotting to be "a Power" and wonders what evil he is really doing: why has Saruman taken up with Orcs, why there are so many Orcs in his woods, and why these Orcs are able to bear sunlight.

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Treebeard then calls for an end to the attack and the Ents divert the river Isen, drowning the entire ruined fortress and all its underground furnaces and workshops.

Finally, Treebeard says farewell to the elf-rulers Celeborn and Galadriel "with great reverence" and the words "It is long, long since we met by stock or by stone".

Treebeard has inspired artists and illustrators such as Inger Edelfeldt, John Howe, Ted Nasmith, Anke Eißmann, and Alan Lee.

In Peter Jackson's films The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Treebeard is a combination of a large animatronic model and a CGI construct; his voice is performed by John Rhys-Davies, who portrays Gimli.

The Tolkien scholar David Bratman writes that Jackson's Treebeard spends far more time than Tolkien's character suspecting the Hobbits of being Orcs.

The scholar Judith Kollmann states that in Jackson's film, Treebeard resists going to war with Saruman until he sees how much damage Saruman has done to the south of Fangorn forest.