Josh88
Shohin
This pot by Chuck Iker always makes me think of Barad-dur, Sauron's fortress in Mordor. When your ent needs something to stand upon this might be a good spot.
Tolkien fans?
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This pot by Chuck Iker always makes me think of Barad-dur, Sauron's fortress in Mordor. When your ent needs something to stand upon this might be a good spot.
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
I'm not sure,but Ents might be in The Silmarillion.
It's been years since I read it.
bwaynef
Masterpiece
I'm 3/4 of the way through it now.
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
It's a bit different from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
Kind of like a history of Middle Earth.
Kind of tough reading.
Any Ents?
Starfox
Masterpiece
lol, love this thread.
Personally I'm still looking for a Weirwood and an Ellcrys.
Not even kidding.
Thought about finding something similar.
Personally I'm still looking for a Weirwood and an Ellcrys.
Not even kidding.
Thought about finding something similar.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
Congratulations, you may be the only person alive that could hack through The Silmarillion, What a YAWN....;-)
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
I've read it twice.
The other books I've read so many times I had to buy another set.
GGB
Masterpiece
Tidal Bonsai
Omono
I have thought of making a Forrest planting and calling it Entmoot, but I have never thought of making an Ent.
Paradox
Marine Bonsologist
I've also read it. Yea it was slow but I pushed through it.
bwaynef
Masterpiece
There's some talk OF them in the creation aspect, but none have featured into the actual story (which I'm just getting into) from what I've read so far. I read when I have time so it might take me a week or a year to finish a novel. I've been dragging this one on for about 5-6 months ...and doing that w/ _The Silmarillion_ means that I've forgotten some of it.
CasAH
Chumono
You mean my garbage pick up company is big?
I always knew the Dutch owned the worlds garbage.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
Yuck, it was like trying to read the ingredient label on Brank Flakes,
Yeah I'll admit I don't read as much for pleasure as I do for absorbing information. Seen the movies, those trees in the movie are really cool and I would like to try to make one.
Would it be possible to make an ent that is completely separate from the soil and independent?
Like maybe if you used a ton of Ficus whips you could form the torso with a cavity in the back that holds a net pot or other system to maintain a root mass.
From there you can form the legs and bring them down, I think you would need to keep foliage on the feet for it to grow well. You could move it around and stand it on one leg or on two, it could even form roots on whatever you place it like in the movie, the arms and head could be pretty straight forward. I like the idea of having the pot inside the Ent.
Would it be possible to make an ent that is completely separate from the soil and independent?
Like maybe if you used a ton of Ficus whips you could form the torso with a cavity in the back that holds a net pot or other system to maintain a root mass.
From there you can form the legs and bring them down, I think you would need to keep foliage on the feet for it to grow well. You could move it around and stand it on one leg or on two, it could even form roots on whatever you place it like in the movie, the arms and head could be pretty straight forward. I like the idea of having the pot inside the Ent.
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Mihai
Shohin
@kevinlovett86 well I for one am a fan. The man was the father of the fantasy genre and a linguistic genius. LoTR is good but it's the cosmogenesis in the Silmarillion and all the other unfinished works that makes him stand out.
An ent bonsai/penjing would be fabulous.
Methinks some fused trees with some flaky mature bark would do the trick.
An ent bonsai/penjing would be fabulous.
Methinks some fused trees with some flaky mature bark would do the trick.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
You're probably one of the people that thinks the movies should have included Tom Bombadil too. Tolkein wrote some crap too, along with the pearls...;-)
Martin Sweeney
Chumono
Ents in the Silmarillion - Yavanna went to Manwe and asked for protective spirits of the forest to protect her creations (her trees) from the Children of Illuvitar (Men and especially Dwarves(children of Aule for the purist), although not so much the Elves), thus the Ents awoke. Yananna warned Aule that the Dwarves needed to be mindful of her Ents, but he shrugged, said they would have need of wood and went back to his forge.
Later, the Ents helped to destroy the army of the Dwarves of Nogrod (might of been Belegost) that had sacked Doriath and stolen the Silmaril that Beren had rescued from Morgoth with Luthien's help.
Regards,
Martin
Later, the Ents helped to destroy the army of the Dwarves of Nogrod (might of been Belegost) that had sacked Doriath and stolen the Silmaril that Beren had rescued from Morgoth with Luthien's help.
Regards,
Martin
Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
Mihai
Shohin
Well, point me to an author who doesn't have any subpar material. Crapwise, Tolkien has very few misses in my opinion. Certainly a lot of what he wrote isn't for everyone. That's neither bad nor good. It just is. You need a certain dose of masochism to willingly go through every dwarven line since Durin and the blood/mariage relations of half the elves of Arda. Personaly, I loved it. But that's probably because I read a LOT of fantasy. As for Bombadil... yes... i would have loved to see what he would look like on the big screen. The movies were good but I tend to dissociate them from the books completely. Like comparing apples and oranges.
