Treebeard
Ent of Fangorn Forest. Treebeard, which is �Fangorn� in Elvish, was the guardian of the Fangorn Forest. He was an Ent, a fourteen foot tall giant, �tree shepherd� who resembled something between an evergreen tree and a man. He had a rough and sturdy trunk, a thatch beard and branch-like arms with smooth seven-fingered hands. At the time of the War of the Ring, he was the oldest of his race still surviving on Middle-earth. Although not generally concerned with the ways of Elves and Men, Treebeard�s discussions with the Hobbits, Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took, soon roused his long-held resentment towards the Orcs of Isengard. Treebeard persuaded the Ents march on Isengard. The March of the Ents resulted in the total destruction of its walls and imprisonment of Saruman the Wizard in his own tower. Treebeard also sent those bad-tempered tree-spirits called Huorns in against the Orcs after the Battle of Hornburg.
