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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "Sean_Q_"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:h35huv$p7q$1@aioe.org...   
   >> ...deciduous and coniferous Ents.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   > Of course there were coniferous Ents:   
   >   
   >   At first Merry and Pippin were struck chiefly by the variety that   
   >   they saw: the many shapes, and colours, the differences in girth;   
   >   and height, and length of leg and arm; and in the number of toes   
   >   and fingers (anything from three to nine). A few seemed more or less   
   >   related to Treebeard, and reminded them of beech-trees or oaks.   
   >   But there were other kinds. Some recalled the chestnut: brown-skinned   
   >   Ents with large splayfingered hands, and short thick legs. Some   
   >   recalled the ash: tall straight grey Ents with many-fingered hands   
   >   and long legs; some the fir (the tallest Ents), and others the birch,   
   >   the rowan, and the linden.   
      
   Wow. I had forgotten about that.   
      
   > Now, anyone care to speculate on Huorn taxonomy?   
   > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ousby/3278287567/   
      
   (SHIVER.) If I had met a huorn like that, I'd still be running.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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