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   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Jette Goldie wrote:   
      
   > Öjevind Lång wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> LOL. I don't think my particular tree could be called either social or   
   >> unsociable. Though (ahem) one might associate it with social occasions.   
   >   
   >   
   > "The Party Tree" that stood in the meadow where Bilbo's farewell party   
   > was held, until it was cut down by Lotho and his mob.   
      
   Without rereading it, I think there were only two trees on Sean's list that   
   were "living, then dead" (at least to our explicit knowledge - we all know   
   that all of those trees have long since passed beyond the knowledge of Man).   
   The Party Tree and the dead White Tree in Mina Tirith - which I would   
   associate with "state" occasions rather than "social" ones - so I'd have to   
   agree with you.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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