Feel Better:Complain About Anything

Originally posted by Taurisk: ↑

Hi @Parsifal - 'God of the Forest' - I can relate to that, but it must be a big and dense and old forest where I think he/she would reside.
Every time I go to my grandparent's place (which isn't often, as it involves an overseas trip) I always make it a habit to go and visit an old oak tree, which stands just at the edge of the forest, where she/we used to go mushrooming - there is now a swanky golf club, where formerly there was a fairly primitive swimming lake, with cabins you could pay for, or simply jump into the lake and go swimming.
and - having read all he Tolkien books, even the odd ones, no-one talks about - there was a whispering among the trees and a God of the Forest who gave the sign to march - I still remember one name Treebeard! How is that for a name - a man (and his sister too) of vast imagination.
Did you know they - between brother and sister - began evolving the 'Elfin language' he later used in his books?

Tolkien stated that primeval human understanding was communion with other living things; c
critics note that Middle-earth was set in the distant past, when primeval forests still existed. Forests play varying roles in his books.
In The Hobbit, Mirkwood is the dark forbidding forest of fairy tale.

In The Lord of the Rings, forests are more complex; some trees are woken up by the Elves, while others are going bad. Fangorn forest is the realm of Treebeard, a tree-giant or Ent, who herds trees including the Huorns which are halfway between Ents and trees, either becoming animated or reverting to becoming tree-like.Some specific kinds of tree are important in Tolkien's stories, such as the tall Mallorn trees at the heart of Lothlórien.
In Tom Bombadil's Old Forest, Old Man Willow is a malign and fallen tree-spirit of great age, controlling much of the forest. Early in the creation, the Two Trees of Valinor, one silver, one gold, gave light to the paradisiacal realm of Valinor.Commentators have written that trees gave Tolkien a way of expressing his eco-criticism, opposed to damaging industrialisation.

To New Zealand I must go before I die - it's on my bucket list - have relatives there, thanks to a divorced son-in-law (we are still talking and friends).

and @Joannie: about the English how can one not love a people who brought forth so many imaginative writers!
Go well
Taurisk

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I’ve read some of the background about Tolkien and how he had this special language. But more than that I don’t know. I think once upon a time people did communicate with plants. Directly. I once listened to a radio program about an aboriginal man up north who used to call to sea eagles when he wanted to fish. The eagle would gather a fish and deposit it at the man’s feet then go on his way. We have lost our ability to do this and we are worse for it.

I am almost certain that when I spend time with my cuttings they take faster and better. In my old propagation house the energy was distinctly different.