WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:57:03 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg lumber – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Tolkien, J.R.R. -- The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 2: The Two Towers, Book 3, ch. 4 “Treebeard” [Treebeard] (1954) https://wist.info/tolkien-jrr/15054/ https://wist.info/tolkien-jrr/15054/#respond Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:45:24 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=15054 Curse him, root and branch! Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost for ever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!


J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) English writer, fabulist, philologist, academic [John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 2: The Two Towers, Book 3, ch. 4 “Treebeard” [Treebeard] (1954)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/tolkien-jrr/15054/feed/ 0 15054