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A Took and a Brandybuck
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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
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The trees were not a metaphor for the US. Tolkien repeatedly stated he actively avoided using allegory in LOTR.
Besides, if anything it was the common "nature getting revenge for what we've done to it" trope.