First off, it's huorns. And I'm not entirely sure that Old Man Willow is a huorn. I wouldn't be entirely surprised to find out that the Willow is some sort of Maia gone wild. Likewise I think Bombadil is probably a Maia, if he's anything that we know about.
A neat thing is how Bombadil speak in rhyme, even when it's not written out as poetry. Read it aloud and you'll see what I mean.
Our little Hobbits aren't as resourceful as we think, are they? All right, so getting eaten by giant trees is hardly something they would expect, but Frodo and Sam lose their heads rather quickly. Overtaxed, are there wings over in Took's Corner yet?
Oh, and odd spoiler thing I thought about - notice how Merry and Pippin, the ones who are taken prisoner by the evil tree, are the ones who get to meet Ents? It's an interesting symmetry or irony or something.
Hair, great job re-posting. Let's get to the next page quick, though.
‘Put it out! Put it out!’ begged Merry. The branches of the willow began to sway violently. There was a sound as of a wind rising and spreading outwards to the branches of all the other trees round about, as though they had dropped a stone into the quiet slumber of the river-valley and set up ripples of anger that ran out over the whole Forest. Sam kicked at the little fire and stamped out the sparks. But Frodo, without any clear idea of why he did so, or what he hoped for, ran along the path crying help! help! help! It seemed to him that he could hardly hear the sound of his own shrill voice: it was blown away from him by the willow-wind and drowned in a clamour of leaves, as soon as the words left his mouth. He felt desperate: lost and witless.
Thank you again ecurbh, for giving us the Word file of this book... Quoting is so easy!
It isn't confusing to me, just pretend you are deep within our old thread... Things were harder to find when we were 700 posts long, as we will be soon.
Looks like we're opening the Corner early this weekend! We're on for wings although I'm trying to figure out how to get shrimp to the Shire. Do you think that some of the Elves at Grey Havens might do a little shrimping on the side?