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dernwyn
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Jul 12 2020, 2:19am
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The latest news about Tolkien's Favorite Tree!
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From The Tolkienist: https://thetolkienist.com/...ic-garden-arboretum/
I remember when this tree had to be cut down. But it's going to live on, in several ways!
Not sure how I feel, however, about the black pine whiskey...
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grammaboodawg
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Jul 12 2020, 2:15pm
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This really is great news that they've saved his tree with seedlings. I love that they'll plant the best ones near the original tree's location. I do have to say the whiskey is a head-scratcher; but knowing how much the English enjoy pubs and good spirits makes it more understandable.
Personally, I'd love to have something from the saved wood planks myself. Just a small tribute; but I'm scared of the cost that will be placed on this limited inventory.
Thanks for this! It will be fun to see how it all turns out :D
We have been there and back again.
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength." – Theodore Roosevelt
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(This post was edited by grammaboodawg on Jul 12 2020, 2:16pm)
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CuriousG
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Jul 12 2020, 4:23pm
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It is good news they were able to save it via seedlings
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Such fate wasn't accorded to the Hollin Gate trees:
‘Well, well!’ said the wizard. ‘The passage is blocked behind us now, and there is only one way out – on the other side of the mountains. I fear from the sounds that boulders have been piled up, and the trees uprooted and thrown across the gate. I am sorry; for the trees were beautiful, and had stood so long.’
But Gramma recently posted about another long line of seedling succession that Tolkien would no doubt approve of for his pinus nigra:‘Verily this is a sapling of the line of Nimloth the fair; and that was a seedling of Galathilion, and that a fruit of Telperion of many names, Eldest of Trees.
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Greenwood Hobbit
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Jul 21 2020, 9:18pm
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That's interesting and positive news
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although I share the doubts about the whisky! Goodness knows how much the boxed bottles will eventually cost. Where whisky is concerned, I'm more worried about what it tastes like than how it's packed. At least it sounds like they will do lots of special things with the wood in due course. Bookends, anyone? There are so many possibilities...
There is a beautiful book called 'Onetree' (by Gary Olson and Peter Toaig, pub. Merrell) about a project to demonstrate the economic and cultural values of English woodlands. It started with the felling of a 170yr old oak and the distribution of its wood, leaves, bark, twigs, every last bit, to over 70 leading artists, designers and makers who in time prodced furniture, sculpture, bookbinding, jewellery, toys, automata, even poetry. Sawdust was mixed with resin to make a tabletop and was also used to smoke salmon. Nothing was wasted. Local schoolchildren planted acorns from the tree. So I hope it will be, in time, with Tolien's favourite Pinus nigra.
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dernwyn
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Jul 22 2020, 12:09am
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That tree must have been huge when it was felled! Part of it was used for bookbinding? I'll have to look into this!
I'm hoping that there will be some small jewelry made from the wood. 
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