“My rowan tree…”

In this large valley south of the Mist Mountains and east of Aisinger, an old and distant voice was floating in this ancient forest.

"Your brilliance is dazzling... under the summer... your tree crown is golden red... like a tall crown..."

When Gandalf and Anne met with Aragon, Jinli and Legras who entered the Forest of Fargon, the tall tree-beards were walking and strolling in the deep forest of Fargon, carrying two little Hobbit Piping and Meli.

Then, in great boredom, the tree whisper was chanting poems for the two hobbits in the ancient tone that the tree-grassmen liked. Because the tree-grassmen speak slowly and the tone is very long, it often takes a long time to finish a short passage, making the two little hobbits sitting on it listen to drowsy.

"What a beautiful poem..."

The tree whisker, who felt very good, did not notice the half-drooping eyes of the two hobbits, so it planned to change to another song and continue singing for a while.

After so many years, few people who can speak to it can still see themselves alive when entering the Fagong Forest. Therefore, the tree must not give up on this opportunity to chat with outsiders.

"Tree beard, how far are we?"

The Hobbit Piping, who was sitting in a fork above the tree beard, was a little impatient. So far, they had been wandering around the Fargon Forest for a long time!

But until now, they seem to have not reached their destination. Wherever they see are all the strange-shaped ancient trees. If there weren't trees that had to be taken with them personally and let them walk by themselves, they would have to get lost!

"Please don't worry..."

"Maybe, you will feel a little far... My home is deep in the forest, right at the foot of that mountain..."

After hearing the words of the Shuwu, the two hobbits stood up and began to look into the distance, and then they quickly gave up.

Because, in the distance, there are several hills, and they don’t know which one the foot of the hill refers to? Moreover, even if it is the nearest one, it will probably take more than half a day. Now they both complain a little, and they don’t know what Gandalf and the others are going to do, so why are they not willing to take them with them?

"I promised Gandalf that I will protect your safety... With my protection, you will definitely be very safe..."

"I believe...you guys, maybe they like my next poem?"

After comforting the two hobbits on his shoulders and head, the tree trumpet intends to continue to recite its poem that seemed to never finish.

"By the way, the tree beard! We heard Gandalf say before, you don't seem to have a good relationship with Lord Anne Witch? What the hell is going on?"

Meli didn't want to continue listening to this old tree man who was both talkative and slow to continue chatting about those boring ancient poems, so he quickly opened his mouth to open up the topic.

"That's right! Tree beard, I want to know why that is too! Did that little witch offend you?"

Piping was also interested in this topic. After hearing Meli's question, he came up immediately.

According to what Gandalf had told them secretly before, if the two Hobbits had not happened to appear in time and attracted the attention of the orcs and the little witches, and then gave everyone a step to go down, maybe that lawless little Anne would have fought with the tree people, right?

“Um…”

"This is because... that little human girl, she is an evil little witch... She also wants to burn our forest...my last Fagon forest..."

"And, she actually wanted to grill those cute little squirrels...the evil witch..."

Just as I was about to continue reading a tree beard with my original poem, after hearing the two hobbits ask about this, I groaned with an unknown sound of trembling in the ancient language of the trees.

Its tree beards don't like the little girl who plays with fire, and they don't like it very much! In fact, their tree herders don't like any creature that plays with flames or can use flames!

Because, flames will burn their trees and destroy their forests!

During the ancient war in the first era, the evil Veramogoth and his demons had burned the forests that the tree herders were responsible for taking care of, destroying ancient trees one after another. Similarly, they also burned many tree people to death...

Of course, they also don’t like humans or dwarves who play with axes and cut down trees! They will also destroy their forests, cut down their precious trees, build their ugly cities and make room for those farmlands?

In the eyes of Shuxu, their Numanor people were also a group of bad guys, all of them were invaders...

"No! Tree beard, I think you might have misunderstood something?"

"Sir Anne is actually a very good person. She is not evil. At most... sometimes she is just a little naughty?"

When Rivendale was at Rivendale, Pi Ping, who had sneaked into a dog with a little girl, quickly spoke out to defend Anne.

As for roasted squirrels, Piping had been catching them with Merry when she was in Charles. The thing was delicious! It was a bit difficult to catch, and there was not a lot of meat?

Therefore, Piping didn't think there was anything bad or evil about this. After all, tree people could grow up by eating soil, but hobbits or humans like them had to eat meat!

"Pi Ping is right!"

"Mr. Anne is actually not evil. She is a great little human girl! She is strong and has a very good human being. The insects will not look down on us because we are weak!"

"Maybe... the bad thing she has done is to secretly catch the sika deer that King Ailon pulls the cart and grill it and eat it?"

After hearing Pi Ping's words, Meli, who was sitting on his familiar shoulders, nodded and responded. He also liked the powerful little witch! He felt that the other party seemed to have similar personalities to the two of them. Moreover, although it was a bit weird sometimes, most of the time, she was easy to get along with, as long as it wasn't deliberately making her angry!

"Uh... Ayron? Sika deer?"

The tree beard pondered while walking. It suddenly felt a little confused just now, because it seemed to be a little familiar with the name Ailon? Although it has been sleeping too many times, it has forgotten a lot of things?

But it felt that it was very likely that it had heard or known the one named Ailon before? But for a moment, it could not remember who the other party was or where he had seen it...

"No! Merry! Are you crazy? You must not tell this!"

When he heard that Meley dared to casually tell me about the sika deer that Lord Anne and the two of them were pulling the cart at Lord Rivendell when he was at Rivendell, Pi Ping, who was sitting above, immediately exploded. He wanted to jump down and cover the other party's unshirkable mouth.

How can such a thing be said casually?!

You know, that strong cabbage deer is King Ailon's most beloved pet... It is said that the thing still comes from a divine kingdom called Amenzhou? It seems to be a auspicious beast?!

Pi Ping still remembers it very clearly. At that time, when King Ailon knew that his divine beast was missing, he was so angry! After scolding the guards, he was furious and ordered the soldiers to wander around the forest, trying to find the lost Kama deer that he would never come back?!

And if the other party knew that his beloved beast Kade had been captured alive by a powerful little girl and entered the belly of the three of them, it would have been a big incident, right?!

Now that I feel refreshed, Pi Ping is still drooling!

The magical beast produced in Amenzhou has a very unusual taste! That excellent taste and extraordinary taste bud enjoyment are definitely not comparable to those ordinary beasts here in Middle Earth.

Unfortunately, they didn't bring kitchen utensils at that time, nor did they have enough spices. In that kind of worrying environment, they could only barbecue on the grass...

"Melly! We have sworn that we must not talk about this!"

After warning Meli again, Piping suddenly remembered something.

He remembered that there seemed to be the same kind of karat in the golden forest? Unfortunately, Lord Anne did not conduct an expedition with them at that time, so they thought they were not capable, and in the end they did not dare to attack the divine beast in the golden forest...

"ah!?"

Meli seemed to realize that he had just said nothing, so he quickly looked at the old herdsman and tree beard who was listening to the conversation with curious expressions.

"Thufeng...you probably won't go to report to that King Ailon, are we friends, aren't we?"

After looking at the thick mossy beard of the tree beard with a pitiful look, Meli asked carefully. If the tree man was familiar with King Aaron, Meli felt that they would almost have to find a way to hide back to Charles earlier.

"Ailon...Who is King Ailon?!"

After thinking for a while, Shuju still shook her head in annoyance. It was now a little confused about who was the King of Ailon, but it was also very sure: it must have heard of this name before!

“…”

"King Ailon is a human, very tall, with black hair, blue eyes, and a little white skin... Moreover, he is also the owner of a large logging farm. It is said that he likes cutting trees especially? Believe me, tree beard, you will never like him!"

"That's right! That's it. King Ailon, there are rumors that in order to make money, he has to cut down at least a large area of ​​forest every year!"

After looking at each other with a glad look, Meli and Piping quickly told Shuxu everything about the King Aaron.

“Um…”

"Although... I feel like you two are not completely honest... but... I really don't like that guy... If I saw him, I would step on him..."

A logger? Or a human who specializes in cutting trees to make money? And he cuts down a large area of ​​forest every year?!

It's so shameful and cruel! If you cut down some wood for survival or necessary things, the tree must endure it and pass it! At most, just treat it as invisible?

However, if you cut down arbitrarily to make money, you will definitely not be forgiven!

So, if these two little hobbits were telling the truth and the facts were really like this, the tree must feel that when the next time he met the human named Ailon King, for the sake of the beautiful forests in the Middle Earth, it would definitely step on it with one foot, and would never give the other party a chance to quibble or escape!

“…”

“…”

After hearing the murderous words of Chushou, Meli and Piping secretly looked at each other again.

Then, they prayed silently, hoping that this tree-grassing tree would never encounter the elf king Ailon far away in Rivendell! Otherwise, then, something big might really happen! After all, that is much more serious than stealing katanas!

"By the way, tree beard! I just heard you mention that you have lived for so long, and it has been at least tens of thousands of years? But why are you just a few hundred tree people left?"

He didn't want to be more entangled on the sensitive topic just now, so he quickly asked.

In any case, he needed to quickly divert the old tree man's attention. He did not want to hear keywords such as Ailon King or Sika Deer appear again.

"Didn't you have ever given birth to little tree people in nearly ten thousand years?!"

Piping is really curious about this question.

The magical tree shepherds, and the moving kind who are ruled by them, will kill all the evil tree Hun that enters the Fagong Forest?

At first he thought: Treemen are the kind of moving big trees! They were originally ordinary big trees, growing bigger and taller, and then one day, they suddenly opened their eyes and pulled their roots out of the land as their feet to call them? This turned into treemen?

But if this is the case, the number of tree herders shouldn't be so small, right?

But if the other party was mate and gave birth to the little tree man, then where were the little tree man? Why have they never seen them before after visiting the Fagong Forest for so long?

"Um...Little Tree Man..."

After hearing what the Hobbit Piping said, Shuju muttered that she didn't know what she said, but her expression suddenly became depressed.

"We... haven't had a tree man baby for many years..."
To be continued...