The shepherds of the trees.
'Elves began it, of course, waking trees up and teaching them to speak and learn their tree-talk. They always wished to talk to everything, the old Elves did. But then the Great Darkness came, and they passed away over the Sea, or fled into far valleys and hid themselves, and made songs about days that would never come again. Never again.'
Duh.
He’s veered off the Q files and is taking you on a trip down the Hobbit Hole.
Easy for bagster to think about Ents surrounded by Redwoods, Sequoia, and trees that live to be 4000 years old.