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21. Old Man Willow
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Crayon drawing to illustrate the description of the great willow-tree in The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 6, The Old Forest: 'Enormous it looked, its sprawling branches going up like reaching arms with many long-fingered hands, its knotted and twisted trunk gaping in wide fissures that creaked faintly as the boughs moved.' It was published in The J. R. R. Tolkien Calendars 1973 and 1974; a somewhat enlarged reproduction with a part of the picture excluded appeared in The Lord of the Rings Calendar 1977.


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