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Pippin and Merry walked through the Forest without any plan and so they reached a high mountain plateau. From there they could see the whole Forest and they liked it. Suddenly a strange creature, half tree, half man appeared behind them and introduced himself as "Fangorn", which meant in the common tongue "Treebeard". He called himself the watcher of the Fangorn-Forest and the oldest being under the sun. He said he was of the old race of Ents, the treemen, which dwelt in every forest in the days of old. But now, he said, there are few of them and the woods are shrinking.
They told them of their journey and how they had come to Fangorn and so they decided to ask the other Ents for a battle against Saruman. Treebeard disliked him also because of his cruel Orcs, who cut down his forest and destroyed his trees. So Treebeard invited all the other Ents he knew to an "Entmoot", a meeting of the Ents in an important matter. Because of the language of the Ents (they are very slow speaking and their tongue was very indolent), Treebeard gave the two Hobbits to an other Ent he knew, Bregalad or Quickbeam, to take care of them. Bregalad had decided to attack Saruman and so he don't needed to be present at the Enthing. The other Ents talked three days and then they decided to attack Saruman and destroy Isengard.
So a great army of Ents and Huorns (animated trees, but no Ents!) moved against Isengard and on its top there were Treebeard and Pippin and Merry.
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