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initialism
- (Medical) ear, nose and throat
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noun
- (rfd-sense) (fantasy) A fictional creature, a large talking tree, from w:Lord of the Rings, Lord Of The Rings (feminine entwife).
- 2003: Walter Scheps, "The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings", in Jared Lobdell (ed.), A Tolkien Compass
- :... and that fine young Quickbeam is merely a minor crux in an Old English glossary (the name Quickbeam means 'living tree' in Old English).
- 2003: Colin Duriez, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship
- :Tolkien's Treebeard, his Ent creation, was inspired by Lewis, especially his sometimes emphatic deep voice
- 2003: Ralph C. Wood, The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth
- :Tolkien perhaps speaks for himself when he has Treebeard confess that "nobody cares for the woods as I care for them," and when this same Ent also warns that "the withering of all woods may be drawing near"
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