J. R. R. Tolkien has a wonderful obsession with nature as do many fantasy writers. A large number of his characters are based in the natural world or some creation of it. An excellent example of this are the Ents, depicted as talking tree-like creatures that take the shape of the type of tree for which they care. One of the peculiarities of the Ents are the fact that the only ones in Tolkien's works are all males. Treebeard, one of the main Ents in Tolkien's trilogy, remarks that the Ents do not know where they left the Entwives. Thus, the Entwives are lost to Tolkien's Middle Earth.
In the spirit of the Entwives, I'm going to take some time to get lost in nature for the semester. Hopefully, unlike the Entwives, I won't be entirely misplaced in this realm.
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