Lord of the Rings 30 Day Challenge - Day 28

Day 28 - Ents or Eagles?
This is a hard choice, no lie.  Both are pretty awesome but since the Eagles don't have as much of a part in the movies, I'm going to go with the Ents.  I mean, talking trees, how cool is that?!  One of the things I love so much about the Ents is that Tolkien created them because he was so disappointed that in Shakespeare's Macbeth when it talks about "Macbeth shall never be vanquished until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him," there weren't actually walking trees.  Instead they just cut down tree branches so that it looked like a walking wood.  I think it's brilliant that Tolkien used that as negative inspiration for his own work.  Besides that though, the Ents are just interesting and funny, at times, though not intentionally.  I have a personal

love for the Ents because my family has really taken Treebeard's words of "Don't be hasty" to heart.  We joke about it a lot but they are good words to keep in mind.  And one of my absolute favorite music tracks from the movies is when the Ents are going to war, the last march of the Ents.  It's just so big and epic and, ah! I just love it so much, it's so perfect for the scene.  So, yeah, the Ents are my favorite, but the Eagles are pretty darned fantastic too!

The music actually starts as the Ents emerge from the forest to join Treebeard.

This is the full music track from The Complete Recordings which is absolutely fantastic and well worth the price.