But you live in the forest, so do you need to step out?
Certainly. My home is where the
Hobbits found
Treebeard, as he stood upon the shelf. He passed this along to me now. They said "they almost liked the place" (the forest) for a moment while sitting there, and he ever had a heart for the place afterwards, but his time to pass it along came.
He told them: "I can see and hear (and smell and feel) a great deal from this, from this, from this a-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lind-or-burúmë. Excuse me: that is a part of my name for it; I do not know what the word is in the outside
languages: you know, the thing we are on, where I stand and look out on fine mornings, and think about the Sun, and the grass beyond the wood, and the
horses, and the clouds, and the unfolding of the world."
He was right.
And we know it's a shelf because several paragraphs earlier, we read in LoTR: "They came at length to the edge of the
shelf almost at the feet of
the old stump; then they sprang up and turned round with their backs to the hill, breathing deep, and looking out eastward."
The 'old stump' was, of course, Treebeard.
