In a message dated 2/25/03 3:30:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
michaelnellis{at}yahoo.com writes:

 to their 
 > home.  I say they were deliberately wanting to show Treebeard the
 > devastation caused by Isengard to trees.  
 
 Seemed pretty obvious to me that it was planned to show the
 devastation.  You could see it in the calculating look on Merry's
 face.  
  >>

Those two might not be the smartest, but cunning was established several 
times in the first movie.

MockYeti, plotting my vacation this summer, BardMock

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