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A character in The Lord of the Rings, described as "The oldest and fatherless". Always use in conjunction with the [tolkiens-legendarium] tag.

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Who's older: Treebeard or Tom Bombadil?

Yavanna had created the trees and Melkor was destroying them. So to help Yavanna, Ilúvatar sent spirits with which to ensoul certain trees to serve as protectors of the others: these creatures were th …
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