'[…] There are Ents and
Ents, you know; or there are Ents and things that look like Ents but ain't, as
you might say. I'll call you Merry and Pippin if you please – nice names. For I am not going to tell you my
name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with
a green flicker into his eyes. 'For one thing it would take a long while: my
name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name
is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in
my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but
it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything
in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.'
THE
TWO TOWERS
(BOOK
THREE, Chapter 4: Treebeard)
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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