A northern rātā tree in New Zealand which looks strikingly just like an Ent out of J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings was just crowned “Tree of the Year” in that country in which most of the trilogy movies had been filmed. I made a Mike’s Morning Mug post of the announcement on my social media, but seeing this tree standing sentinel, the last from a for…
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