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“In that hidden land we saw there stand
under a moonlight dim
a Tree more fair than ever I deemed
in Paradise might grow:
its foot was like a great tower's root,
its height no man could know;
and white as winter to my sight
the leaves of that Tree were;
they grew more close than swan-wing plumes,
long and soft and fair.”. (Imram, The Death of Saint Brendan)
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Gillyflower
02:26
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Goatleaf
01:18
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Gorse
02:16
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“The gorse-bushes became more frequent as they got nearer the top; very old and tall they were, gaunt and leggy blow but thick above, and already putting out yellow flowers that glimmered in the gloom and gave a faint sweet scent. So tall were the spiny thickets that the hobbits could walk upright under them, passing through long dry aisles carpeted with a deep prickly mould” (LOTR 4: VII)
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Grape Vine
02:40
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“He followed the two elves, until they entered a small cellar and sat down at a table on which two large flagons were set. Soon they began to drink and laugh merrily. Luck of an unusual kind was with Bilbo then. It must be potent wine to make a wood-elf drowsy; but this wine, it would seem, was the heady vintage of the great gardens od Dorwinion, not meant for his soldiers or his servants, but for the king’s feast only.” (Hobbit IX)
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Grass
04:06
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Harts-Tongue
02:10
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“About it [the stream] stood fir-trees, short and bent, and its sides were steep and clothed with harts-tongue and shrubs of whortle-berry”. (LotR 2: VI)
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Hawthorn
00:56
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“down among the roots of a spreading hawthorn, tall as a tree, written with age, but hale in every limb. Buds were swelling at each twig’s tip”. (LotR 3: XI)
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Hazel
00:59
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Heath
03:50
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“But still there lived in hiding cold
undaunted, Barahir the bold,
of land bereaved, of lordship shorn,
who once a prince of Men was born
and now an outlaw lurked and lay
in the hard heath and woodland grey,
and with him clung of faithful men
but Beren his son and other ten”. (Lays III: lines 127-134)
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Heather
02:38
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“Strider sprang from hiding and dashed down towards the Road, leaping with a cry through the heather”. (LotR 1: XII)
“Wind on the open hill, bells on the heather”. (LotR 1: VI)
“their bed was the heather and their roof the cloudy sky”. SILM: 18)
One autumn night, after the death of his father, Beren fled southward, and “the wind that hissed among the heather and the fern found him no more”. Lays III: lines 374-376)
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Hemlock
03:45
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“The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the glade a light was seen
Of stars in shadow shimmering.
Tinuviel was dancing there
To music of a pipe unseen,
And light of stars was in her hair,
And in her raiment glimmering”. (LotR 1: XI)
“the white umbels of the hemlocks were like a cloud about the boles of trees”. (The Book of Lost Tales, part 2)
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Hemp
02:16
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“And leaping Beleg
with his sword severed
on wrist and arm
so strong that whetting;
entangle still
the searing bonds
like ropes of hemp
in stupor lying
lay Turin moveless”. (Lays I: lines 1231-1235)
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Hírilorn
02:32
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Holly
00:59
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