The Wizard’s vale “had become a wilderness of weeds and thorns. Brambles trailed upon the ground, or clambering over bush and bank, made shaggy caves where small beasts housed”. (LOTR 3: VIII)
In habitats long impacted by environmentally destructive activities of Sauron they encountered “thickets and wastes of brambles”. (LOTR 4: VII)
When Frodo and Sam scrambled on the eastern slopes of the Ephel Duath they found themselves in a polluted and dying land. But it was not yet dead. In the valleys there were areas in which “low scrubby trees lurked and clung, coarse grey grass-tussocks fought with the stones, and withered mosses crawled on them; and everywhere great writhing, tangled brambles sprawled” and the two remaining members of the quest certainly experienced their “hooked barbs that rent like knives” (LOTR 6: II)
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