A line from The Two Towers comes to mind: Don’t talk to it, Merry! Don’t encourage it. Pippin says this when the two hobbits first encounter an Ent. It should be my new motto on this trip: Don’t encourage Sam.
More Tolkien! I like Rhys better already. (Speaking of that name, I wonder if he's aware that John Rhys-Davies played Gimli and voiced Treebeard the Ent in the movies of LOTR. Maybe the just read the books. That would make me like him even more!!!
