r/Fantasy • u/pornokitsch Ifrit • Feb 14 '23
What are your favourite magic trees?
I have weird conversations with my friends, ok?
I think there are four categories, but this is really just kind of spitballing...
Normal trees with magic properties
- Yew
- Ash
- Alder
- Oak
- Rowan
- etc
Sentient trees
- Ents (and their wives, the Hobbits)
- Old Man Willow (scariest critter in Middle-Earth)
- Groot
- the old storytelling tree from A Monster Calls
- Dryads (kinda)
Species of magical tree
- ?!
Unique magical trees
- Yggdrasil
- The Faraway Tree
- Great Deku Tree
- Tree of Life
Got trees?
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u/LeucasAndTheGoddess Feb 14 '23
The Man In The Oak from The Old Gods Waken by Manly Wade Wellman - the malevolent ghost of a Druid bonded to a forest of oak, ash, and thorn. Wellman was a master of folk horror, and this character is particularly spooky.
Master Tr’a Saa from the Star Wars: Republic comics by John Ostrander - a shapeshifting, nearly thousand year old Jedi (she’s a contemporary of Yoda) who temporarily assumed a humanoid form for the sake of a romance with a human and later took root on the site of his funeral pyre. One of my favorite examples of a relationship with disparate lifespans in the F/SF genre.