10-13-2005, 12:45 PM | #41 | |
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maybe they were teaching cultivation to discourage people from foraging in the wild... lesser of two evils in their eyes
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10-13-2005, 04:06 PM | #42 |
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So do they have lungs and vocal chords, or some other way to form vibrations and shape them into words? All that hoom-homming...
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10-13-2005, 04:14 PM | #43 |
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Well, at the risk of starting a notorious war, Tolkien's Ents do not include the Dantesque imagery of the Wood of the Suicides, bubbling and burbling and hissing their words. I am with Forkbeard on this one - woodwinds. Thus I fall into the Elanor camp of something very like lungs as capacitance vessels for air which can be compressed to vibrate the reeds....more bellows (the accordion-like pump things for organs and fireplaces) than anything else. They of course respire in some fashion (op supra).
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10-13-2005, 04:32 PM | #44 |
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would it be possible for them to photosynthesize with their leaves and breathe oxygen with their lungs/bellows/air pipes? I'm thinking yes...
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10-13-2005, 11:59 PM | #46 |
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If they ate vegetables, it wooden't be cannibalism; it would be similar to a sheperd eating lamb stew for dinner.
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