Quotes / When Trees Attack

Films — Live-Action

Rithannen i geven
Thangen i harn
Na fennas i daur^note (Earth shakes, Stone breaks, The forest is at your door.)
Ôl dûr ristannen
Eryn echuiannen
I ngelaidh dagrar^note (The dark sleep is broken, The woods have awoken, The trees have gone to war.)
Ristar thynd, cúa tawar
Dambedir enyd i ganed
Si linna i waew trin ylf
Isto i dur i chuiyl
I ngelaidh dagrar.^note (Roots rend, wood bends, The Ents have answered the call. Through branches now the wind sings. Feel the power of living things. The trees have gone to war.)

—"The Last March of The Ents", The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Treebeard: There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men for this treachery.
Pippin: Look, the trees! They're moving!
Merry: Where are they going?
Treebeard: They have business with the Orcs. My business is with Isengard tonight, with rock and stone. Hroom, hm, come, my friends. The Ents are going to war.

—The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Literature

"Of all the trees we could have hit, we had to get the one that hits back!"

—Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Tom's words laid bare the hearts of the trees and their thoughts, which were often dark and strange, filled with a hatred of things that go free upon the earth, gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning: destroyers and usurpers. It was not called the Old Forest without reason, for it was indeed ancient, a survivor of vast forgotten woods; and in it there lived yet, ageing no quicker than the hills, the fathers of the fathers of trees, remembering times when they were lords.

—The Fellowship of the Ring

Video Games

"Dammit! I knew I shouldn't have trusted those trees!"

—Brick, Borderlands 2

"Very angry foliage in these parts."

—Lyndon the Scoundrel, Diablo III, on encountering the Wood Wraiths.

The Territorial Oak burst into flames!

—EarthBound (1994)

"This foliage is conspiring to kill us."

—Various NPCs, Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

"Let's say you come across an evil tree..."

—The Narrator, Kirby Mass Attack commercial

"And the first enemies I face, are trees. I'm fighting the scenery!"

— The Angry Video Game Nerd, review for Virtual Hydlide

Webcomics

"Tha' trees be attackin'! RUN FER YER LIVES!!!"

—Durkon Thundershield, The Order of the Stick

"I think that I shall never see a beating as lovely as that handed out by a tree."

—Belkar Bitterleaf, The Order of the Stick

Western Animation

"I'm talking, of course, about our endangered forests. We have to protect them, because trees can't protect themselves. Except, of course, the Mexican Fighting Trees..."

—The Simpsons, "Homer to the Max"

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