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== Portrayal in adaptations == [[File:BakshiTreebeard.JPG|thumb|left|Treebeard, as portrayed in [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'']] Treebeard has [[Illustrating Tolkien|inspired artists and illustrators]] such as [[Inger Edelfeldt]], [[John Howe (illustrator)|John Howe]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Howe |first=John |author-link=John Howe (illustrator) |url=http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/details.php?image_id=108 |title=Treebeard |work=Illustrator John Howe |year=2002 |access-date=16 September 2012}}</ref> [[Ted Nasmith]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Nasmith |first=Ted |author-link=Ted Nasmith |url=http://www.tednasmith.com/lotr2/TN-Treebeard_and_the_Entmoot.html |title=Treebeard and the Entmoot |work=Ted Nasmith official website |access-date=16 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524094124/http://www.tednasmith.com/lotr2/TN-Treebeard_and_the_Entmoot.html |archive-date=24 May 2012 }}</ref> [[Anke Eißmann]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Eißmann |first=Anke |author-link=Anke Eißmann |url=http://anke.edoras-art.de/d_anke_tolkien_lotr3.html |title=Treebeard |work=Anke Eißmann official website |year=2000 |access-date=16 September 2012}}</ref> and [[Alan Lee (illustrator)|Alan Lee]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/content/articles/2007/10/04/trees_alan_lee_feature.shtml |title=Trees as art |first=Laura |last=Joint |date=5 October 2007 |publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=16 September 2012}}</ref> In [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s 1978 animated adaptation of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', [[John Westbrook (actor)|John Westbrook]] provided the voice of Treebeard.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/animatedmoviegui0000beck |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/animatedmoviegui0000beck/page/154 154] |title=The Animated Movie Guide |last=Beck |first=Jerry |date=28 October 2005 |publisher=[[Chicago Review Press]] |isbn=978-1-56976-222-6}}</ref> [[Stephen Thorne]] voiced the character in [[BBC Radio]]'s 1981 [[The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series)|serialization]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RI_ABAAAQBAJ&q=stephen+thorne+treebeard&pg=PT123 |title=A Brief Guide to C. S. Lewis: From Mere Christianity to Narnia |last=Simpson |first=Paul |year=2013 |publisher=[[Little, Brown Book Group]] |isbn=978-1-4721-0067-2 |page=part 123}}</ref> [[File:Treebeard.jpg|thumb|upright|Treebeard (voiced by [[John Rhys-Davies]]) in [[Peter Jackson]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]'']] In [[Peter Jackson]]'s films ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]'' (2002) and ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' (2003), Treebeard is a combination of a large [[Audio-Animatronics|animatronic model]] and a [[computer generated imagery|CGI]] construct; his voice is performed by [[John Rhys-Davies]], who also portrays [[Gimli (Middle-earth)|Gimli]].<ref name="Empire 2012">{{cite web |last=Nathan |first=Ian |title=The Making Of The Two Towers |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/two-towers/ |publisher=[[Empire Cinemas|Empire]] |access-date=28 March 2020 |date=23 October 2012 |orig-year=2002 <!--issue 163--> |quote=Treebeard will mainly be a CGI creation; this animatronic version is used for the close-ups with Hobbit actors Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan.}}</ref> [[Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings|Jackson's interpretation]] of Treebeard makes him far more suspicious of the Hobbits (as possible Orcs) than Tolkien does,<ref name="Bratman 2005">{{cite book |last=Bratman |first=David |author-link=David Bratman |chapter=Summa Jacksonica: A Reply to Defenses of Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings' films, after St. Thomas Aquinas |editor-last=Croft |editor-first=Janet Brennan |editor-link=Janet Brennan Croft |title=Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings' |title-link=Tolkien on Film |publisher=[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Press]] |year=2005 |isbn=978-1887726092 |pages=27–62}}</ref> and far more reluctant to go to war with Saruman until he sees the damage done to the forest.<ref name="Kollmann">{{cite book |last=Kollmann |first=Judith |chapter=Elisions and Ellipses: Counsel and Council in Tolkien's and Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings'' |title=Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings |title-link=Tolkien on Film |editor-last=Croft |editor-first=Janet Brennan |editor-link=Janet Brennan Croft |publisher=[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Press]] |date=2005 |isbn=1-887726-09-8 |page=159}}</ref> A 6-metre-high sculpture of Treebeard by Tolkien's great-nephew Tim Tolkien received planning permission in [[Birmingham]], where Tolkien grew up.<!--It has not been built.--><ref>{{cite web |title=LOTR statue in safety debate |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4890000/newsid_4893200/4893274.stm |publisher=CBBC Newsround |date=9 April 2006 |access-date=6 November 2010}}</ref> On [[The Tolkien Ensemble]]'s album ''[[At Dawn in Rivendell]]'', Treebeard is voiced by [[Christopher Lee]].<ref name="TheOneRing.net">{{cite web |last=Cunningham |first=Michael ([[The Tolkien Society]]) |title='At Dawn in Rivendell' Review |website=The One Ring |url=http://archives.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1052880686 |access-date=2 October 2022 |date=13 May 2003}}</ref> <!-- Please do not add anything here without citing a reliable source, it will be removed. -->
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