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Michaelbirks t1_iswadtw wrote

Tolkien's Ents is one example: Quickbeam, treebeard.

Another might be based on events in their lives "Struck-by-lightning", or "Carved-by-human"

It'll never be what they actually call each other, but a rendering so that your readers can identify them

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captain_nofun OP t1_iswaz55 wrote

That's exactly it. Since I'm writing in English and not in roots touching each other I need to translate so I need an appropriate way to convey that while still staying true to the essence of it being a tree.

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