Tolkien LOVED Trees and HATED Technology

I just finished reading over 500 of tolken personal letters to fans filmmakers Publishers a lot of different people and I was struck by a few things one of them is how much he loved trees and hated [Music] technology in The Lord of the Rings The Ants attack and Destroy Eisen guard and it's a really dramatic scene and it basically summarizes tolan's views of Nature and Technology tolken loved nature but he loved trees in particular he had a weird love of trees for tolken cutting down a tree was like killing an animal he hated it in a letter to journalists he wrote I am obviously much in love with plants and above all trees and always have been and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill treatment of animals he referred to the cutting down of trees as destruction torture and murder of trees in response he said in all my works I take the part of trees against all their enemies there's one story he told of a neighbor that wanted to cut down a tree and tolken really didn't want that there was a great tree a huge poppler with vast limbs visible through my window even as I lay in bed I loved it and was anxious about it it had been savagely mutilated some years before but had gallantly grown new limbs though of course not with the unblemished grace of its former natural self and now a foolish neighbor was agitating to have it felled every tree has its enemy few have an advocate you could put that on a shirt so this just shows his overall love and concern for trees and as much as Tolen loved trees he hated technology he wished The Infernal combustion engine had never been invented he referred to construction Noise near his house as Mordor in our midst he referred to the construction of parking lots in Oxford as the spirit of Eisen guard and the people renovating and expanding Oxford he called them machine worshippers but he seemed to have a special hatred for airplanes in particular for whatever reason I don't know he just hated airplanes and so you can imagine when his son joined the Royal Air Force he wasn't very happy in a letter to his son tolken wrote but I fear an Air Force is a fundamentally irrational thing per se I could wish dearly that you had nothing to do with anything so monstrous it is in fact a sore trial to me that any son of mine should serve This Modern Moc Moc by the way is the name of an ancient Canaanite god who demanded to be worshiped through child sacrifice yeah okay moving on a year later tolken wrote to his son again saying it would be at least some comfort to me if you escaped the RAF but it is the airplane of war that is the real villain and nothing can really amend my grief that you my best beloved have any connection with it my sentiments are more or less those that froto would have if he had discovered some Hobbits learning to ride nasal birds for the liberation of the Shire again you can see token's love of Nature and hatred of technology in the an destroying Eisen guard and Sauron being the one who goes in for Machinery in technology in a letter to an editor tolken provided a commentary on trees in The Lord of the Rings L lauan is beautiful because there the trees were loved elsewhere forests are represented as Awakening to consciousness of themselves The Old Forest was hostile to two-legged creatures because of the memory of many injuries fangorn forest was old and beautiful but at the time of the story tense with hostility because it was threatened by a machine loving enemy merkwood had fallen under the domination of a power that hated all living things but was restored to beauty and became Greenwood the great before the end of the story well that's all I have for you today hit the button hit the Bell catch you later I have always for some reason I don't know why I am enormously attracted by tree all my works is full of trees I suppose I have actually in some simpleminded form of long action would like to I should have liked to be able to make contact with tree and find out what it feels about things