I first came across the word moot when reading Lord of the Rings. An entmoot – if there should be anyone that doesn’t know – is a meeting of the ents, the shepherds of the forest, where they debate their important issues. I happen to live next to a forest which is called the Exotic Forest because some farsighted Earl in the mid 19th century started to plant trees from all over the world on a large scale.

Occasionally, I meet a tree which might have been an ent and grown silent only in recent years.

Isn’t that Treebark looking down on me?

A relative of Quickbeam, possibly.

This looks like a young enting to me.

I know that the ents have lost the entwives but maybe I have spotted one recently.

And this screaming, disrespectful ent looks like he is disrupting the entire moot.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Moot