Midnight Meetings

A few years ago, I began a series called Midnight Meetings. Since then, I have continued to follow this fox in my drawings, and learnt more about him with each piece. I tried putting his story down on a page, but couldn't get it right. After many attempts, I have now completed the poem. Here is the art piece that finally told me what this sly fox was up to.

The Leaning Tree

"Do not be hasty, that is my motto. But if I had seen you, before I heard your voices - I liked them: nice little voices; they reminded me of something I cannot remember - if I had seen you before I heard you, I should have just trodden on you, taking you for little Orcs, and found out my mistake afterwards. Very odd you are, indeed. Root and twig, very odd!" (The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Chapter 4: Treebeard, pg. 604.)

Depicted here is Fangorn, who somberly inspects an uprooted flower, holding it close to his hooked nose. He carefully keeps it between two gentle gnarled fingers, and watches as it's petals slowly fall to the forest floor.