"What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables."

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Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.

— J. R. R. Tolkien