 In "The Two Towers", Treebeard meets with Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took, two Hobbits of the Shire.This meeting proves to have consequences that contribute significantly to the story and enables the events that occur in "The Return of the King".In Tolkien's elvish language, Sindarin, "Fangorn" is a compound of "fanga", "beard", and "orne", "tree", so it is the equivalent of the English "Treebeard".