Old Man Willow
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Old Man Willow is a character in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. He was a willow in the Old Forest from which much of the Forest's hatred of walking things came. He might have been an Ent who had become tree-like, or possibly a Huorn, as the Old Forest was originally part of the same primordial forest as Fangorn.
Tom Bombadil had power over Old Man Willow, and checked the evil as much as he could, or was willing.
Although he did not he did not appear in the 2001 movie adaptation, a very similar episode with hobbits being swallowed by a tree was included in the second film where Merry and Pippin are attacked by a Huorn in Fangorn forest.