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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 847326" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>Treebeard makes the decision while discussing the situation with Merry and Pippin in his home, and actually does so in quite a "hasty" fashion. Even though he already knows about some of the actions of Saruman, the hobbits tell him more about it and esp. its context in the bigger picture. And that is what spurs Treebeard to do something. He realises that "something very big is going on", and even though he cannot do anything about Mordor, at least he can take care of Saruman. Ents don't usually care about things which don't directly involve them, which is why Treebeard has to persuade the others, and he only does that due to the hobbits' information. As Gandalf says later, it is the advent of the hobbits into Fangorn that starts the ents on their warpath.</p></blockquote><p></p>