Ent News - updated
You may or may not be aware that there are plans to erect a statue in the middle Moseley of an Ent. An Ent is a giant tree from Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings which recently was made popular by a film. Said Ent will be made of metal. I, personally, think this is a completely stupid idea and wrote about it at length in 2005. The initial plans were rejected by the planning department but have since been resubmitted and will be voted on today. Here is the report on the application which is worth a read. Unfortunately the recommendation is that it go ahead, presumably because there is no precedent for rejecting the patently absurd.
I may or may not make it to the meeting (which takes place in committee rooms 3 and 4 of the Council House starting at 11am) but will report on the judgement.
If it is passed then we will have a statue of a tree made out of metal celebrating a man who hated Birmingham and everything it stood for. Hooray.
Update
It got planning permission. May the Lord have mercy on our souls.
3 Comments:
I wrote a lovely long letter of complaint about this when they first applied for planning permission, the artwork is absolutely disgusting. Thank God I'm moving to Digbeth, where they have a gorgeous Ent made out of WOOD with LEAVES and everything.
Aren't any Tolkienites complaining at the inappropriateness of using metal for something which was meant to be the antithesis of the manufactured Orcs?
You'd think, wouldn't you?
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