Canadians are essentially Tolkien-eque dwarfs

[james_davis_nicoll]

"A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means."

Anna Brownell Jameson, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838)

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[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

Probably because they came from places that didnt have trees like those, and humans tend to fear what they dont know.

Or, the darker side is that the Trees were, of course, out to get them.