Scene: Old Man Willow
He lifted his eyes and saw leaning over him a huge willow-tree, old and hoary... sprawling branches going up like reaching arms with many long-fingered hands, its knotted and twisted trunk gaping in wide fissures, grey and yellow leaves...
Sam rushed back. Frodo was in the water. Pippin had vanished. Merry was trapped, only his legs lay outside...
Tom Bombadil wore an old battered hat with a tall crown and a long blue feather stuck in the band, great yellow boots, a blue coat and a long brown beard, his face creased with laughter, carrying white water-lilies on a large leaf.
(The Fellowship of the Ring, ch. 6, abbrev.)
One side of the willow slides up, another opens on a hinge. The centre is hollow and fits several minifigures. Several branches can be moved, incl. one that can knock and hold Frodo in the stream. The big branches are reinforced with axles. The whole scene can be played through, from the hobbits' arrival, their entrapment, Sam saving Frodo, to Tom Bombadil's rescue.
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