This tree looks like it has walked out of the pages of a Tolkien novel. The 65ft-tall beech tree has somehow grown into the shape of a giant man, sporting proportional legs, arms, a chest and even a head.The tree, which is found in the heart of the Balkan Mountains, in Bulgaria, often leaves walkers travelling through the forest speechless. Deyan Kossev, 49, spotted the unusual tree when he was hiking through the forest, saying ‘nobody knows’ why the trunk and branches have formed this way.
The keen amateur photographer said he thinks the tree looks like Treebeard the Ent, a walking and talking tree from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings-trilogy.
Mr Kossev, from Kazanlak, Bulgaria, said: ‘These photos were taken in the central Balkan Mountains, deep in a forest.
‘I was walking through the mountains when suddenly I spotted him. I was speechless and stopped in my tracks.It was surreal, it looks exactly like a man does. It has the legs, arms, body and head of a man and they are all in proportion too.Nobody knows why it has grown into such a bizarre formation.People seem to be speechless when they see it. It’s unusual to see it in such a human shape.It looks like the Ent Treebeard from The Lord of The Rings.’