Indonesian Tree Man Brings Tolkien to Life. – The Brilliant Stories
8 October 2010 | posted by: Tom Ricardo | No Comment
An Ent has been spotted in living daylight. For those who are not Tolkien fans, the Ents are the mythical race of humanoid trees from the Lord of the Rings, who are guardians of the forests, protecting them from evil.
35- year old Dede is the tree man who grew roots from his body after cutting his knee in a childhood accident. The warty growths began to compound until they covered his entire body and he became an Ent incarnate. This pic has been chosen keeping in mind queasy readers, Dede’s deformities have made his wife abandon him, and he is now part of a circus freak show.
His gnarled hands and feet have growths that amount to what look like 10 cm branches, and has baffled local doctors in the little Indonesian village where he was a fisherman before he joined the circus troupe.
The Telegraph interviewed tree man Dede, and doctor Anthony Gaspari who took a blood sample, gave the low-down on the rare condition. The expert from the University of Maryland said that the tree man’s condition was owing to the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) that causes warts. But this common infection in Dede is compounded by a gene defect that thwarts his immune system from fighting the disease.
Now that dermatological help is at hand, with Gaspari flying out to Jakarta, Dede can now undergo surgery to lead a normal life. Military strategists must envy Dede as the ultimate camouflage guru, and he may be sought after for casting in the latest Tolkien sequel, but Dede has had enough of a freak’s life.
Image Credit: treeman
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