The couple gives them shelter in their cottage after the Hobbits are rescued from Old Man Willow.

She gives Willow her magic wand and commissions him to find the sorceress Fin Raziel, with two of her brownies, Franjean and Rool, acting as his guides.

The Marsh Tit has a noticeably smaller and shorter head than the Willow Tit and overall the markings are crisp and neat, with the head in proportion to the rest of the bird ( Willow Tit gives the impression of being ' bull-necked ').

He coerces students into serving as chaperones for young children on Halloween, bullies Willow into tutoring Percy, gives a passing grade to a swim team member who is failing computer class, and forces everyone to sell candy for the marching band.

Overwhelmed by dozens of guests she does not know, Buffy tries to talk to a distracted Willow, but gives up.

Willow gives Giles a rose quartz that she found in Ms. Calendar's desk.

Back in their room, Kennedy gives Willow an end-of-date kiss, with a surprising effect: Willow takes on the appearance of Warren Mears.

The withy of the title is the Willow and song gives an explanation as to why the willow tree rots from the centre out, rather than the outside in.

* Willow gives Buffy the protection spell she has been working on since " Gingerbread " in a lavender-scented pouch.

* In this episode, D ' Hoffryn gives Willow a talisman so that she can summon him if she changes her mind about becoming a vengeance demon.

* Alan Pizzarelli, Senryu Magazine, River Willow, 2001. this book looks like a regular journal, it is the effort of Alan Pizzarelli only, done as a parody of haiku journals.

" I wrote the book for Willow and for her friends and for all the little girls in the world who need affirmation about being female in this pretty much masculine world.

Although initially starting off as a seemingly good-natured individual, Amy gradually grows to misuse her magic, eventually ending up as an enemy to Willow ( Alyson Hannigan ) and her friends, becoming a bona fide villain in the series ' comic book continuation.

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007-11 ), an in-canon comic book series, in the story titled " The Long Way Home, Part III ", Buffy catches up with Willow in Scotland, after the latter's year long absence.

* Blue Willow, a Newbery Honor book written by Doris Gates

Oz and Tara — Willow's ex-boyfriend and current girlfriend — flirt with each other while watching Willow do her book report.

Likewise Stephen Cooper, in his 2004 book Philip Larkin: Subversive Writer, argues that the stylistic and thematic influences of Trouble at Willow Gables and Michaelmas Term at St Brides anticipate the poetry's recurrent concern with rebellion and conformity.

The next day, Willow and Xander are on their way to The Magic Box when they meet Tara, leaving the shop with a book.

Willow and Tara talk about the magic book Tara holds, and about Willow's success with staying away from magic.

Buffy goes to Willow, who has a book Giles needs for researching the symbol.

Willow discovers the " Mark of Eyghon " in a book: Eyghon possesses the body of a dead or unconscious host.

Hubert Selby Jr: It / ll Be Better Tomorrow is a 2005 documentary film about writer Hubert Selby, Jr. ( 1928 – 2004 ), the author of the novels Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, The Willow Tree, and Waiting Period and a book of short stories, Song of the Silent Snow.

At the library, the Scooby Gang discusses " ascension " but they know very little about it until Willow suggests checking in a book which Giles was trying to hide from her due to its magical content.

As she leaves, Willow magically pulls a book out from the bookshelf to make it noticeable.

* Willow magically pulls out the book that deals on Resurrection for Dawn, which shows Willow is willing to alter life to ease one's pain.

A book from Arcadia Publishing entitled Willow Grove Park ( 2005 ) includes over 200 photos of the park and is the only comprehensive history of the park.

* Willow Island Dam, Ohio, to Greenup Dam, Kentucky ( including the Kanawha River ) ( click to see report )

" On August 26, pupils were ordered to report to Rooms 7 and 8 of the Willow St. School.

She was a regular performer at O ' Flaherty's Irish Pub in New Orleans's famed French Quarter, until Hurricane Katrina hit at the end of August 2005 ; O ' Flaherty's has not reopened at its original site, and at last report will not reopen in the future, but Patterson has since begun playing regularly at other New Orleans venues, particularly Cafe Negril on Frenchmen Street, and Carrollton Station in the Riverbend on Willow Street.

Willow questions what Anya did to prove her love to R. J., Anya dodges the subject with a quick lie and turns off the radio as a news report is heard about a wanted bank robber on the loose.

Willow branches are also put up on gates and / or front doors, which they believe help ward off the evil spirits that wander on Qingming.

Buffy then takes Willow to stand in front of a classroom in the same nerdy clothes she wore in " Welcome to the Hellmouth " and " The Harvest " at the beginning of the series.

Willow stands anxiously at the front of the class, trying to read a paper, while her classmates express their boredom with listening to her and Oz whispers into Tara's ear, until she is attacked by the First Slayer and her breath is sucked out of her body.

Walking home in a dazed state, Willow walks in front of an oncoming car, which Buffy can't save her from, but Riley happens to be there and does.

From there, she would travel northeast to Sandtown and Willow Grove, Delaware, and onto the Camden area where free black agents, William and Nat Brinkley and Abraham Gibbs, guided her north past Dover, Smyrna, and Blackbird, where other agents would take her across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to New Castle and Wilmington.

First forming in the Season One episode " The Harvest " to prevent The Master from opening a portal to hell, the line-up of the group varied from year to year, but the core that remained intact throughout the series ' run was Buffy herself and her best friends, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, as well as her Watcher, Rupert Giles.

* Willow Rosenberg — Willow's abilities as a witch make her one of the most powerful members of the Scooby Gang.

On her own, she is nowhere near as powerful as Willow, but together they make a formidable magical team.

Before meeting Willow, Tara had been painfully shy, in part due to a father who led her to believe that she was demonic.

Tara is killed when Warren Mears accidentally shoots her, launching Willow's spiral into Dark Willow.

She has inherent magical abilities and begins to study witchcraft ; as the series progresses, Willow becomes more sure of herself and her magical powers become significant if inconsistent.

Of the core characters, Willow changes the most, becoming a complex portrayal of a woman whose powers force her to seek balance between what is best for the people she loves and what she is capable of doing.

Willow appears in every Buffy episode ( making her the only character besides Buffy herself to do so ), is featured in three episodes of the spinoff Angel, an animated series and video game — both of which use Hannigan's voice, and the comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007 – 2011 ), which uses Hannigan's likeness and continues Willow's storyline following the television series.

In the beginning of the series, Hannigan used her own experiences in high school — which she called " overwhelmingly depressing "— to guide her portrayal of Willow.

Willow was noted to be the spirit of the Scooby Gang, and Hannigan attributed Willow's popularity with viewers ( she had by May 1998 seven websites devoted to her ) to being an underdog who develops confidence and is accepted by Buffy, a strong, popular person in school.

Hannigan described her appeal: " Willow is the only reality-based character.

In " Gingerbread ", her home life is made clearer: Sunnydale falls under the spell of a demon who throws the town's adults into a moral panic, and Willow's mother is portrayed as a career-obsessed academic who is unable to communicate with her daughter, eventually trying to burn Willow at the stake for being involved in witchcraft ; her father is never featured.

In a related episode, " Doppelgangland ", Willow meets " Vamp Willow ", who dresses provocatively and flirts with her.

Willow becomes much more confident in college, finally finding a place that respects her intellect, while Buffy has difficulty in classes and Xander does not attend school.

When Glory assaults Tara, making her insane, Willow, in a magical rage that causes her eyes to turn black, finds Glory and battles her.

Willow subsequently appears in the season finale of Buffy spin-off Angel to deliver the sad news to her ex-boyfriend, Angel.