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What you are forgetting is that it’s a fantasy world. Practically everything is sentient to some degree. The mountain Caradhras decides to make a snowstorm to stop the Fellowship because it doesn’t like them (the Saruman stuff was only in the movie). Old Man Willow tries to eat Merry and Pippin, but obeys Tom Bombadil. So all of these usually normal objects / plants are given thoughts and wills because of the magic in the world.