'Quickbeam' is also a traditional name for the tree known as the rowan or mountain ash, and given that this Ent had a particular fondness for rowan-trees, the choice of this name was doubtless intended to emphasise the connection. In modern English, a 'beam' is a broad branch of a tree, but in Old English béam could also refer to the tree itself. So 'Quickbeam' is more literally 'quick tree', which is also the meaning of this Ent's Elvish name of Bregalad.
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