![]() ![]() The Entwives moved away to what became the Brown Lands across the Great River Anduin, although the male Ents still visited them. The Entwives began to move farther away from the Ents because they liked to plant and control things, while the Ents preferred forests and liked to let things take their natural course. At that time, much of Eriador was forested Elrond stated that "a squirrel could go from tree to tree from what is now the Shire to Dunland west of Isengard." Entwives Treebeard said that the Elves "cured us of dumbness", calling that a great gift that could not be forgotten. Įnts did not know how to speak until the Elves taught them. Much later, when Beren and a force of Green Elves waylay the force of Dwarves returning from the sack of Doriath, the Dwarves are routed and scatter into the wood, where the Shepherds of the Trees ensure that none escape. Yavanna then warned Aulë, "Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril." The Ents are called "the Shepherds of the Trees". Many a tree shall feel the bite of their iron without pity." She went to Manwë and appealed to him to protect the trees, and they realized that Ents, too, were part of the Song of Creation. She replied, "They will delve in the earth, and the things that grow and live upon the earth they will not heed. After the Dwarves were put to sleep by Eru to await the coming of the Elves, the Vala Aulë told his wife Yavanna, "the lover of all things that grow in the earth," of the Dwarves. First Age Īlmost nothing is known of the early history of the Ents. Treebeard boasted of their strength to Merry and Pippin he said that Ents were much more powerful than Trolls, which Morgoth made in the First Age in mockery of Ents, as orcs were of elves. Tolkien describes them as tossing great slabs of stone about, and ripping down the walls of Isengard "like bread-crust". Įnts are tall and very strong, capable of tearing apart rock and stone when "roused". They are patient and cautious, with a long sense of time they considered a three-day deliberation "hasty". ![]() Įnts are somewhat treelike, with extraordinarily tough skin they can erode stone rapidly, but are vulnerable to fire and axe-strokes. Like the roots of trees, but far more rapidly, Tolkien's Ents could break stone. Some recalled the ash: tall straight grey Ents with many-fingered hands and long legs some the fir (the tallest Ents), and others the birch. Some recalled the chestnut: brown-skinned Ents with large splayfingered hands, and short thick legs. Some Ents, such as Treebeard, were like īeech-trees or oaks. Quickbeam, for example, guarded rowan trees and bore some resemblance to rowans: tall and slender, smooth-skinned, with ruddy lips and grey-green hair. Ents vary widely in personal traits (height, heft, colouring, even the number of digits), having come to resemble somewhat the specific types of trees that they shepherded. Treebeard, called by Gandalf the oldest living Ent and the oldest living thing that walks in Middle-earth, is described as being around 14 feet (4 m) tall, "Man-like, almost Troll-like", and clad in something that might have been tree-bark, with seven toes, a bushy, "almost twiggy" beard and deep penetrating eyes. Inspired by Tolkien and similar traditions, animated or anthropomorphic tree creatures appear in a variety of media and works of fantasy. Corey Olsen interprets the song of the Ents and the Entwives as a myth which warns of the dangers of apathetically isolating oneself in nature, whereas the Ents' song "In the willow-meads of Tasarinan" is a lament. Scholars have seen his tale of the Ents as a myth, mostly without analysing it. Commentators have seen this as wish-fulfilment, as he disliked the damage being done to the English countryside in his lifetime. Tolkien stated that he was disappointed by Shakespeare's handling of the coming of "Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane hill" he wanted a setting in which the trees would actually go to war. Akin to Ents are Huorns, whom Treebeard describes as a transitional form of trees which become animated or, conversely, as Ents who grow more "treelike" over time. At that time, there are no young Ents (Entings) because the Entwives (female Ents) were lost. The Ent who figures most prominently in the book is Treebeard, who is called the oldest creature in Middle-earth. The Ents appear in The Lord of the Rings as ancient shepherds of the forest and allies of the free peoples of Middle-earth during the War of the Ring. Their name is derived from an Old English word for " giant". Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth who closely resemble trees their leader is Treebeard of Fangorn forest. Onodrim, Shepherds of the Trees, Tree-folkĮnts are a species of sentient beings in J. Treebeard and Hobbits by Tom Loback, 2007 ![]()
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