Ents.....

[Sauganast]

In the book we expereince a lot about what the ents are like and exactly where they are. But last night as I read the LotR for the umpteenth time I though "What ever happened to the entwives?"
Can anyone help me? or is there no answer?

[Xivigg]

The elves wives crosses the Anduin and one day the Ent realise they were nowere to find

I can't say more

[anduin]

I'm not tellin'. ;)

[Fat middle]

i think they were exterminated by Sauron when he overran the East of Anduin.

some people say that some entwives could still be find near the Shire. Sam speaks at the Green Dragon about rumors of moving-trees near the Shire, and Treebeard said that the Shire would be a good land for the entwives...

however i'm not sure the Entwives may seem like trees. i know they're quite different of the Ents, but i haven't a clear idea of how would the look like...

[Gilthalion]

Tipper Gore is an Entwife!



Well, I know she's married to a tree, anyway. :lol:

[Fat middle]

:rollin:

[bmilder]

I always felt that they were living in the Shire, based on the conversation with Sam that was mentioned.

[Grand Admiral Reese]

That sounds like a good idea of where they were, bmilder. Assuming they weren't all wiped out by Sauron. that is.

[Shanamir Duntak]

I agree with Ben... I think they went in the Shire to escape war and find a little peaceful place (Everybody knows that hobbits are quite peaceful!)

[Darth Tater]

What if Old Man Willow is really Old Woman Willow?

[Xivigg]

That's going a little far i think
At most old man willow is a corrupted huorn

[Finduilas]

I believe that JRRT said (In Letters) that the answer to the question about the Entwives was meant to be unanswered, though I lean towards the idea of at least one or two having survived in the area of the Shire. Of course, the walking tree could have been a Huorn.

[Elanor]

I agree that it's supposed to be a mystery. It might also be part of the theme that Middle Earth is an alternate past Earth--that there used to be walking trees, but they died out because of the separation of ents and entwives, and so now the trees are (mostly;) ) all normal. You can still imagine, walking through a dark wood, that the trees are alive...

One thing I wonder is what did entwives look like? Like ents, but female? More humanlike? more treelike? hmmm....

[Xivigg]

Well if the Ent "Male" look like massif tree like Oak (and other i won't try to translate in english)
we might supose that Ent "female" look like smaler slimer tree those we might found in a garden (i mean those we won't see in deep forest)

[Finduilas]

There is a partial description in TT (page 94).
For the Entwives were bent and browned by their labour; their hair parched by the sun to the hue of ripe corn and their cheeks like red apples. Yet their eyes were still the eyes of our own people.

[Eldoran LFD]

Somewhere during the first and second age the Ents became estranged from the Entwives.
Apparently the Entwives crossed the river Anduin and they tended to the vegetation and plant life that they preferred;
small trees, grasses, fruit trees, flowers and vegetables.
The male Ents stayed in the area of Fangorn forest in order to tend the Huorns and the larger trees of the region surrounding Fangorn.

[Michael Martinez]

I don't understand how or why people feel the Entwives should have ended up in the region of the Shire. When would they have arrived there?