They cannot be quite forgotten.” Treebeard, The Two Towersīelow is Tolkien’s poem “The Ent and the Ent-Wife” which seems to strive to bring the Ent and the Entwife back together. There were songs about the hunt of the Ents for the Entwives sung among Elves and Men from Mirkwood to Gondor.
We lost them and we cannot find them.” He sighed. “There have been no Entings – no children, you would say, not for a terrible long count of years. They’re allies of the free people of Middle-earth, and sadly, a “dying race.” The story of the Ents is memorable to many fans of the books - the tragic story of the lost Entwives. They are mighty beings that closely resemble trees whose name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for giant. In Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, the Ents are the shepherds of the forest.
